"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 3/1/2013 5:49 AM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
>> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>>
>>> Well I don't think I'll be making this again unless daughter likes it
>>> without the nuts. I tried it after it set up and I didn't care for it
>>> so
>>> much. I don't know why really. But I also am not big into sweets. I
>>> just thought I'd make it because I have a ton of sunseed butter. This
>>> was
>>> one of those things that daughter was eating like mad until I bought a
>>> case of it. And now consumption has dropped.
>>
>> Your daughter has you wrapped around her little finger. You are her
>> slave
>> bitch. She is a nascent "withholder." She'll ruin every relationship
>> she
>> ever enters into. You could buy her a case of premium Dutch chocolate an
>> if
>> daughter senses you did it because you love her, she will decide she
>> hates
>> chocolate altogether and will not touch another molecule of it to save
>> her
>> life.
>>
>> Blather, wince, repeat.
>>
>>
> I can't figure out who is wearing the proverbial pants in this household.
> Or, cart, horse, which is in front? Her daughter is 14. If she doesn't
> like what Julie cooks she needs to figure out how to cook something for
> herself. She knows where the kitchen is.

Oh I *know* that she doesn't like walnuts. Neither does my brother but both
of them will occasionally eat things that have walnuts in them. I did
consider leaving them out but wasn't sure that they would firm up enough
without them in there. I see now that they would.
>
> I suspect she's not a very bright child. If she knew her mother was
> making this and she knew she didn't like walnuts why didn't she speak up?
> (Of course now we're going to hear the girl has never tasted a walnut in
> all her 14 years!)
>
She didn't know I was making it. I just made it on a whim. And she doesn't
control what I make! And of course she has eaten walnuts. As I said, she
will eat them in some things.

> Julie seems to bend over backwards to find just the "right" thing for her
> daughter, who instantly dislikes it. Nothing ever pleases this kid.
>
> Still, Julie doesn't seem thrilled with (m)any of the results of cooking
> something they like, either. IMHO they need to stick to going out to eat.
> Then they can complain about the food someone else cooked.

I didn't make the fudge for her. I didn't even make it for me really. I
just made it on a whim. Thought I had all of the ingredients but didn't
have the cocoa. That was no biggie. I was right by a store anyway so I
just picked some up.

As for going out to eat, that is something we are very sick of doing. It's
quite hard to dine out when you have food intolerances and that leaves
precious little to choose from. I am really sick of the hamburger patty and
plain baked potato or French fries. And at many restaurants that's pretty
much all that I can eat. Even harder for my daughter who is on the South
Beach diet. And yes, technically this fudge probably wouldn't fit the
parameters of the diet but a small taste of it would and that's all that she
had.