Rural Water

[L Ross]

I like Zuchini bread. Thereagain, I'm not real hard to please with food.

I frequently compliment my wife on her cooking. I refer to her as my Iron Chef. She shrugs it off and says, "Well, you're a food slut so...." Squash vine borer got our zucchini last year, we had to buy it. Oh the ignominy, the humiliation.

 

[richhodg66]

I frequently compliment my wife on her cooking. I refer to her as my Iron Chef. She shrugs it off and says, "Well, you're a food slut so...." Squash vine borer got our zucchini last year, we had to buy it. Oh the ignominy, the humiliation.

Kimda amazing to me how many picky eaters speaking up on how high maintenance they are. Quite a few mouths to feed in the family I grew up in, Mom didn't cater to every little whim. That quality has served me quite well in life, especially in the ARmy at certain times.

It's a miracle so many people reach adulthood with how picky they are about what they consume.

 

[RBHarter]

Bulb onions don't like me . I'm not crazy about rice seaweed and raw fish . Prefer the clams and oysters cooked too . No snails thanks .

Been hungry. I can tell you that edible and palatable are different things . There's not a whole lot I won't eat but quite a lot I don't eat . I don't think texture has ever been a driver for disliking a food .

 

[Thumbcocker]

I frequently compliment my wife on her cooking. I refer to her as my Iron Chef. She shrugs it off and says, "Well, you're a food slut so...." Squash vine borer got our zucchini last year, we had to buy it. Oh the ignominy, the humiliation.

Around here during garden season you have to lock your car to keep neighbors from putting bags of zucchini in it. Some will still put it on the front porch.

 

[Thumbcocker]

slimy interior of boiled/steamed okra Yup, nasty stuff, along with broccolli and brussell sprouts.
Daughter came in yesterday, brought one of her grown pumpkins. Her bees & peanuts seem to be doing OK too. Talked to SIL about decking his pier on the 'lake' and how to add a roof over part of it - wind load problems. He did get hog lights over the feeders so far.

My view on brussel sprouts has evolved. A local restaurant serves roasted brussel sprouts as a side. They are not bitter and have a sweet/savory dressing that they are roasted in. They are quite edible.

 

[Winelover]

Not crazy about brussel sprouts. Larger ones tend to be bitter. Cindy makes them a couple of different ways that are palatable to me. One recipe uses bacon bits and balsamic vinegar, other use orange juice and ???? Both recipes have a hint of sweetness.

 

[richhodg66]

Steamed Brussel sprouts are one of my favorites. Brocoli is also one I could eat for almost every meal. Both very nutricious as well.

 

[smokeywolf]

When I was about 5 or 6 my mother accidentally put beets on my dinner plate. She usually didn't put food that was repulsive to me on my plate. This time she forgot. I think these were canned beets that she just plopped down on the plate without even heating. As it was a general rule that you had to "clean your plate", I asked to be excused from eating the beets. Dad chimed in and loudly ordered that "You'll finish everything on your plate". As it took me nearly an hour to finish the beets, when I started vomiting all of my dinner, Mom, Dad and Sister came running into the dinning room when they heard the commotion.
Those beets truly made me nauseous and apparently Mom told Dad, next time he forces me to "clean my plate", he will be cleaning up the vomit.

As a kid, I ate lots of food I didn't like, but my mother learned that beets and sauerkraut would actually cause me to vomit.

Still won't eat beets, and sauerkraut only in a Reuben sandwich.

 

[Bret4207]

Kimda amazing to me how many picky eaters speaking up on how high maintenance they are. Quite a few mouths to feed in the family I grew up in, Mom didn't cater to every little whim. That quality has served me quite well in life, especially in the ARmy at certain times.

It's a miracle so many people reach adulthood with how picky they are about what they consume.

Didn't have a choice when I was growing up or in the Corps. Now that I'm all grown up I figure if I don't want to eat something I darn well ain't gonna eat it! There's a whole chain of Chinese restaurants up here I won't eat in because I saw how they handled their food. That's not being picky, that's knowing the difference between what I like, what might make me sick and what I just don't care for.

I thought that's what growing up and becoming an adult was all about.

 

[RicinYakima]

Yep! Being an adult is about making choices and then being responsible for those choices.

 

[462]

There's a whole chain of Chinese restaurants up here I won't eat in because I saw how they handled their food.

In the six-months between high school graduation and enlisting in the Air Force I was the local Denny's only swing shift cook. If people saw when goes on in restaurant kitchens there wouldn't be any restaurants.

The other night, I grabbed a handful of salad greens that my wife had cut up and put in a large stainless steel bowl. If looks could kill . . . I said that's how Denny's taught me. She said I wore sanitary gloves. Har, har!

 

[fiver]

i eat the brussel sprout leaves more than the actual sprouts themselves..
pan fried with salt.

i'll try pretty much anything at least once.
if it's close and okayish i'll give it a couple of go's trying a couple of different methods.
after that it's yea or nay.
sometimes it's bleh nope never again.

 

[smokeywolf]

Haven't tried it myself yet, but saw or read somewhere of brussel sprouts being placed in a meat roasting pan with a pork, beef or something roast on a rack above. Marinade poured over the meat, then put in a barbecue. Marinade and meat drippings bathing the brussels while cooking.

 

[Bret4207]

In the six-months between high school graduation and enlisting in the Air Force I was the local Denny's only swing shift cook. If people saw when goes on in restaurant kitchens there wouldn't be any restaurants.

There are a lot of things that go on in the various levels of eateries that would turn peoples stomach. Out of sight, out of mind. For that matter, those lovely greens people snap up have only been washed, lightly, in cold water. I'd bet $ that 40% of that stuff, if tested, has a number of things on/in it that would cause you to toss it if you only knew.

 

[RBHarter]

Myth busters did a "does it matter where you put your tooth brush deal" testing for the fecal debris associated with off gassing and water evaporation. The test theory being that there's more closer to the throne than the far side of the sink or opposite the window . At the end they found that in their example kitchen there was something like 5 times as much and it doesn't matter where you hang your toothbrush.

 

[fiver]

that's why we can make bread without adding yeast.

 

[Farmerjim]

The only vegetable I do not like is beats. Wife loves them.
I sold vegetables to the local restaurants for several years. When I went into one of the kitchens, I stopped eating anything they prepared. More roaches in the kitchen than in a garbage dumpster. All the other local restaurants were clean.

 

[Winelover]

The only vegetable I do not like is beats. Wife loves them.
I sold vegetables to the local restaurants for several years. When I went into one of the kitchens, I stopped eating anything they prepared. More roaches in the kitchen than in a garbage dumpster. All the other local restaurants were clean.

Aout the same here.......I hate beets.

 

[KeithB]

I love almost all edible vegetables, just don't like some of the ways they are cooked. Plain cooked beets are okay but well made pickled beets are many steps above. Same with okra and squash and cucumbers. Some ways they are prepared is wonderful, other ways are mildly disgusting.

I've decided that almost any vegetable can be stir fried to make a meal - enough onions and soy sauce and throw in whatever fresh veggies your neighbor gifted you with, even zucchini...

 

[richhodg66]

Keith, you and I are on the same page where vegetables are concerned.