The Cook Denied... Again!

I actually just went to publish this post and blogger freaked out on me.  My post ended up dissappearing.  That is a most unfortunate occurance.  I am past my bed time as it is and now I am having to rewrite this.  So now not only does my cooking get denied but my blog post about my cooking getting denied gets denied.  I am feeling a lot of rejection at the moment. It is a real bummer too because I think I had a pretty good post there and am not so sure I can recreate it.  We will give it our best but first I will mix things up some and start with a readers digest version:  Made dinner, kids hated it, lots of left overs, too bad so sad. 

And now my attempt to recreate the post that once was:

Do you ever struggle to put together a meal that all of your kids like and something that you enjoy as well?   Those meals are few and far between for me but when the stars align just right and I actually put something on the table theat everyone loves, there is sweet rejoicing.

Tonight the stars didn't align and sadly, there was no sweet rejoicing.  Nope, I had two disgusted little boys and one girl who did her best to be ever so polite but barely touched anything on her plate.  It's okay, I've been rejected before. 

If you previously read this post this is where I called it for the evening.  Now I am trying to remember the original post so I can wrap this up.  Ahh yes - the menu.

I should have fully expected the rejection as we gathered around the table.  I have to say that usually when I put anything with meat on the table Jack is quick to eat it.  Not so tonight.  On the menu - pulled chicken breast in a mojo marinade with rice and a corn/black bean salad thing.  The corn stuff was a mix out of a bag and though it was tastey it was the one thing I figured going in that wouldn't go so well.  Perhaps it was its presence on the plate that distracted the kids from the other - hmmmm, never can tell.  The mojo marinade is a Florida thing - as best I can tell it is a Florida thing.  I have never seen it anywhere else.  It is a citrus based marinade and is actually quite delicious.  We use to grab rotiseree chicken at the local Publix that was mojo flavored.  It was delicous.  I found the shredded mojo chicken to be rather delicous myself but the goal here is not to serve up something that only I like but something that my kids will actually eat.  Sigh - so dissappointing. 

Now what to do with the left overs?  I only have two containers full of it.  I am hoping to recycle it with a little barbeque sauce and see if we can't pull of some sort of miracle the second time around.  Either that or my kids will know exactly what it is and I will be left to face rejection in the kitchen yet again.