Foods you may have been told are popular, but that you hate (or love!)

[Scepticalscribe]

Indeed. A bargain with the devil always has the price tag hidden. I rarely succumb but I confess being very tempted by those things when I roll my cart past a couple chests of frozen fish items on the way to the other half of the produce aisle in my supermarket. I don't know why they put that array of fish right there. Well yes, I do know and it's quite hard to resist picking up a few convenience items once in awhile. Fish sticks are among them when I do cave in.

Frozen crab is well nigh irresistible.........

As for fresh crab, one goes weak at the knees...
[doublepost=1534603075][/doublepost]Had macaroons from the French bakery with Ethiopian coffee.

 

[LizKat]

I have to do "something" with blueberries, strawberries, kiwi and grapes this weekend. A picnic was called off due to flash flooding from torrential rain off this infernal weather system won't get up and leave here.

I am likely just to snack on that fruit all weekend instead of cooking. A little yogurt here, some shortbread there, pretty soon there'll be only a couple kiwi left and enough blueberries for pancakes tomorrow if it's a cool morning.

At least I wasn't asked to make potato salad for that picnic. Then I would have ended up driving around the neighborhood doorstepping that and half a bushel of zucchini that were going to get ahead of me pretty soon. Like to pass those Zs off while they're still market size and more appealing, so that's on still actually on my chores list, but I would have been annoyed to have gone to trouble of a big potato salad for no reason.

 

[rafark]

One of the things I hate the most, but everyone seems to love is the combination of fruit and cream/chocolate/bread, I find the contrast between the fresh, tart fruits and the other sweet "passive" ingredients so unpleasantly strong and aggressive. It's like if chefs just wanted to create a "fancy" contrast in flavors just for the sake of looking sophisticated. That's my opinión.

 

[LizKat]

One of the things I hate the most, but everyone seems to love is the combination of fruit and cream/chocolate/bread, I find the contrast between the fresh, tart fruits and the other sweet "passive" ingredients so unpleasantly strong and aggressive. It's like if chefs just wanted to create a "fancy" contrast in flavors just for the sake of it.

I'm persnickety about those combos. I don't like whipped cream, for instance. Ice cream and certain fruits, sometimes. I don't like strawberries on spongecake but do like them on shortbread. The idea of fruits dipped in chocolate, no... Berries on Cheerios, sometimes, although it's laughable that I'll put a cup of blueberries and four or five strawberries in a dish and then hesitate and sometimes just pour a little nonfat milk over it and skip the cereal.

 

[adrianlondon]

The French strawberry cakes I love (small, or large) usually have this shortcrust/shortcake base, topped by a kind of custard cream, and then topped most generously, with strawberries.

Not sure if it's the same, but our chain supermarkets here sell strawberry cakes that are on a kind of half-shortbread half-sponge base and the strawberries are encased in gelatin. They're tasty, but get too sweet if I try to eat too much. However, eating them chilled straight from the fridge seems to avoid that issue, so I then eat lots with relative impunity.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Not sure if it's the same, but our chain supermarkets here sell strawberry cakes that are on a kind of half-shortbread half-sponge base and the strawberries are encased in gelatin. They're tasty, but get too sweet if I try to eat too much. However, eating them chilled straight from the fridge seems to avoid that issue, so I then eat lots with relative impunity.

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No, the one I have in mind comes from a French bakery, and is a classic French strawberry tart.

However, your picture reminds me of the sherry trifle my mother used to make over Christmas when we were children; that was seriously delicious.

 

[Apple fanboy]

No, the one I have in mind comes from a French bakery, and is a classic French strawberry tart.

However, your picture reminds me of the sherry trifle my mother used to make over Christmas when we were children; that was seriously delicious.

Yes to truffle, no to sherry truffle though. We used to make one for Christmas years ago. But the bowl we used was so big, you'd had enough by January the 4th!

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Yes to truffle, no to sherry truffle though. We used to make one for Christmas years ago. But the bowl we used was so big, you'd had enough by January the 4th!

My mum used to make an amazing one - not often, not even every Christmas, but it was delicious, and didn't last long.

 

[Apple fanboy]

My mum used to make an amazing one - not often, not even every Christmas, but it was delicious, and didn't last long.

I recall buying some custard powder for one of the layers the first time we used this truffle bowl and realising I needed about 4 x as much! It used to last a long long time. Would last even longer now as Mrs AFB couldn't eat it and Miss AFB isn't around.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I recall buying some custard powder for one of the layers the first time we used this truffle bowl and realising I needed about 4 x as much! It used to last a long long time. Would last even longer now as Mrs AFB couldn't eat it and Miss AFB isn't around.

Well, the version I recall - yes, in a beautiful bowl - was greeted by brothers, self, parents, cousins, and so on, and demolished pretty rapidly - a welcome antidote to Christmas pudding, light and tasty - certainly, I liked it. Anyway, I think it lasted all of two days, and I do recall that it was quite delicious, but rarely, very rarely, prepared.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Well, the version I recall - yes, in a beautiful bowl - was greeted by brothers, self, parents, cousins, and so on, and demolished pretty rapidly - a welcome antidote to Christmas pudding, light and tasty - certainly, I liked it. Anyway, I think it lasted all of two days, and I do recall that it was quite delicious, but rarely, very rarely, prepared.

Christmas pudding is vile. I'd sooner eat my leg. Not that there is much danger of any Christmas food gracing my dinner table again.
But trifle I like. Too much hassle to make for one and the shop bought stuff never tastes the same.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Christmas pudding is vile. I'd sooner eat my leg. Not that there is much danger of any Christmas food gracing my dinner table again.
But trifle I like. Too much hassle to make for one and the shop bought stuff never tastes the same.

That is the problem - it is a lot of hassle to make, - which is why Mother made it so rarely - and agreed, the shop bought ones just miss the point completely; but, on the rare occasions we had it - I loved it.

Christmas pudding is only okay with a relatively light meal - I learned never to have it after Christmas dinner, as it was far too rich and heavy.

But, returning from school on a filthy, cold, wet, miserable January afternoon, frozen, a slice of pudding and a cup of hot tea would be heavenly. Context is everything.

 

[Apple fanboy]

That is the problem - it is a lot of hassle to make, - which is why Mother made it so rarely - and agreed, the shop bought ones just miss the point completely; but, on the rare occasions we had it - I loved it.

Christmas pudding is only okay with a relatively light meal - I learned never to have it after Christmas dinner, as it was far too rich and heavy.

But, returning from school on a filthy, cold, wet, miserable January afternoon, frozen, a slice of pudding and a cup of hot tea would be heavenly. Context is everything.

Dried fruit does nothing for me. I've never liked it. Fruit cake, raisins, dates all get a wide birth from me.

 

[Clix Pix]

The one and only time I’ve had Trifle I thought I’d died and gone to Heaven..... Oh, so SUBLIME!!!! Someone at work was from the UK and one day she brought in a raspberry trifle for all of us to enjoy, and it was utterly delicious. Totally. Utterly. I’ve not had quite the same pleasure in any dessert since, and that is saying quite a lot!

 

[Apple fanboy]

The one and only time I’ve had Trifle I thought I’d died and gone to Heaven..... Oh, so SUBLIME!!!! Someone at work was from the UK and one day she brought in a raspberry trifle for all of us to enjoy, and it was utterly delicious. Totally. Utterly. I’ve not had quite the same pleasure in any dessert since, and that is saying quite a lot!

That's an endorsement! It was normally raspberry trifle we had as kids. They used to grow in the garden.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

The one and only time I’ve had Trifle I thought I’d died and gone to Heaven..... Oh, so SUBLIME!!!! Someone at work was from the UK and one day she brought in a raspberry trifle for all of us to enjoy, and it was utterly delicious. Totally. Utterly. I’ve not had quite the same pleasure in any dessert since, and that is saying quite a lot!

That's an endorsement! It was normally raspberry trifle we had as kids. They used to grow in the garden.

Raspberry trifle: An exquisitely painful memory. Delicious, though.

 

[LizKat]

Check this out, it's not just people who like chocolate and assorted biscuits. It happened awhile back but someone had retweeted it into my feed just today. Deer might be a lot smarter than I had thought.

 

[dotnet]

And he looks like he's all covered in chocolate! Isn't that how chocolate moose is made (according to the Swedish Chef)?

 

[RootBeerMan]

Those are does, not bucks. Never have known one to be that unafraid of humans, though. Cool.

 

[LizKat]

And he looks like he's all covered in chocolate! Isn't that how chocolate moose is made (according to the Swedish Chef)?

LOL, sure...look at the huge ears on the ones in back. Must be mule deer, common to that area.

Chocolate mousse.. man i have six eggs of an 18-pack left and was thinking to boil them and stash in fridge for salad or whatever later in week. How stupid would that have been. Boil two, use the other 4 in a mousse... all I need is a couple cups of heavy cream and I live down road of a dairy farm so there's tomorrow's walking exercise and cooking project!

 

[Lioness~]

Those are does, not bucks. Never have known one to be that unafraid of humans, though. Cool.

Hunger and the love and need for food are usually bigger then any emotions for animals. Unless they are extremely angry or upset of some reason. Also if they sense fear in humans, they back off.

But you can befriend and train animals, make them do a lot of stuff, if you know what they like. If you give them food in a caring way, they feel if ipeople are loving. Then they might start to bond with you. These were obviously chocolate lover too

 

[LizKat]

Those are does, not bucks. Never have known one to be that unafraid of humans, though. Cool.

Yes by this time of year any older males have big antlers already. Late fawns from this year could have nubby little bumps instead of antlers but that bunch all do look like does.

Recipes for venison not on that shop's menu, I guess? My youngest bro used to make venison chili once in awhile when he had good luck in the season.