On Apr 5, 4:53*pm, "jmcquown" > wrote:
> I consider myself to be a picky eater since I don't like raw vegetables and
> much prefer hot food. *If I'm going to have a ham and cheese sandwich (for
> example) I want it served hot with melted cheese on toasted warm bread...
> the type of bread doesn't really matter. *Just make it a hot sandwich,
> please
>
> My oldest brother left here this morning. *He and his girlfriend came to
> pick up some furniture. *The weather and other events conspired against us
> so they wound up staying here for a week. *My brother will pretty much eat
> anything. *His g/f is another story altogether. *If she even *thinks*
> something has seasoning on it, she'll shun it. *OMG, what's that green
> speck? *If it has any hint of seasoning she wouldn't touch it. *She won't
> eat fish or sea food, only dark meat chicken and well done beef or pork.
>
> I bent over backwards trying to accomodate her. *I didn't dare sprinkle
> oregano or basil on the pizza I made (but she will eat pepperoni, and was
> snacking on braunschweiger on crackers, go figure). *My brother told me not
> to tell her I'd put any cheese other than mozzarella on the pizza. *And for
> gods sake don't buy that fresh mozz! *If the cheese doesn't come shredded in
> a bag there will be hell to pay!
>
> I made breakfast one morning last week. *I like to make omelets but
> apparently that's too exotic. *Okay, scrambled eggs then. *I said I could
> put some cheese in the scrambled eggs; Mom made them that way for us when we
> were kids. *OH NO! *Okay, I can make plain scrambled eggs. *Or boiled eggs.
> She got in a snit because I mentioned cheese and eggs in the same sentence.
> Then she said she wanted hash browns. *Hello, does this look like a
> restaurant? *I didn't have any potatoes, I don't know how she expected me to
> make hash browns. *I had tater tots in the freezer, those sufficed. *She
> still refused to eat any eggs, she just had tater tots. *My brother and I
> had eggs, bacon *and* tater tots. <G>
>
> I did manage to make a pot of chicken & dumplings with chicken leg quarters.
> She ate a couple of bowls of it without any complaints. *I didn't tell her
> I'd added poultry seasoning to it. *God forbid she knew it had sage, thyme
> and marjoram added to it. *Not to mention I put some bay leaves in when I
> was boiling the chicken to make the broth.
>
> We were trying to come up with dinner ideas the other night. *We'd already
> had chicken & noodles before the chicken and dumplings (she freaked out when
> she saw specks of green in the noodles... I'd added some of Penzey's Tuscan
> seasoning. *OOOPS).
>
> Since we'd already eaten chicken a couple of times and I'm not really a fan
> of chicken I said how about some beef? *She said, "I want those instant
> [mashed] potatoes." *Okay, for that we'd need some gravy. *How about swiss
> steak? *My brother said "YUM!" *She said, "I don't like swiss steak." *Okay,
> meatloaf? *No, she doesn't like meatloaf. *Huh. *Okay, how about pot roast
> with potatoes? *She didn't want pot roast. *She wanted instant potatoes!
> Lady, I'm getting really tired of your demands. *You want instant potatoes,
> buy some and knock yourself out. *You have free run of the kitchen, make a
> buttload of instant potatoes. *We wound up broiling steaks - hers had to be
> well done - and I boiled new potatoes. *But I didn't dare put anything like
> parsley or dill weed on them.
>
> Thank Bast they're on their way now to TX now. *They'll be dropping off
> furniture in TN at my other brothers house on the way. *Now I can cook
> whatever I want to without a fear of someone freaking out about green specks
> on their food *You'd think she was 3 rather than 63.
>
> Jill

Hehehe. We had some friends once who only at white food. White
bread. Potatoes. Chicken breast. stuff like that. I didn't realize
just how bad they were until they came to stay one weekend. They got
in at 11 (bus was late) and I offered them a snack before bed. There
was very little in the house they would eat. I cooked up some white
rice for them (didn't tell them it was jasmine) and despaired of
feeding them for the rest of the weekend. We drifted apart after
that....

maxine in ri