Kid-friendly veggie main course (Volcanos with meatless balls)

[Guest guest]

I'm not going to give you guys the teaspoon by teaspoon measurements, since most

things I make don't need that and I'm assuming everyone can either make the

following or look it up online.

 

Make your favorite mashed potatoes, on the thick side rather than runny, and

mound it up in the middle of a baking sheet. Remember the movie Close Encounters

of the Third Kind when Neely sculpts a mountain out of mashed potatoes at the

dinner table? That's what you're going for. Hollow out the center. I like

brushing the volcano with melted butter for added color and flavor.

 

Fill the center of the volcano with shredded cheese or a nice vegetarian gravy.

Sprinkle some cheese on the sides of your volcano. Make meatless balls out of

TVP and arrange the boulders around your volcano. Heat in the oven till the

cheese is bubbly. At this point, I usually toss some cooked green peas and

carrots around the volcano, and have used cooked broccoli florets as trees.

 

I used to make these individually for the boys when they were young, and put

their preferred vegetables around the volcano. They never knew that the

meatballs were actually made from TVP which I had seasoned with pepper, diced

sweet peppers, onions and a mixture of herbs. Since TVP can tend to be dry, I'd

" fry " them in a small bit of melted butter or a mixture of butter and oil.

 

It's a silly thing, but the kids always ate it. Just don't tell them that the

meatless balls are made from TVP. Jeanne in GA

 

PS: Hope there aren't too many typos in the email, my glasses are toast and I'm

squinting through cataracts and cat paws. Rufus 2.0 is trying to catch the

cursor, which makes me curse at times...probably why it is called a .......

never mind.

[Guest guest]

Girl, you are just too damn cool! I love it!

Love the way you describe it... Close Encounters

of the Third Kind Devil's Mountain?! hahaha

That is great and brilliant.

 

~ PT ~

 

The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your

nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet,

duties at your hand, the path of right just before you.

~Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, essayist, and poet(1850-1894)

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, Jeanne B <treazured wrote:

>

> I'm not going to give you guys the teaspoon by teaspoon measurements, since

most

things I make don't need that and I'm assuming everyone can either make the

following or

look it up online.

>

> Make your favorite mashed potatoes, on the thick side rather than runny, and

mound it

up in the middle of a baking sheet. Remember the movie Close Encounters of the

Third

Kind when Neely sculpts a mountain out of mashed potatoes at the dinner table?

That's

what you're going for. Hollow out the center. I like brushing the volcano with

melted

butter for added color and flavor.

>

> Fill the center of the volcano with shredded cheese or a nice vegetarian

gravy. Sprinkle

some cheese on the sides of your volcano. Make meatless balls out of TVP and

arrange the

boulders around your volcano. Heat in the oven till the cheese is bubbly. At

this point, I

usually toss some cooked green peas and carrots around the volcano, and have

used

cooked broccoli florets as trees.

>

> I used to make these individually for the boys when they were young, and put

their

preferred vegetables around the volcano. They never knew that the meatballs were

actually

made from TVP which I had seasoned with pepper, diced sweet peppers, onions and

a

mixture of herbs. Since TVP can tend to be dry, I'd " fry " them in a small bit of

melted

butter or a mixture of butter and oil.

>

> It's a silly thing, but the kids always ate it. Just don't tell them that the

meatless balls are

made from TVP. Jeanne in GA

>

> PS: Hope there aren't too many typos in the email, my glasses are toast and

I'm

squinting through cataracts and cat paws. Rufus 2.0 is trying to catch the

cursor, which

makes me curse at times...probably why it is called a ....... never mind.

>