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Foods you may have been told are popular, but that you hate (or love!)
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Black olives served with feta cheese, and serious tomatoes (the kind that have been introduced to the sun), drizzled with olive oil, perhaps a tiny touch of chilli, plus oregano and black pepper. Yum.
Nope. I'd rather a cold beer and a bag of pork scratchings thanks!
Pork scratchings are ok, but real pork crackling is best
Oh agree. We used to get a slab of it when I lived at home as a kid. Dad was a butcher.Pork scratchings are ok, but real pork crackling is best
Meat was all very reasonabley priced and top quality!
Selfishly testing out why my photos aren't syncing well between my Macbook (Mojave beta) and my phone (iOS12 beta) I thought I'd just whet the appetite of Scepticalscribe with a photo of these olives I pick up in Spain whenever I get the chance.
Why not have both?
Beer and crisps (or scratchings), or wine and olives and feta cheese with rustic bread, both will have me salivating quite openly.
Pork scratchings are ok, but real pork crackling is best
Agreed.
Ah, bliss.
I would have no problem devouring the contents of that tin (suitably decanted into a bowl or dish) in one, slow, dreamy sitting.
But, thanks for sharing.
Well, certainly, I think you should break out on Wednesday.
Even getting to Wednesday is already an enormous achievement.
After all, Sunday may not happen - or, rather, what you hope to happen may not have come about about by Sunday.
Stopped by the olive bar this morning. Blue cheese stuffed and mixed olives with feta. Then artichoke with mixed olives, sliced salami, and feta.
Agree on gelatined meats, though corned beef is probably the one I’d choose of any sliced sandwich meats if I had to (at least it’s upfront about being reformed and doesn’t look like it’s been ground down to a real pink slime first) Stilton is just too delicious though - especially crumbled into homemade broccoli soup!
I've had some amazing terrines (gelatine was a feature) and, as for blue cheese, well, this is the food of the gods. The gods I worship, anyway.
Blue cheese or olives? If you could only have one?
Head cheese (meat in stock gelatin) and aspics were fairly common course growing up. Not too hot on aspics these days, but don't mind the head cheese. Sadly no one gets the bread right so it's not good enough. You need a very dark bread for it to be tasty (it brings out the flavors) and most are modified with some kind of blackstrap which makes it taste funky to me. In going with the thread, I fried up four eggs with butter this morning and globbed on with what was probably 80 g of dijon.
@Gutwrench Fairlife eh? Not a huge fan. I like the Horizon Organic with the omegas. Though I know people who find it too rich for a whole milk. I think I tried their chocolate milk (both brands) which wasn't bad. It's easier to make your own from good cocoa.
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@Gutwrench Fairlife eh? Not a huge fan. I like the Horizon Organic with the omegas. Though I know people who find it too rich for a whole milk. I think I tried their chocolate milk (both brands) which wasn't bad. It's easier to make your own from good cocoa.
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This is why I loved going to Mexico in years past. They know their scratching with delicious hunks of meat on them. Haven't had anything that good in years. Closest thing I've made was pork belly cooked to temperature in an oven and then finished off on a wood fire. That blistered fat and skin is incredible.
OLIVES...... YESSSSS!!!! I have been eating olives like candy since I was a little girl and can’t imagine life without them. I eat some of one sort or another just about every day. Given a choice between candy and olives, I would go for the olives every time! There are so many interesting varieties and taste opportunities beyond the standard green-olive-with-pimento in a jar..... Seriously! People who have not explored the olive bar at their local market (if it has one) don’t know what they are missing. To answer AFB’s question, if I were given the choice between blue cheese or olives, again I would go for the olives, no hesitation.
ANCHOVIES.....YESSS!!! Another favorite!! Grew up having them on pizza and also in salads, and it wasn’t until I was in college that I learned that not everyone loves them. A group was getting ready to order a pizza and I of course piped up with, “don’t forget the anchovies!” Well, that brought a lot of stares and sniffs and comments along the lines of, “ugh, a hunk of salt bathed in oil with a fishy flavor?” I adapted to the majority’s choice in pizza toppings but when ordering on my own or with like-minded friends, anchovies were and still are first and foremost included! And, like SS, I’ve been known to go ahead and eat a couple of anchovies right out of the container as I have been getting ready to use them for cooking and/or in a salad.
Something I dislike? Watermelon and most melons....something about the texture, the flavor, the cloying sweetness of some just really turn me off. I like most fruits, but nothing in the melon family.
Sweets I can take or leave....but obviously my taste buds have a generous dose of the saltiness gene!
ANCHOVIES.....YESSS!!! Another favorite!! Grew up having them on pizza and also in salads, and it wasn’t until I was in college that I learned that not everyone loves them. A group was getting ready to order a pizza and I of course piped up with, “don’t forget the anchovies!” Well, that brought a lot of stares and sniffs and comments along the lines of, “ugh, a hunk of salt bathed in oil with a fishy flavor?” I adapted to the majority’s choice in pizza toppings but when ordering on my own or with like-minded friends, anchovies were and still are first and foremost included! And, like SS, I’ve been known to go ahead and eat a couple of anchovies right out of the container as I have been getting ready to use them for cooking and/or in a salad.
Something I dislike? Watermelon and most melons....something about the texture, the flavor, the cloying sweetness of some just really turn me off. I like most fruits, but nothing in the melon family.
Sweets I can take or leave....but obviously my taste buds have a generous dose of the saltiness gene!
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Fresh watermelon like I had in Atlanta was gorgeous. The stuff we get here, not so much.
I can't stand bananas because of the texture. I'm not keen on the flavour, but it's more the texture.
