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difficult child: I want chinese food, I want chinese, she sounded like a 2 year old.
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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 444840" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>"et over it mom" means "I am too embarrassed by my own behaviour, I don't want to talk about it, I want it all to go away. But I am not going to learn how to change to better behaviour, I will have the perfect excuse to do this again whenever I choose."</p><p></p><p>Tell her this next time you have a post mortem and she tries the "get over it, mom." Bad behaviour needs to be resolved, not 'gotten over'.</p><p></p><p>It's odd about the Chinese food - difficult child 3 hates it. I cook a lot of Chinese food (I'm good at it, it's easy, it's fast and it's healthy) but I generally have to arrange a different meal for difficult child 3.</p><p></p><p>On the subject of Chinese - I would ask her what particular Chinese food she had in mind. Any? Would she have let you order? Or did she have a particular dish in mind? I would suspect the latter, and I also suspect it was either high sugar or high carb. Teen girls (and teen boys) can suddenly get really bad munchies and cravings. I'm betting your daughter had a sudden yen for something with noodles (fried or steamed) and lots of protein. If you had offered her a clear chicken soup I bet she would have not wanted it.</p><p></p><p>by the way, I have a fast recipe for good, authentic Chinese chicken stock. It takes from 20 minutes to 40 minutes, depending on what sort of hurry you are in. I use leftover chicken carcasses from a roast meal, or I'll buy chicken bones or chicken necks and use those. Put in pot, cover with water, add salt (to taste) and put in a bouquet garni with Szhechuan peppercorns, a star anise and slices of fresh ginger. You can just toss in the peppercorns but you would then need to strain the stock, and I find that is a hassle. Then to turn it into a soup meal, simmer in some vegetables and perhaps some wontons or dumplings (which I buy frozen for steaming or throwing into soup). Or you can add some creamed corn and thicken it all with cornstarch and a little water. Make sure it simmers for a few minutes after you add the cornstarch, to remove any floury taste and make sure it has thickened properly. You can add egg flower too (look it up - easy).</p><p></p><p>I'm still betting she did not want soup. But the peppercorn/anise/ginger flavour can really give a Chinese flavour and if that was it, it could have helped.</p><p></p><p>I find the Chinese stock is also more effective for invalids - I think the ginger touch helps. And herbally, ginger breaks a fever.</p><p></p><p>On the subject of soup - we were on holidays once and I wanted to make some chicken stock, I needed to save some money on the next meal. So I told the kids the story of stone soup (ref- Jim Henson's "Storyteller" series). easy child 2/difficult child 2 fetched a smooth rock from the garden of the apartment we were renting. I put it in the pot and we acted out the story, with me as the vagabond trying to trick the miser. I put in literally rubbish - the leftover barbecued chicken from the day before, now mostly bones with leftover stuffing. Carrot peel. The outer skins of an onion I had used (I had previously made sure I had at least one fleshy onion layer). A teaspoon of salt. Each time I added something I included it in the story. I even added a small amount of Vegemite - use whatever you have but make sure you don't get too silly! And it tasted great, it really did seem like magic. The kids tasted the soup (which normally they wouldn't touch!) and I used it later on to make a risotto which they wolfed down. I strained out the rubbish, I peeled any residual meat off the bones and added that as well. Then all I needed to make a gourmet Italian meal was a cup of rice, a knob of butter and some grated Parmesan cheese. It fed all six of us that night. So we'd had an entertainment (me, acting out the story), a good meal and a valuable lesson, all in one. And it was very inexpensive!</p><p></p><p>easy child 2/difficult child 2 would not put that stone back in the garden. Instead she brought it home and when she left home a few years later, she took it with her. She keeps it in her kitchen and calls it her "soup stone".</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 444840, member: 1991"] "et over it mom" means "I am too embarrassed by my own behaviour, I don't want to talk about it, I want it all to go away. But I am not going to learn how to change to better behaviour, I will have the perfect excuse to do this again whenever I choose." Tell her this next time you have a post mortem and she tries the "get over it, mom." Bad behaviour needs to be resolved, not 'gotten over'. It's odd about the Chinese food - difficult child 3 hates it. I cook a lot of Chinese food (I'm good at it, it's easy, it's fast and it's healthy) but I generally have to arrange a different meal for difficult child 3. On the subject of Chinese - I would ask her what particular Chinese food she had in mind. Any? Would she have let you order? Or did she have a particular dish in mind? I would suspect the latter, and I also suspect it was either high sugar or high carb. Teen girls (and teen boys) can suddenly get really bad munchies and cravings. I'm betting your daughter had a sudden yen for something with noodles (fried or steamed) and lots of protein. If you had offered her a clear chicken soup I bet she would have not wanted it. by the way, I have a fast recipe for good, authentic Chinese chicken stock. It takes from 20 minutes to 40 minutes, depending on what sort of hurry you are in. I use leftover chicken carcasses from a roast meal, or I'll buy chicken bones or chicken necks and use those. Put in pot, cover with water, add salt (to taste) and put in a bouquet garni with Szhechuan peppercorns, a star anise and slices of fresh ginger. You can just toss in the peppercorns but you would then need to strain the stock, and I find that is a hassle. Then to turn it into a soup meal, simmer in some vegetables and perhaps some wontons or dumplings (which I buy frozen for steaming or throwing into soup). Or you can add some creamed corn and thicken it all with cornstarch and a little water. Make sure it simmers for a few minutes after you add the cornstarch, to remove any floury taste and make sure it has thickened properly. You can add egg flower too (look it up - easy). I'm still betting she did not want soup. But the peppercorn/anise/ginger flavour can really give a Chinese flavour and if that was it, it could have helped. I find the Chinese stock is also more effective for invalids - I think the ginger touch helps. And herbally, ginger breaks a fever. On the subject of soup - we were on holidays once and I wanted to make some chicken stock, I needed to save some money on the next meal. So I told the kids the story of stone soup (ref- Jim Henson's "Storyteller" series). easy child 2/difficult child 2 fetched a smooth rock from the garden of the apartment we were renting. I put it in the pot and we acted out the story, with me as the vagabond trying to trick the miser. I put in literally rubbish - the leftover barbecued chicken from the day before, now mostly bones with leftover stuffing. Carrot peel. The outer skins of an onion I had used (I had previously made sure I had at least one fleshy onion layer). A teaspoon of salt. Each time I added something I included it in the story. I even added a small amount of Vegemite - use whatever you have but make sure you don't get too silly! And it tasted great, it really did seem like magic. The kids tasted the soup (which normally they wouldn't touch!) and I used it later on to make a risotto which they wolfed down. I strained out the rubbish, I peeled any residual meat off the bones and added that as well. Then all I needed to make a gourmet Italian meal was a cup of rice, a knob of butter and some grated Parmesan cheese. It fed all six of us that night. So we'd had an entertainment (me, acting out the story), a good meal and a valuable lesson, all in one. And it was very inexpensive! easy child 2/difficult child 2 would not put that stone back in the garden. Instead she brought it home and when she left home a few years later, she took it with her. She keeps it in her kitchen and calls it her "soup stone". Marg [/QUOTE]
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