I have been known to blitz the veggies and juices in a casserole or soup in order to hide the ingredients from fuss pots. Have also strained the mushrooms out of a sauce because Possum doesn't like them but that's a texture thing, not flavour. After raving about a meal they had in a smart vegetarian restaurant in Edinburgh this weekend Possum is going to find all sorts of things turning up in her dinner.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Marmit - no, but a spoonful in a nut roast is fine. Sprouts - love 'em, any way you'd care to prepare them, Just boiled is fine by me. Parsnips - didn't even realise that some people don't like them until I saw this post. Parsnip soup, parsnips mashed or, the very best, roast (but they have to have a frost on them). But what I cannot stand is fish or seafood or even seaweed in any shape or form. There is some taste that is common to all of that which is abhorrent to me. And I can detect the slightest taste of fish oil so common in many Japanese and Chinese dishes and that puts me off. Even if the dish is supposed to be chicken, pork or vegetarian. I once inadvertently ate a bit of anchovy on a pizza. That was years ago, and I have never forgotten it. Or the stuffed aubergine that didn't mention on the menu that it was stuffed with crab. OMG that was awful. But my family all like fish. Fish paste sandwiches? A yes from them, a resounding no from me. I don't remember being forced to eat it as a child, although the staff did try and get some down me when I was in hospital having my tonsils out at age 7.
I can't stomach fish or seafood either, but I don't think my taste buds are sensitive enough to pick up a tiny hint of fish oil. Or maybe the chinese food places around here don't use it.
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Fish sauce is used as a condiment / seasoning. I don't think it's normally used in Chinese cookery - they would normally use soy sauce.
Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese cookery all use fish sauce and rarely use soy sauce.
Fish and seafood is my very favourite thing to eat - could practically live off it. A standing joke if we holiday anywhere near a fishing port is that we (well I ) will probably have fish or seafood of some description every day - sometimes twice a day😋
The only things I don't eat are kidneys (I don't like the taste or texture and have actually been ill twice about an hour after eating them so there may be something I'm allergic to) and tripe. I really don't like the look or chewy texture of the tripe I've tried and the taste is just bland. I like smoked eel but suspect I wouldn't enjoy the texture of jellied eels. But as I haven't actually tried them I won't say I don't like them.
Don't much fancy brains, heart or chicken feet either - but I'll try anything once.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
My children were always encouraged to try a wide variety of different food and at a very young age (primary school) enjoyed a varied diet. Their friends however ... one didn't eat any vegetables "because his dad didn't" so he didn't have to either. When they came for tea I wanted to make them welcome but refused to serve junk food on every occasion. When one particular boy was collected by his mum she used to ask him if he was still hungry, when he replied "yes" she used to say 'you know where the 'crisp cupboard' is when we get home!"
There was one occasion though when I thought I'd try serving my children liver. I thought the appearance might deter them so hid it under their mashed potatoes. They discovered it and told their teachers I had tried to serve them cat food
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But what I cannot stand is fish or seafood or even seaweed in any shape or form. There is some taste that is common to all of that which is abhorrent to me. And I can detect the slightest taste of fish oil so common in many Japanese and Chinese dishes and that puts me off. Even if the dish is supposed to be chicken, pork or vegetarian. I once inadvertently ate a bit of anchovy on a pizza. That was years ago, and I have never forgotten it. Or the stuffed aubergine that didn't mention on the menu that it was stuffed with crab. OMG that was awful. But my family all like fish. Fish paste sandwiches? A yes from them, a resounding no from me. I don't remember being forced to eat it as a child, although the staff did try and get some down me when I was in hospital having my tonsils out at age 7.
Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese cookery all use fish sauce and rarely use soy sauce.
Fish and seafood is my very favourite thing to eat - could practically live off it. A standing joke if we holiday anywhere near a fishing port is that we (well I ) will probably have fish or seafood of some description every day - sometimes twice a day😋
The only things I don't eat are kidneys (I don't like the taste or texture and have actually been ill twice about an hour after eating them so there may be something I'm allergic to) and tripe. I really don't like the look or chewy texture of the tripe I've tried and the taste is just bland. I like smoked eel but suspect I wouldn't enjoy the texture of jellied eels. But as I haven't actually tried them I won't say I don't like them.
Don't much fancy brains, heart or chicken feet either - but I'll try anything once.
There was one occasion though when I thought I'd try serving my children liver. I thought the appearance might deter them so hid it under their mashed potatoes. They discovered it and told their teachers I had tried to serve them cat food
You can't win 'em all.
Love living in Italy but a Loiner at heart