Sunday, April 27, 2008

You know what Calamari is right?

I picked up a frozen seafood stir fry in a lemon butter sauce at the store today to try for dinner. I didn't notice the calamari until I got home. Calamari is one of those things that I've always been hesitant to try. The idea of tentacles makes me a little nauseous, but I had already loaded it into the pan before I seeing the ingredient on the box. I don't know how I missed it at the store, I read the label's ingredients like I always do before trying anything new, and skipped past that one without it registering.
I briefly considered throwing it out but inspected the contents of the pan and noticed that thankfully, there were no tentacles to be found, just strips of white meat. I decided it would be worth a try. It was excellent, I served it on top of brown rice and my children, including my 10 year old daughter seemed to be enjoying it. I should have let her finish but I couldn't help it. Bad Mommy. "Do you know what's in there?" I gestured toward my daughter's plate as she took another bite and swallowed, then shook her head. "There's shrimp, scallops and calamari. Do you like it?"
"It's good" she answered nodding and taking another bite.
Bad Mommy again, "Do you know what calamari is? It's squid."
My daughter's large blue eyes became gigantic, her mouth hinged open and forgetting all pretense of table manners she slowly began to scoop the half-chewed contents out with her fingers. "I think I'm going to throw up." she dramatized.
She now says she hates calamari. It didn't matter that she liked it before I told her what it was, if fact it might have made it worse. All I know is that I will never forget and always giggle when remembering dinner tonight. Bad Mommy!

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