[Sca-cooks] Chili dishes...

[Dianne & Greg Stucki]

Do you think it's possible that the affront to
> your then-pregnant aesthetic was because you were pregnant, as much as by 
> any inherent repulsiveness of the spinach-noodle lasagne? I ask because 
> pregnant women have often been known to become violently nauseous over 
> things that would otherwise not disturb them. My lady wife was unable to 
> even pass by the premises of the well-known New York Japanese grocery 
> supplier Katagiri, claiming it reeked of rotting fish, even though A) it 
> did not, and B) she's a smoker and has a rather weak sense of smell when 
> compared to most people, and astonishingly weak when compared to me. 
> However, I wasn't pregnant...

It's entirely possible. I knew I was pregnant because the mere smell of 
anything tomato-based would have the same effect on me. Fresh tomatoes were 
fine, but cooked tomatoes would make me very ill. The only lingering effect 
is that to this day I can't stand the smell of ketchup.

But supper tonight is going to be chili, served with cornbread made in a 
cast iron skillet. yummmyy. And yes, I put beans in my chili!

Laurensa