Today's lunch is cold shrimp, Shanghai noodles with broccoli (leftover from lunch at Chin Chin, one of my absolute favorite LA restaurants), cooked carrots, sugar plum tomatoes, strawberries and grapes. The grapes were a special request from Juju because her friend Harper had grapes on Monday and since they aren't allowed to share food at school, she was only able to stare longingly at them. I've noticed she takes great joy in picking the grapes from the stem so I left those intact.
We went to the doctor today for Juju's 3rd birthday checkup and she received a number of shots. This meant she received a number of treats throughout the afternoon and evening including a lollipop, cupcake, and mini ice cream cone. At least she eats a healthy lunch. Another cause for celebration on a blog about food is that Juju is finally at a normal height and weight (just under 50% percentile in both categories). For a while she was hovering under 20% in weight which didn't bother me too much but it does feel nice to be right in the middle right now.
We've been eating a lot of trout around here and I came up with two ways to make it that differ from the recipe I posted a few weeks ago. These are much easier (i.e. you will not have to supreme any lemons or make an extra trip to the store just for capers). In the photo below I coated the trout with crumbled almonds and pan fried them in olive oil and lemon. It was so good. And tonight I took some leftover challah, toasted it in the toaster oven, threw it in the food processor to make breadcrumbs and cooked them the same way. Delicious!
