"Lena B Katz" > wrote in message
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> On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Maverick wrote:
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>> "Lena B Katz" > wrote in message
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>>> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Maverick wrote:
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>> First of all, my two boys, 20 and 12, can out-eat the wife and I.
>> Secondly,
>> they absolutely will not eat a meal if it doesn't have some kind of meat
>> in
>> it, preferably beef. I'm going to quit counting the reasons now. The 20
>> yr
>> old will not eat soup unless it is Chili Verde or Chili Rojo stews. Now,
>> lets talk about the real reason I don't keep three months of food on
>> hand.
>> My pantry. It's large but I have to physically climb up into it. They
>> made
>> it out of the wasted space over the stairs leading down to the basement.
>> It
>> is not user friendly. My kitchen. It has two roughly 3' X 3'
>> countertops.
>> Seven doors on the upper cabinets and 4 doors on the lower cabinets with
>> 5
>> drawers to store all our kitchen stuff so a lot of it went into the very
>> back of the pantry since it doesn't get used that often. I HATE MY
>> KITCHEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry for the rant. ;->
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> If they won't eat a meal w/out beef... you've got them cooking on their
> own, right? ;-) Quickest way to teach someone the value of other foods.
> "If you don't like it--go cook something else!"

The 12 year old isn't so bad about it but the 20 yr old screwed up about it.
That is the wife's and I fault. I'll admit it. If the older boy doesn't
like what we're planning for dinner, he's on his own. His consideration to
cooking is "how long do I nuke it?" He won't touch a pot or pan but he's
starting to fire up the grill more. But again, he'll only grill meat.
Wait. I just remembered something. There is one meatless meal he likes and
that is Stouffer's veggie lasagna. I'll admit that I like it too so we'll
have that every once in a while if I don't feel like cooking. It is not
fast but the party size container will make 3-4 meals for us and since we
only have that when I'm feeling lazy, I buy the frozen garlic texas toast
crap. I can choke a piece down but I have to doctor it up with more garlic.
The rest of the family think it is really good. They like mine better, of
course. <EG> But then, I make mine from fresh, store-bought, bread and make
my own spread. It's nothing more than melting some butter in the nuke and
mixing in some garlic powder. But, before I spread it on the bread, I take
clove of garlic, cut it in half and rub it on the bread. No big deal but we
like it.

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>> I'm just nosey that way. I like to see if I can figure out what makes
>> something and then see if I can make my own. BTW, I make a mean teriyaki
>> sauce!
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> mine... isn't teriyaki anymore. but it does make a pretty good stirfry!

I'm not too sure mine is either but it makes a killer marinade! I tried
using it to make grilled burgers one night. They tasted great but the next
day, I'll be damned if we weren't circling the bathroom like vultures
waiting for the one in the bathroom to get out. Don't know what it was but
that was the last time I made teriyaki burgers! Course, that was pretty
much the last time I've ever grilled burgers too.

Bret



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