Max: "No, no! Those potatoes taste awful!" 
Katie, after finishing off the meat, refuses to eat more than a taste of the mash, and instead chooses cold cereal for dinner.
Not a hard dinner, even with peeling and cutting the potatoes and parsnips. I chose to dish up the kids' mash before adding the scallions seeing as how they are quite picky and I knew that would ruin it for them. Sure enough there were all kinds of moans and groans when they saw the garnish (but they were relieved when I let them pick it off). Here's what their plates looked like:
Even leaving the green onions out, the parsnips were too strong-tasting to make the mash palatable for them. Even Adam had to choke it down (I got a resounding thumbs-down reaction from him). The steak was good, nice and juicy, but there wasn't anything special about this steak, just seasoned and pan-fried.
Here's my plate:
Bottom line:
Now I know how long to expect steak to take to cook, and I know that parsnips must be cut to half the size of potatoes to cook in the same amount of time. But that's about all I can take from this dinner. But tomorrow-soup! Mmmmm . . .
2 comments:
Your review isn't glowing, so all I can say is kudos to all who tried it.
I'm loving all these dinner reviews- and you're making me feel SOOOOO much better about the fact that my kids don't eat a lot of what I cook. so frustrating.
ps i love parsnips... roast them with carrots, next time! or slice them thin and saute in butter (Oh YUM!)
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