Book

How I Became a Pirate
​by Melinda Long

One day, Jeremy goes to the beach to build a sandcastle and winds up befriending Pirate Braid Beard and becoming a pirate. He learns how to sing sea chanteys, say pirate stuff like “landlubber” and “scurvy dog,” and even eat like a pirate. Pirates pound their firsts on the table and shout, “Down the hatch, me laddies!” gulp down their food, and talk with their mouths full.

​Have a seafaring meal of Pirate Meat with the pirates’ Missing Spinach and Carrots.

Cook

Pirate Meat with Missing Spinach and Carrots

Complexity: Easy.
Time:  15 minutes prep plus 20 minutes cooking.

Ingredients

  • 1 roasted chicken purchased from the grocery store
  • 6 carrots, chopped
  • 1 large bunch spinach, trimmed
  • 1 T olive oil
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • 1 loaf pirate-y bread
  • butter

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 420.
  2. Toss chopped carrots and spinach with olive oil and season with salt and pepper to taste.
  3. Place carrots on rimmed baking sheet or in 9x13 pan and roast in the oven for 20 minutes or until desired softness is reached. Add spinach to carrots for the last 2 minutes for roasting.
  4. Warm roasted chicken per package directions.
  5. Hide the vegetables under the chicken.
  6. Serve with buttered pirate-y bread.

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