What's for Dinner?

[Michaelshane]

We try very hard to not pass our childhood food baggage on to Lily. Hubby & I were both products of "clean plate club" families, and we see the effect it has had on us. We take the approach that it is our job to put good food in front of her, and it is her job to eat it. We do have a house rule that she has to try one bite of each new food before she can say "no, thank you" to finishing it. We don't call food yucky, as that is rude and bad manners. I also give Lily veggies as her "appetizer" so she will eat them when she is the most hungry. I've also tuned in to which veggies she prefers cooked or raw. I'm not a short order cook, so she eats what we eat. If she decides that she just doesn't want to eat what has been fixes, I remind her that the next meal offered will be breakfast, and that is a long time after dinner. She gets to choose to eat or not, and she also gets to live with the consequence (being hungry) of her choice. She is almost 5 and has only chosen no dinner twice. She usually can find one thing on her plate she likes. We are lucky to have a child that will eat Thai, Italian, Mexican, etc. She's developed a sense of adventure by us encouraging just trying one bite.

Exactly how I was raised.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Brown (pinto) beans & cornbread while watching UFC after a great football game.
HD

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Steak ranchero, rice and beans at the eatery.

 

[Michaelshane]

Chicken,and veggies stir fry,and basmati rice.

 

[dh66]

We had beef stir fry with basmati rice.

 

[Babydoll]

Not dinnertime yet, but tonight will be 3 cheese ravioli & leftover Christmas ham in 4 cheese Alfredo with lots of steamed broccoli on the side.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Porkchops..fried potatoes...baked beans and dinner rolls.
Sweet iced tea
HD

 

[1mach1]

Spaghetti with meat sauce

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Tonight is this.....

 

[dh66]

Whole roasted chicken, stuffed full of and smothered in sliced lemon, onion, ginger root, garlic, red pepper flakes and coarse ground salt. Basted with melted butter and pineapple juice. Served over jasmine rice with a mixed greens salad.

 

[Gregg Axley]

Pork chops, and applewood baked beans.
I put Tapatio hot sauce in the beans, and they turned out great as usual.

 

[Babydoll]

Stopped in at the local Asian supermarket yesterday (ok, not local.... next city over, but I had errands to do there, so it was local to my errands), and picked up a couple pounds of baby bok choy. I also got some lemongrass (they don't carry it at my supermarket), and rice noodles so tonight will be my first attempt at making chicken pho. I'll be using some chicken thighs I picked up last week on manager's special. Fingers crossed it turns out!

 

[dh66]

Grocery store deli fried chicken covered in sriracha sauce.

(Huy Fong's of course)

 

[jamespowers]

Grocery store deli fried chicken covered in sriracha sauce.

(Huy Fong's of course)

And fly larve.

 

[Babydoll]

Ohmygoodness. So good!



Used this recipe. Worth the time investment. http://steamykitchen.com/139-vietnamese-chicken-noodle-soup-pho-ga.html

 

[dh66]

And fly larve.

Hot sauce kills germs.

 

[1mach1]

Hot sauce kills germs.

It also kills the "flavor" of grocery store fried chicken.

 

[Babydoll]

Breakfast for dinner. Eggs to order, turkey sausage, fried potatoes, choice of toast or English muffin.

 

[jamespowers]

It also kills the "flavor" of grocery store fried chicken.

:rofl: :rofl:

 

[dh66]

Homemade vegetable soup and jalapeño cornbread.