Fresh coriander is happiness flavour.[ Parent ]
"I don't have time for martial law, I have to get to the gym!" zarathus [ Parent ]
... I had brussel sprouts once as a child. My mom, who was a good cook, made them, and I hated them. Hated hated hated.
I admit and accept that it's possible that she, normally a good cook, prepared them improperly.
When I was an exchangee in the early 90s my host-mother cooked them, but I did not take any, which was acceptable, since my host-father also disliked them, and said host-mother was all the happier, since she loved them ...
Since then I have become an occasional (and occasionally frequent) consumer of foods I hated as a child—mushrooms, sour cream, avocado, sweet potatoes—but I have not gotten around to brussel sprouts.
Recently I was reading up on how good for you they are and I thought to myself, hey, you should give them a try again ... you've reevaluated your like/dislike of other foods ... be open-minded ... and thus, I have that planned, thinking that I'll cook them right, they'll be good, and I'll kick myself for having missed out all these years ...
... then you go and post a comment that undermines my optimism by giving my hatred a potential genetic predisposition. Say it ain't so.
_"The german quoting guy is a little bit out there." (fleece)[ Parent ]
BTW, my ex-gf used the "I'm a PTC taster" excuse anytime I wanted to cook something new. She claimed to dislike anything green, though she eventually she gave in and found out she liked asparagus. I became a vegetarian after our break-up in part to rebel against the heavily meat-oriented meals I'd been eating for 5 years.-- Continue to lean until you feel gravity threatening to discipline you for being stupid. - CRwM[ Parent ]
... began years ago, but continued a few years back as a sort of anti-hypocrisy on my part.
My now-ex but then-current loved meat. She adored fruit. Veggies were a no-no, as was rice.
Rice!
This was a difficulty for me, for while I enjoy meat, I cannot live without cooking with veggies ... and rice. I could not get her to try rice ... she claimed the mere thought of it provoked a gag reflex. I argued—though only once and did not push the issue—that preparation had been the problem. I always claimed to be a non-picky eater, but I still had dislikes that went back more than 20 years.
Anyway, back to the topic in a way—I have always loved just about every other green veggie, be it leafy or otherwise. We grew wild asparagus in our pasture. I grew up on squash, and so on ... so perhaps there is still hope for me with regards to B.S.
... brussel sprouts, turnips and rutabaga ... here I come (never had the last two) ... cruciferous veggies and I are better friends now.
(yes, I like cilantro)
I've had rutabaga cubed in another recipe, and it was fine. However, I can't think about the vegetable without thinking about learning and memory genes discovered in fruit flies. Fly geneticists have an odd sense of humor when they name mutants, and this particular scientist named a series of learning mutations after his least favorite vegetables. rutabaga has a mutation in the calcium modulating system.
I also have great difficulties getting brussels sprouts down, although I recognise the flavour as being a more concentrated form of the cabbage flavour that I do actively like. Confusing.[ Parent ]
