spamtrap1888 wrote:
> On Jun 3, 8:37 pm, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
>> Do you have problems like this? A few things come to mind
>> immediately. Polenta, black beans, black eyed peas, hominy. Yes, I
>> can eat some of these things by myself but it does get annoying to
>> always make different meals.
>
> Corn, and broccoli. If I want to eat these things I have to buy them,
> and even so my wife will just pick at the corn. To her it is not a
> vegetable.

Well, corn is a grain. Actually daughter and I prefer it raw if it is
fresh. Soooo good! But the rest of the family won't touch it that way. I
made a wonderful raw corn salad for the 4th of July one year and they all
hated it except for Angela and I. My bro does love corn and it's one of the
few things in the vegetable world that he will eat. I'll eat it cooked but
not so fond of it. Prefer it to be a small amount in a soup or stew or as
popcorn!

As for the broccoli, we'll eat that raw too but not cooked. Husband will
eat it either way but loves it cooked. I hate the smell of it or asparagus
cooking. So he only gets it at home once in a while. I did the asparagus
tonight. Big Costco bag.

>> But tonight? I made a meal for them. Found a recipe for lemony
>> basmati brown rice that sounded divine! And it was, IMO. Will post
>> if anyone wants it. I did try it before I put the butter in as I can
>> not eat butter. Yummmmmmy! Daughter took a bite and refused to eat
>> it. Said it was too lemony. That's exactly what I loved about it!
>> Husband said he didn't like it because it was too buttery. Although
>> he did eat every speck of it. So... *sigh* One day I will make this
>> just for me and use olive oil or margarine instead of the butter.
>> But I don't know when because I rarely eat rice as a side dish.
>> Usually only when made as a main dish.
>
> Maybe the rice was too sour for your daughter, and too greasy for your
> husband. To me rice should be bland and fluffy.

But they won't eat bland brown rice. And they are getting tired of my
Mexican and Spanish rice which is why I tried this. Actually neither of
them likes the brown rice very much. Both will eat white but white is not
on daughter's diet.

She will eat the rice that my mom makes but to me it is horrible! She calls
it dry fried rice. She cooks brown rice. Then she puts it in a skillet
with no oil and cooks it until it is crunchy. No salt, nothing. No thank
you!

This stuff was light and fluffy. Not greasy. 1.2 tablespoons of butter
for a cup of rice. I do wish I had cooked it with olive oil and not butter.
Then I could eat it. Oddly enough the thing that my husband didn't eat much
of was the Mediteranian chicken sticks. I gave him 4. They're not big. He
ate 2. But ate all of his asparagus and rice. *shrugs*