Re: Dinner in the year of our lord 20241031.

Dave Smith wrote:

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

D wrote:

 

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

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

 
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.

I rarely make it (though I have).  I don't go for it often enough to
bother.  Mostly when I was working it was a nice side thing with some
crispy noshe like bagel chips etc.

 > 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).

 
I still can't do turnips.

It does something majical to a broth.  Other than that, I'm apt to just
chop them up for a small cube-shaped filler or toss them in my home
made vegetable broth (the rest of the veggie broth is just raw
leftovers but I might pick up a turnip to add to it deliberately).

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.

I still haven't tried a parsnip yet.  It's on my list to try a bit,
roasted and in a soup or broth.

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.

Nope, not for me.  I have a double set of 'soap genes' it seems?  You
can slide tiny bits of it in something strong tasting so it's masked,
but no more than that or it ruins the dish with soap taste.