My faith in Hick as a provider has been restored! Not only did he bring me a Reuben from the Senior Center lunch this month, but he also brought me LIVER! Yes. I asked for it. We both like liver. Hick also brought one home for himself for supper.
The menu listing for the day was:
Ham & Beans
Spinach & Breaded Tom
Cornbread
OR
Liver & Onions
Mashed Potatoes, Veg, Cornbread
Blueberry Pie OR Fruit
I thought Hick might have the Beans & Ham for lunch, and bring home the Liver. But no. He ate liver at lunch, and also brought a meal home for his supper. The two containers had Hick's name written on them. Which could be suspicious if you have enemies, but the cooks there LOVE Hick! I saw the first one, and asked if his name was on both. Yes, it was. But I'm sure you can still tell that one was meant for Hick specifically...
That was the container on top of the stack. Whether you like liver or not, you've gotta admit that's a good-looking serving of liver! We had mashed potatoes, and the Breaded Tom, along with a cornbread square.
Now let's take a look at MY dinner:
Where's all the liver love for Val??? I might have had a part of a sliver of onion. At least I got the corner cornbread. Which I sliced off and gave Hick the other 2/3 of it. I was at first repulsed by the tomatoes. I thought they had jalapenos in them, but Hick said it was zucchini. I actually ate those tomatoes. Not too bad. The mashed potatoes were again tasteless. In the future, I'll give them to Hick. The liver was delicious!
Hick said he was too full to eat his dinner that night. Well, no wonder! I can imagine how they must have piled his tray high with liver at lunch, him being their pet. Hick went on and on about how tender that liver was. He said the gal told him she soaked it in milk overnight.
Anyhoo... Hick wasn't too full for dessert. Shocking, I know.
A filling dessert it was, too! They sure didn't play favorites with the lemon meringue pie! It's almost as if they know that I always give my dessert to Hick. Hick says they don't bake the pies, they buy them from the deli of the local grocery store. This pie sure looks fabulous. I wish I had tried just a bite, but it's too late now.
Next time liver is on the menu, Hick should be bringing it home for our supper.
These look delicious, I LOVE lemon meringue pie. My mom, sister and niece are iron deficient and liver helps with that, but only my mom would eat it I am sure.
ReplyDeleteOh, well. More liver for us! I really wish I had taken a bite of that pie.
DeleteI used to cook liver at least twice a month. I never actually TOLD my family that it was liver. They thought it was country style steak and gravy with onions. Let the record show that they ate it with gusto until that fateful day that The Man noticed the thawing meat for supper and read the label. When he realized it was liver he proclaimed that he was not eating it, the all the kids echoed Daddy. They all refused to eat the liver, so I made country steak for them to go with the mashed potatoes and other vegetables and I ate the liver. But at some point, during the meal they all asked to taste my liver. I refused!
ReplyDeleteYou're a tricky one! Good strategy. I'm glad you withheld your liver after they lodged their complaints.
DeleteMaybe I am wrong, but it looks to me like Hick took half your liver and added it to his container. If that's the case, shame on him. The mashed potato looks like a scoop of ice cream. The lemon meringue pie looks delicious.
ReplyDeleteHeh, heh! Hick will take more than his fair share of meat out of a dish or pot of soup or beans, but he won't sabotage my serving behind my back. He's got the cooks to do that for him, you know!
DeleteBelieve me, those potatoes were no treat of any kind. But the pie surely lived up to its looks. Not a scrap left, and no complaints from Hick.
It would take several dirty water cocktails for me to eat liver!
ReplyDeleteIs there some kind of IRONy in feeding liver to your liver after imbibing several dirty water cocktails?
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