Sneaky Biscuit

Both Wriggles and I have the pre-winter lurgy so am feeling distinctively lacking in energy to write proper. However, I offer a sneaky hidden vegetable recipe I have adapted in the hope my offspring moves on from Quavers, which are rapidly becoming less of an interest.

Sneaky Vegetable Cheesey Biscuits

100g cheese, grated
100g plain flour
100g butter or margarine
Some vegetable of your choosing. I have so far experimented with carrot and courgettes

1. Sift flour, grate cheese and lob fat of choice in a bowl. 
2. Select sneaky vegetable of choice and grate/chop finely. I have used about the length of my little finger as a guide and then estimated wildly looking at the results. It's up to you.
3. MIX. I don't know any technical cooking terms thought I imagine "knead" is appropriate
4. Flour clean surface and rolling pin; roll out mixture
5. Cut desired shapes. We choose stars as that is Wriggles' favourite word
6. Put oven on. I think it was 170c...
7. Cook until undersides are browning and biscuits are more springy than wibbly. I'm afraid I cannot remember times but 15-20 minutes sounds about right. Prod with finger and use oven gloves to see.
8. EAT (when cooled of course)

Result: I have eaten approximately 100 (it feels like) and Wriggles has chewed a corner of one, which for her is practically a three course meal. Hooray!

 

Baby Signing

In the days pre-Wriggles I had little to no knowledge of "baby classes" and thought the likes of baby yoga and such like sounded ludicrous and waste of money. Fast-forward to actual mummyhood, and like most of my pre-child preconceptions, I think differently. Since, the days of my mum having me and my sister when your choices were the NCT and the local mother-and-toddler church group, there is a plethora of choice available to offer an escape from staring morosely at the pile of washing and grimacing through repeats of In the Night Garden.

I have tried out a few, namely those that come with a free cup of coffee and chocolate biscuit, and my favourite so far is Baby Signing classes.We started going purely because they were quite near and on one of my days off and not too expensive. I also had in the back of my head that speech delay in prems is very common, and if Wriggles picked it up well then it certainly wouldn't hurt to have some sign language under our belt.