Operation: Feed My Father

[bluejeans07]

With Mom visiting family in Korea, the care and feeding of my father has fallen into my hands. This is a really frustrating and often thankless task since my father is a notoriously picky eater, and it's currently worse because he has a tooth that's bothering him so he only wants to eat soft, lukewarm foods that he likes. What also takes the cake is that today, my father has reached the bottom of the packable foods that Mom had left for him to pack for lunch.

Reasons why this is bad:
1. Dad likes to eat the same thing for lunch every day.
2. I can't cook the things he wants to eat for lunch every day.
3. Even if I found the recipes for the food he wants, it wouldn't taste like Mom's.
4. He'd just dump the food out and starve.

I'm currently racking my brain and going through my recipes (not to mention cooking mangas and cooking videos on youtube) to try to figure out what I can make, but at the same time, I don't even want to try, it's just way too hard to figure out how to cook something and make it taste like Mom's and it's not full of stuff he doesn't like.

List of things my father doesn't like:
1. Ginger
2. Cilantro
3. Any kind of seasoning really
4. Any kind of spaghetti sauce that's not tomato
5. Vegetables that aren't lettuce or radishes
6. Any kind of pasta that's not the plain spaghetti noodles
7. Peanut butter
8. Pretty much anything that's not Korean food
9. Any kind of chocolate that isn't milk

List of things my father likes
1. Meat
2. Fruit (except cherry tomatoes)
3. Korean food
4. Ranch dressing
5. Cheetos

*bangs head against the wall*