Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Dinnertime Conversations


Tonight for dinner I made roasted winter veggies.  I was thrilled with my creativity and combined potatoes, turnips, parsnips and potatoes with a bit of oil and seasoning and tucked them in the oven at a high temp. anticipating everyone's delight.

Unfortunately, Mr. Bechtel is out of town so my comments were as follows:

"Uh mom, I don't know what it is in this, maybe the turnips or something, but it tastes just like squash and automatically activates my gag reflex"  (Golden Delicious) - no I did not make that up.

"Uh mom, could I have a little more, but could you make sure it's only potatoes this time?"  (Prairie Spy)

"Mom, I don't want to hurt your feelings, but I'm FULL.  No Mom!  I really am!"  (Granny Smith)

"You know, it's funny, but I really prefer my vegetables raw."  (Breaburn) - me too.  I love raw potato??

After we'd loaded the dishwasher and I was putting the extras in the fridge, Golden Delicious said, "mom, that was a great meal.  Dad will love the leftovers."

  Gosh, I wonder if the chickens will even touch it?

3 comments:

Hyakuben said...

Definitely wish I was home to eat the leftovers.

Sariah Hartley said...

I don't know but one time I made angel food cake and the dog left for 3 days! (we ended up substituting it for our doorstops)

Anonymous said...

Sounds like those kids are not hungry enough yet! Maybe after a couple of days on a diet of Green Smoothies they would have comments like "This is really delicious, Mom. Thanks". Well, it's worth a try, don't you think?