Dinner Time
Note: Welcome to week two of Things My Child Says. Thank you for all the great quotes and photos! I’ve decided to do something a bit different with the website, in order to generate a bit more conversation in the comments.
Rather than simply present three quotes and closing out the post, I am going to include anywhere from one to three quotes on a subject and then ask for your best related stories or quotes in the comments section. From time to time, I’ll pull the best quotes from the comments and make them their own post on the front page.
On to this week’s quote...
I recently made a rather lovely chicken pot pie, from scratch. Straight out of the oven it looked just like a fruit pie and my 4 year old daughter Violet was pretty excited about eating pie for dinner. She sat in her chair and anxiously watched me cut into the crust.
To say she was disappointed with the filling is an understatement. She got up and came around for a closer look and said to me,
“That’s not how I like pie. It has soup under it!”
She did not eat pie for dinner that night.
~Kelly Beckman-Crabtree of Heathen Family Revival
Got a good dinner time or pie-related quote or story? Share it with others in the comments below.
Thank you for reading,
David
I do my grocery shopping online and ordered a brand of chicken pie I’d never had before. You don’t really know what you’re getting when you buy your shopping this way but you have to try new things, don’t you? It looked fine when I put it into the oven. It looked fine when I took it out of the oven. But when I tried to slice it to serve it, it deflated and flooded my kitchen worktop. It was basically gravy in pastry!
Soup pie for me too!
My daughter, when she was about five I think, was trying to decide what she liked better between cake and pie. She said, “Well, I really like pie and I really like cake. Is there any kind of pie that has cake for filling?”
When asked what my son(then 5) wanted to be when he grew up, he quickly responded with ‘pie eater’…
Nice to see what you are doing with your new venture.
Gotta love ‘em. I don’t have any food related statements from my 4 year old (that I can remember) but I’m sure one will pop up sooner or later. I’ve just started a similar blog to yours to record the things Isabelle says and Does. I’m sure our kids will love us in years to come when they can look back at the loony things they’ve come out with. I’m going to pop a link to your site on my new blog if you don’t mind.
I’ll pop back to see what else your kids say
My kids are not especially adventurous eaters, and recently I encouraged my 6 year-old son, Gavin, to try the fresh green beans I’d served with dinner.
He finally gave in to my pressure and said: “Well, let me try some of the “delicious” green beans…”, complete with the air quotes around the word “delicious”.
I used to make a Pennsylvania Dutch recipe called Shoofly Pie which is basically a dark molasses custard topped with crumb cake in a pie crust ( Sean Platt’s daughter would love it.)My older kids recognized it as a treat we had not had for a while but my 3 year old son took one look at the shiney dark interior and said “eewhh! Dog lip pie!” We all cracked up as we realized his connection at eye level with our Sharpei included an intimate view of a shiney black wet dog mouth coomon to some breeds.It indeed bears a resemblance to a 1″ thick wedge of Shoofly Pie, thereafter known in our house as Doglip pie. Thanks for the great memory spot.