RIP Mr. Sendak

:( Maurice Sendak died today. We have most of his books and we inadvertently memorized Where the Wild Things Are (which comes in handy when you're on vacation and it's dark and your toddler won't sleep until you read him a story). I hope he enjoys his last final rumpus. RIP Maurice/Max/Mickey.

I never thought I'd be grateful to computer games

So I have this son. He's almost 12 and is the most food-suspicious person I've ever met. We'll make exciting, delicious, different food every night. But he is suspicious of sauces, loath to mix foods of different species, and petrified of cheese. He has been this way his entire life. So while the rest of us are having green curry, or scalloped potatoes, or chicken cordon bleu, he is eating plain rice and plain noodles. He'll eat meat, but only plain (salt and pepper okay), and he'll eat tons of fruit and fresh raw vegetables. But regular, cooked dinner food--not so much.

Well. He also likes computer games. So he found this chicken recipe (http://facepunch.com/threads/1140649) on the Garry's Mod forums for ginger-garlic marinaded curry-honey chicken, and asked me to make it. It's marinaded, cooked chicken that sits on a bed of salad. I mean, the thing has curry powder and shallots in it, and not a speck of rice. I made it. He ATE it. HE LOVED IT!

Moral: Maybe Mom is right when she says food with flavor is good, and maybe son is right when he says not everything about computer games is bad.