Party FOOD.

The 15 year old girl will soon be 16.

In case you were wondering what kind of party food would be appropriate to serve at a Sweet 16 party, one of my daughter's friends made some suggestions on FaceBook.

I hafta say, the celery kinda surprised me.  Celery is a ninja.

On Friday night this place will be crawling with starving teenagers. Any advice?

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The KING of the CORN.

We got up early today and went to the Jean Talon Market. Man, I love it there. We picked up a few dozen corn on the cob - fresh farm picked from Le Roi du Maïs* - with no pesticides. How awesome is that?
*The King of Corn.

So this evening I'm shucking this fabulously fresh pesticide free sweet corn thinking about butter and I get to about the 9th cob. I peel back the leaves and notice a tiny dark spot on the tip. So I take a closer look and the darn thing begins to extrude itself from the corn right before my very eyes. A worm! And it's waving at me!

"AAAAAAAAA!" I screamed and dropped the corn into the sink. Everyone came running.

Now you may not know this about me but I'm squeamish when it comes to larvae of any kind, including caterpillars. Something about their undulating, blobby shapes just makes me wanna hurl. BLEGH!

The 17 year old daughter felt sorry for the worm so she scooped him up and found him a cozy spot in the garden compost. As for me, I totally lost my appetite for a whole ten minutes. I was truly grossed out. But even so, I was thinking, wow, this pesticide free corn means I might encounter a pest or two. Hmmmm....

Folks, squeamish as I am, I'll take the pests over the pesticides any day.

Vive Le Roi du Maïs!

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My Kids COOK.

I was beginning to get worried about my 16 year old daughter. She'd had her wisdom teeth out five days ago and had a very bad recovery, extreme swelling, bruising and pain. She had Chipmunk CHEEKS. Her morale was at an all time low.

Yesterday, I took her off the codeine and she suddenly perked up! Around 5 pm last night, the girl suddenly announced she was going to cook dinner for everyone. An extremely good sign, n'est ce pas?

Our children have always been in the kitchen with their daddy. The Apron Man involved them in preparing most meals, and facilitated creating their every edible whim. Consequently, they picked up a few tricks.

Still sporting slight Chipmunk Cheeks, my eldest prepared a delicious Chicken Parmigiana. And she got her 14 year old sister to help out with a Chocolate Soufflé. It was a pleasure to hear them laughing together...my heart soared.

We ate dinner and cleared up before dessert. The soufflé was rising in the oven, filling the house with a mouth-watering chocolatey aroma. I actually drooled as I did the dinner dishes.

Suddenly there was a scream from the pantry:

"MUM! There's soy sauce in the soufflé! There's SOY SAUCE IN THE SOUFFLÉ!!!! WAAAAAAH!!!!" The 16 year old came running to the sink and spat. "Ptui! Ptui - ptui!!"

I'm like WTF?

It seems that long ago ( I can't even remember how long ago), someone had sushi and poured the left over soy sauce into the smallest container they could find : the empty vanilla bottle. And then forgot about it. And a generous teaspoonful was whizzed into yon rising Chocolate Soy-fflé. My eldest discovered this as she was screwing the lid back on the bottle and got some on her finger. She licked it off and got a nasty surprise.

The guilty party? Place your bets!

For the record, the Chocolate Soy-fflé didn't taste one bit like soy sauce. It was nom-a-licious. Do your kids cook?


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More StickFOOD.

BREAKING NEWS: The husband has just informed me that it's my turn to cook AGAIN.
And that can mean only one thing.

So who's making dinner at your house tonight?

It was my 13 year old daughter's idea to anthropomorphize the Stick FOOD. 

StickFOOD gear is now available in my Zazzle Shop.

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Stick FOOD.

I'm sitting here drawing and my husband comes in and lays some bad news on me: it's my turn to make supper. Ugh. Can you believe I'd rather draw it than cook it? Laziness is a bizarre motivator for art. But I bet I could make your mouth water with my stick food recipes.....

So I asked my tweeps what they were hungry for. You're welcome.

We've got Buffalo burger with cheddar cheese, ketchup and mustard for @Jeff_Venting

A bowl of ramen for @snarkymomma

Sushi (with wasabe and pickled ginger on the side) for @nicolewelkener and @jennheffer

A a very unhealthy fried twinkie dunked in chocolate on a stick...WITH powdered sugar for @EllieM72...

A big ole plate chinese food for @ksceviour! (Notice the different shaped chopsticks? They're not like the pointy Japanese ones).

Eggs and bacon for @RyanneSiobhain even though she ordered LATE....

Matchstick carrots for @80sgirlforever. How appropriate, my dear. Crunchy but warm! That's the way I do 'em. With butter and some lemon zest

I put the rib steak on for @flyddw but I had to go tuck my 10 year old boy in, and when I came back downstairs it was actually on fire. I had to break out my fire extinguisher. It's kind of burnt. I wiped all the foam off though. Sorry!

OK. WHO ATE @HDCautism's COOKIES?!?

The only thing I couldn't make was @Mr_Glisner's chicken Parmesan. We're fresh out of poultry. I hope you'll be satisfied with @TrashCanRoxanne's lovely Avocado Soup.

These recipes are very low fat. And no dishes either. If you enjoyed this meal, please feel free to offer your compliments to the Chef, in the comment box below.

Bon appetit!

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Harvest MOON.

In honour of the Harvest, we went up to the Jean Talon Market. It's the best farmer's market in Montreal. Knowing there was going to be tons of fabulous colours, I brought my camera. Clicking away, I found myself salivating like a slobber-dog over all this gorgeous FOOD!

Holy Mother of Drool.

Who can resist corn on the cob?

Or tiny red and white radishes dipped in soft butter and sea salt, comme en France? With a glass of wine, c'est délicieux!

Artichokes, leaf by leaf, at the start of the meal....simply wonderful.

Asparagus, a tasty treat no matter how you pronounce it!

And those chanterelles, sizzling with fresh chopped parsely? Mouth watering.....

Uh-oh. There's the Harvest MOON.

What colour is your Harvest?

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