Deceptively Delicious

When Jaxon was a younger I was having a hard time getting him to eat his vegetables and would do anything to try and make him eat them. Then one day I was watching Oprah, and Jessica Seinfeld was on. She has a cookbook called Deceptively Delicious. She takes fruit and vegetable puree's and mixes them in with other food to get your kid's to eat them. What a genius idea, a little odd, but genius. I got the cookbook and put it to good use when I first got it. It takes a lot of time to get all your puree's made up. I got frustrated and gave up. But this last time I went grocery shopping, I decided to get it out again and find some yummy stuff to make.

This afternoon as I was sitting around waiting for the boys to wake up I decided to start making my puree's. So i steamed some carrots, and red pepper. (Tonight I am going to try some sloppy joe's) I also roasted a sweet potato and a butternut squash. After a few hours in the kitchen I had enough vegetables for a couple dinners, and some baby food.

As I was waiting for my butternut squash and sweet potato to be done I decided to make a chocolate peanut butter dip. OH MY GOSH PEOPLE IT IS SO GOOD! I don't really like peanut butter with chocolate, but I took one bite of this and fell in love. So know you may be asking, what is the recipe. Well it is your lucky day because i will give it to you...

1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
1/2 cup fat free cream cheese
6 T. chocolate syrup
1/2 tea. salt
1/4 cup carrot puree

Stir the peanut butter, cream cheese, syrup, carrot puree and salt together until smooth and serve with fruit slices.

But my main reason for writing this is to get all you mommies out there to buy this cookbook. There are some amazing recipes in it. They may seem a little weird with the vegetables in it, but it is good. I made a chocolate cake with beets in it that was really good. Venture out of your box and try something new this week. Veggies are very good for you!