Tonight's dinner
May. 16th, 2006 11:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pegkerrI poached chicken breasts, and served it in slices over a bed of red lettuce. On top of that I put a mango/canteloupe salsa which I threw together. Flavored the salsa with a combination of cider vinegar, fresh lime juice, coriander and cayenne. I put scallions and cilantro in mine only because I know that Neither Rob Nor Fiona Do Scallions or Cilantro.
I thought it was ravishingly delicious, and I was also smug about how healthy it was. Fiona wasn't very hungry since she had a late lunch and so didn't eat much but was surprisingly enthusiastic about the taste, and rated it an 8 out of 10, which is unusually high for her.
Rob: "I don't like mangos. I don't like canteloupe. I don't like red lettuce."
Well, phooey. The leftovers will make a delicious lunch for me tomorrow.
I thought it was ravishingly delicious, and I was also smug about how healthy it was. Fiona wasn't very hungry since she had a late lunch and so didn't eat much but was surprisingly enthusiastic about the taste, and rated it an 8 out of 10, which is unusually high for her.
Rob: "I don't like mangos. I don't like canteloupe. I don't like red lettuce."
Well, phooey. The leftovers will make a delicious lunch for me tomorrow.
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Date: 2006-05-17 04:11 am (UTC)Go Peg!
Date: 2006-05-17 04:33 am (UTC)And you make such gorgeous healthy meals too.
Good for you to stick to your guns and eat your own leftovers.
I'm surprised it was your husband who plained? How did the girls respond to this food? Is Delia a committed vegie still?
Adelaide
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Date: 2006-05-17 04:33 am (UTC)Re: Go Peg!
Date: 2006-05-17 04:47 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-05-17 04:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-05-17 04:57 am (UTC)M
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Date: 2006-05-17 04:57 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-05-17 05:03 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-05-17 05:20 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-05-17 06:12 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-05-17 06:25 am (UTC)What's stopping him from cooking for himself if he doesn't like it?
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Date: 2006-05-17 06:58 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-05-17 11:24 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-05-17 11:49 am (UTC)I don't much get the not liking mango thing, but I suppose each to his own. Apparently there is an oil in the skin that can trigger allergens, and a dear friend of mine can't stand them either.
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Date: 2006-05-17 01:12 pm (UTC)(I'm with him on the red lettuce, which is one of the very few vegetables I don't like.)
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Date: 2006-05-17 02:17 pm (UTC)Never the less, the next time Rob does that toss a cookbook at 'em, and tell 'him to learn or starve. I mean, if I can cook, anyone can. ;-)
Re: Go Peg!
Date: 2006-05-17 02:19 pm (UTC)"But Mom! It's space food!!"
Oooooooooooooh, girl...
Date: 2006-05-17 02:21 pm (UTC)(And the white, fifty year old gay guy hereby stops trying to act like a black teenybopper girl.)
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Date: 2006-05-17 02:35 pm (UTC)I'm not sure whether you should be throwing a cookbook at Rob, or demanding a list of everything he will and won't eat. (Years ago, I visited two friends of mine and found, on the refrigerator, a list labeled "vegetarian meals Alan will eat"--because his partner was doing a lot of vegetarian cooking, in part to accommodate vegetarian friends, and this way she knew which ones were good to cook if she was cooking for him as well.)
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Date: 2006-05-17 03:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-05-17 04:31 pm (UTC)I recently made a receipe involvin poaching chicken in balsamic vinegar and chicken broth that was quite tasty, but their version of "poaching" was a little different. IIRC, it was a cup of vinegar and two cups of broth boiled together. Put in the chicekn, take the pot off the flame and let it sit a while (I think it was 15-20 minutes) Then I was supposed to slice the chicken to serve, while reducing the sauce to 1/4 cup in ten minutes. I can only conclude that last part was an error.... but the recipe was tasty, nonetheless.
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Date: 2006-05-17 05:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-05-17 05:40 pm (UTC)Yes, which is why some people like myself say mangoes taste 'tinny'. Cilantro is also another thing I can't eat as it tastes metallic and soapy. It's due to genes - if you have the gene that allows you to taste it, cilantro is apparently good. If not, it's pretty awful. If one doesn't have the gene, cilantro can also make one ill, so "just eating around it" is not an option. No one says that to people who are allergic to peanuts.
So skip the mangoes and cilantro.
Other than that dinner sounded good. I've never made a salsa and am very unlikely to do so in the foreseeable future.
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Date: 2006-05-17 05:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-05-17 05:48 pm (UTC)Defamation
Date: 2006-05-17 09:20 pm (UTC)I too had a late lunch and wasn't particularly hungry. I did eat the meal, mango and cantelope included. Red lettuce and chicken, too. More than sample bites.
I said no negative things about the meal as I was eating it. No complaining, no whining. Silence on the topic.
As she is wont to do, Peg asked for my rating. She asked me what I thought of it. Frequently she'll note in the cookbooks the ratings given the various recipes by the family. I gave my honest feedback: "Four and a half out of ten; I don't like mangos, I don't like cantelope, I don't like red lettuce, it's too bitter for me. I thought the poached chicken seemed undercooked to me."
I'm glad they liked it. I'm glad she ate it for lunch today. I didn't badmouth it. Just gave my honest reaction when it was called for.
It was very pretty on the plate.
Rob
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Date: 2006-05-20 02:53 pm (UTC)B
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Date: 2006-05-21 05:16 am (UTC)Rob
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Date: 2006-05-21 07:05 am (UTC)Rob