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crockpotcauldron) wrote2022-06-06 06:20 pm
crockpotcauldron) wrote2022-06-06 06:20 pm
Olive Oil
So, my dad has fatty liver, he's had it for ages and kept doing the things that make it worse, but the doctors finally scared some sense into him. The reign of lemon desserts has come to an end. It would be cruel to give it to him, and cruel to eat it without him, so we all have to eat the same. Less meat, less butter. No more white bread, no more soda. The soda has been a bone of contention in our house for years.
Anyway, I am back at the recipe books looking for new meals to add to the rotation. Turns out, he loves traditional Turkish olive oil dishes. Adores green beans cooked in this particular way (but not the other way we have been doing forever, though he never suggested an alternative until now), happily chows down on semizotu yemeği unsupervised. It's great, it's going well, but it's really grinding my gears! We could have been cooking this for twenty years! We are Turkish! Why get all the way to stage three before asking for perfectly normal tasty dishes we are perfectly capable of cooking! Turns out, he will eat healthy, but only with 1) a lot of support and planning so that eating healthy is the course of least resistance, and 2) a gun to his head. I have posted up a whiteboard menu keeping track of all the prepared foods in the fridge. Helps cut down on impulsive snacking or fridge staring, and makes sure I prepare enough food and it gets eaten in time. Right now we have green beans, zucchini dolma, chickpeas and rice, hummus, a green yogurt herb dip, and leftover turkey. There's a bowl of zucchini innards waiting to turn into mücver tomorrow, and some eggplants that need to be turned into whatever eggplants turn into. (I do not like eggplants, but he does, so I will cook the eggplants.) The bowls of cherries and green plums glisten invitingly. I'm trying my best.
Anyway, I am back at the recipe books looking for new meals to add to the rotation. Turns out, he loves traditional Turkish olive oil dishes. Adores green beans cooked in this particular way (but not the other way we have been doing forever, though he never suggested an alternative until now), happily chows down on semizotu yemeği unsupervised. It's great, it's going well, but it's really grinding my gears! We could have been cooking this for twenty years! We are Turkish! Why get all the way to stage three before asking for perfectly normal tasty dishes we are perfectly capable of cooking! Turns out, he will eat healthy, but only with 1) a lot of support and planning so that eating healthy is the course of least resistance, and 2) a gun to his head. I have posted up a whiteboard menu keeping track of all the prepared foods in the fridge. Helps cut down on impulsive snacking or fridge staring, and makes sure I prepare enough food and it gets eaten in time. Right now we have green beans, zucchini dolma, chickpeas and rice, hummus, a green yogurt herb dip, and leftover turkey. There's a bowl of zucchini innards waiting to turn into mücver tomorrow, and some eggplants that need to be turned into whatever eggplants turn into. (I do not like eggplants, but he does, so I will cook the eggplants.) The bowls of cherries and green plums glisten invitingly. I'm trying my best.
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I have an eggplant curry that is my go-to for eggplant disposal when it's not ratatouille season. It's pretty easy and reasonably healthy, if you eat spicy hot stuff.
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I will inquire about curry, I've only ever seen him make curry wurst.