"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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>I consider myself to be a picky eater since I don't like raw vegetables and
>much prefer hot food. If I'm going to have a ham and cheese sandwich (for
>example) I want it served hot with melted cheese on toasted warm bread...
>the type of bread doesn't really matter. Just make it a hot sandwich,
>please
>
> My oldest brother left here this morning. He and his girlfriend came to
> pick up some furniture. The weather and other events conspired against us
> so they wound up staying here for a week. My brother will pretty much eat
> anything. His g/f is another story altogether. If she even *thinks*
> something has seasoning on it, she'll shun it. OMG, what's that green
> speck? If it has any hint of seasoning she wouldn't touch it. She won't
> eat fish or sea food, only dark meat chicken and well done beef or pork.
>
> I bent over backwards trying to accomodate her. I didn't dare sprinkle
> oregano or basil on the pizza I made (but she will eat pepperoni, and was
> snacking on braunschweiger on crackers, go figure). My brother told me
> not to tell her I'd put any cheese other than mozzarella on the pizza.
> And for gods sake don't buy that fresh mozz! If the cheese doesn't come
> shredded in a bag there will be hell to pay!
>
> I made breakfast one morning last week. I like to make omelets but
> apparently that's too exotic. Okay, scrambled eggs then. I said I could
> put some cheese in the scrambled eggs; Mom made them that way for us when
> we were kids. OH NO! Okay, I can make plain scrambled eggs. Or boiled
> eggs. She got in a snit because I mentioned cheese and eggs in the same
> sentence. Then she said she wanted hash browns. Hello, does this look
> like a restaurant? I didn't have any potatoes, I don't know how she
> expected me to make hash browns. I had tater tots in the freezer, those
> sufficed. She still refused to eat any eggs, she just had tater tots. My
> brother and I had eggs, bacon *and* tater tots. <G>
>
> I did manage to make a pot of chicken & dumplings with chicken leg
> quarters. She ate a couple of bowls of it without any complaints. I
> didn't tell her I'd added poultry seasoning to it. God forbid she knew it
> had sage, thyme and marjoram added to it. Not to mention I put some bay
> leaves in when I was boiling the chicken to make the broth.
>
> We were trying to come up with dinner ideas the other night. We'd already
> had chicken & noodles before the chicken and dumplings (she freaked out
> when she saw specks of green in the noodles... I'd added some of Penzey's
> Tuscan seasoning. OOOPS).
>
> Since we'd already eaten chicken a couple of times and I'm not really a
> fan of chicken I said how about some beef? She said, "I want those
> instant [mashed] potatoes." Okay, for that we'd need some gravy. How
> about swiss steak? My brother said "YUM!" She said, "I don't like swiss
> steak." Okay, meatloaf? No, she doesn't like meatloaf. Huh. Okay, how
> about pot roast with potatoes? She didn't want pot roast. She wanted
> instant potatoes! Lady, I'm getting really tired of your demands. You
> want instant potatoes, buy some and knock yourself out. You have free run
> of the kitchen, make a buttload of instant potatoes. We wound up broiling
> steaks - hers had to be well done - and I boiled new potatoes. But I
> didn't dare put anything like parsley or dill weed on them.
>
> Thank Bast they're on their way now to TX now. They'll be dropping off
> furniture in TN at my other brothers house on the way. Now I can cook
> whatever I want to without a fear of someone freaking out about green
> specks on their food You'd think she was 3 rather than 63.
>
> Jill

Time she gets dumped. TIAD.