>Strangely, when she first started on solids, she's eat the leavings of our elder daughter (who was going through a fussy stage then), esp. the peas!

It's really amazing how kids are so... individual in their picks of what they like and what they hate. Our daughters each had their time when they loved spinach (one still does), but regularly hate onions in anything. And onions are the primary ingredient in any decent dish across Balkans. So the onions would either have to be chopped beyond recognition, or left in large enough chunks to be easily extractable.

Or, yeah, the peas. They all disliked them, but after a while they learned to love rizi-bizi (i.e. rice and peas). Go figure.

>How about roast potatoes? I never hear or see any American talk of eating them. The are the main-stay of the British Sunday Roast. On films and TV shows (esp. re: Thanksgiving) US families are always passing around a huge tureen of mashed potatoes, but never any roasties.

I've seen huge specimens cooked in alumin(i)um foil, but I've really never seen them roasted in gravy, along with the turkey or other meat (what we call "baker's potatoes").

>>Now, peas, on the other hand .... yuck!!! I just CAN'T eat those things! <g>
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>It's easy - you squash them between the tines of the back of your fork! :-)

Blyacchs... mashed peas are the only peas I dislike. You have to feel them burst in your mouth, that's the pleasure.

Now I'll be hungry at least two hours ahead of my time...