A few nights ago, I made dinner at my mom's house. We had marinated New York Strip steaks, mashed potatoes, grilled corn on the cob and Alice also had some sweet potato. As a bonus, she got to eat out of a really neat bowl that fills with warm water to keep the food warm and suctions to the table. Also, that bowl belonged to me when I was a baby! My mom really does save everything.
Alice fed herself, with guidance to make sure she didn't pull out the corn skewers. It was hit or miss for a while with getting the corn on the cob to her mouth, but we eventually figured out that having only one skewer worked the best. It was a corn-sicle!
Corn-sicle not pictured.
I think we have a winner for Alice's favorite food! She is just nuts for corn on the cob! She really enjoyed her steak too, but mama had to cut it up a bit smaller than what was pictured and nuked it for a few seconds to get rid of some of the pink. The sweet potato was a hit as always, but she only ate a few of the rolled up mashed potato balls. And I don't blame her. We made the mashed taters out of a box...in the microwave. That used to be just fine when I didn't care what food tasted like because I doused it in salt and shoved it down my gullet, but now they are kind of gross.
Alice's Approval Rating
This girl is a serious carnivore! She inhaled her steak and was crazy about the corn on the cob. She was not so interested in the mashed potatoes, but the sweet potato did pretty well. She didn't eat all of it like she did the steak, but she went back a few times for sweet potato bites during steak breaks.
Daddy's Thoughts
Daddy likes his steak medium-well to well done because he wouldn't know a delicious medium-rare steak if it was sitting right in front of him...which it was! We'll just have to agree to disagree on this one. Once I threw his steak back on the grill, he really enjoyed it. He loved the marinade (a mix of Worcestershire, soy sauce, garlic, A1 steakhouse marinade and Italian dressing) so I think I will do that again. Even if I do have to waste it on a well done piece of boot leather...er...steak.
How did I do?
Well, I know that corn and potatoes are not the healthiest of vegetables (and I should know, if you add green beans to that list you will have a list of the only veggies I ate while growing up), but I am pretty happy with this. I put a little butter on her corn, but no salt. Also, I'm happy with the amount of protein she got. Overall, this is just going to have to be one of those family dinners that don't count for too much as far as healthy food goes, but make for a nice time with family.
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