On 24 Mar 2007 03:49:02 -0500, "Bob Terwilliger"
> wrote:

>Alexis wrote:
>
>> You know those folks who, immediately upon sitting down for a meal,
>> salt *everything* on the plate before tasting any of it?
>>
>> Well, I've got this friend whose husband does something similar with
>> cracked pepper (he actually does taste it first -- he does have table
>> manners), and it's become something of a family joke (I could explain
>> it in detail, but you know those things are never as funny in writing
>> as they are in the family!).
>>
>> So, my friend and her kids would like to prepare a family meal to
>> which NO person in his right mind would be able to add pepper to
>> anything. They'd like it to be a real sit-down family meal, so
>> pancakes straight to coconut cake is out. I have suggested a fruit
>> salad in place of a "regular" salad, and dessert is easy, but that's
>> where my mind went blank.
>>
>> Any thoughts for main dish and side dishes?
>
>
>First, allow me to point out that a fruit salad isn't necessarily safe from
>getting peppered. There are plenty of people who put salt and pepper on
>watermelon; it's only a small step to peppering fruit salad.
>
>Beyond that, as a main course I'd suggest something like halibut in
>papillote with ginger, soy, and lemon. Rice-paper summer rolls with crab,
>carrots, cilantro, and cucumber would be a nice starter.
>
>Side dishes are a little tricky; I'm hard-pressed to think of one that a
>pepper-lover wouldn't want to pepper. Of course, for this concept, I'd want
>it to go along with the main dish I suggested. Hmm.... maybe spinach with
>coconut milk? Vanilla-scented basmati rice? Those might work.
>
>Bob
>

cantaloupe requires pepper the way watermelon requires salt. (of
course, while you're adding pepper, you might as well salt it, too.)
never been tempted to pepper watermelon, though.

your pal,
blake