I felt for her

[Stacey Steve]

Girl child has a friend who's dad is training to be a chef and she announced to us so time ago that to add condiments or sauces to a chef's meal is an insult.

She has taken of late to adding tomato ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, tobasco or some flavouring called aromat(?) to just about anything placed in front of her.

OH decided to try out the Nigella Lawson recipe for Choc Chip Chillie and girlchild knew her Mum was doing something different.

It got served up and bang, on goes aload of tabasco!

I said "Wasn't it you who said that would be an insult to a chef?", she said "Yes but Mum isn't a chef".

I then said to her "No good asking you what you think of this, as you have just changed it". She then had a real strop with me.

She asked OH what it was and when told said "That's disgusting, chocolate is a dessert and shouldn't be used in a main course"

OH felt quite down and despite me saying (honestly) that I thought it was good (very rich), she thought I was just trying to cheer her up.

[zazen999]

I ALWAYS put cocoa in my chilli, and use pinto beans not kidney beans. It's the way to do it when in chilli country. I also put cumin in - both together take chilli to a different dimension.

[zazen999]

At least she eats things WITH flavour...my OH's Daughter will not entertain anything with spices in it.

I'm hoping one day she falls in love with an Indian boy, and gets taken to his house and comes back telling us all about samosas, pakoras, curries, etc etc.

[Rhona]

Yep - I agree. I always add cumin and if we've got some, some Spanish chocolate. "Proper" chili also shouldn't have tomatoes in, according to some but I kinda like them there...

[Polly Fouracre]

I saw some chocolate covered chillis on sale at Christmas!

[SarzWix]

Cooking for kids is a bl**dy thankless task, unless it's a cake. Never heard em moan about one of them
Tell your OH again today that the food was fantastic, if she thinks you liked it enough to mention it again it might give her a boost

[FionaH]

Cooking for kids is a bl**dy thankless task, unless it's a cake. Never heard em moan about one of them
Tell your OH again today that the food was fantastic, if she thinks you liked it enough to mention it again it might give her a boost

They are heartless little so and so's. Dont forget they know everything too so you are stuffed whatever you do.
Actually mine laughed at the last cake I made Last one they get at this rate
ok so it did look like a frisbee......

[BarleySugar]

I get really fed up trying to cook for DD (16). She won't eat anything reliably. Yesterday I made her favourite venison pie. She left half of it on her plate, despite there not being an enormous portion there to start with, then about an hour later she comes down and makes a huge bowl of popcorn.
She wants to eat healthily, then buys loads of sweets and crisps , leaving her proper food. Packed lunches come home uneaten, despite being made up of what she requested. Once her Japanese friend leaves in June I'm just cooking for me and OH, she can do her own thing (I wish )
If she cooks I always compliment her on it, perhaps instead I should take a mouthful, pull a disgusted face, say I'm not hungry, then go to the kitchen half an hour later and make myself a sandwich.

[kirsty b]

Nice idea BarleySugar! Thats the sort of thing I would do if I was feeling evil!!

[Finedon.Dandy]

I have been trying to get my daughter (5) not to just say "yuk" when something has been put in front of her and son (3) just copies and then wont try it either!

[SarzWix]

I have been trying to get my daughter (5) not to just say "yuk" when something has been put in front of her and son (3) just copies and then wont try it either!

Oh lord, that's exactly what our 8 year old daughter does.... "Eeeuuwww, what's tha-a-at" ... Cue Homer style throttling moment..."Why I oughta...!!"

[HeyWayne]

Chocolate goes in chilli every time for me (I didn't realise you could make chilli without cumin? ).

In fact, just last night I had the last two squares of my chilli chocolate (I think its Lindt).

Made Nigellas Guinness Chocolate Cake over Christmas too.

[bramble]

My kids were like that too when they were growing up.
Daughter got married and had kids of her own.
When she would come to collect them on the evening that i would be babysitting them she would come in and say, Mam I wish I were living at home again and I would;nt turn up my nose at anything you cooked.
Now that i have to do it all myself I realise how thankless it is.