A strange thing has happened.....

Same here DD. I adored veggies of all varieties. My Nanny lived with us and would make the most wonderful vegetable soup and her potato soup was to die for. When I was pregnant with Fu-Bar I woke up craving her veggie soup. I tried to forget about it. No way! I had to have some. I hopped.....waddled to the car drove 2 hours to get to my folks house. No one home and me without a key to get in!!!!!! I would not be denied! I popped off a screen, climbed on a lawn chair, popped a window open and somehow managed to get in without killing myself and Fu-Bar in the process.

When they came home I was fast asleep at the kitchen table with a spoon in my hand, a smile on my face and a huge empty bowl in front of me.

As a side note.......Fu-bar hated veggies and thinks mac and cheese qualifies as a substitute. :roll: Go figure.

Same here DD. I adored veggies of all varieties. My Nanny lived with us and would make the most wonderful vegetable soup and her potato soup was to die for. When I was pregnant with Fu-Bar I woke up craving her veggie soup. I tried to forget about it. No way! I had to have some. I hopped.....waddled to the car drove 2 hours to get to my folks house. No one home and me without a key to get in!!!!!! I would not be denied! I popped off a screen, climbed on a lawn chair, popped a window open and somehow managed to get in without killing myself and Fu-Bar in the process.

When they came home I was fast asleep at the kitchen table with a spoon in my hand, a smile on my face and a huge empty bowl in front of me.

As a side note.......Fu-bar hated veggies and thinks mac and cheese qualifies as a substitute. :roll: Go figure.

Same here DD. I adored veggies of all varieties. My Nanny lived with us and would make the most wonderful vegetable soup and her potato soup was to die for. When I was pregnant with Fu-Bar I woke up craving her veggie soup. I tried to forget about it. No way! I had to have some. I hopped.....waddled to the car drove 2 hours to get to my folks house. No one home and me without a key to get in!!!!!! I would not be denied! I popped off a screen, climbed on a lawn chair, popped a window open and somehow managed to get in without killing myself and Fu-Bar in the process.

When they came home I was fast asleep at the kitchen table with a spoon in my hand, a smile on my face and a huge empty bowl in front of me.

As a side note.......Fu-bar hated veggies and thinks mac and cheese qualifies as a substitute. :roll: Go figure.

OMG!! TOO funny! This would make a great Food Channel TV show..."CRAVINGS!! HOW FAR WILL YOU GO??"

Brilliant!!! But only gttbm could host it....

As long as I dont have to reenact the aforementioned craving gone wild! :shock: I haven't shimmied through a window in quite sometime!

Mango which Indian restaurant in NY is your fav? I lived in NYC for 8yrs (on W.85th b/tween Columbus & CPW) and used to go to a fabulous place for northern Indian / Tandoori; that has since closed. The name escapes me...it started w/ a B. (too many years ago!) Then I started going to Dawat...but never thought it was quite as good as the other one.

My parents used to make us eat organ meats too (brain, tongue, heart...but LIVER is the WORST). Me & the Sibs used to have to sit at the table for HOURS passing around the ketchup bottle. We had one of those formica top tables w/ the tubular aluminum legs...my sister would shove little pieces of liver down those table legs! When Mom put a stop to stuffed table legs & finally forced Sis to eat the liver ... she promptly puked everywhere & we never had to eat it again. We were like "Dang Sis...couldn't you have blown your cookies like ... 5 YEARS AGO??"

Yeah my sister's a GAS! Every time we see one of those old style tables we wet our pants 'cuz we're convinced the legs are chocked full of fossilized liver tidbits!

I had to eat that stuff too. and pigs feet and blood sausages. (but I actually liked the blood sausages, but didn't let on, so when it came time to eat the other non foods, I had an edge.
My parents used to smother everything with bacon, but grease doesn't help too much to help it all slide down the throat.

Good stories. Reminds me of my sis, she was the pickiest eater. She would have to sit at the table for hours before my mom would let her up. She started bringing her book bag to the dinner table with her. One day when mom was cleaning out the closet, sis's book bag fell off the top shelf and dried lima beans spilled out. Of course she got wise after that and sis found new ways of hiding the hated foods.

Allifunn, I can't wait to cook with you this summer! I think the biggest problem is going to be figuring out WHAT to cook... there are so many choices! yum yum.

for some reason my direct TV satellite will not pick up HGTV... But I can get the food network...so I have been watching food shows all week. I have printed at least 40 recipes....:roll:
Last night I cooked Spicy Asian BBQ chicken with Asian style slaw and took it over to Newfiegirl's house...it was really good!

Tonight I am making Grilled Tilapia with mango habanero BBQ sauce and cumin-lime green beans.....I love being off for the summer...I get to cook all the funn foods that I print out all year!
I can't wait to be in SoWal for the summer....dinner parties!!!!!

I can't find the asian BBQ Chicken with SLaw. I've been searching the foodnetwork for 20 minutes.

Where is it?

Wouldn't you know? 2 minutes after makiing the above post, I find it.