Timbale Report

[pegkerr]

Report to the Timbale Quality Testing Team:

Delia reports that she sorta kinda likes quinoa. The texture was acceptable. It tasted okay. It looked okay. It smelled okay.

Does this mean that she ate the three timbales I gave her for dinner? Hah, foolish friends list, of course it does not. One was disemboweled into bits on her plate, and the other two were banished back to the refrigerator. The problem? It was the dried apricots I had minced VERY finely and mixed with the quinoa. "So dissect it," I said. "Eat the quinoa and leave the apricot bits on your plate."

Alas, the sad fact remained that parts of dried apricot had TOUCHED the surface of the quinoa. Quel horror! This was enough to render the entire timbale Taboo and Unacceptable and therefore Destined Only for Banishment To The Garbage.

All the rest of the timbales in this batch are mine.

Delia suggested hopefully that perhaps a future timbale, mixed with, say, cheese instead of the Dreadful Apricot, might be acceptable.

However, I have been led by the nose down this primrose path before of "Well, I might eat it if you'd only . . . " before and I remain deeply skeptical.

I remain,
your ob'dt servant,

(Ms.) Peg Kerr
Chief Cook and
Director, Timbale Testing Team

Comments

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

How does she feel about lentils?

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

She's rejected every recipe with 'em I've tried.

[bethynyc.livejournal.com]

Actually, the timbales sound yummy, especially with apricot. I'll eat them!

[satakieli.livejournal.com]

Mmm... With cheese sounds yummy enough that even I am tempted to try making them, and quinoa is on my (very!) short list of Foods I Do Not Appreciate.

[elfundeb.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain. One of my children turned up his nose at the homemade lasagna (with authentic homemade Italian sauce) in favor of Kraft mac & cheese -- and it wasn't even deluxe.

At least he didn't shred it apart to pick out the lasagna noodles, leaving more leftovers for us.

[aome.livejournal.com]

Which is a shame, because of your lunchbox today, it was the Timbales (never heard of them before) which sounded the most delicious.

I do not understand the whole ACK IT TOUCHED A FORBIDDEN FOOD horror. Even in my pickier childhood, I don't remember freaking out like that. But she's far from the only kid (or even adult) I've heard who can't handle that. (Two, at least, is willing to pick out what she doesn't like, even though it still drives me nuts to have her take things apart.)

[glinda-w.livejournal.com]

The only thing I do that with is sour cream. If I've ordered my Mexican entree without sour cream, they send it with, I send it back, and they've just scraped it off and returned it to the table, I ask for the manager.

bleargh.

Otherwise, I'm fine with eating around things I don't like.

[naomikritzer]

Quinoa is really easy to cook; maybe she could make a batch for herself and doctor it with a little grated cheese?

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

I'm going to suggest that to her.

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

I'm with naomikritzer on this. Make her cook her own timbales, and then have her sleep in 'em.

Geez, I'm so glad that I only have to cook for myself--except for the farmwifing I do for Jeff and Carrie. Then again the lunch time crew would eat boild socks if I put it on the table! The boys are a bit more picky, but then they're happy to make something for themselves.

How do your girls stay alive?

[amandageist.livejournal.com]

...actually, Rob too. And I'm only partially joking, I'm really curious.

Going by your LJ entries, nobody really eats anything. What sustenance do they get, and where? My youngest is still tremendously picky, but he eats what we're having or he goes hungry. I have hidden the snacks and such, so he's stuck. Do the girls snitch, make their own "acceptable" food, or what?

~A

Re: How do your girls stay alive?

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Some days I really wonder.

They eat plain white pasta (I have tried and tried to at least get them to switch to whole wheat pasta, but they definitely prefer the white). They eat raman.

Some times I think they just live on air.

Last night, she filled up on hummus and pita. I'd served canned peaches and cottage cheese, and she ate some of that, too.

Re: How do your girls stay alive?

[thomasyan.livejournal.com]

It looks like they might have pretty efficient metabolisms.

The lunch picture that Peg posted looked delicious, but only about 1/2 to 2/3 of what I would need for lunch. My metabolism is apparently either really inefficient or active, and so although I eat tons, my weight doesn't go up.

Although it must be frustrating to find food that they'll eat, as long as they are getting enough nutrients, this is probably healthier than overeating :)

[mayakda.livejournal.com]

Food & control issues are typical at around her age; kinds like when they were two. Or so I've heard.