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Both of us were tremendously picky eaters, and we've branched out by cooking familiar foods with a few unusual ingredients or flavors.

Our local fruit market has lots of spices for food from different backgrounds. If he'll eat cheese and pasta, try saag paneer, goat cheese enchiladas, truffled macaroni gratin, ricotta gnocchi, penne frittata, or fondue (Gruyere works well with bread, green apples, and veggies).

If he'll eat potatoes, go for garden vegetable gratin, rosemary roast potatoes, or potato and leek soup. Potato pizza's great, too.

Try a twist on latkes with courgette fritters, or bruschetta made with grilled eggplant or sweet potatoes in place of bread. Rather than your usual pizza, try cauliflower pizza. Instead of cheese ravioli, maybe your boyfriend can go for mushroom and Mascarpone or butternut squash with butter sage sauce. It takes time, but having a familiar flavor can relax the palate, making it possible to work in a couple of other flavors. Once those become familiar, you can branch out even further.

Good luck!

Does anyone have suggestions for getting cookies out of that sort of cookie cutter? Flour? Toothpicks?

I received the twisting robot cookie cutter</a href> last year and the dough always gets stuck!