Leafy vegetables don’t work very well with the kids in our household. When they see them big, green and full of leaves being placed next to their food, the kids have the tendency to either pick them out from their plates or spit them out like they are the most vile-tasting poison they could ever have! A bloody irritating habit. A habit which did not exist till about 6 months ago when they discovered the joys of eating green veg.

But! They forget that I am mom. A mom always has a plan and a mom always figures things out! And, I refuse to be out-smarted by little imps over a bunch of leafy greens that are (obviously) good for their health.

Saddled with my evil laugh and a devious con-scheme involving a bunch of fresh, juicy,  leafy white spinach, I set myself on a mission of come hell or high water, these kids of mine ARE going to be eating their greens – all disguised in a more vibrant-looking white rice!

No picking out, no complains, no questions asked. They eat their spinach rice like it is the most natural and delicious things ever made for them. Mom – 1, Imps – 0.

Buttered Spinach Rice

2015-07-11 19:19:24

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Ingredients

1. 3-4 cups of uncooked rice
2. A bunch of white spinach, rinsed and chopped up
3. 1-2 tbsp butter

Instructions

1. Rinse the uncooked rice till the water is less murky.
2. Dump the uncooked rice into a rice-cooker followed by the chopped spinach. Mix to combine.
3. Use enough water for the rice and turn the rice-cooker on.
4. When it is cooked, add in butter and mix well over the rice.
5. Serve along with other side dish. You can always freeze the left-over rice into smaller containers and heat them up for later use.

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The beauty of this is that you can always add soup or other proteins to eat with it. Add a little salt if you wish for a little more flavour. It’s a good alternative to the otherwise boring white rice for adults, too!

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P.S:

Next week is our Monthly Mystery Munchies week with Gen of Eat, Play, Clove happening on 1st Friday of every month where we’ll be posting up our recipe(s) from several ingredients/theme which we both had agreed upon. The twist is we don’t know what the other person would be dishing up and we’ll be posting it up about the same time. Gen came up with the challenge this time. The heat is on! Don’t forget to pop by! 🙂

Spud’s been busy rehearsing for her upcoming kindergarten graduation performance. Beyond the poem recital which she has to do, she also has her hands full with a couple of dance performances for her graduating class. She’s been quite into practicing on her own that kid, and has been very determined to get the steps and lyrics right.

In the last 2 weeks, we have been coming home to kids (Squirt being the copycat) and our Nanny dancing to Abba’s I Have A Dream and some other songs that were being played from our nanny’s smartphone. Usually, we are greeted by a head butt of hugs and kisses when we walked through the main door. They’d rush to the door the moment we ring the doorbell and most of the time, they would fight over who gets to open the door first.

The other day, though. That didn’t happened. We had to wait a little longer when the doorbell was rung before one of them went to the front door. And, when it was opened, instead of the usual door-fights, hugs and kisses, Squirt quickly ran off next to his sister who was glued to her Nanny’s smartphone.

We both were being completely ignored by the kids when we walked in. Whaaaaaat..?

Puzzled, I asked them what happened to a kiss and a hug? I almost had to BEG them for ONE kiss as they refused to peel themselves away from whatever they were watching on that smartphone. With Squirt it was easier, but not so much with Spud.

It was only after a few minutes of cajoling that Spud finally came over to where we were standing and with a grunt, she came over grudgingly and said, “Mama…this is waaaaaaay more important than a kiss and a hug! I have to practice! It’s the mostest important”

Erhm..excuse me? What was that? Hmmmm…I wouldn’t have expected that from Spud, but clearly she was in the middle of something and that was way, way, way more important.

I then mimicked her grunt and so I said with an exaggerated sad, sad pout, “Oh? How can anything be more important than a kiss and hug? This is the MOST important thing. I’m feeling a bit sad now. Surely a quick kiss and a hug is OK, no?”

She gave in with a big, fat whine, but not without reminding me that it needed to be quick because she “has to” continue with her practice before her bedtime which she knows was happening soon.

That incident led me to think if she was just emulating our responses of making her wait till we are done when are in the middle of something – like cutting up meat when she wants milk or chocolate or, me telling her to wait for 2 minutes as I try to finish typing up a quick text message to her Papa or arranging their playdate when she wants me to fix the wings of her Little Ponies immediately.

But hugs and kisses? Well, there’s nothing more important than giving or receiving hugs and kisses at any point in time there, my lady. We’ve got to get that changed pronto! Hugs and kisses can never wait  and that’s just the way it works around here, kids.

Because, in the whole wide world, those are important; the mostest. Also because Mama says so.