Brie - a cheese like no other

I know it's been far too long since I blogged about the best kid ever. So first off, she's still the best kid ever. I've just been super busy with my writing and working not to mention having an on again off again relationship with our wi-fi.

The best kid ever is now 16 and her humor is really my undoing at times. LOVE IT!

Yesterday we stopped at Second St. AnAmerican Bistro for lunch before driving her to her friends in Chesapeake for the weekend. We ordered and having a great lunch laughing, joking, tweeting... (Need I say more?)

Sarah orders a ham panini and she asks the server, “Can I get that without the arugula, onions, tomatoes, mustard sauce?” The server asks “So you just want the ham and the cheese?” - Yep.

So now the food arrives and I'm diving into my salad, which is perfect. Yet after a few bites Sarah says, “I forgot I don't like brie.”

I'm like what? And I recall her experimentation a few years back with some brie and indeed she decided she didn't like it. So I ask, “Did you know it came with brie?” She says “Yeah, I saw it said brie but it just didn't register in my brain.”

So through course of all this she didn't want to send it back because she wasn't all that hungry and she had french fries and ketchup to help her get the brie taste out of her mouth. So we begin discussing brie.

I have a close Swedish friend who was a chef and he loves brie. He'd make big slices of it and simply have a brie sandwich. So we talk about that and she's joking that she'd call brie tasteless, but it just sucks all the taste and goodness from all other foods. So now we're really joking around and so I tease her that she thinks it's the black hole of all cheese. Silly I know, but we're having a blast!

So now we're giggling and laughing about it and I'm tweeting and I note Chef Michael Symon is tweeting. (I have his tweets sent to my phone.) So I laugh and say maybe just chefs like brie. Sarah totally agrees with me. Lo and behold I tweet Chef Symon right after I tweet my older daughter.

Sarah checks my phone right after and her eyes grow big and she has this huge grin on her face. She says, “Now mom.... I don't want you to scream or anything.”

I laugh and say, “Don't tell me he tweeted back.” The look on her face said it all. Sure enough Chef Symon tweeted back! So of course he says he loves brie! He's a chef! An Iron Chef at that!

So here's the cute part. We leave the Bistro and for the hour drive to Chesapeake, she has her phone in her right hand and my phone in her left. She wanted to be ready in case he tweeted again. Is that cute or what? I love this kid of mine!

So thank you Chef Symon for making our lunch even better! We will be looking forward to the next Iron Chef America where the secret ingredient is brie and you take down the challenger. However I'm sure you will be grateful my daughter will not be on the panel of judges.