MoFo Day Twentysix: Another Inexplicable Food Flop

Everybody move to their left and see if they like THAT food..

  Today I thought I was going to be creating a lovely dish which was to be a combination, perhaps even a fusion, of General Tao's Tofu which we tried the other day and (some of us!) loved, and my tried and tested Sweet'n'Sour recipe which I think may have started life as a Patrick Holford recipe, but I'm not sure. The alternative dish for Pony, absolutely assuming that she would need one, was to be Sausage Mix Sausage Rolls.
  Well. you know what they say about the Road to Hell, don't you? Well, there may be some surplus boxes of Sausage Mix being used as paving slabs alongside the Good Intentions that prompted their fondly misguided purchase...
  As I think mentioned before, when we had our Inaugural Vegan Bring'n'Share last week, Pony didn't like the Brownies I made, the Palmiers I made, or the Coffee Biscuits that M made, the Apple Strudel, the Bread Pudding or the Clavering Pasties (think vegan Cornish Pasties), that our friends made. She ate, as she always does, vanilla cupcakes, but, rather unexpectedly, fell in love with Sosmix sausage rolls that our friend Jan brought.
  She was so delighted with them that she asked us to get some Sausage Mix the next day and said that she'd like them as alternative meals in case she didn't like what we were eating this week. We were very excited about Pony, for the first time in about two years, discovering something new that she liked to eat- and something so EASY, quick to make, portable for days out and car journeys, and freezable, so could be produced in the event of a meal 'failure', at a few minutes' notice. Amazing! It seemed too good to be true...
  When M went to town she went to the supermarket and found only one box in stock, so she bought that.  Anyway, before we'd even made any of it, M and Pony were in town together and Pony prevailed on M to buy THREE more boxes of Sausage Mix. As she did so, M said to Pony: I've got a horrible feeling about this, that you aren't going to like it any more but Pony insisted that she absolutely loved it, so the deed was done. I expect you can guess the rest..
  We made up the sausages yesterday, wrapped them in puff pastry and..Pony didn't like them..she said they tasted different from the ones that Jan made..
   Today, I was supposed to be making the sweet'n'sour General Tao dish but because we no longer had the sausage rolls to fall back on for Pony, that was then changed to Mediterranean Pasta Salad which everyone likes, but I felt a bit fed up at the thought of making it; I'm a bit bored of it as we had it quite recently. Then someone suggested noodles for the children, which they eat with olive oil and seasoning, with some broccoli. Then M suggested that I make something with the smoked tofu; we were excited to get from our new wholesaler the other day- we hadn't been able to get it for ages, and had missed its lovely smokey flavour.

She hates my cooking..

  Anyway, after discussing it all in a positive and constructive manner for a few more minutes (Pasta salad! No! Noodles! No! Pasta Salad! No! Noodles!) we decided to make sausage roll-esque things by wrapping some of the smoked tofu up in puff pastry, and eating with broccoli and potatoes.
  Pony was to have some puff pastry to do as she did the other day, when she made a pleasing concoction of puff pastry topped with ketchup, sprinkled with a few vegan bacon bits. She was very pleased with them last week, so we knew at least she'd have a few little pastry bits to nibble on while we were eating smoked tofu rolls; she'd tried the tofu and didn't like it.
  Well, to cut a long story short, the smoked tofu rolls were really lovely; Taifun smoked tofu is especially nice, better than the Cauldron smoked tofu that we used to get as the texture is firmer and the taste is stronger. But the cunning little layered fancies of puff pastry and ketchup that Pony invented last week? Sadly, she didn't like them today because they tasted 'different'... It was actually quite upsetting for everybody, as, after the disappointment of the Sosmix, and all the various ideas thrown around today and then discarded because someone didn't like them or want them, we finally thought that everyone's meal was sorted out.
  There are so, so many lovely dishes that we want to share with our family: M and I definitely never ate such delicious and varied food before we became vegan.To me cooking for someone (oops! I just wrote 'cooking someone'..!) is a way that I show love for them and so sometimes it can be a bit discouraging trying to feed someone who I love so much but who constantly refuses almost everything that I cook.
   Fin has become much more adventurous about food in the last year and now seems to love most of the meals we ate, so we have to try and stay positive about the situation and hope that the same thing happens with Pony. If there should exist out there a universally adored recipe that NO-ONE has EVER disliked then we are anxious to here about it!  Sosmix, puff pastry, chocolate, asparagus, curry, chilli, black salt, seitan sausage, noodles, couscous, rice, smoked tofu, tempeh, aubergines, bell pepper, marrow, courgettes, squashes, cauliflower, pinenuts, onions, beans of any sort except green beans, chickpeas, and tomato sauce recipes of any sort need not apply...