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Tea Party Lunch- Muffin Tin Monday

November 1, 2010 By Deirdre

In honor of Election Day tomorrow JDaniel had a tea party lunch in a muffin tin. I love having high tea. JDaniel’s tea is nothing like the ones I have had at the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin or the Augusta Snow House in Cape Cod. He did really seem enjoy it as much as I enjoyed those.

There were vegetable cream cheese and turkey sandwiches, chocolate dipped cookies, and black grapes. The black grapes looked elegant to me and added a fruit to his otherwise carb filled tin. JDaniel also had a teacup of Lipton’s Green Tea.

Muffin Tin Monday- Two Spiders Have A Halloween Lunch

October 25, 2010 By Deirdre

I tried to make a spider web with sour cream, but I couldn’t make a fine enough line. After three attempts I laid some whole wheat spaghetti on the nachos and prayed that people looking at it would think it was a web.

The second challenge as trying to make the muffins look like spiders. I thought using green peppers would look okay and be a healthy thing for JDaniel to eat. He loved the muffins along with the turkey and cheese inside. The olives disappeared quickly. The green pepper legs were handed to me with the suggestion that I might like to eat them. JDaniel thought the muffins looked like spiders. My husband wanted to know why JDaniel was eating cats. Aren’t cats a Halloween symbol? Is there a spider cat? Do they really look like cats?

The third and final challenge was trying to get JDaniel to try wearing the spider rings. He won’t wear bugs on his fingers he told me.

The carrots and apple weren’t a challenge. Thank goodness they went over with JDaniel. I was done with challenges for the day.

Muffin Tin Monday- A Scarecrow’s Harvest

October 18, 2010 By Deirdre

Today’s Muffin Tin Meal was inspired by a picture I took when we visited the pumpkin patch last Monday. I loved the scarecrow in the picture and decided that I needed to try to create one for this week tin.

To make the scarecrow I cut a corn tortilla into a head and body. The scarecrow received broccoli eyes, whole wheat egg noodle hair, a sliver of tomato mouth and a red pepper speck nose. He is dressed in American cheese and ham. I think he would scarecrows.

Another section of the tin is a corn stalk made of French fries flanked by carrot pumpkins with cranberry stems.

The final area is layered apple slices. We purchased wonderful Yellow Delicious Apples during our pumpkins patch visit.

Muffin Tin Monday- A Great Pumpkin Tin?

October 11, 2010 By Deirdre

The theme for Muffin Tin Monday is pumpkins this week. I have been brainstorming for about a week to come up with ideas for this tin.

Idea One: I found this idea for the pumpkin fruit salad and knew it was right up JDaniel’s alley.
Idea Two: I could make grilled cheese sandwiches and carve a face in the bread. After the first cut I realized that this was not going to work. The cheese was cemented to the bread. The sandwiches still ended up in the tin minus the cute faces I planned to put in them.
Idea Three: There are tons of great recipes that have pumpkin in them. I could try one of them and put it in the tin. There were no cans of pumpkin on the shelves at the two stores I went to.

Idea Four: Take something and make it look like a pumpkin. I took several peach slices and put them in a pumpkin shaped array. A raisin was placed on the top of them to look like a stem.

Idea Five: Place something orange in the tin and call it a day. I found some carrots in the fridge and added them to the tin with a cup of ranch dressing to dip them in.

Muffin Tin Monday- Shapes in a Sandwich

September 20, 2010 By Deirdre

JDaniel has enjoyed constructing his own sandwiches lately. I thought he would love to do it with the ingredients in this tin. He was even given a tin with heart-shaped muffin cups. I even made him some sandwich samples. He ate each piece individually. Why? I think it was because he can and he is two.

He had square and diamond-shaped bread, turkey in rectangles, cheese in triangles, apples in circles, and tomatoes in spheres.

Muffin Tin Monday- Curious George Lunch

September 13, 2010 By Deirdre

JDaniel isn’t old enough to sit through a movie. I decided to make him a lunch based on his favorite television show. Curious George has been a favorite for a long time.

He had a toasted cheese monkey sandwich, a yellow hat made from a banana, banana yogurt (just because we had it), Curious George fruit chews, along with C and G made with cookie cutters from apple slices.

Muffin Tin Monday- Labor Day Picnic Tin

September 6, 2010 By Deirdre

JDaniel had a picnic meal in a muffin tin. There were potato chips (We never have chips in the house. He was thrilled.), hot dogs, potato salad, cantaloupe in the shape of 6’s since it is the 6th day of September, blueberries, and watermelon.

I don’t think he got that it was a picnic meal. He ate while inside the house at the kitchen table. I do know he loved it.

Happy Labor Day!

Muffin Tin Monday- The Alphabet for Breakfast

August 23, 2010 By Deirdre

Muffin Tin Monday has started their themes back up for the fall. The theme for this week is the A,B, C or alphabet related tins. I decided to stick with my theme for Muffin Tin Mondays this month which is breakfast and make an A, B, C breakfast.

The breakfast came out yummy. I know because I made a tin for myself. JDaniel was allowed to select which tin he would like to eat from. He chose one and then he wanted the other. It might have had something to do with the fact that my tin still had a doughnut in it or maybe it was because he is two.

The A, B, C breakfast tin contained strawberry applesauce, blueberry pancakes, a cereal mixture, a piece of doughnut, eggs scrabbled, and a fruit salad.

Muffin Tin Monday- Breakfast with an Ocean View

August 16, 2010 By Deirdre

This week’s tin has water-related animal pancakes. Did you figure out what they are supposed to be? There are fish, flamingo, and dolphin pancakes. They are above a sea made of grape jelly, blueberry applesauce, and red grapes.

JDaniel loved this meal so much he asked for it again later. The pancakes had to be broken up for him for dipping. He tried to break them with his fork with little success. It was really important that each piece be totally dunked in jelly or applesauce. It just had to be. He is learning to be more flexible except when it comes to dipping.

Muffin Tin Monday- Christmas Breakfast in August

August 9, 2010 By Deirdre

When you let your two year old pick out the tin for his lunch, he may pick out a Christmas tin in August. The Santas, snowman, and gingerbread men are covered with food, but I bet you can still see their outlines.

We tried a new breakfast casserole this week with leeks, blueberries, and turkey sausage. It was good. It needed something, but I can’t figure out what. JDaniel also had blueberry muffins he helped make and grapes. He loved it all.

We will continue our breakfast for lunch next week. I can’t decide if it will be french toast or pancakes.