Let the deception begin!

I recently purchased (found a really great deal on Amazon for a used copy) the cook book Deceptively Delicious by Jessica Seinfeld (Jerry Seinfeld's wife). I first learned of this book on Oprah back in 2007 (I believe) when Jessica Seinfeld was on her show. Then in the beginning of January, we were at one of our niece's birthday parties and Tisha served a home made macaroni and cheese dish. The recipe was from this cookbook and contained butternut squash. It was really good.

I was excited to try some of the recipes. Our boys eat pretty well actually but could expand what vegetables they will eat. Each of her recipes contains at least one fruit or vegetable puree in it. Below we have sweet potato, yellow squash, broccoli, carrot, spinach and cauliflower puree. (The butternut squash was still in the oven.) Aren't they pretty?

So I tried one recipe last week for a chicken salad sandwich. It had cauliflower puree in it. (Chicken - I used left over turkey from our extremely large bird at Thanksgiving - mayo, yogurt, chopped celery, chopped grapes, hard boiled eggs...) We all really enjoyed this - once Chad picked the chopped celery out of Andrew's sandwich; it a texture thing "I don't like the crunchy!"....so then of course we had to pick them out of Carson's too, even though he was eating it fine prior to Andrew complaining.

I also tried Blueberry Cheesecake Cupcakes. This contained blueberry, yellow squash and spinach puree. They looked a little bizarre, a green blue thing - that deflated when removed from the oven. We ate them, and though not exactly delicious, they were alright. And Andrew actually did say they were delicious. And for knowing that they contained yellow squash and spinach - which seems a little wrong in a baked good - they were alright. But were not real great the next day. Probably won't be making them again.

So we are 1 for 2 in Deceptively Delicious....we shall see what the other recipes bring!