"November" Fools!

My husband is a meat and potatoes kind of guy. He is also stubborn. During my weekend in Spicer for Sister's Weekend I was introduced to turkey burger by my aunt and "cousin-in-laws." I have to say it was pretty tasty! I may have been a bit skeptical at first, but most women in my family can cook-and well. Since then I have been asking repeatedly if my husband would try anything turkey (not just a Thanksgiving Day turkey). The answer has been a repeated no.

Today he is hunting with my Godfather and one of our friends' dads (a 26 year old and two "older" boys). I hope they had fun, or should I say I hope my husband had fun-hopefully the topic of conversation wasn't about AARP. He has really been getting into trying a few new things-for those that know him he is not a big rabbit (vegetable) eater. He likes his run of the mill veggeies (corn, peas, beans, carrots) but will not eat peppers, spinach, mushrooms...To my amazement last week when we were prepping some breakfasts meals for him to make on a skillet in the duck boat he wanted to add a green pepper! I just about fainted! And when he reported back to me that it was awesome I just about had a heart attack! So, last night after dinner we prepped the same breakfast for this mornings meal and to my amazement we added the green pepper again and he even let me add a few mushrooms! I graciously informed him they really don't taste like much; kind of like dirt. He wasn't real keen on trying them then, but for the sake of pleasing me-we got to add 3 (finely chopped). We will see what he reports back on the overall satisfaction of meal later today.

As I said earlier he has been stubborn at trying turkey burger. Today I hope is the day I can trick him into two things. 1) He won't be able to tell that there is turkey burger in the spaghetti sauce 2) Buying a car for me before Old Man Winter arrives. I say number two because we have been looking at something a bit more dependable for this girl because my escort wagon is a great commuter car, but not very reliable on blizzard conditions when I have no choice but to go to work. She held up well last year when we had a very wet blizzard that took me almost three hours to get home from the twin cities. But, I had to go get an hour long massage that week just to relax my muscles from being tense for those three hours. Since my sister's weekend I have also been starting to put more greens (fiber) in meals where I can. In most sauces I try to add chopped spinach (great trick), as well as chopped carrots. For a few years now I have always put chopped carrots in spaghetti sauce, just never thought of spinach. Since my husband doesn't eat too many green veggies this was a great way!

Kind of skipping around here-but I'll keep you posted on the outcome of today's festivities!

Re-living our juvenile years-Senior Prom.