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Chicken tacos. Or what we call tacos. More like a small, open faced burrito on a corn tortilla Rice, beans, chicken, avocado, cheese, chopped tomato, Cholula.

Oh wait, I just looked more closely. This was before cooking. I see the herbs now.

You leave the vegetables whole?

Great looking meal. If you have any more chanterrelles lying about, you might want to try this soup: http://www.food.com/recipe/cream-of-chanterelle-soup-49315

So do you serve "buffet" style?

Thanks. Cool.

Could you snap a pic of the chitarra please?

Thanks, 'ray.' When we get to big cities, I try to stock up on things like that that I can't get in Reno/Tahoe. You should have seen me in Batali's Eataly when we were in NYC last winter! Oh, the glory of it all

I'd like to see it also. I've only made lasagna, thin spaghetti and fettucine with my KA pasta attachments. I've heard that the extruded ones aren't as good/successful but maybe that's not so. Holey moley, here's one for bigoli for a mere $380!!!!! http://www.amazon.com/Torchio-Bigoli-Press-Pasta-Maker/dp/B00AU5KOCO

I don't generally care for empanadas but yours look fabulous! That "too buttery" is probably what did the trick.

Two salads for dinner. Yum and healthy!

Anna, I am probably about to make you very, very happy. Can you spell C O S T C O ??? They come two jars to a 'unit' with maybe 20 hearts to a jar. They're packed in water so I figure they don't keep forever. So I take a portion, wrap tightly in plastic wrap and then into zipping bags. I also use this light batter to fry halves of them. I'm going to stock up for fear they won't carry them forever http://www.food.com/recipe/crunchy-batter-fried-fish-no-beer-363516?scaleto=4&mode=null&st=true

Not dinner but an app. Bacon-wrapped artichokes from Saveur. http://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/Fondi-di-Carciofi A whole, not marinated, heart and a half slice of bacon. Put black pepper and grated Parm on the bacon. Roll up the heart and secure with toothpick. Fry at 350 for 3 minutes. I made a little dip of mayo, mustard, lime juice and chopped capers. These were great. Next time I'll cut the heart in half as these were too big for a bite. And reduce the bacon. These are a definite keeper.

Thanks alot, Franci.

So they liked the fennel? Cool.

I found an old locked thread where Franci had made this so hopefully she or others will reply. I have about 3# of nice, meaty lamb necks and would like to make this recipe. She is very clear that only green quince can be used; otherwise sub tart cooking apples. At this time, the quince in the markets are ripe. Has anyone used the apples and if so what did you think? Thanks in advance.

When our daughters were about 7 and 9 we got snowed in for an extra night at the family cabin. (After that we always kept provisions for that sort of thing.) We had a little ham that I mixed with some noodles and baked an apple. One of them asked "What's that?" I replied "That's dinner and if you don't eat it, it's going to be a very long time before we have what we will call "breakfast" They ate it!

PS: My 3 y.o. granddaughter who has always eaten everything, including foie gras, has suddenly decided she doesn't like lettuce Go figure.

I'm not judging. I'm saying I wouldn't do it and how I would compromise. In MY opinion, it's a setup for other conflicts over other things. For OUR family, it wouldn't be sending a good message.

Oh, 'ray,' you know that the Western world is addicted to "meat" (that can include fish) and that the meat is the larger portion of the meal. (Of course, this group doesn't represent the 'average.')

She prepared two totally different meals. I find it hard to believe that they wouldn't eat ANY of the things the adults ate. And if, say, piri-piri is a bit much for a child's 'palate' (too many years of the nuns!), then put it on the adults' only. Compromise but don't capitulate.

I don't believe anyone is saying to force anyone to eat anything they truly loathe. First they'd have to take a bit to even know this. But to prepare two meals seems a bit much to me. PS: the word is "palate."

I'm afraid (not really!) that I agree with you. When our daughters were young, we compromised so that all four of us were happy with the meal. Two meals? No. Ever? Really no.

Our daughters, who are now mothers themselves, were always good eaters. But we lived in the San Francisco area so they got exposed to things early. They also got expensive early Especially with cheeses!

You cooked TWO meals????? Hopefully THAT'S rare. But sounds great.