The Kitchen Playground

I really have no idea how to segue from toileting to muffins and leftover lamb roast. Any ideas?

No? Oh well then expect a disjointed ramble from me today.

Firstly, hooray! Lil Miss is perilously close to toilet trained. Misnomer though the phrase is as I don’t do toilet training. I’m of the wait for them to start using a toilet of their own accord school. Anyhoo, she’s been bugging me since the weekend with on and off toilet behaviour. This afternoon though, the penny started to drop and we had a few consecutive successes. Please cross your fingers that the penny truly has dropped because I am HEARTILY tired of washing nappies. And changing nappies. And I really need to get rid of the change table because she keeps pushing it across the room and using it to climb on to the (ladderless) top bunk and I really don’t want her to break her neck. Besides, the kids room is too small as it is. See? There is a lot more at stake here than mere toileting.

Now, on to the muffins…

I whipped these up this afternoon when I realised I still had a lot of carrots left and no baked goods in the freezer. The Ankle Biters proclaim them to be delicious. Rat Girl AKA Lil Miss has made little finger holes in several of them. Bummer she can reach the kitchen bench now.

Carrot and Zucchini Muffins
1 large zucchini, grated
3 medium carrots, grated
1/2 cup sultanas
150g prunes, roughly chopped
4 cups SR flour
1 cup muesli
250g melted butter
4 eggs
1 cup milk
Mix it all together and place in greased muffin pans. Bake in oven preheated to 200 degrees for 15 - 20 minutes. Test with a skewer, if it comes out clean, they’re done. Cool on a wire rack out of reach of Rat Girl.

Now for the leftover lamb. Sunday’s Kashmiri lamb roast has featured in bread rolls every lunch time this week. I decided today to make a main meal out of the remainder while there was enough left. Basically I went with a cottage pie approach. Only thing was that I didn’t have any gravy and I couldn’t be stuffed mashing potatoes. Or making any side dishes. Yeah, yeah, whatever. You try spending hours in a cold pool trying to get stroppy little twerps look at the bottom of the bloody pool when they swim freestyle and see if you feel like cooking. So anyhoo, I just chopped up the meat, whizzed up some carrot and cabbage so small that no one else in the family would be able to identify it and poured in some home made plum sauce and a tablespoon of plain flour. Gave it a good old stir so it was well combined. Then layered sliced potatoes on top, dotted butter all over and bunged it in a hot oven until the potatoes were all golden brown. 45 minutes maybe? The lamb thing would work with any vegetable and sauce. Just depends what you have on hand. It tasted pretty good too.

Tags: carrot and zucchini, Leftovers, muffins, roast lamb