Re: Picky cooks

In article <449199F8.67B2A888@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Dave Smith <adavid.smith@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Janet Puistonen wrote:

I'm the cook, so I don't cook with things I don't like.

That's my rule too. :-)

Not mine...

I have and will cook separate meals for my father based on what I know
he likes. To not do so I feel would be selfish, especially if he
specifically requests something he wants that I don't care for. Salmon
is a classic example.

I don't have to eat it, I make myself something else that _I_ like. ;-)

I have found that farm raised salmon is actually pretty good. Milder in
taste, more similar to lake trout.

Wild caught salmon is just nasty no matter HOW I prepare it.



I hate olives(except in tapenade),

Pity. I hated them until I was in my 30s. One day I had a bad case of the
munchies and tried one and found out how good they are. I really like them,
but
I get them at the deli counter, not in a can or a jar.

I love olives almost as much as I love shrimp!
A trip to an olive bar can be enlightening. There are ever so many
different preparations! As much as I like olives, some of them are vile.
<G>


lima beans, and liver (Except in pate. I love pate.).

I can understand the dislike for lima beans. I love pate and I have had liver
on
a couple of occasions where it was delicious. The other times I had it I was
not
impressed. It was more the texture than the taste.

Liver needs to be served medium rare at most. I prefer it slightly more
rare that that. Otherwise both flavor and texture suffers.

I hate lima beans.
Dad has never requested them, so it's cool. ;-)



My tolerance for mussels is very low these days.

I used t like mussels until the day my wife got sick on them and it reminded
me
too much of ht time I had a bad bout of food poisoning. It turned me right
off
them. The thought of eating something that could make me that sick is just
too
much to deal with. I realize that it was probably a bad one that did it to
her,
and that anything else could do the same sort of thing to me, but being that
sick can have an odd effect on you.

I've never liked mussels.
The flavor is way way way too strong.
They are very "fishy".

I've tried........ and may still try again, just try a different way of
preparing them.

Prep. seems to be the key. Some foods, prepared wrong, are gross.
Done right, they are delicious! Therefore I still keep to my rule of at
least trying/tasting something before turning my nose up at it, even if
it's a food I normally cannot stand.

The one exception is bell peppers! I have yet to ever find a way to
prepare those where that nasty flavor is not overwhelming. :-(

Dad likes them raw, and they have to be ripe. Red only, no green.
--
Peace!
Om

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a bitch"
-- Jack Nicholson
.

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