Tuesday, May 22, 2012

How to get children to eat, a case study

So, artichokes were on sale last week at the grocery store.  I have never cooked them before or eaten them that I can recall, but for some reason, they were calling my name.  I read up in the cookbooks and decided steaming was called for.  We recently got all new pots, but, alas, no longer have a steamer inset.  So, today I finally bought a steamer and decided to fix artichokes.  But, I still did not know how to eat one.  So, we watched a youtube video before dinner about it.  And lo, and behold, EVERYONE ate and liked the artichokes.  Andrew ate half an artichoke all by himself.  And they were pretty big artichokes.  I don’t know if it was the complicated eating, the presentation, or the video, but wow – that was a first for a new vegetable.  Up there with the kids suddenly liking romaine lettuce when we used it for the bitter herbs for our Passover dinner.  Weird kids.

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