What are the meals you have never tried /cooked for what ever reason

juliettet

That was me spendless. At first with no Mum to pander to me, I lived on cheese sandwiches and pasta. I moved to just outside Glasgow and worked in the city for a while. A whole new world opened up. Really good Indian restaurants and proper Italian food. I copied them at home and now eat really well. It has taken time though.

purpleybat

minimad1970 wrote: »

Sweetbreads and brawn. My grandad always had brawn in the fridge, it looked and smelt vile :eek: As for sweetbreads, they're glands, even the word makes me heave

i remember my mother and aunt making brawn, it wasn't a good sight, a head boiling in a bit pot! tho to be honest I preferred the sight of that to the jellified mass quivering on the table that I was going to be forced to eat

LameWolf

Any form of meat or fish - I don't eat it myself, and I'd be terrified to cook it for anyone lest lest I give them food poisoning - and also I can't abide the smell. When one of my canine guests brought two little packets of raw mince with her, to be cooked for her dinners over the weekend she was staying with me, my lovely DH stepped up to the plate and cooked them for her. :A

Green leafy things like cabbage - or any other brassica for that matter. Neither DH nor I like them, so we don't eat them.

Curries or anything else remotely spicy - what is the modern fad for putting chilli in everything anyways? Yuk!!

Beetroot. Not allowed in my house. Vile stuff!

Anything I can't pronounce that purports to be food.

Mr_Singleton

After reading this thread I think I need to start the tripe appreciation society!

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Mr_Singleton wrote: »

After reading this thread I think I need to start the tripe appreciation society!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:Possibly founder and only member perhaps

kboss2010

I don't cook meat on the bone, a childhood where the only meat of that kind anyone made was cheap, fatty, gristly stuff I wouldn't have put into dog food made me practically vegetarian for many years! I still don't particularly like beef, lamb & pork except good mince & bacon.

I don't own a deep fat fryer, too many years of watching my grandparents eat themselves into an early grave with such greasy, dripping, fatty food that everything in the kitchen always had a permanent layer of grease on it that washing up liquid couldn't touch!

Kale & wheatberries I just don't understand. Stinky cheeses I'm not fond of.

I hardly ever use my oven except for occasional baking, not much gets roasted in this house. For me, time is a factor so if it can't be cooked on a hob in less than 1/2 an hour, we rarely make it. Most things we eat (curries, stir fry, pasta dishes, chilli, spag bol, risotto) only require a couple of pans & a kettle to make.

Can't stand shellfish dishes (a year of working in a lab that tested shellfish put me off because of the smell of the stuff we were working with lol) & OH is allergic anyway so we never make those.

Callie22

gonebust wrote: »

I find cooking it differently helps, like I'm not fussed on cauliflower but it great braised in oyster sauce and acceptable in a cheese sauce

Try roasting cauliflower. I had some recently roasted with cumin seeds and spices to go with Indian food and it was a total revelation. I like cauliflower anyway but if you roast it, it's really delicious - it tastes like cauliflower but without the 'ponginess' you get when it's boiled or steamed.

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Snails.
Oysters
cockles
winkles
Octopus
mussels Not very fishy
Smoked fish/meat/bacon
Kale Spinach- do have but only because I should
Pig-Knuckle/trotters only if almost give-a-way and then for soup
Cucumber makes me vomit
Black Pudding)
Liver..
Olives
Aubergine, bought one last week to make lasagne and as I thought, I dont like it, slimey & dirty looking

I never used to have courgettes and blueberries until about 4 years ago when g.son talked me into them, now staples.

There are some other things but thats enough
OH GIN nasty

Ginmonster

whmf00001 wrote: »

OH GIN nasty

Heresy! ;-)

zippychick

Prinzessilein wrote: »

Tofu....I have been willing to try it...but have yet to find anything that is palatable.

My husband is veggie, and we made the most AMAZING tofu recipe the other day. It's faffy and requires a fair amount of ingredients (depending on what you have in your cupboard) but i have been thinking about it since :rotfl:

we improvised and replaced a few ingredients as well

Oh and then there's salt and chilli tofu from the chinese :rotfl:

I love spinach raw. And Jackieo - you can actually cook a BNS in the skin whole in your oven. If you were using the oven for something else for an hour or two, then you could cook it for free