Saturday is take-out for dinner. Tonight’s choice was Oakwood Smokehouse

Pulled pork sandwich, slaw and baked beans - Mrs BV
Pulled pork & sausage combo with fries and green beans - Me
Baby back ribs full rack with baked beans and baked sweet potato - Father in law

very satisfying and reasonably priced.

Strip steaks, roasted sweet potatoes, and creamed spinach for dinner. Cherry pie for dessert.

I don't think I starved, but my mother still likes to relate the story of how, as a child, I refused to eat whatever was for dinner one evening. My grandparents came to visit after dinner, and I led my grandmother to my plate, sitting on the counter, covered with plastic wrap, and said, "Grandma, look! Mommy makes me eat cold food!" because my mother told me that, if I wanted a snack before bed, I would need to eat my dinner first. My grandmother flipped out at my mother over the thought of me eating cold food, and my mother replied, "It was hot when I put it on the table for her. She opted not to eat it then, so if she wants to eat tonight, she'll eat it cold."
I think the only time I was asked what I wanted for dinner as a child was at a restaurant.
Just because your child expresses an interest in a food does not mean you have to indulge them.
Oh, the horror! Virtual play dates and distance learning... What happened to just being a kid and not having everything scheduled?
Yes, I seem to remember hearing that line as well.
I just leave my toaster plugged in 24/7.
One of the perks of cooking--you get to cook foods you enjoy and others don't get to have a say in it.

I agree.
Sounds like you are raising an independent child! Does she dictate what is for dinner?

Grilled over hickory tonight:

Lemon-pepper salmon
Lemon-pepper shrimp
Vegetable medley for Mrs. cblaisd of asparagus, sugar snap peas, and green pepper (seasoned with black pepper, garlic salt, & basil)
A dozen from the first batch seen in the store of this year's cherry crop.
Homemade brownies for dessert.
Tall glass of cold milk.

Fun cooking class this evening with our kid-sports baseball team...

steak Diane (cream sauce of shallot, cream, butter, mustard, & Worcester sauce)
oven-roasted baby potatoes (great new tip - PARBOILING before roasting!)
green beans (harticots verte)
hummus & pita

too full to have the “Kit Kats” that we also made!

i love the cooking class - the Mother’s Day brunch with quiche Lorraine and chocolate chip scones has really boosted my cooking!

Oh, she makes requests like chicken nuggets and fries. If she wants toast with jam, for breakfast, she obviously handles that herself. She can microwave a fair amount, mac and cheese, hot dogs, spicy hot links.

She also can use the air fryer when we are in the US (don’t have one at our house in Asia), for taquitos, chicken nuggets, tots, and dim sum. She isn’t allowed to use the stove/oven unsupervised. She made some vegetable stir fry last week, and did a blueberry muffin mix the week before.


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I feel that the stove is perfectly sized for a child and not for an adult. I’m so perplexed.

The Asian consumer market is geared towards medium and small gas ranges, mostly.

This stove is actually a larger consumer model. Asians are also a bit shorter, so they take that into the design.

If she makes requests, do you automatically indulge her? Sounds like she's already cooking up a storm!
It looks like she has a small step stool as well/

Wow...that sounds like a very sophisticated menu for kids! I expected kids cooking classes to be different. I never precook roasted potatoes...maybe only if i was in a huge hurry.
did the class teach to make the hummus and pita too? Kit kats?

How were the cherries? I usually have poor luck with fruit until we’re a ways into the season. Right now, local cantaloupe and peaches have improved to the point where I could eat them to the point of bursting. Our cherries sure as heck won’t be grown in Florida. Do you know where these were from?

I slice then microwave my home fries. Saves a lot of time and gives a better result. I’m always in a hurry to make breakfast.

They are from California; they were alright but not as good, as you point out, than ones later in the season.

it’s a kids cooking class but most parents help or do it. My child liked the green beans; there’s less desire for steak and thus we have hummus and pita.
the recipe for harticots verd included bacon but my child didn’t want bacon and I’m extremely better off without it for cholesterol management. It’s bad enough that I was having steak Diane with a cream sauce.

we got organic cherries at a grocer in Sf and they’re good. I read in Gourmet Retailer that Michigan had best cherries. I’m sure I’ve never had them because I’ve not yet gone there.

i haven’t had potatoes for breakfast in ages but how are any of us in a hurry for breakfast :-)
like, what do you have to do in retirement / Shelter after breakfast? just rhetorical but I always wonder what my poker friends are doing when they’re not on our Thursday night poker game. We all have nowhere else to go on a Thursday night.

I know it is a kid's cooking class which is why I am so surprised at the menu...kid's eat steak diane? That is a pretty sophisticated sauce with shallots and cream---both to eat and to prepare. I must be out of touch....that didn't sound like anything that any kids I know would like or that I can imagine cooking--making a cream sauce? Lots of stove work...frying bacon, making the sauce and the steak. And knife skills!!
Most adults I know wouldn't go to all that trouble (although they would eat it) to prepare a fancy menu. How does that work--does the class send you a shopping list a few days before and then you all just cook along with a zoom class?
And yes...Michigan has the very best cherries!

Oh, her Oma spoils her, so if she isn’t busy, she’ll cook something simple (chicken nuggets, hot dogs cut into medium sized pieces and pan fried, and french fries.)

No step stool. Only wearing flip flops. She’s a little above average height for her age.