Our Dinner

Not too much to blog about recently. No lack of things to do, in fact, too busy most days, with not too much time to blog. Not too much sightseeing lately either. So, I thought I’ll post and share something fairly ordinary – our dinner table. We have the main meal in the evening, when all four of us are at home.

Now, my kids are very difficult when it comes to food and I read somewhere that the best thing to do is prepare a variety of dishes and put them on the table. The theory is that watching the grown-ups having varied dishes, the kids will just grab the dishes and try them out for themselves. Well, I have to say, my boys quickly caught on to the concept of a varied meal. They insist on having at least five different dishes on the table for dinner. They still only eat “clean” pasta, but they enjoy feeling like we’re all having a fancy dinner. So, this is what our dinner table ends up looking like. I’ll describe the dishes and who eats what.

Starting at the top blue plastic dish, and moving clockwise, and please excuse what might be Engrish rather than English -

Green beans steamed and seasoned with some olive oil – me and Israeli dad love this one.

“Clean” no-sauce pasta – the kids eat that. They consider different shapes to be variety in their diet.

Wild rice – real yummy but the kids won’t touch that.

Sweet potato slices, steamed and seasoned with olive oil and a local herb we call “Za’atar” – it’s delicious and finally, something that Ron will eat too.

Vegetable salad – we have a salad with every meal, pretty much. Fresh and colorful – if only the kids would have some…

“Cabbage salad” – i.e. chopped up cabbage for Ron. For some reason or other, he thinks it’s delicious and I’m not complaining.

Soy meat replacement burgers, schnitzle and meat balls – they’re very popular in Israel, easy to make and frankly, I hate preparing meat or chicken, so they come in handy.

Bon apetite, or as we say in Hebrew, Bete’avon!

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