My immediate family has always been a little stuck where food is concerned. My brother was always very finicky, if it wasnt made with hamburger, he wouldnt eat it. He took that a little further when we visited my daddys parents. He would ask Ma Rosie, Did you buy that meat or did you raise it? And when she would tell him they raised it, he wouldnt eat it. It drove them crazy. And even though Daddys family ate a lot of wild game while he was growing up, I still wouldnt call him adventurous....the man still wont try chicken and dumplins. Dont get me wrong, my family loves to eat, they just tend to stay stuck eating the same things all the time. Momma nor Daddy will even taste of a steak if it has a hint of pink to it. Dont know when I finally tried one cooked medium but now I like them more on the rare side, which absolutely makes Mom and Dad sick. I keep telling them, until they try it that way, they truly dont know how delicious a steak can be. All the years of traveling and running with bands taught me to eat differently. I never was the picky eater in our family, but now I make a point of trying just about anything. I figure you cant really say you dont like something if you have never tried it. The only thing I can remember ever trying to eat and just not being able to get it to go down was escargot. I tried. I really tried. Once it got caught in my throat for the second time, I quietly took it out of my mouth and hid it under the lettuce and sopped the garlic butter up with a biscuit. :-) This weekend, while I was trying to start planning out our garden, I really started noticing how many things I still have never tasted. The seed catalogs have so many things that I want to try, but hate to waste the time to grow it if I am going to hate it. One thing that keeps catching my eye is tomatillos. We had ground cherries growing last year voluntarily and I picked a few and tasted them. They were delicious so I saved the seeds. The tomatillo looks very similar only larger. Tonight, while grocery shopping, I found that our local grocery carries tomatillos. I bought one. I didnt know how you were supposed to eat them or prepare them, so I just sliced it and ate it. Oh my goodness......delish. Tart and fruity....sort of tangy. I think you are supposed to cook them and know you are for salsa verde and such but unless it gives me a belly ache, I will be slicing them and eating them. Not to mention, growing them. Daddy keeps telling me to scale the garden back some, me and Momma are thinking a little bigger....tee hee....
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 04:52:07 +0000
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