Homework Wednesday July 6

Since this is my first homework ever, I am going to keep it pretty simple-

I was thinking the other day about veggies and the types I regularly eat, green beans, egg plant, peas, asparagus, carrots, potatoes, etc.

I was remembering when I was a kid- I was told that I did not like eggplant, I hated peas and thought asparagus was gross.

It was not till I was on my own and in total control of what I ate, did I discover that I like all of these veggies- changed of course-

peas are really good when sautéed with browned Italian sausage and onion.
Asparagus is really good with a bit of butter a splash of lemon and a sprinkle of salt.
Eggplant- good in tomato sauces or grilled

Your homework is to look back in your childhood and think of one food that you hated and why.

Do you eat it now? Why or Why not?

EXTRA CREDIT- try the ‘hated food’ in the next week

P.S. Liver and onions don’t count

Creamed corn. Yech! Couldn't stand it when I was younger and there is no way I'm going to eat it now!

Peas. I still don't like peas. My grandmother served canned peas (green icky mush) and mom did frozen peas (the texture is what gets me again).

Carrots. I still don't like cooked carrots, love them raw.

Spinach - Mom used to cook it and then put red wine vinegar on it - what kid would like that??? I do, now, love it raw or lightly sauteed. In fact, we do spinach salad at least once a week.

And I'm with Dawn, there are a bunch of "foods" I loved as a kid that I know find disgusting - mostly the really sugary stuff like twinkies and ho hos.

Mel

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Originally posted by mags:
Califlower.
Every year or so I try it. Still don't like it -

I don't usually eat it by itself except when dd uses it to make mock mashed potatoes. She & her roommate at college served it to the roommate's boyfriend (a real meat & potatoes kind of guy) & he did not know that it wasn't real potatoes until after dinner when they told him.
Personally I like it chopped fine & steamed with about twice as much chopped broccoli and half as much chopped carrots. You can't tell one flavor from the other, it is just sort of all one flavor.

Califlower.

Every year or so I try it. Still don't like it - except if it's curried Indian style, but then I think it's because you can't taste the califlower anymore.

When I was little, my mom would always make it with a cheese sauce. If I drowned it in enough cheese sauce, I could get it down. hmmm wonder how I gained the weight?

Peas...my mom loves canned peas. I think they are truly one of the most disgusting things in the world. I love frozen peas though as an adult. I tease her mercilessly about her mushy nasty peas.

Peg

For me it was Split Pea Soup. It looked like a bowl of mush when I remember my grandmother giving to me as a kid.

Now I LOVE it. It is really one of my fav. things to have on a cold and rainy day.

Spinach.

When I was in the third grade the cafeteria served cooked spinach with sliced boiled eggs on top. It looked gross to me and I hated it. My third grade teacher made me clean my plate, including the icky spinach, even though I told her it would make me sick. I threw up all over the rest room before school was out and twice more while walking 2 blocks home.

Now I love fresh spinach and cooked spinach in soups, lasagne, etc. I DO NOT serve it with boiled eggs.

(I never did like that teacher! She made me stay after school and re-write an entire math test because she didn't like the way I made my 4's. They were just like the ones her pet student wrote!)

Charlotte

Thanks Bren - you are so right. The stopping thing won't be that hard with pie. I haven't had a dorito in about 5 months, though. Having just one would be too hard!

Lynne

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Originally posted by mountaingirl:
Which reminds me, what will the holidays be like now, I wonder? Lynne

You can still have your holiday goodies unless you don't think you can stop at just one piece. KD says nothing is off limits, moderation not elimination.

Great first homework, emailjen! I love these trips to our childhood. Must be the psych degree kicking in

I used to hate cola (Coke, whatever) and only drank orange soda - but now I love diet Coke. I remember being a young teen and forcing myself to drink Tab until I could stand it, because I wanted to lose weight. And it worked because now I prefer saccharine beverages to full sugar ones. Go figure.

I also hated pecan pie, and now I would kill for some. If I don't see it at the holiday table, I go home and make one the next day. Which reminds me, what will the holidays be like now, I wonder? I feel like a whole different person in the way I eat. Do you guys ever have those moments when you think, Oh yeah, I used to really eat like that. I am no longer scared that this won't stick. It feels too good to feel good.

Lynne

When I was growing up my mother cooked canned asparagus to a mush. Thru KD I have learned to cook & love asparagus. I don't remember mother ever cooking brocolli or cauliflower and I never ate it before finding CT. I would only eat green beans at home or at a relative's house. I never knew why I did not like them anywhere else until I grew up and discovered that the beans I grew up calling "green beans" were pole beans not green beans. They basically look the same in the raw state but there is a whole world of difference in taste & appearance after they are cooked. If you or your children don't like green beans, try the pole beans. You pretty much have to cook them fresh, (just like you would fresh green beans), because I don't recall ever seeing them frozen or in cans.

Fish, I hated fish as a child. I think it was more because my dad would harp through the entire meal "Be careful of bones. Watch out for bones. Chew really good because you don't want to choke on a bone..."

Who wants that at dinner? I eat some fish now, but I'm still not fond of fishy fish, and I can't stand salmon. My DH orders salmon in restaurants all the time, and always says I should try it, and I do, and I still don't like it.

I wasn't a picky eater as a kid, so there isn't really anything that I didn't like then, that I like now. Deviled eggs may be the only thing I can think of that I didn't like as a child, but do like now.

I find more "foods" that I loved as a kid that I think are disgusting now. I put food in quotations because it is stuff like Spaghetti O's, DQ Mr. Misty's...I can't take all the fakey stuff anymore.

Dawn

In our household...Everything was tryed, no vegetable was unturned...

I still hate (yes hate) Lima Beans and Cream of Corn..I am not a big lover of mushrooms, I find them to earthy.

Other than that...I am pretty easy going on all the other Vegetable..I've even tryed some raw beets in my salad the other day..

I like simple homework too; it keeps me focused and on track.
My Mom hated yogurt too. I eat and cook with it now.
We did not have much variety with fruits and veggies. (This was due, in large part, to cultural norms and availablity. My Mom also had to work with much more limited finances than I do.)
We try a lot of new things now. We are lots of types of lettuce. I grew up thinking ice burg was the only type of lettuce. (I still love it for taco salad.)

I was a REALLY picky eater as a kid (yea, I know, I still am...but much worse then!). One thing I HATED as a kid was bell peppers. The only kind of bell pepper my parents ever served was green and I detested them. I thought they overpowered the flavor of everything they were used in and that they were nasty. When my Dad would make stuffed green peppers, I'd eat the stuffing and try to avoid the pepper itself at all costs. LOL

Fast forward several decades, and bell peppers are now one of my favorite vegetables--BUT red, orange and yellow peppers. I can eat green peppers now, but still don't PREFER them.

Mine's a bit weird - yogurt!
Basically my mom hated it and we just never had it around. She thought it was so terrible that I just assumed it was gross and that I wouldn't like it either. It wasn't until adulthood that I discovered how good it really is!

P.S. Still don't like brussel sprouts!
P.S.S. It was a treat for me to wake up and see the homework already posted. I missed it the last couple of days.

I just happen to like all vegies, made any which way, the only thing I didn't like was Lima Beans( cooked plain) then my mother got a recipe for Lima Beans made with Rice and Brown Sugar, and it was yummy, but she never wrote it down and she is no longer here to ask her how she made it.

Like Lori, I Love Liver, sauted with alot of onions, and served with mashed potatos and peas, I also like chopped liver pate (sp) (Publix sells this also, but easy enough to make) served with red horseradish (which can be found in the fridge seciton of S.M put out by Gold) on crackers, or in a sandwich with Lettuce and Tomatoes.

I love shepherd's pie as a kid, still do, just don't eat it more than once a year now!

Ohh liver and onions was the one thing I hated the most...blech. My mom even tried cooking it in tomato sauce with green peppers once and told me it was steak...PLEASE...I knew! lol.

Something I didn't like was turnip...still don't.

I also didn't like onions, but now I eat TONS of them..so go figure

Terri

When I was a kid I loved beets and lima beans and hated doughnuts. Good thing I got over that. Ha, ha.

I seriously don't think I've ever met a vegetable I didn't like. Although I hated fish as a child, and not I really enjoy it.