Sunday's Plate - Pockets!

We've been working on some new meals that our kids really love. One of those new meals involves won ton wrappers. If you think about it, cupcake tins would make perfect personal sized meals for little kids. One for the pickier eaters, and two for the normal eaters, and three for big eaters. In a new "app" on my new phone, there is a cooking app that had this delicious lasagna made in won ton wrappers. So...we tried them, and thirty kids ate nearly fifty little lasagnas and everyone wanted more.

Nice things about the won ton wrappers is the cost is nominal and there is no boiling noodles, and they actually cook. That's the trouble with "abc" noodles - already been cooked. Making lasagna for kids should be a "very often" occurrence because it's a great source of protein and there are so many variations.

But now let's think it through...is this the only use won ton wrappers have? Nep.

Think about all the little things children love to eat...macaroni and cheese, chicken pot pie, tacos, hot dogs w/o a bun, ham and cheese w/o bread and so many more combinations.

If you drape two won tons in each of twelve cups of your muffin tin and just start putting your child's favorite foods into them and top with a slice or two of cheese and bake, you're going to have some pretty interesting results.

1. Last night's mashed potatoes, cubed meat, cheese

2. Left over pizza cut up with scissors and topped with cheese

3. Sandwich meat, rice, cheese

4. Rice, veggies, cheese

5. Mac and cheese, sandwich meat and more cheese

6. Fish sticks, french fries cut up with a topping of cheese

7. Hot dogs, baked beans and cheese

8. Left over Chinese with a thick topping of Parmesan

9. Ham, Tuesday's potatoes and a topping of cheese

To make lasagna, brown your meat and add your sauces. Try taco seasoning as your spice. Kids like this better than Italian spices. Mix cottage cheese and Parmesan cheese in a bowl with an egg. Line your cup with won tons and add your meat sauce, your cottage mix and top with mozzarella. Bake at 350.

Can't wait to try this with rice, veggies meat and cheese sauce.

Cheese sauce can be found in the right column of this blog under recipes.