Mouse Meat

I don't know about anyone else, but my children are obsessed with food. It must be genetic on their father's side....I certainly wasn't like that until after I hit Year 7!

I'm also a rather adventurous cook. As a result we enjoy a wide variety of meals and cuisines so that I don't bore myself to death with plain food. One of our more recent adventures has been with eggplants....or aubergines, as some of you may know them. I'm not completely without heart when trying out new things. I have never served eggplant on it's own ~ it's always mixed in with something so that it's a) less recognisable and b) less offensive to eat ;-)

Last night I made Moussaka ~ a Greek (I believe) lamb mince dish like lasagna, using eggplant instead of lasagna pasta. I've made it before so the kids are familiar with it and are now happy to eat it. But last night while I was cooking Mr Busy was pestering to know what we were eating for dinner. I showed him the recipe with the picture and said "we're having this". I didn't want to argue the eggplant point. He is learning to read and doing quite well so he was looking at the recipe and trying to sound out Moussaka.

He said "MUM....are we having MOUSE meat???". Yup....that's me. I feed my kids Mouse meat!!!!!!!!!