Any Home Bakers Here?

[Jesusfreak101]

Mac and cheese some days a hit most often not, she wont touch meat balls lately i ready to pull out my hair when it comes to dinner time or lunch or any meal really. She doesnt like rice and i dont know what porcupines is. Lately she eaten fried fish, shrimp avacodo dip cheese fruit carrots sunflours and peanut butter bacon sausage and thats pretty much it beside mash potatoes, corn, green beans, fried pork chops. She driving me crazy she use to eat anything now its become a pickysaous pancakes and waffles cant touch sryup other wise she wont eat them. But with joshua its hard to make dinner muchless i get tired of fried foods i had my gallbladder removed so i tend to only fry things on ocasion.

 

[COChix]

Mac and cheese some days a hit most often not, she wont touch meat balls lately i ready to pull out my hair when it comes to dinner time or lunch or any meal really. She doesnt like rice and i dont know what porcupines is. Lately she eaten fried fish, shrimp avacodo dip cheese fruit carrots sunflours and peanut butter bacon sausage and thats pretty much it beside mash potatoes, corn, green beans, fried pork chops. She driving me crazy she use to eat anything now its become a pickysaous pancakes and waffles cant touch sryup other wise she wont eat them. But with joshua its hard to make dinner muchless i get tired of fried foods i had my gallbladder removed so i tend to only fry things on ocasion.

What about chicken tenders? What kid doesn't like chicken tender or fingers.....

 

[OrganicFarmWife]

Mac and cheese some days a hit most often not, she wont touch meat balls lately i ready to pull out my hair when it comes to dinner time or lunch or any meal really. She doesnt like rice and i dont know what porcupines is. Lately she eaten fried fish, shrimp avacodo dip cheese fruit carrots sunflours and peanut butter bacon sausage and thats pretty much it beside mash potatoes, corn, green beans, fried pork chops. She driving me crazy she use to eat anything now its become a pickysaous pancakes and waffles cant touch sryup other wise she wont eat them. But with joshua its hard to make dinner muchless i get tired of fried foods i had my gallbladder removed so i tend to only fry things on ocasion.

Not 3 year old approved (really she is eating more variety then mine, I just give her a daily vitamin and let it go) But roasts are easy, great reheated, and fit your husbands meat and potato preference. Just throw that thing in the crackpot and enjoy yummy roast, roast beef sandwiches, etc.
Or get a brisket, crock pots it until it falls apart and add bbq sause, makes sandwiches for days.
Your daughter might eat tater tot casserole, and it is easy and reheats.

 

[OrganicFarmWife]

Not 3 year old approved (really she is eating more variety then mine, I just give her a daily vitamin and let it go) But roasts are easy, great reheated, and fit your husbands meat and potato preference. Just throw that thing in the crackpot and enjoy yummy roast, roast beef sandwiches, etc.
Or get a brisket, crock pots it until it falls apart and add bbq sause, makes sandwiches for days.
Your daughter might eat tater tot casserole, and it is easy and reheats.

Lol I do not know how crackpot came out of my spell check

 

[User395221]

She doesnt like rice and i dont know what porcupines is.

porcupines are just meatballs with rice in them, simmered in tomato sauce. the rice pokes out so they look like porcupines. Kids tend to like them because they are "fun"

How about mexican food? You could make the bean or meat fillings (mild) to reheat, make a burrito or tostada. Bangers and Mash? You can cook up a batch of sausages in gravy, they can be reheated.

Or that great staple..... vegemite sandwiches LOL

 

[theuglyduckling]

For bread to rise, it needs yeast, sugar and contrary to what you read, salt. Salt is necessary and will regulate the yeast but not kill it.

So, make sure the yeast is good. Get 1\2 cup of 105F water, sprinkle the yeast over the top and let it moisten for 5 min. Stir that into the liquid ingredients with the sugar, salt and oil that is at least luke warm--85 to 90 degrees. It should bubble in about 15 minutes.

After that, add flour and begin kneading the bread. Once the bread is not sticky, kneed for about 7 minutes. The kneeding develops gluten that is the last thing needed for the bread to rise. Bread flour has more gluten so it will help the bread to rise. Bleach cake flour has the least gluten so it makes very flat bread. I use Organic un bleached All Purpose flour.

You do not need much sugar. I use about 1\3 of a cup for three loaves.

You do not need to punch down dough. The purpose is to move the yeast around in the dough--I do this when I shape the loaves.

I am making bread today--half of the flour is from spelt that I ground this morning. I used raw sugar for the sweetener.

My bread recipe is in the index. It has instructions for scaling it down to 1 or 2 loaves too.

you have explained everything very well. whenever i read recipes on the internet they could be sort of confusing. you have cleared up many of my questions. thanks!

jesusfreak101 does she like tater tots? you could try tater tot casserole. there is also fish sticks if she likes fish.

 

[Jesusfreak101]

I dont think she has ever had tater tots

.... I must try this casserole. She use to eat alot more i think its a its touching something else yhats the problem. Lol i love roast she hates it thats just depressing even before she got picky she would taste it then say yuck and spitt it out little brat lol. She eats more veggies then my father lol i guess that alone should make me happy lol. I guess i just tired of the same old thing... But i guess i just cook something we want to try and say forget it if she doesnt eat it so many recipes havent got attention yet i been dieing to try. And meat balls with rice

i think my husband would be in heaven lol he loves rice. Lmao i could see my fathers face if my mom made that (he cant stand rice i am lucky i eat differently then him). I been wanting to make jambalaya mm i worked at a canjun joint were i first tried it and its one of my favorites now i never cooked it through and a got a great gumbo recipe that i figured i would try doubt she would like it but she could surpise me.

 

[OrganicFarmWife]

I dont think she has ever had tater tots

.... I must try this casserole. She use to eat alot more i think its a its touching something else yhats the problem. Lol i love roast she hates it thats just depressing even before she got picky she would taste it then say yuck and spitt it out little brat lol. She eats more veggies then my father lol i guess that alone should make me happy lol. I guess i just tired of the same old thing... But i guess i just cook something we want to try and say forget it if she doesnt eat it so many recipes havent got attention yet i been dieing to try. And meat balls with rice

i think my husband would be in heaven lol he loves rice. Lmao i could see my fathers face if my mom made that (he cant stand rice i am lucky i eat differently then him). I been wanting to make jambalaya mm i worked at a canjun joint were i first tried it and its one of my favorites now i never cooked it through and a got a great gumbo recipe that i figured i would try doubt she would like it but she could surpise me.

Cook for yourself and hubby, make her try it, then let her eat cheese and her vegetables. When she gets older you can start making her eat what you eat, but she still has some baby in her, I wouldn't fight it too hard. Tater tot casserole is super easy, and while mine won't touch it, most kids love it.

 

[User395221]

i think its a its touching something else yhats the problem.

How about a baby "antipasto" plate? Get her a segmented plate and put some carrots on one bit, and some cheese in another bit, and some capsicum (or whatever veges she likes). Some hummous if she'll eat it to dip her bits of stuff in. You could give her all her dinners in a segmented plate if that would get her over the "it's touching" thing.
Quote: Most people wouldn't really notice the rice, because it's in the meatballs. It's not like it's sitting there looking like rice.

 

[theuglyduckling]

I dont think she has ever had tater tots

.... I must try this casserole. She use to eat alot more i think its a its touching something else yhats the problem. Lol i love roast she hates it thats just depressing even before she got picky she would taste it then say yuck and spitt it out little brat lol. She eats more veggies then my father lol i guess that alone should make me happy lol. I guess i just tired of the same old thing... But i guess i just cook something we want to try and say forget it if she doesnt eat it so many recipes havent got attention yet i been dieing to try. And meat balls with rice

i think my husband would be in heaven lol he loves rice. Lmao i could see my fathers face if my mom made that (he cant stand rice i am lucky i eat differently then him). I been wanting to make jambalaya mm i worked at a canjun joint were i first tried it and its one of my favorites now i never cooked it through and a got a great gumbo recipe that i figured i would try doubt she would like it but she could surpise me.

does she like soups or stews? those are fast and easy to heat up and they are pretty tasty. i hope you are able to find something that she will eat for you. i grew up with four picky brothers one of wich is still picky to this day.


so i stayed up alll night to perfect my bread making skills and this time it worked out great. i followed your steps with the yeast and wet ingredientes ronott1 and my bread turned out perfect. ill upload some pictures later in the afternoon.