Too much candy on Easter? Try the BUNNY SALAD…
Step 1: Assemble ingredients. Pears, lettuce/spinach leaves, carrots, strawberries, cottage cheese, peppercorns. A plate for your garden, peeling tool, and cutting board are also useful. Note that the actual recipe calls for fully-sized carrots and cloves, which will screw you up later, so be prepared to roll with it.
Household bunnies are optional. Note that if you take one to the store, there will be a lot of pointing and giggling.
Step 2: Contemplate safety of child’s fingers, then say, “F* it” (to yourself, please) and let them go to town with the peeler. Consider counting fingers before he starts, just in case.
Step 3: Use a knife to cut peeled pear in half. Keep the stem on the end for a nose, if you like. Use the peppercorns and carrots as eyes and ears.
Damn. The string carrots won’t work. Substitute pear peel.
Damn. Pear peel won’t stick. Neither will peppercorns. Realize you screwed up.
Get creative. Dig some holes for the eyes. And ears.
Step 4: Get smart. Use toothpicks. Let the kid cut the toothpicks before insertion, he’ll love it.
Pat yourself on the back for being such a Super Mom.
Step 5: Notch that Super Mom status up a few bars by letting the 5 year old use the KNIFE. The emergency room won’t judge you, you creative Mom, you!
Step 6: Add strawberries and carrots to the lettuce patch. You’ve got bunnies in the garden!
(Note: if you haven’t already realized that you need two bunnies for your two children, hurry and make a second. Substitute whatever necessary to make it work.)
Step 7: Don’t forget to use the cottage cheese to make fluffy bunny tails!
Step 8: Have your kids pose with their salads so you can send them to Mothering and Parenting websites and magazines. You need to document your awesomeness.
Step 9: Realize that your kids may begin to get that the salad is a ploy to distract from eating Easter candy. Be prepared to talk up the awesomeness of the salad!
Step 10: Reward children who eat bunny salad with Easter candy. As if it would end any other way.
alejna | 12-Apr-09 at 12:42 pm | Permalink
Your awesomeness is fabulously documented!
By the way, know you epicute?
eli | 12-Apr-09 at 1:04 pm | Permalink
How amazing! You are truly awesome.
Now if we tried that at home, Wylie would have eaten everything (like a rabbit) prior to our getting it put together.
kitty | 12-Apr-09 at 1:06 pm | Permalink
That salad is way to pretty to eat. That’d be my excuse to hit the chocolate rabbit.
Emmy | 12-Apr-09 at 8:39 pm | Permalink
Can’t wait to try this!
magpie | 13-Apr-09 at 1:15 pm | Permalink
Totally cute.