Dinner Bell Redux
Making dinner is always a chore for me. Breakfast is easy - cereal, toast, juice, bacon. Lunch is fun, a time to be creative, even though my kids usually just want PB&J and apple slices.
But dinner, I never have any good ideas. When I do come up with something good, chances are the kids will complain about it. They'd be happy eating spaghetti every night.
What I need to do is make one truly horrible meal as a benchmark for their complaints, so they can always say, "At least it's not as bad as what Daddy made that one night!"
I thought I had already made a bad one, but now I believe I've found something even more horrible...
An all-time dinner horror classic:
What I want to know is, was there really a time when this meal was considered "inspiring"... I wonder how many marriages ended because of this recipe.
I might not even have to make this. Just showing the picture to my kids should bring a whole new appreciation from them for my cooking.
But dinner, I never have any good ideas. When I do come up with something good, chances are the kids will complain about it. They'd be happy eating spaghetti every night.
What I need to do is make one truly horrible meal as a benchmark for their complaints, so they can always say, "At least it's not as bad as what Daddy made that one night!"
I thought I had already made a bad one, but now I believe I've found something even more horrible...
An all-time dinner horror classic:
What I want to know is, was there really a time when this meal was considered "inspiring"... I wonder how many marriages ended because of this recipe.
I might not even have to make this. Just showing the picture to my kids should bring a whole new appreciation from them for my cooking.
Permalink posted by Idaho Dad at 12:46 AM
10 Comments:
Dinner is probably the worst time of day at our house. First, my wife and I always have to ask the dreaded question "what do you want for dinner" and then no matter what we fix, we can usually count on getting complaints from the peanut gallery. Why can't we just come up with a pill that you can take?
I am STILL laughing over this recipe! At our house, here are the ONLY meals that everyone will eat without complaint. (Although they are "tried & true" after a while is gets rather boring.)
From the kitchen: Spaghetti, tacos, enchiladas, chili, hamburgers. From take-out: Pizza & fried chicken. That's it-- at least there are 7 days in the week!
It does become a drudge, not having the opportunity to be creative. Oh well, we keep wishing they will "grow up" and then, all of a sudden they do (far too quickly!)
That certainly is "ah inspiring." I may pass the picture around at home too.
And people are worried about the ubiquity of online pornography. Isn't this what spam filters are for?
Ugh. Potted meat.
Buy a kid friendly (easy) cookbook with lots of pictures and have them each "plan" one meal a week.
I like spam myself....
But the world worse meal is liver and peas... Make one serving... give slices to everyone and that "will be your world worse meal dad!"
You know my dad always used gross foods to his advantage. We hated cooked squash (the kind that comes frozen in a box that is the consistancy of baby food) So when he asked us what we wanted for dinner and we said "I don't know" or "I don't care" he would say "I know how to make that." and would pull out a box of squash and we'd immediatly tell him something to make for dinner. That box stayed in our freezer for over 10 years and then once my parents were making a care package for my brother at college and they snuck the squash into the box.
I always have SPAM on hand. Seriously. I even put it inside my sushi. We recently tried the Deviled SPAM spread, which was so awesome. One of the reasons i love SPAM is its versatility. You can chop it up and stick it in mac n cheese or put it on sammies with fried eggs or cut it into SPAM fingers.
Spam was a staple in my diet as a kid in the 70's. My mom would fry it and make Spam po-boys with it. My mom cooking Spam all the time inspired me to make up my own recipe once as a child and still comes around every once in a while.
My biggest culinary challenge is the lunch bag for a three year old pre-schooler.
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