And just when you think vodka makes everything better.Jell-o. Just nasty even with vodka!
And just when you think vodka makes everything better.Jell-o. Just nasty even with vodka!
I'd love to be like that, but I'm far from it. Between dietary restrictions and dietary choices, food is often a tough part of travel for me. Funny, though, actual gruel I could eat! It's not going to have artificial colors, flavors, or sweeteners; it won't be high in actual sugar (which my digestive system does not tolerate well at all); and it's vegetarian if made the traditional way with just some sort of cereal grain and water or milk. So, yep, gruel checks all of my dietary boxes, LOL! But something like surf & turf paired with a decadent dessert would be an issue for me!I'd have eaten gruel for every meal to go on any vacation that was free for me.
I cringe at the feel, sound, & taste of actually hitting a wooden stick when it comes to a food on a stick, so I avoid them unless I can simply remove the food, and even then I don't love the feel of the fork sliding down the stick, either. (My kids get popsicles, though because we make them with silicone or plastic forms at home, with plastic handles or no handle at all. )I won’t eat anything on a stick and get grossed out seeing other people doing it. My son is almost 17 and never eaten a popsicle at our house.
Dietary restrictions don’t bother me. I’d have worked with my niece if she had issues with certain things. She just won’t eat anything other than Mac & cheese and bread. Though she will eat plain macaroni and specific pizzaI'd love to be like that, but I'm far from it. Between dietary restrictions and dietary choices, food is often a tough part of travel for me. Funny, though, actual gruel I could eat! It's not going to have artificial colors, flavors, or sweeteners; it won't be high in actual sugar (which my digestive system does not tolerate well at all); and it's vegetarian if made the traditional way with just some sort of cereal grain and water or milk. So, yep, gruel checks all of my dietary boxes, LOL! But something like surf & turf paired with a decadent dessert would be an issue for me!
I am curious how people cook onions and they still crunch. Raw onions crunch, but cooked onions are soft and caramelized. I love onions and cook them in many things and the cooked ones don’t crunch.
My DH says cooked onions “squeak”. He hates any onions so I typically exclude them from most things that aren’t slow cooked for hours and hours. Occasionally I will purée them in saucy type dishes. He’s fairly annoying to cook for—hates most fruit and vegetables—but his good qualities make up for it.Cooked onions don't crunch like celery or anything, but they still have a little crunch and I don't want to bite into that in a dish that is supposed to have no crunch.
Oatmeal. I don't just dislike it; I actually resent it. It's a total fraud. It smells soooo good cooking but tastes horrible. I've fallen into that trap for the last time.
That is A LOT of liquid for 1/3 cups of oats. It is usually a 2 to 1 ratio and that is 4 to 1.Here's how you make one serving:
1/3 cup old fashioned oats
1/3 cup EVAPORATED MILK
1/3 cup water
2/3 cup regular milk
That is A LOT of liquid for 1/3 cups of oats. It is usually a 2 to 1 ratio and that is 4 to 1.
I like mine on the drier side and to do 1.5 to 1 ratio (3/4 cups liquid to 1/2 cup oats).
Pineapple on pizza. Warm pineapple is just wrong
Seafood that still looks like it's original form (fish served whole with head etc).
Frog Legs (because I have a serious fear of frogs and can't imagine them in my body)
Snakes (same as above)
Balut (sp)
Offal
Haggis
Other very odd meat products
I despise pineapple on pizza but love it on a ham roast especially if cooked on the grill.
I'm not sure why people object to black olives cooked in a dish or pizza. They don’t really have that much flavor. Green olives I can understand although I love them.
I do not like sweet and savory mix.
No fruit on my salad, raisins in my stuffing, compote on my brie, or pineapple on my pizza.
If a sauce or rub for a protein calls for sugar, I typically half the amount so sweet doesn't over power the meal.