Muffin Tin Monday: Bugs In the Garden

    This week we played in the dirt a bit, then we ate bugs! Not the crunchy black beetles, instead we had the culinary delight of pear beetles . YUM YUM YUM!!!!

I decided to use my vintage corn bread pan this week. I like the shallow little textured corn theme compartmnets.

((From left to right))

• Grass and weeds made from celery  and artichokes.
• Hummus and whole grain crackers 
• Ant made from pears (cut in circles), dried cranberry eyes, tiny celery slivers for legs
• A tiny bit of applesauce and a spoon
• Beetle made from pears, held together with peanut-butter, with dried cranberry as spots and eyes
• Applesauce with floating strawberry, watermelon, and pear flower.
• Another watermelon and strawberry flower with pear steam.also wanted to stem.

I also wanted to point out that last week I somehow managed to forget my button on top of my post. No one noticed, but I feel a bit bad. To make up for it I'm reminding all my readers to give the button a little clicky and see all the other great muffin tins meals, and of course all the great post by the Muffin Tin Mom herself!

Muffin Tin Monday: Hooray for Fish!

 Hooray for Fish!!!

Blip has recently fell in love with fish. I tgink this love affair with these shiney and scaley creatures came from watching the fish at his Mimi's house swim in her huge aquarium. We even took him to the Dallas World Aquarium last month to see the sharks and exotic fish! He will watch, point, giggle, and track with his eyes. You also have to be careful to not let him beat on the glass.

Fish are just fun for little ones. Maybe it is time for Blip to have his own tiny fish bowl, I'm sure the cats would have a ball with that.

This week we checked out Hooray For Fish from the library, a very colorful book about...well fish, hence all my ramblings about fish today.  Shall we count how many times I have "said" fish?

 Anyways, our library pick of the week inspired our weekly muffin tin lunch!


I choose my mini muffin tin with tiny compartmnets this week.

((Left to right, starting at bottom row))

• Sour creme waves tinted blue (er, with nasty blue food coloring...eek)
• Big fish quisidilla with sour cream and dried cranberry eyes
• Radish greens sprinkled with olive oil and pepper to mimic seaweed.
• "Grape Octopus" swimming in applesauce! I used kitchen scissors to cut the bottom of the grape into 8 tentacles with tiny tiny granola eyes.
• Chopped radishes
• "Sand dollars" made from puffed kamut in applesauce
• Orange bell pepper fish with sour creme and caper eyes.

Raz went crazy over this muffin tin. My kiddo is odd, he ate up the radishes and greens before the applesauce. The only thing he really did not love was the pepper fish, he decided to feed that to me! I think he likes his bellpeppers cooked, otherwise they are too crunchy for a little guy with only a few teeth.

Muffin Tin Mondays: Wonky Salad

May has brought us a farmers market full of greens. We filled our market bag up with lettuce and arugula this week. In celebration I thought I would dedicate this muffin tin to crisp lettuce. And with all the salad we have been having I know Blip will be excited about a bit of wonkyness.


Ok, so this one is not in a muffin tin, it is a plate and ramekin combo. I just have a love affair with salads and such in ramekins. They are so cute, crisp, and white...small enough for Blip, but still a nice size for when I want him to dig into a "big bowl" of leafy greens. They are just fun to have around! It is still a fun meal with a compartment, and that ever important creativity!

• The stars and sticks are cut from red pear. I just used my star cookie cutter on them and sliced the leftover pieces. 
• Crisp lettuce...it is a salad after all
• Apple sauce as dressing, yea it sounds weird but Blip loves it! 
• Dried cranberry's sprinkled on
• The sticks reminded me of the center of flowers. They are long radishes that have been sliced into sticks. I just made tiny balls from herb goat cheese to stick on top! 

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