Myriad Musings

and failing :( I have talked ad nauseum about my attempts to get my son to eat something nutritious and complete at 6.50 am. I had succeeded wildly.  Muffins of a wide variety with fruits, and/or vegetables, nuts, lentils (pottukadalai podi) and frequently chocolate. Now, I can't picture making sweet muffins with greens.  Especially the slightly bitter radish greens.  I decided to try my hand at savoury muffins today. Yeah I know, who eats greens in the morning?  Radish at that? Thank God there isn't any hyperactive Child Protection Service in India, or he would be whisked away to a home where the mom doesn't make Savoury Green Muffins!  He is at his most compliant in the mornings, before all the day's injustices start;  The only time he will even consider tasting savoury muffins is first thing in the morning.  Evening he would be mad at me over one thing or another - no iPad time, no chips or ice candy, enforced music practice etc... Sav...

This is going to be my mornings from now on.  Gau will eat a muffin before school.  I will bake muffins once or twice a week, in the morning.  Weekday morning at that.  My prep work should cover any chopping, grating, slicing, buying, gathering necessary for the muffin.   Morning work will be limited to mix pour and bake, between making breakfast and lunch for all of us. Muffins are not breakfast per se, they are more of a pre-breakfast snack for both the kids and the hubby.  The older one has breakfast at school, the younger one around 10 at home. My last veggie shopping trip, the little one demanded grapes.  This being off season for grapes the one I tasted made my mouth pucker.  I compromised and got him Indian Plums.  His crush on plums lasted until we got home and he bit into it. He quickly switched allegiance to the apples in the bag. This is a riff of a BBC Recipe .  I don't like plums myself - skin a tad bitter, flesh...