Tales from suburbia...

[ashlupa]

I'll preface this by saying that I usually consider my parents to be reasonably sophisticated in terms of food. My mother's worked in food service for a fair portion of her life (in between the clinical psych, nursing, and now neuropsych), and my father ran the restaurant where I learned to cook for nearly thirty years. You want proper

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[plantyhamchuk]

Not an ideal pairing of flavors, no...

[eldriwolf]

Errr, well, actually ,yes...
early in the morming,emptying last nights leaves,
ate a few, just for something to chew--not too bad...

[ashlupa]

...I should have known somebody would say yes.

[tyme]

Actually, two someones :)

Growing up having Tea (dim sum) every few days you get bored and try to eat anything.

-Tyme

[redswirl3]

That was really cute. I could see my own parents doing the very same.

[alagbon]

My parents are totally mystified by the ingredients I use as well, even though my mom used to teach Home Ec and did a chapter on international food, and we lived in Thailand for nearly six months when I was younger. (But then I don't keep much Thai stuff around; more Indian, Middle Eastern, and African.) They've never tried to use any of them like that, though; indeed even when I lived with them they stayed well away from most of it.