On May 14, 10:12 am, "kilikini" > wrote:
> I'm going to have to baby-sit my father-in-law, Bill, ,,,,

who doesn't like: ricotta,
mushrooms,
broccoli,
eggs,
fruit,
pasta,
things he can't chew,
chicken,
fish or any kind of shellfish.

Such lists are often not as strongly felt as they seem. For the
special occasion coming up, and if he's looking forward to a change,
he would probably accept some of the things on the list in small
quantities.

My family dish of ground pork and peas over rice comes to mind. It
has shiitake mushrooms but he could push them aside or he might eat
them because they're different from button mushrooms (which it sounds
like he only knows in their canned form). If that's of interest I
could post the recipe.

You could do that ground beef dish sometimes called American chop suey
(which is also better with a mixture of beef and pork): meat, onion,
garlic, peppers, tomatoes, cooked with rice or noodles, herbs of
choice. A version I've posted before adds a can of creamed corn, as
mentioned by MFK Fisher.

If you're going to make grits, may as well make biscuits and (sausage)
gravy, too.

But gosh what a long list of unavailable foods. If it were me I'd be
tempted to find some realy good example of each item on the list and
just keep throwing them at him until he had to admit he liked some of
them..... -aem