Regardless how much I love vegetables and how creative I am with cooking and serving veggies to my kids, it always seems that I need to use the art of ‘negotiation’ to convince them to try and eat.  So here an idea I had to not only get vegetable in them but serve them in a fun and ‘Pip-pip’ British manor, wrapped in wax-paper, lined newspaper.

You can cut up one or mix of any of these vegetables:

• Potatoes – any variety
• Sweet potatoes
• Yams
• Carrots
• Beets
• Parsnip

Simple directions:

1. Cut your choice or combo of vegetables as listed – recommended to cut them approximately the same size.
2. Toss cut veggie strips in a generous splash of olive oil (Try some flavoured olive oils ie. lemon-flavoured or truffle-flavoured/basil-flavoured etc.)
3. Sprinkle and toss with a dash of sea salt or kosher salt
4. Spread on tin baking pan (cookie sheet)
5. Brown in 425℉ oven for 20-25 minutes until brown.

I love serving this in a rolled parchment paper lined cone – use white paper (have the kids first decorate the outside of it first before rolling into a cone shape) or newspaper.

Carefully pack them in a paper bag and take to your park and sit on the bench and nibble away of serve them with any dinner.  Here are some great dips to serve with your Veggie Fries:

• Multi-Purpose Lemon Dill Dressing
• Multi-Purpose Honey Mustard Dressing
• Homemade Healthy Ketchup
• Good old malt vinegar & more salt
• Old-fashion Mayonnaise

Did you know trivia:

• The French fry is NOT invented by the French but was the invented in Belgium
• In England, they are called “chips”
• In France “pommes frites” (which means, literally, “fried apples”)
• In Belgium and Holland “patat” (not the word for potato, which is “aardappel”)
• In Quebec, Canada, “Poutine” was originated – French fries topped with fresh cheese curds, covered with brown gravy

Top picture is from http://www.yumuniverse.com/2010/10/11/mixed-root-veggie-fries-and-skrub’a-giveaway/

How many times to you say, “Just try it please!”  Encourage your children to eat foods that they would never try to eat otherwise by adding some dipping fun!

A yummy little dressing or dip that can be used to make food flavourful and fun.  Dips and gravies can be drizzled on salad, put on potatoes, add to rice or pasta.  Let your child use dips for vegetables, baked chicken, fish sticks, potato slice.

A little dip makes eating fun and flavourful!  A simple tip and some recommended recipes the Bibagogo. Go ahead. Get messy Recipe Blog!

• Multi-Purpose Lemon Dill Dressing
• Multi-Purpose Honey Mustard Dressing
• Homemade Healthy Ketchup
• Yummy Easy-to-Make Fruit Dip
• Pretty Pineapple Salsa

Full Meal Deals for Dipping!

• Easy Busy Day Beef French Dip – Interactive dinner for all to dip & eat!
• Yummy Lemon Chicken – Everyone will rave about this dinner. The sauce is  like lemony-candy!

We have all been raised eating the most popular condiment, Heinz Ketchup.  Along with that I was raised with Campbell’s canned soup.  Now being ‘that’ mother that feels like I should make everything by scratch to avoid the unnecessary additives, MSGs etc., homemade soup is ‘no-brainer’ but ketchup was one of the all-time favourites that I never tackled until now.

I found this recipe on blog site called, Serious Eats Recipes.  The Sauced: Homemade Ketchup recipe is Joshua Bousel invention.  He writes condiment and grilling recipes and also has a blog called The Meatwave.

Here is his recipe.  It is easy and the ingredients are easy to find in most kitchens.  What I have done is make, place into nice little bottles or jars and give some to my friends and family (labelling an expiry date).  It will last in a sealed glass container and stored in refrigerator for up to a month.  So be popular and give what you don’t think you will use in the month to others.  It is always a hit!