Anyone want a FOOD CHAT

[jlottie]

Why is it when my veggie daughter visited and I did a homemade veggie sauce and pasta my OH turned his nose up, then at a later date I did a bolognaise with the same veggie sauce (OK with meat) and he said best sauce ever

Watch out I'm doing DK's chocolate cake tomorrow,(wouldn't dream of telling him what was in it )

[Deleted]

jlottie,know what you mean about telling menfolk what's in their dinner etc.

My hubby can't stand the sight of eggs on a plate...must be all the boiled eggs and soldiers he had as a nipper.He wouldn't touch quiche when we were first married,so I made one,called it a savoury flan and he ate the lot When I said that there's eggs in cakes,well,that was different...he couldn't see the eggs.Now he eats quiche from Sainsbury's...I don't say anything.If he knew what I put in my Chilli-con-carne...

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MY oh
wont eat mushrooms or onions, i chopped both finely mixed them in bolognaise sauce he ate the lot. 2 days later i said did you like your bolognaise, his reply was it was lovely.
I have not got the heart to tell him what was in it, but as the saying goes what the eye doesn't see the heart doesn't grieve over.
Well it worked for me till this day he still doesn't know what hes eaten, dread to think what he would do if he ever found out.
He never will im not going to tell him
karenwl

[Dr Bill]

I say you other chaps on this board, don't you think these women are getting a bit too bolshy for their own good?

Anyone up for starting a thread to get our own back?
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[Deleted]

My partner refuses to eat cooked vegetables (raw ones are apparently fine). But when we were in India three years ago, he was delighted to eat vegetarian curries for a month - couldn't get enough of them. Back home - the vegetable boycott resumed. Go figure ...

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Well bless my soul i thought i had the only male that was like that, doesn't like hardly any veg at all, thank god he never sees what goes into his bolognaise and curries and even the odd Shepherds pie , which he hates by the way unless i call it mince and potatoes which he loves??figure that one out, and he hates onions they give him stomach ache.........unless i chop them very finely and he doesn't have a clue, and i thought the kids were hard to feed. Oh and by the way Hi jlottie good to hear from you again, did you ever get the council to give you a water supply on your allotment!!

[toonia]

I've been reading everyone's posts about feeding their OHs and offspring and wondered what mealtimes were like when you were growing up.
My parents had both been through the war and never quite got over rationing. My sister and I were never allowed to help ourselves to anything without asking, I don't think I once opened the fridge door unless I'd been asked to fetch something.
We weren't allowed likes and dislikes and there was never any choice, at home or at school.
Nobody had any allergies and vegetarians didn't exist until the hippy period!
My best friend was Polish and I loved going to her house, her mum and gran were always cooking...borscht, cheesecake, dumplings and meatballs....we were always expected to be hungry and to enjoy food. She loved coming to our house for a Sunday roast as that was exotic for her.
We were allowed a bottle of pop on Sundays too, we were sent to the corner shop to pay the papers and could choose -Tizer, cherryade, cream soda...but never Coke. Even then it was frowned upon!

[sweetleaf]

My daughter had a normal diet for years then all of a sudden told me not to give her mushrooms onions or anything with gravy, as she refused to eat it, it makes life difficult especially as other daughter wont eat any type of beans or sweetcorn even as far back as weaning, and eldest son wont eat carrots!
Now OH is on a diet as he`s overweight has high blood pressure and cholesterol, a result of his upbringing... his favourite foods from childhood are all the ones that are bad in excess. Some days Im completely stumped!

My best friend as a child had parents who originated in the Carribean, her mum had a recipe for spicy fried chicken which began, "first catch your chicken" I used to go and help my friend polish her room on chicken days..yum.

[obelixx]

Hi Toonia - my parents also remembered rationing and were Methodists of the kind that think food is fuel and enjoying food is sinful. Both worked full time and we could tell what day of the week it was by the meal served. Sunday - roast; Monday cold roast and leftover veggies; Tuesday curry with any left roast meat and hard boiled eggs if needed or cauliflower or macaroni cheese. Wednesday might be tripe and onions or sausages, Thursday was either braised beef with dumplings or steak and kidney pie and Friday some kind of fish or beans on toast. Saturday was boiled ham on the bone.

We were allowed Tango - an orange fizzy drink, or Dandelion and Burdock/Ginger Beer/Lemonade but no coke. Biscuits were rationed to two at a time and cakes were baked only for guests and prayer meetings.

I have gone completely the other way and have a wide repertoire of dishes from many cuisines to serve to family and friends. I love to see people enjoying food. OH will eat anything I put in front of him and Possum is improving after an awkward phase. She thinks she doesn't like lots of stuff but gives in gracefully when I tell her what I've been hiding. Still can't do mushrooms though. It's a texture thing.

I did DK's chocolate beetroot cake for the Belgians at my English class on Monday and they loved it. I made them guess the secret ingredient after they'd tasted it and one lady took th elast quarter home to feed to her OH and 2 boys who are funny about veggies.

[rhodadendron]

Like you Toonia and Obelixx, my parents (mother in particular) never got over rationing to the point where I would say that it finally became an obsessive compulsive disorder for my mum. I could write a book about it!

We were allowed one dislike as kids, mine was liver (which meant I had to have everything else, kidney, tripe, the works). I perfected the art of swallowing anything I didn't like whole and/or spitting it out into my hankie. This went on into my teens - it just wasn't worth arguing over my mother's insistence on my eating fat on meat.

My mother would thin down the last bit of tomato sauce with milk and then you would pour it over your chips and get a plate flooded with pinky milky stuff with red clots in it! If I didn't put enough milk in my tea first time round I was told that I could only have one lot and not top it up. Butter still had to be eaten when rancid. Nothing was ever wasted. Toothpaste tubes always had to be squeezed til empty then rolled up then the bottom cut off to get the last morsel out! My parents fished (for a hobby) and caught lots of crab, lobster and other fish which was usually great. I can remember when I was about 7 being sat a table with a bass in front of me which I just couldn't eat and my Mum sat there with me until I was forced to eat it cold and horrible! I puked it up and got slapped for my trouble.

I think rationing must have had a profound effect upon some people as my parents were fairly well off, my Dad was a University lecturer. My mother has for many years taken a tupperware box with her to any restaurant meal into which she puts (for later) anything she can't eat at the time. My OH was gobsmacked the first time we took my parents out for a pub lunch and a bread roll and sausage disappeared into my Mum's handbag!

[toonia]

We always had doggy bags, but they were for the dogs! I remember dad taking home the remains of a mixed grill and worrying that if we had an accident the ambulance crew would find odd bits of liver and ribs...
In fact, recycling is nothing new, I bet your parents saved string and brown paper too, nothing was thrown if it was thought it could come in useful one day.

[piggingardener]

My Mum was very good at making things go further too. The dreaded "C word" turkey went on for days on end - might even have been weeks. By the time we got to the rissoles stage I was heartily sick of it!

Fortunately my Dad was a veg gardener and most of our veg came out of the garden, so at least they were plentiful and tasty. His Sunday roast carving technique was an art form. We used to have to close the windows because the slices were so thin they'd have blown away in a gust of wind... You had to search under the bean mountain to find the meat.

We always knew what we were having on each day too. I used to hate Wednesdays because it was meat pie day and there were usually more carrots and potatoes in it than meat.

And as for fishcakes - yeuch!

[toonia]

This is really interesting! Strangely enough, my friend's parents spent some time in a Russian concentration camp and didn't have the "rationing attitude"! Her dad gave me my first ever glass of vodka too!
My mum didn't like poultry, her dad kept chickens in their back yard (this was in Islington) and to use the outdoor privy she had to walk through them and was traumatised. We only had a very small turkey!

[Chuckles]

Can't be doing with fussy eaters . I believe you should try everything at least once and not make a judgement on the first mouthful. Have sat here laughing at some of these threads and almost cried at some.

I was always brought up to eat what was put in front of me at meal times. Non of this what would you like. My sisters OH does different meals for there two children, they are now 16 and 19 and he still does it

Did anyone watch that programme last night on the 7yr old girl who had never eaten food, she was fed through a tube. It was very sad but interesting. How can people let things get so out of hand is beyond me but who am I to comment.

[obelixx]

We'd have liver sometimes but always pig and always cooked solid and inedible. I much prefer lamb or chicken liver cooked pink these days. When we headed north to see the grandparents we had to eat cold pease pudding with our ham. Yuk! and yeat I love lentils and dried peas cooked properly in casseroles or veggie dishes.

Still - it could have been worse. OH's mum fed them hearts and he'd never met a drop scone/pikelet till we went for tea at some Scottish friends here. Now Possum has them for breakfast at weekends and OH sneaks one when he thinks I'm not looking.

[piggingardener]

OOOOh Pikelets!! We used to have them toasted on a toasting fork by the coal fire and the butter used to run through all the little holes because they were piping hot.

They don't taste the same done under the grill. I must fire up the chiminea and do some on that - lovely!!

[toonia]

Word nerd question! How far North do you have to go before crumpets become pikelets?

[obelixx]

Scotland - or all the way round to NZ and OZ. Don't try making them with local SR flour. It hasn't the same oomph as the UK version. Use plain flour and add baking powder or they'll be leaden.

[piggingardener]

Hello Toons

I don't know. I was born and bred in Staffordshire and have always known them as pikelets. They're very nice with melted cheese on BTW!!

[4pygmies]

This thread has given me immense comfort as I am married to the FUSSIEST eater IN THE WORLD. He is vegetarian, which is entirely up to him (BUT he wears head to toe leather for biking.....) he tells everyone he eats anything but in fact he will only eat pasta, pizza and quorn. He hates rice (thereby cutting out vast amounts of good vegetarian food), celery, puddings of any description, any meat substitutes apart from Quorn, Tofu, potatoes (apart from roasted), quiches, most veggie ready meals and pastry. Basically if it's not pasta and not covered with tomatoes and cheese he turns his nose up. I get chronic indigestion every night trying to think of something for our evening meal............plus my 6 yr old daughter is getting fussy now.......anybody any brilliant ideas??? Funnily enough he will drink any alcohol as long as it's red and comes out of a bottle....................................

[mickthecactus]

4pygmies, that's my daughter to a T. However, she is an excellent meat cook. Has no moral hang-ups about meat - just never liked it.

[lottielady]

toonia said:

Word nerd question! How far North do you have to go before crumpets become pikelets?

We get both here - Pikelets are thinner though, but as yummy as each other!

LL x

[toonia]

Yes, but I don't know which part of the Caribbean you live in LL!

[lottielady]

It's the bit with all the roundabouts and concrete cows Toons!

LL x

[toonia]

Right, I can say I've been to the Caribbean now...or driven round some of the roundabouts, anyway!

[Plocket]

I still want to know where LL moors her ship!!!

[Margi]

Just for the record, what I now buy in Lancashire as crumpets were pikelets when I was growing up in Leeds - there must be all of 35 miles between the two places!

Margi x

[lottielady]

plocket said:

I still want to know where LL moors her ship!!!

Plocket its not mine its Mr Lotties - and he told me NEVER EVER ask where he keeps his ship!

LL x

[obelixx]

Margi - pikelets/drop scones and crumpets are two very different beasties. Trust the folk on t'wrong side o' th'hills to get it wrong.

[Margi]

I know they're very different, Obby, but the Lancastrians can't help being wrong... I know the difference between drop scones/Scotch pancakes and crumpets/pikelets, but can't help thinking we've strayed into a similar area as to why we don't often use common names for plants!!! Cultural diversity is a terrible thing...

M x