What do you love now, that you hated when you were younger?
When we are young we see foods differently; same for the smell, like pea soup. As a kid, when my mother left the kitchen, I would trade my bowl of pea soup, for my younger siblings two slices of bread. So, she had two helpings of soup and I had four slices of bread for supper. It was the smell. I could not get past the smell of the pea soup; it gave the aroma of vomit to me. There was no way I was going to even taste it.
As for onions…yuck! As a kid, raw onions burned my tongue my mouth and my eyes!! Cooked onions were slimy and sluggish like eating slugs; this sluggishness texture, was the same for eating cooked mushrooms!! Yuck.
Although, uncooked mushrooms, tasted and smelled like dirt! The earth. Mold! No way would I eat these, rather wait for my mom to join my dad, I would scrape them off my plate onto one of the younger siblings plate. Shhh don’t tell your mother.
SQUASH? What the crap was that? I can’t even describe what seemed like eating horrible tasting baby pablum. But of course, more than likely, the same sibling; liking the pea soup took the Squash. This sibling ate anything, so, she was great to have around at meal time; only when something yucky was on my plate, otherwise…no; she was always eating her food, and asking for my food, their food, your food.
But as I grew, my tastebuds were challenged by people who knew how to cook, talking me into trying these same foods by way of association.
Onions- do you like pepper, hot mustard and or cooked celery in soup? Yes. So instead of using pepper on your hamburger, try a little raw or cooked onions. I must say I prefer raw onions on my burger. And I put onions in my meat while cooking it. I love onions cooked or raw now.
Squash. I love squash. Someone said to me, try a little butter and brown sugar. 😃 my eyes have seen the glory. Someone else said try a little salt and pepper with a dash of butter. My my my…I can eat a whole small squash by my self, either way.
As for those Mushrooms. I can and do eat them raw in salads or cook them with butter. As for the slimy slug texture…I love it. I love eating mushrooms in soup or cooking then in with certain meats.
Now, this Pea Soup. I did eat peas as a kid but they were green. Pea soup is yellow and has that smell. Then one day when I was older, someone asked me to stay for lunch. Sure, why not; we were playing cards, so, stay play and eat. But she came back with a toasted cheese sandwich and a bowl of PEA SOUP! 😱
What was I to do? Eat the sandwich and be quiet. Which brought on the questions; “is the soup too hot? what’s the matter, don’t you like soup?” “No, no I like soup, just this…I don’t like pea soup.” She asked if I like peas, yes, then what’s the problem. The smell. The smell? It smells like peas!! No it smells like Puke. Taste it. What? Taste it. Oh bother… so I did, and it tasted like peas. lol. The smell was peas not vomit. I soon learn to love this soup.
Pea soup anyone?
All those things I hated when I was young, I love now by way of identifying it with something that I did like. All the fresh ideas on how to cook or eat certain foods sure does help with taste.
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