The one thing that put me off one of my most favoured fruits is when I went to the shop and bought a kilo of bananas. I took one bite and honestly, it waslike licking the juice from a freshly cut pumpkin. It was REPULSIVE! It completely dried out my mouth and left a horrid taste behind it. I then found out that not only had they been in a freezer, but they had also been gas ripened... pretty disgusting if you ask me! Bananas taste about as good as cardboard lately and I would love to go up north and get my kids some straight off the trees. That is the only way to eat fruit!!!!!
What's a craisin? And if I've scared off anyone from coming to Turkey because we eat olives for breakfast, well for tourists even a small hotel has the full range of foreign food, breakfast cereal etc. But--I've noticed that by the end of their holiday, tourists are eating native style because the fresh produce here is just fantastic, all local, nothing frozen.
Hi Hope you dont mind be joining in - new yesterday, ref: what madhoca said about veggies and Turkey I think then my kids must have some Turkish in them as they love veg and salad and argue over things like who had the most cucumber! Like the idea of tomatoes for breakfast - not keen on the olives though! We do have a house full of Turkish cats though so maybe their Turkish influence has rubbed off on my children to snack on veggies! Funny thing is though, none of the family can stand red/green/yellow peppers or sprouts.
I love how for most of these veggie recipes to make them good you have to add things from the non-veggie part of the food pyramid. What's good on vegatables? Anything that covers up the taste of the vegatable.
Not at all! The best veggie recipes get their flavor from aromatic vegetables. The best meat recipes also get their best flavor from aromatic vegetables and herbs too. I eat a diet that strongly favors meat, but I depend heavily on vegetables and herbs and spices and oils, all of botanical origin, to give the food flavor.
A good Spinach salad is hard to beat! Try Lesueur Peas. They're the best (canned). That's the sad part about store bought melon. They are usually just crunchy water, no flavour. If you have the chance to grow your own, it's a whole other story.
I don't like vegetables because they have the texture of warm snot when cooked. Add to it that mom and dad forced me to eat horrible things like Lima beans and okra as a kid and when I'd gag, I got spanked. Needless to say, I welcomed adulthood when I could stop eating all vegetables and I've never looked back. I eat lots of fresh fruit so veggies have nothing to offer me in the way of fiber or nutrition.
The only vegetable I would agree with that about is boiled okra. If your other vegs are cooking to that consistency, you're overcooking them. I do think there are nutrients you won't get enough of by eating fruits and not vegetables (beta-carotene comes to mind), but that's between you and your doctor. Some fire roasted veggies are absolutely delicious and not the least bit slimy.
Are you saying you don't eat veggies at all? Not a single one, ever? What about a yummy sitr fry? Toss the veggies for a couple of minutes with a steak and marinade and they are crunchy, delicious and... God forbid... healthy. What about vegies in a casserole, like Chow Mein or Fried rice?
