Re: Dinner in the year of our lord 20241031.

On Wed, 13 Nov 2024, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

On 2024-11-13, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

On 2024-11-12 7:43 p.m., Carol wrote:

D wrote:

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Hmm, for a winner, I'd recommend my bacon, bacon and bacon club
sandwich! ;)

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LOL, The point is to try a new food.  I wasn't impressed with huumus at
first but it grew on me.

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The first time I had hummus I thought it was pretty bad. They were
handing out samples in the grocery store. I had to wonder why they were
giving people a chance to find out how bad their  product was. I tried
it a couple times are parties and it got better. Then one day I had it
as a middle eastern restaurant that was run by an Armenian couple and it
was wonderful. I have liked it ever since.

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Grocery store hummus often isn't very good.  And I find I like it
warmed a bit to take the refrigerator chill off it.
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Same for turnips but I found I like them as
one part of the mix with a vegetable soup and the peelings work really
nice in vegetable broth (simmered peels and ends then double strained).

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I still can't do turnips.

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I like them pickled.  They have a kind of weird texture when cooked.

Excellent suggestion! As for the weird texture when cooked, I agree completely!

You expect them to be like potato, but they aren't.  I'll eat them,
but I don't seek them out.  Same thing with cooked daikon.

Exactly!

I have learned to like squash and I found that
roasted parsnip is very good. It still sucks when it is boiled. But
turnips?? No thanks.
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My wife did not like cilantro the first few times she had it but has
totally changed her attitude about that. She now likes it a lot.

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I was the same way.  Obviously, neither she nor I have the "soap"
gene, but it took a while to get used to its unusual flavor.  It
tastes more different from what I grew up eating than almost anything
I can think of.
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