Got kids?

[Scott WRG Editor]

I have two boys, 5 & 3. I plan on having more

I volunteer my services if Hobbes is not up to the task! Er... did I say that out loud?

Thanks a lot buddy... we needed to find a baby sitter.

any time, I have a couple of recipes I've been meaning to try

Do share!!!

Mom's Roast Kid

My mom knows a lot about cooking children, though luckily I survived. She knows all of the cuts and what to do with them. This must have something to do with growing up at a time where people had so many kids they weren't concerned with missing a few. These days with amber alerts and instant media its tough to get quality fresh kids. Who knows where these different parts come from? The good news is that kid roast is pretty self explanatory. It is easy to make, relatively inexpensive, and you get great leftovers for roast kid sandwiches.

3 to 3 1/2 lbs of Boneless Kid Roast (pick a end cut with a lot of fat marbling)
Olive oil
8 slivers of garlic
Salt and pepper

You will need a meat thermometer

For the gravy:
Red wine, water, and or kid stock
corn starch

Start with the roast at room temperature (remove from refrigerator a couple of hours before cooking). Preheat the oven to 375°F.

With a sharp knife make 8 small incisions around the roast. Place a sliver of garlic into each incision. Take a tablespoon or so of olive oil and spread all around the roast. Sprinkle around the roast with salt and pepper. Place the roast directly on an oven rack, fatty side up, with a drip pan on a rack beneath the roasting rack. This arrangement creates convection in the oven so that you do not need to turn the roast. The roast is placed fat side up so that as the fat melts it will bathe the entire roast in its juices.

Brown the roast at 375°F for half an hour. Lower the heat to 225°F. The roast should take somewhere from 2 to 3 hours additionally to cook. When the roast just starts to drip its juices and it is brown on the outside, check the temperature with a meat thermometer. Pull the roast from the oven when the inside temperature of the roast is 135° to 140°F. Let the roast sit for at least 15 minutes before carving to serve.

To make the gravy:
Remove the dripping pan from the oven and place on the stove top at medium heat. Note that if you are pulling the roast out early, for rare or a medium rare level of doneness, you may not have a lot of drippings. Hopefully you will have some. If not, you may want to leave the roast in a little longer at even lower heat, 175°F, to ease some more drippings out of it. Add some water, red wine, or kid stock to the drippings to deglaze (loosen the drippings from the pan). Dissolve a tablespoon of cornstarch in a little water and add to the drip pan. Stir quickly while the gravy thickens to avoid lumping. You can add a little butter if there is not a lot of fat in the drippings. Add salt and pepper to taste. Mom adds some fresh thyme too if she has some.



I am sooooo going to hell....

 

[Hertz van Rental]

I have two boys - now 18 and 19. Complete pains in the bum but I wouldn't trade them for anything (except a Sinar P3 :mrgreen: )

 

[ferny]

I have 2 boys ... the oldest will be 5 on wednesday and the next is 6 1/2 months

I'd still like to have a little girl and would thusly be willing to try up to two more times After that if I dont have a girl I'm just out of luck!

You're joking? You only look 19.

 

[mygrain]

I'm with Orie and Mentos....HELL NO!!! There are enough kids in this world and I don't want to add to this mess BUT if I did ever decide, I'd have to adopt...PLUS I'm still a kid myself I ain't got time to wipe anyone's bottom but my own!

 

[ferny]

Nooo! Tell me you don't mean that mentos.

Wait until they reach 10. Forget stories about teenagers, that's when the rot sets in.
really... I mean I like babies but when they are 3 - 4 yrs old they are awful! hate them! grr

I love kids though. Even the nastiest little shits can be nice on there own. There's one kid where I work, he's 9 or 10. When he's with his mates he's an ignorant brat. Within my first week there he'd stuck his finger up at me and told me to **** off. Now, normally when he's on his own or not with another kid who needs some serious discipline, he's very nice. He says hello, smiles, the lot. When you see a kids change (yeah, he could be bluffing) it is incredible.
Then there are the kids who are always nice and polite. Unfortunately those are the ones who get ignored and forgotten about.

 

[Corry]

Oh yeah...kids are TOTALLY different when they are with their peers. I have kids in my Thursday night group that are like that...mostly the boys. When they are by themselves, they are VERY well behaved...but when you get a group of them around the same age...the story changes a bit! They may run me ragged some nights...but I love em. I could be having the WORST week...I could be feeling extremely depressed about EVERYTHING else that is going on in my life, but for that two hours on Thursday...they just make everything better. They take my mind off of it all. Over this past three years, I've watched em grow up, and learn...to me it's amazing! Ok...I'm gonna stop being sappy now. I love my group kids!

 

[Walt]

Mine aren't exactly kids anymore. Does that count?

Forgot to mention, I have two boys aged 23 and 24 and my daughter is 21. :shock:

 

[manda]

Nooo! Tell me you don't mean that mentos.

Wait until they reach 10. Forget stories about teenagers, that's when the rot sets in.
really... I mean I like babies but when they are 3 - 4 yrs old they are awful! hate them! grr

I love kids though. Even the nastiest little shits can be nice on there own. There's one kid where I work, he's 9 or 10. When he's with his mates he's an ignorant brat. Within my first week there he'd stuck his finger up at me and told me to f*** off. Now, normally when he's on his own or not with another kid who needs some serious discipline, he's very nice. He says hello, smiles, the lot. When you see a kids change (yeah, he could be bluffing) it is incredible.
Then there are the kids who are always nice and polite. Unfortunately those are the ones who get ignored and forgotten about.

Are you a teacher?

 

[errant_star]

I have 2 boys ... the oldest will be 5 on wednesday and the next is 6 1/2 months

I'd still like to have a little girl and would thusly be willing to try up to two more times After that if I dont have a girl I'm just out of luck!

You're joking? You only look 19.

I'll be 25 on the 30th of this month ... I was almost 20 when my oldest boy was born ... most people think I'm 18 so don't feel bad .. looking younger will be a blessing when I'm 40 I'm sure

 

[Xmetal]

My partner and I decided on a limit of 2 kids when/if we get married because:

a) Having an only child means we'll be tempted to spoilt it rotten and have it turn out to be a real prick of a kid

b)Having more than 2 kids just seems like too much to us

c) 2 kids is an even balance because they would both get treated evenly so therefore there would be no 'golden child'.


At the end of the day I guess we still want kids and we reckon we'd make good parents (well...I reckon i'd be a good dad! :mrgreen: :sillysmi.

 

[lizheaemma]

My partner and I decided on a limit of 2 kids when/if we get married because:

a) Having an only child means we'll be tempted to spoilt it rotten and have it turn out to be a real prick of a kid

b)Having more than 2 kids just seems like too much to us

c) 2 kids is an even balance because they would both get treated evenly so therefore there would be no 'golden child'.


At the end of the day I guess we still want kids and we reckon we'd make good parents (well...I reckon i'd be a good dad! :mrgreen: :sillysmi.

Oh but you'd missing out on that amazing third child syndrome! I think that the third is truly amazing! They learn to walk while you are actually calm enough to sit on the couch and let them fall down. They learn there ABC's from big sister while you not looking and are constantly full of suprises! My third constantly amazes me with what she know that is well beyond her years that she had leaned from the older kids! She eat anything! Overall I call her my industrial strength child. She can fall down without cryng 95% of the time. She can fall asleep by herself! It's like you learn so much with the first two that your tones more layed back and they are just really enjoyable to be around!

Mind you, you might need to get a mini van, and I think that if I hear "you have three girls" one more time I'm going to scream!

 

[terri35 7]

One teenaged boy, just turned 18. Poor guy having a heck of a hard time growing up, it's a tough age! The pendulum swings between loving him bunches and wanting to put my hands around his throat - 18 year olds DO know pretty much everything ABOUT everything, of course!

 

[Scott WRG Editor]

I don't have kids but have friends that do. One has a 19 year old son who last summer rode his motorcycle around, unfortunately he had a suspended liscense. The cops saw him and he took off and lead them on a merry chase ending in a severe crash that broke both legs, an arm, several ribs and his collar bone. The stupid part, beyond the obvious, is that its a small community and most of the cops know him by sight since they are friends with his father. He couldn't have gotten away period, they just would have waited at his house.

When I was that age I never did anything that stupid..... well, I never got CAUGHT doing anything that stupid.

 

[Alison]

I have 2 boys ... the oldest will be 5 on wednesday and the next is 6 1/2 months

I'd still like to have a little girl and would thusly be willing to try up to two more times After that if I dont have a girl I'm just out of luck!

You're joking? You only look 19.

I'll be 25 on the 30th of this month ... I was almost 20 when my oldest boy was born ... most people think I'm 18 so don't feel bad .. looking younger will be a blessing when I'm 40 I'm sure

I understand that! I was 20 when my first son was born. I often got mistaken as an older sister or the baby sitter :roll: I think there are benefits to having children at any age, but I do enjoy that I am still young and have lots of energy to chase after them

 

[oriecat]

Oh but you'd missing out on that amazing third child syndrome! I think that the third is truly amazing!

Being the third child, I will have to second this!