They are made and served by: Goombays Grille and Raw Bar
Kill Devil Hills, Outer Banks, North Carolina.
I've been a fan of Goombays crab cakes for over three decades.
YUMMMM.
Posted on 07/03/2023 2:53:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
While most parents may stick to basics when feeding their toddlers, professional chef Jack Zhang, 31, was determined to make sure his son Levi was going to be an adventurous eater.
To ensure the now 2-year-old was not going to grow up fussy, Zhang started feeding the baby dishes fit for the most refined palate as soon as he could eat solid foods — and now has an appetite that could rival a grown adult’s.
Little Levi’s expansive menu already includes lobster, scallops, ratatouille, pork dumplings, cauliflower puree, quick-pickled cucumbers, radishes, microgreens and flying fish roe (tobiko), his proud dad said. “The mindset is for him to not be always picky and to try a bunch of different foods,” said the New York-based cook, who is married to 28-year-old Emily, an English professor.
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Lobster Used to Be Food for Prisoners, Animals, or the Very Poor
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When I was growing up we ate whatever was served. We sat at the table until everything on the plate was finished. Even the succotash and the turnip. Awful!
Needle-nose gar backstrap cooked in butter tastes like lobster. Great on pasta.
LOL...that’s a great story.
“You either eat this. Or you don't. Your choice.”
I has the extra "If you don't eat it tonight it will be in the refrigerator for you tomorrow!"
I've become pickier since then. I've had almost zero asparagus after childhood and absolutely no beef liver. Raw onions are something some jerks put on sandwiches just to annoy me having to remove them.
Me too and that list looks pretty similar though I didnt jump right to lobster on the higher end and have made a point of teaching my children to enjoy kidneys, knipp, and woodchuck on the other end also. Cries of “Daddy, those are yummy!” as my oldest pointed at something led to a number of things like impromptu pheasant hunting or sucker netting.
“My kid wont eat vegetables.” Well then you need a good recipe for parsnip pie, pie spiced acorn squash, or something similar. When they ask for more tell them that you gave it to them by accident because you forgot they didnt like vegetables. It doesnt take long for them to realize that they dont want to miss out and that some things that arent all that great by themselves go great with something else like roast pork with brussel sprouts and sauteed grapes and nuts. When one of mine saw me eating buttered rye with onions and asked about it I told them about a fancy french chef that showed me radishes on white and knowing her preference for raw turnips and pumpernickel I offered her a turnip with ranch on pumpernickel. That was the sandwich she made everyday for about week. Me and my kids still eat all 3 even though just onions on rye is “normal” around here.
I was the son of a chef myself and a large number of my friends were kids with no one home to cook so their diet was entirely composed of their likes not needs. Skinless hot dogs on cheap white, box macaroni and cheese, and plain cheese pizzas made them what they are today to the delight of pharmaceutical companies. I never wanted my kids to have to experience any of that.
Never tried that mix but, no problemo. 👍
A couple of my kids aren’t too keen on Mexican food. When my son was 15 we went to a Mexican place a mile or so from home.
He said he didn’t want to eat it so I said See ya, walk home then. He did.
We found out later he was coming down with Crohn’s disease so he had an excuse.
Oh boy, I hope he’s doing okay now.
I find this a bit out of the park. When I was a child I ate what was put in front of me or I didn’t eat. If I ate at someone else’s house I ate what they ate or didn’t eat.
Most people eat what they can, not always what they always wish for. Would I like lobster all the time or porterhouse steaks, baked Alaska or escargot? I most likely would. But I didn’t come up in a family that had the money tree in the back yard that produced year round. We lived on a ranch and had good wholesome food many times fresh and grew up just fine.
I carried the same thought into my family. I married a ranch girl who could really cook and we had food we could afford and put money into other things also. And it sure didn’t hurt my family as my son is huge and strong as a bull, and my daughter is 6 feet and healthy as a horse.
So, what’s the purpose? Wholesomeness, or importance?
wy69
Just give the kid a side dish of Ranch Dressing...
Seen them dip everything in it...
He’s fine. Had a chunk of intestine removed. He’s somewhat careful I think.
He’s a trucker and cooks most meals in his sleeper cab. Microwave or air fryer.
I had a friend back in the service that had stories of things like eating too many lobsters back on his island and not believing that Americans were so rich that they could eat chicken every day.
Several Freepers have told me that that must be a lie. Dont be surprised when someone tells you the same thing.
There was once a weird restaurant nearish to here that had Jamaican and creole type stuff on their menu. I really enjoyed the mudbugs and then Id get the jerk pork. It was really good. Unfortunately it didnt last too long as the locals there are not those adventurous of palate.
I've been a fan of Goombays crab cakes for over three decades.
YUMMMM.
When my daughter was growing up she refused to eat or even try any Fish except fish sticks. So I started making White Chicken for dinner a couple nights a week. It wasn’t until she in High School that she realized White Chicken was Halibut!!!
My brother lived on iced tea and peanut butter cups.
He died on the living room floor when playing with his four very young children. Heart attack in his forties.
Picky eater?! No one ever had to point me to the lobster or even better crab legs. They cost a fortune. Yummy
You should feel like an ass for treating your kid that way
My wife feels the same way. She won't eat raw onions. But then she'll order and eat onion rings. I just roll my eyes at her. She says it's not the same. I get that.
Well, I certainly would have appreciated lobster as a toddler!
But, all I got was frog legs!
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