On 4/15/2011 2:29 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
> > wrote in message
> ...
>> man when my mom cooked we ate it or did without, we all had different
>> allergies, and with four of us she really worked at making food we could
>> all eat as a family, once and only once did i snarl my nose at something ,
>> my dad made me eat what seemed like a ton of black eyed peas, he said, "if
>> your mother cooked it... the least you can do is pass it without comment,
>> you are not allowed to disrespect her efforts for any reason..." after
>> that if i had to hold my breath to get something passed me i did... he was
>> not in the habit of making us take food we didn't want to eat,
>>
> I do not think it is proper to make a kid eat something with alcohol, if the
> kid refuses it.

Julie, you know when you cook with alcohol, you ONLY get the flavour?
the alcohol 'burns off' in the simmering?