In the never ending search to answer the question, "What's for dinner," i've about given up on those sites that give you "Easy Weeknight Dinners" or "Quick and Easy Meals."
Mostly because around here, there is picky and then there is picky.
We have vegetarians, vegans, and "give me a huge chunk of meat the rest doesn't matter" carnivores. We have egg lovers and egg haters. We have the ones who would eat pasta three times a week, and those who won't let simple carbs pass their lips.
What we have is enough different tastes, except for the salad i make every night and that everyone has to have -- they will all eat at least some veggies, for which i am thankful -- to keep a short order cook busy, and i can't be a short order cook, especially with the food prices now.
Then some of the recipes themselves. They tell you to follow their shopping list and make just what they tell you, it will help you get dinner on the table every night. That's fabulous if you can afford the shrimp for the Garlic Shrimp Pasta, and if Peppery Portobellos were on everyone's list of "Yes, I'll eat that" foods. The fungi only have a couple of fans around here.
And how do you get a confirmed meat at every meal guy to agree to Blistered Potato and Corn Taquitos? Served with Greek yogurt and salsa, no less.
It's getting harder and harder to find something i'm not tired of cooking and they aren't tired of eating, so i'll keep looking at the articles that promise to solve the dinner woes.
Maybe someday one of them will be written by, not a dietician, but someone with a real family.
Don't hold your breath, either.
Today is:
Auckland Province Anniversary Day -- New Zealand
Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day
Congressional Brawl Day -- marking the first ever all out brawl in the US Congress in 1798
Escape Day
Feast of King Charles the Martyr -- Anglican
Inane Answering Message Day -- the day to change those annoying messages, sponsored by Wellcat Holidays
Juan Pablo Duarte Day -- Dominican Republic
Martyrs' Day -- India
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering -- Elko, NV, US (through Feb. 4; the nation's greatest celebration of the American West)
National Croissant Day
Pax -- Ancient Roman Calendar (Festival of Peace)
Puce and Ochre Day -- Fairy Calendar
Sahid Diwash -- Nepal (Martyrs' Day)
School Day of Nonviolence and Peace -- Spain
St. Aldegund's Day (Patron against cancer, childhood illness, fever, eye disease, sudden death, wounds)
St. Bathild's Day
Three Archbishops' Day -- Eastern Orthodox (a/k/a Holy Hierarchs' Day)
Yodel For Your Neighbors Day -- Why? Do you hate your neighbors?
Yogi Bear Day -- his show debuted today in 1958
Birthdays Today:
Brett Butler, 1958
Phil Collins, 1951
Steve Marriott, 1947
Marty Balin, 1942
Dick Cheney, 1941
Vanessa Redgrave, 1937
Boris spassky, 1937
Tammy Grimes, 1934
Louis Ruckeyser, 1933
Gene Hackman, 1930
Dorothy Malone, 1925
Dick Martin, 1922
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882
Thomas Rolfe, 1615 (Only child of John Rolfe and Pocahontas.)
Today in History:
The Jews of Freilsburg, Germany, are massacred, 1349
King Charles I of England is beheaded, 1649
Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, is ritually executed after having been dead for two years, 1661
The Forty-seven Ronin, under the command of Oishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master, 1703
Henry Greathead tests the first boat intended to be specialized as a lifeboat for rescue purposes, which he invented, on the River Tyne in England, 1790
The burned Library of Congress is reestablished, with Thomas Jefferson contributing, 1815
Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica, 1820
The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales is opened, 1826
A fire destroys two-thirds of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, 1841
The city of Yerba Buena is renamed San Francisco, for the nearby mission of the same name, 1847
William Wells Brown publishes the first Black drama, "Leap to Freedom," 1858
The US Navy's first ironclad warship, the Monitor, is launched, 1862
The pneumatic hammer is patented by Charles King of Detroit, 1894
The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy, 1911
The House of Lords rejects the Irish Home Rule Bill, 1913
"The Lone Ranger" begins a 21 year run on ABC radio, 1933
Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is assassinated by Pandit Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist, 1948
American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1956
The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police, 1969
Carole King's Tapestry album is released, it would become the longest charting album by a female solo artist and sell 24 million copies worldwide, 1971
Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations, 1972
The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary was established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary, 1975
Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner", 1982
Peter Leko of Hungary becomes the world's youngest chess grand master at age 14, 1994
Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease, 1995
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9 hours ago
Ive read and reread the beginning of your post.
ReplyDeleteIm such an awesome mom Id NEVER mutter "Im not a short order cook. you will get what you get and you wont throw a fit."
never I say :)
When I was growing up my mother never asked what we wanted for dinner. She cooked what she wanted and if we didn't like it we went to bed without supper. You can assume from my title (Chubby Chatterbox) that I didn't go to bed hungry very often.
ReplyDeleteMiz, i cook, they come in and cook something else. It's a circus.
ReplyDeleteStephen, we weren't asked, either.