"TFM®" > wrote in message
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> "Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
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>> On Sun 05 Apr 2009 01:53:00p, jmcquown told us...
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>>> 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
>>>
>>>
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>> Amazing she lived that long without someone killing her!
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> Right up to the last sentence, I was thinking that she had to be smokin'
> hot for a man to put up with that shit.
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> The bitch would starve here.
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> TFM®

LOL she was smokin' hot if you like grandmotherly material