(2009-10-12) NS-RFC: Dining out - at the neighbors
Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>
> Funny what people do. Years ago there was a couple in my apartment
> building with whom I had become friends. I invited them for dinner
> and the
> wife brought the most delicious lemon meringue pie for dessert. Over
> time we became quite close and discussed food as a mutual interest
> many times,
> thus also knowing each others likes and dislikes. The main course of
> the first dinner I was invited to was some sort of white fish baked in
> milk. I'm sure she was aware that I was not overly fond of most fish,
> least of
> all when baked in a liquid. Go figure! She was an excellent cook and
> baker, but I'll never forget that meal. :-)
>
Maybe she's like my Dad, who often said to me, "What do you mean you
don't like cabbage? You'll love it the way I make it, just wait and
see!" <g>
Seriously, perhaps she thought you just hadn't had fish "prepared the
right way" and that after trying *her* fish dish, you'd be "converted"?
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Cheers
Chatty Cathy
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