Kids Cuisine

This post comes to Kids Cuisine from Janelle over at Brown Bag Blues.

My son went to visit a new school, to help him decide “where to go to school next year.”

He knew some of the kids at the school, and met others that he really enjoyed. Not too long after his visit, I was having coffee with my new, favorite friend who also happens to be a mom of one of the boys in this particular 5th grade class.

I had to share with her. I mean, how often do you get the fun, social scoop on your own child? I had asked my son what he thought of her son. We were having lunch and he peered at me over his fork and said, “yes, I remember him, he is very sanguine.” And, perhaps noting the demise of my education on such highly appointed verbiage he paused to share the definition: “happily confident.”

I smiled, to pretend I understood and mask my amusement at his use of vocabulary. As if it were normal. As if his mom even knows how to pronounce, let alone define the aforementioned word. Sanguine. It does roll of your tongue, though, doesn’t it?

So I shared with my friend that she had a very sanguine son. And then, adult to adult, I shared the definition. We had a good chuckle and drank our coffee, like grown-ups should.

You would think ‘nice’ or ‘friendly’ or even ‘outgoing’ would have come to mind. Sort of like when you make a PBJ; you would describe it as simple, basic, or standard.

But that is not always the case. In fact, PBJs can be so much more. It is the quintessential sandwich to initiate good ideas; the ubiquitous combination that is the foundation for unveiled ingenuity… (Touché—mom knows big words too!)

I emailed some friends to ask how they reinvented the PBJ; here are some of the responses to my PBJ query, to bring these slices of bread and condiments beyond ‘classic,’ ‘nice’ or ‘usual.’ Here are personality-filled sandwiches that might even be considered sanguine:

Click here to read the rest of the article, and get a bagful of new ideas…