This pumpkin french toast has become our new Saturday morning favorite. It is simply spectacular.
The recipe came from a super fabulous cookbook called Deceptively Delicious by Jessica Seinfeld. I bought the cookbook about 2 years ago after my mother told me about it. She had heard a review on the radio or something and new it sounded like something I would love. The focus of the book is sneaking healthful things like fruits and vegetables into foods that your kids like, such as mashed potatoes or chicken nuggets. A novel idea.
Truthfully, I have little problem getting Lily to eat her veggies. We've just always given her fruits and veggies first and foremost. The kid stinkin' loves broccoli. However, sometimes I need to trick myself into eating more of those colorful things, and it's really fun to me to see how good things are when I know that beets or spinach is hidden inside. Not to mention unsuspecting dinner guests.
Yes, I've snuck these recipes into get-togethers. David and I always sit back and chuckle at folks as they rave over yummies with veggies hidden inside. For example, for Lily's first birthday I made some cupcakes from a recipe in this cookbook. Chocolate cupcakes with chocolate icing. With beets. The cupcakes came out with a very distinctive red color - as I'm sure you would imagine - and I just told everyone I was trying out a choco-red velvet recipe. My family fell for it and dug right in. They were almost all eaten - as they were seriously delicious and oh-so-moist - when I told everyone what they were. It was too funny, and I felt accomplished, as I got my kid cousins who probably haven't eaten a vegetable since it was pureed and in a baby jar to eat a veggie, and a beet at that.
Another such example was at a Geography Club meeting right after I got the cookbook when I made a dessert bar recipe from the book that called for pureed spinach to be mixed in with the blackberry jam. Like everything else you put in front of a bunch of college-age males, they were gone within seconds, all while David and I nibbled on the really yummy treats and giggled to ourselves. I never told anyone about those. Haha!
So, if you're having problems getting your kid to eat veggies, or just want to have some fun with food, you have to check out this cookbook. It's definitely one of the most used on my shelf, and for darn good reason!
*After looking around amazon.com I found that Jessica Seinfeld is releasing another cookbook in October. Totally just put it on my calendar.
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