Kate, the Pod Person

Frankly I don't know what's happened to the real Kate, but I'm liking this new model and am thinking we should keep her instead of finding the original.

The original was far to whiny, and extremely picky on food. Well, the pod person Kate is still pretty whiny but something amazing has happened with food. I noticed a difference Friday as I was whipping dinner together.

I had found a recipe in my new vegetarian cookbook I KNEW would be a hit with Kent. It had all the right ingredients, eggs, salsa, potatoes, really it was a no brainer. It was a frittata, a baked omelet, something I had never made before but tried for the first time when my friend Kim was visiting at the beginning of the month. That week I tried an asparagus, green onion frittata made with smidgens of cream cheese dotted throughout the dish. It was divine, and the children ate it, well they ate the eggs and the left the green veggies. *eye roll*

I was amazed I hadn't found this easy dish before. Sooo easy and very yummy!

After the initial trial, I decided to try another version. The Mexican version started with cubed fried potatoes (red, with skins on) browned in a skillet. Then beatened eggs with salsa and cheese mixed in are poured on top of the eggs. The skillet stays on the burner for about three minutes until edges are set and then the whole mess is put in the oven and baked until the center is set.

The eggs turn out so light and fluffy. Good stuff!! Wait, I was talking about Kate. Anyway, Miss Kate, queen of "YUCKY" and "BLECH" and "I HATE ONIONS, HATE HATE HATE THEM!" walked by as I was stirring the eggs with obvious signs of salsa floating on top remarked how yummy that looked.

Okaaaayyyyy.

I was very suspicious, Kate has declared food to looked yummy before, until the time of consumption where suddenly every food phobia since toddler hood would make dinner unpleasant and loud for the entire family. I wasn't holding my breath for her declaration of "yummyness" to continue once the plate was set before her.

However, beyond "surprised" and even "amazed" comes "shocked" which pretty much summed up my feelings when Kate ate dinner with gusto and not only came back for seconds but thirds as well!

Really, was this my child? Surely it must have been a fluke!

Maybe not. Tonight we had a vegetarian enchilada with black beans doctored with a touch of cumin, fresh cilantro and onions, brown rice and cheese of course which the child ate with little complaint. She didn't wolf it down like the frittata but compared to the meltdowns we've endured for years over food dinner was positively heart warming.

At least it would have been if the twins hadn't staged meltdowns in stereo while we were eating.

Ah well. Maybe the pod people will take the twins too? If they do, the new ones need to have mastered the potty, mommy has done enough laundry the last week. One can only hope.