Have you ever made something weird for dinner, just because your kids requested it?

I don’t have kids, but Susan on Desperate Housewives kept making tuna casserole, which I have never had, and I’ve been itching to try making it. Even though it sounds kind of gross and weird.

Macaroni and cheese sandwiches, but I don’t have any kids.

My kids were always clamoring for normal food.

I don’t have kids, but when I was little, my mom used to scramble eggs with ham slices and green food coloring for me when I’d ask for green eggs and ham.

Everytime I touch the stove,I make something weird.I wish I had kids to inflict it on.;)

My kids often asked for “nail soup.” It was just vegetable soup – but they got that from the “Nail Soup” story.

@FluffyChicken Awwww, my mom made me green eggs and ham too! It was so cool when she did that! She also made ratatouille for the kids last year, after they’d been watching the movie Ratatouille, but it was pretty awful. It could be that the kiddos and I just don’t like ratatouille at all, haha.

I always told my mom to make me mashed potato pizza. When I moved to America, it was my first “Welcome to the Family” meal.

@Skaggfacemutt My mom used to make that for us too! Except our version was Stone Soup.

@WillWorkForChocolate I’m trying to figure out how you’re going to make them. Lettuce, cheese,?

I made spaghetti tacos for the kids last year! My daughter, the iCarly fan was excited, but then they just wanted the spaghetti in a taco shell; none of the toppings.

It really wasn’t bad, just different!

@zenvelo What are the toppings? I was trying to figure that out for tonight!

@Adirondackwannabe Basically, you cook spaghetti like usual, with the noodles and meat sauce, then put it into crunchy taco shells. They use some sort of topping or garnish on the top, but I’m not 100% sure what, except for lettuce and tomato? Meh, we’ll figure it out.

@WillWorkForChocolate Tomatoes, cheese, lettuce.

There was a NY Times article about it last summer, that talked about it being a joke meal that had turned into a real phenomenon.

We made an ambiguously-shaped penis/bunny birthday cake for a friend (after watching an episode of Friends).

Definitely wasn’t for kids.
It’s a bunny! Look at its ears!

Ooh…and bacon burger dogs from The Cosby Show!
Whoops! I think I am answering another question: Have you cooked something after seeing it in TV?

@nikipedia I feel like if, out of all the housewives, Susan is the one to make you think “mmm, that sounds good, I should try that”, you aren’t really paying attention to the “Susan’s a horrible cook” storyline. ;) But, Stouffers does have a good tuna casserole you could try before putting all the effort into a casserole and deciding it’s not good after one bite.

@MyNewtBoobs, that’s the weird thing! It didn’t even sound good, I just instantly became curious about it. Tuna? And noodles? Together???

In the early days of the TV show survivor when they used to make the contestants eat all sorts of yuck…the kids wanted to do their own version of yuck and pulled out all sorts of stuff, you name it and threw it all in the blender. I poured them each a glass of their special request. It looked awful, they took one sniff and they cried!

A hideous concoction comprising of sausages, onion rings & a dash of daddy’s sauce :¬(

Turquoise custard. The cat liked it too.

@nikipedia Tuna noodle casserole doesn’t taste all that bad, if you like cooked tuna. I, however, have nightmares about it because I went to a Catholic school that served it three out of four Fridays a month.

BREAKING NEWS: The spaghetti tacos were a complete success with the kids!!! I thought they were just “edible” and hubby totally hated them.

@zenvelo I made a garnish for the top by mixing finely chopped lettuce, tomato, grated cheese and just a pinch of garlic. The tacos would have REALLY sucked without it…

If I fix them for the kids again, my hubby and I will just be eating the spaghetti by itself, LOL.

@WillWorkForChocolate, great update!! You and your husband sound like good sports. Lucky kids. :)

@nikipedia Thanks! We like to have fun letting them cook or help cook something they’ve seen on a tv show or sometimes even things they make up. It doesn’t always turn out well, but thankfully we keep frozen pizzas and sandwich fixins stocked for when “dinner” ends up in the trash, haha.

A few years ago, my daughter got a cookbook called Roald Dahl’s Revolting Recipes for Christmas. We’ve had a few interesting dinners from that book, such as Wormy Spaghetti. She even once had a cooking-themed birthday party featuring foods and candies from that cookbook. LOTS of fun! I’d suggest it for any fan of Roald Dahl’s books!

We also have a Harry Potter cookbook that my daughter was recently given as a gift. We haven’t tried any of the recipes yet, but some of them look really interesting!

If I had kids I would be totally open to making some weird stuff at their request.

@WillWorkForChocolate You are a frigging amazing mom! You’re one of my heros.

I can’t wait until my daughter is old enough to make weird requests. I am also eagerly looking forward to the first April Fool’s day that she’s old enough to prank. I want to make meatloaf cupcakes and all the other fakeout recipes I can find.

@Adirondackwannabe HA! Amazing? Far from it! Trust me, just ask my 10 year old, LOL.

@keobooks Meatloaf cupcakes? TEEHEE! Sounds like fun.

I made meatloaf cake one year on April Fools! It was so funny, buy my youngest was made because he thought we were really having cake for dinner!

I say eat the children. Barn Owls lay large clutches of eggs, each hatching a day or so after the one before. In lean times, the smallest chick gets to be lunch. It’d solve a lot of food shortage problems…

Please note, this is meant humorously. If you happen to take any offence, I suggest you tell a child over the age of 4 years the idea and listen out for the creative ideas that may follow lol