I’ve always been impressed at the diverse foods that Bridget is willing to try. Sometimes she even surprises herself (and me) and likes new\/different things. Now, at just 3 1\/2 years of age, she has a bit of an expensive taste. Its a curious thing. Even in her candy choices… she knows what chocolate is, and will choose it over everything else most days.<\/p>\n
Maybe its because we let her suck on a piece of steak once when she was about 6 months old (she liked it, btw)? Maybe.<\/em><\/p>\n Anyway, Sunday afternoon I was making some casadias for lunch. I came up stairs to ask Dave and Bridget what they wanted in theirs. “I have Cheese, Ham, Mushroom, and Spinach,” I said, “What do you want?”<\/p>\n Bridget’s reply came quickly, “SHRIMP and MUSHROOMS!”<\/p>\n T: “I’d like shrimp in mine too. But we don’t have any shrimp.” I ended up adding ham and cheese to hers as well as the mushrooms. She loved it and ate every bit. Go figure.<\/p>\n Yesterday we made shish kabobs on the grill. (We didn’t have shrimp, but in retrospect, we should have)… Today at lunch she asked for some mushrooms again. The leftover grilled-from-the-kabob kind. She ate them and loved them. Then she said, “Mom, do we have any shrimp?”<\/p>\n No, honey, sorry.<\/p>\n So then we had this conversation…<\/p>\n T: You really like shrimp and mushrooms, don’t you? So there you have it. She’s still 3, and can’t turn down mac and cheese – but she’d prefer it served with shrimp and mushrooms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve always been impressed at the diverse foods that Bridget is willing to try. Sometimes she even surprises herself (and me) and likes new\/different things. Now, at just 3 1\/2 years of age, she has a bit of an expensive taste. Its a curious thing. Even in her candy choices… she knows what chocolate is, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bridget","category-food","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nB: “I just really love shrimp”
\nT:”I know. But we have cheese, ham, mushrooms, and spinach.”
\nB: “I’ll have mushrooms. Just mushrooms.”<\/p>\n
\nBridget asked me if she could have a ‘sis kabob’<\/em> with only mushrooms on it – she was forced to have some variety.<\/p>\n
\nB: Yay, I do.
\nT: We don’t have any, but if someone were to ask you if you’d rather have shrimp and mushrooms or a peanut butter sandwich, what would you choose?
\nB: shrimp and mushrooms
\nT: How about shrimp and mushrooms or pizza?
\nB: shrimp and mushrooms
\nT: Shrimp and mushrooms or a hamburger?
\nB: (sighing, as though I should already know the answer) shrimp and mushrooms
\nT: What about shrimp and mushrooms or mac and cheese?
\nB: Mac and cheese. (pause) Mac and cheese AND shrimp and mushrooms.
\nT: Oh really.
\nB: (grinning and nodding) Yea.<\/p>\n