Dragondreamer's Lair: Chocolate's a vegetable, isn't it?

Tuesday, July 03, 2012

Chocolate's a vegetable, isn't it?

My sun baked brain refuses to come up with a suitable blog topic. Seriously, Gabe and I spent 5+ hours at the pool today with my dear sister/friend Rys and her kids. It was a godsend because Gabe has been much needier and demanding with Joey away at camp. I don't think I realized just what a good job Joey does keeping Gabe occupied. But, those 5+ hours in the sun have fried my brain cells and they refuse to function.

photo credit: Edward Allen L Lim

I've also realized that spending so many hours outdoors is seriously detrimental to my desire to cook or even eat a decent meal. I started thinking and said "Hmmm, Vic cooked ribs last night. Ribs could be our protein....and, ICE CREAM...yeah, that sounds like a fab idea. Ice Cream will provide dairy and, if I make banana splits, then the kids also get fruit (bananas and cherries). Hey, doesn't chocolate (hot fudge) come from a bean. That counts as a vegetable." So, ribs...just ribs... for dinner and banana splits for dessert. Guess it's a damn good thing I rarely spend 5+ hours straight in the pool, in the sun, in 95+ degree weather.

Come on, help me out here. Someone else please fess up to doing something like this at least once in your life. Help a sister out, won't you?

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bereavedandblessed 30p · 664 weeks ago

That sounds like a delicious dinner to me! :) If it makes you feel any better last week I let the kids have ice cream cones as their first course at dinner. We were having something I knew they would eat, so didn't feel the need to use dessert to motivate them. I actually prefer they don't have sweets too close to bedtime and they promised me they would eat all of their dinners after that. So I went for it!

As an aside, once in my life, when I was a junior in college on a road trip with friends we stopped for lunch and after our meal I ate an entire banna split (with 3 scoops of ice cream) myself. Never before and never again, but it sure was yummy! :-)

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Mrs. Gamgee · 664 weeks ago

While I haven't done the ice cream thing (yet), I certainly have been tempted. And I do confess to once or twice putting together a lunch for Ginny that consisted of goldfish crackers, grapes, and an oreo. She always has milk tho, so that makes it alright. Doesn't it? :)

I think ribs and banana splits sounds perfect!