Dinners
Dinner last night was too-long-leftover pizza and a pasta primavera analog that I made up on the fly using leftover ham from someone else's Easter dinner on Sunday.
Monday's dinner was one of our two internationally inspired dinners this week: Cuba. I made ropa vieja, yellow rice from a mix, and a chayote/potato/cream soup that probably wasn't strictly Cuban but since chayote is a vegetable used in Cuban cooking I figured it was close enough. SS, in his bid to keep me guessing food-wise, loved the soup, despite the fact that he dislikes squash, potatoes, and cream. Five year olds can be inscrutable sometimes.
MM is now having dinners herself, but so far her experiences have been limited to baby oatmeal, apple, banana, pear, peach, and sweet potato. She was enthusiastic about all of the above except the sweet potato, which she disliked so much that she almost wouldn't eat banana the next time it was offered out of fear it MIGHT be sweet potato. It's weird, because given her enthusiasm for trying to consume paper napkins, her palate can't be all *that* discriminating. What kind of child won't drink formula or eat sweet potato but will try to eat napkins? Oh, yeah, the kind I have.
Last week our only attempt at an international dinner was the corned beef and cabbage we had for St. Patrick's Day. I realize that that's more of a USA dinner but at least we had dinner on a theme. We also had meatloaf, corned beef hash with the leftovers above, and some baked chicken legs I think. And the first round of the pizza, and some fish sticks in there somewhere.
Monday's dinner was one of our two internationally inspired dinners this week: Cuba. I made ropa vieja, yellow rice from a mix, and a chayote/potato/cream soup that probably wasn't strictly Cuban but since chayote is a vegetable used in Cuban cooking I figured it was close enough. SS, in his bid to keep me guessing food-wise, loved the soup, despite the fact that he dislikes squash, potatoes, and cream. Five year olds can be inscrutable sometimes.
MM is now having dinners herself, but so far her experiences have been limited to baby oatmeal, apple, banana, pear, peach, and sweet potato. She was enthusiastic about all of the above except the sweet potato, which she disliked so much that she almost wouldn't eat banana the next time it was offered out of fear it MIGHT be sweet potato. It's weird, because given her enthusiasm for trying to consume paper napkins, her palate can't be all *that* discriminating. What kind of child won't drink formula or eat sweet potato but will try to eat napkins? Oh, yeah, the kind I have.
Last week our only attempt at an international dinner was the corned beef and cabbage we had for St. Patrick's Day. I realize that that's more of a USA dinner but at least we had dinner on a theme. We also had meatloaf, corned beef hash with the leftovers above, and some baked chicken legs I think. And the first round of the pizza, and some fish sticks in there somewhere.