Thursday, March 26, 2009

That doesn't taste like chicken?!

There have been several food-related emails going back and forth among the Cecchins today - just reminiscing about some of the classic meals of our childhood. Exchanging recipes for "breaded steak" and "Cecchin tacos" (with ketchup) has made me hungry. The polenta reference made my cheek hurt!

All this and Marco's post earlier in the week reminded me that I hadn't posted this yet.

Tommy has officially eaten fish! Something neither of his parents will eat or can even stand the smell of! Nevertheless we bucked up and with some help from Trader Joe introduced the childhood staple - fish sticks. Please enjoy the photo play-by-play:

"Ooh yummy, chicken nuggets - my favorite!"

"Hmmm - these taste a little strange"
"There's something fishy going on here...."

"I'm not really sure how to proceed here. But there's ketchup on my plate, so I'll keep dipping"

"Here goes!"
And...he proceeded to clean his plate. Incredible! Thank you Trader Joe. What else can we bread and dip in ketchup to get him to eat? Suggestions?

5 comments:

Mike said...

Calamari! You and Tom eat squid, right?

Sarah said...

Pickles?

Anonymous said...

I love breaded spinach nuggets - I'm sure Trader Joe's has them...drench them in ketchup so he doesn't notice that they are green :-)

Romios Family said...

Dude, we totally had the breaded pickles in Omak. I have to say...not horrible.

Aunt Jen said...

I used to eat meatloaf with my ketchup as a kid.

And i'm not sure about breaded - but deep fried pickles are a must have in New Orleans. Just five more weeks...

Love the fish sticks story and I have to say I didn't realize my brother didn't like fish.