Food Lab 101 - Do You Play With Your Food?

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I'm trying to picture my mother trying to get us to eat by doing fancy things with food.... She was not "into" that sort of thing; you ate it as it was put on the table or you didn't eat it....your choice. All I can remember was her making pancakes that looked like Mickey Mouse.

I tried making things fun for my daughter and granddaughter but really didn't have to. Those two would eat just about anything that was put before them; you had to get your hands out of the way or you'd lose a couple of fingers.
 
jujube said:
I'm trying to picture my mother trying to get us to eat by doing fancy things with food.... She was not "into" that sort of thing; you ate it as it was put on the table or you didn't eat it....your choice. ...
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LOL! I was thinking the same thing, jujube. There isn't much you can do with ground beef, potatoes, and home canned green beans. It seems that's all I can remember ever eating. We were on a self-imposed tight budget.
 
Speaking of picky eaters, the Spousal Equivalent won't eat green peas. No way, never, nix to that idea. If there are green peas in anything, he'll carefully pick them out and set them aside.

I was feeding his granddaughter a couple of years ago and I gave her some macaroni and cheese that I had put green peas into, hoping to get her to eat some veggies. I walked off to do something else and when I came back, all the macaroni and cheese had been eaten and there was a pile of green peas sitting at the edge of the plate. The apple doesn't fall from the tree, I guess. The green pea, on the other hand......
 
Trade said:
At the end of my junior year in college my room mates and I took all the food we had in the house and mixed it into one big pot and made a stew. Mostly it was canned stuff like sardines, beans, corn, tuna, spaghetti, kippered herring, ravioli, beef stew etc. It was pretty bad. We ended up throwing most of it out.
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Some of your ingredients (kippered herring and sardines) are somewhat questionable, but my college friends and I often survived on gorps. We ate red gorp frequently and brown gorp was a special favorite but very few of us liked green gorps. Gorps included everything in the pantry in a color range that we thought would taste good mixed together, and they usually satisfied all of us quite well.
 

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