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

[Deleted User] · 12 July 2017 at 10:46AM

Hi everyone I thought as a bit of a mood lightener I have been thinking about stuff that, for what ever reason I have never tried ,bought ,cooked or tasted so far I have come up with this

Risotto,: I prefer my rice as a pudding with cinnamon and a thick crispy skin and some single cream (yeah i know its probably evil and unhealthy, and the food nazi's will want to hang me out to dry

)) but hey at my age I can enjoy what I like and I like old fashioned HM rice pud so there

I do eat a little boiled rice with a curry though

Stir Fry : never had one or fancied one ,but as I don't like chinese food in any shape or form its hardly surprising, each to their own and I prefer a nice hot curry instead:D

Butternut squash : Looked at them and decided that a whopping great squash for me would take me
A far too long to eat and
B. far too long to muck about cooking

I like cooking and probably if it was made for me and I had time to sit down and eat it I may enjoy it .

Trying to work out why anyone would enjoy eating spinach. I have cooked it, and eaten it but no matter what it to me just tastes of wet grass, a pan full of green mulch that cooks down to virtually nothing and tastes of nothing

So come on chums lets be truthful what is the food that you think is
A over rated
B would never cook in a month of Sundays

I am sure that often we see stuff cooked on TV and are 'educated' into eating it . At the moment 'kale ' seems to be the veg that we are being 'persuaded to eat, to me Kale is something you feed cattle and not humans

:):)

could be interesting I am not knocking anyone who enjoys the above just its not for me

:):)

JackieO xx

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Slinky · 12 July 2017 at 11:35AM

Ooo Jackie you're missing out on lovely spiced butternut squash soup. I love it so much I'm happy to eat it several days on the trot. Or there's always the option of freezing some. It only takes about 15 mins to prep and 35 to cook.

I've never tried to cook beef wellington, I'm not confident of my cooking skills.

I've never cooked liver as although I love liver and onions, I'm not good with the thought of handling raw liver.

Agree with your thoughts on kale..... yuck

[Deleted User] · 12 July 2017 at 11:48AM

Risotto

Any kind of nasty meat, strange cuts, fatty, not ethically sourced

PasturesNew · 12 July 2017 at 12:02PM

My list will be MASSIVE!

I've not had any "modern stuff" - you know the stuff, that's suddenly everywhere and sometimes you don't even know what it is or how to prounounce it. Or stuff that used to exist some years ago but wasn't widely available. e.g. spinach, avocado, quinoa, chia seeds

I've not had any "funny/big vegetables" because there's just me and I won't buy something to try when it's the size of an elephant and I might hate it e.g. butternut squash, pumpkin

I've not had much "ethnic food" - I don't eat out, so have had very limited opportunity to ever try/taste these things. So I've never had (wouldn't eat anyway) sushi, or Japanese, or most other foreign stuff (I've just had indian, chinese, thai really).

I don't cook joints of meat - they're too big for starters. I don't like touching any raw meat really. I tend to cook/buy meat in tiny portions, entirely stripped of any skin, bones, fat, gristle.

I've never had and will never have, any offal items .... snouts and lips and all those white innards... ewwwww.

I've never had "fresh fish" and couldn't bear to ever have an actual real fish in the house.... yuck. I'll stick to fishcakes and fish fingers thank you.

I'd never cook anything "fancy looking that takes a lot of faffing around and high-maintenance presentation faffing".

I haven't had and don't use cream - I was put off cream when it used to be a thick blob on top of milk in the 1960s. I don't mind cream being IN some dishes, but I don't wish to be the one that puts it there. Also, a swirl of cream on top of a bowl of soup looks gross.

Winkles and cockles are gross - mum used to eat these, with a pin. Gross. Creepy little snot bubbles.

Mostly I don't like/eat/cook/buy much pork/derivatives. I find bacon, ham, etc salty and I hate salt. So all gammon, bacon, ham are mostly completely ignored.

GreenQueen · 12 July 2017 at 12:37PM

A. I think caviar is overrated. Don't have a problem with the taste, but the texture just seems weird.

B. I love mussels, but have never cooked them myself. I've heard too many horror stories about food poisoning, and am afraid that I'd get it wrong.

I can't agree with you about kale or spinach though - grow both in the garden and love them. Either shredded and briefly stir-fried(!) with one or more of onion/garlic/red chilli/flaked almonds/pinenuts and a splash of lemon juice at the end is a delicious side dish

GQ

Oakdene · 12 July 2017 at 12:45PM

GreenQueen wrote: »

B. I love mussels, but have never cooked them myself. I've heard too many horror stories about food poisoning, and am afraid that I'd get it wrong.

They're so easy to cook, rinse them before you steam them, ensuring you chuck any that arent closed, steam them in a pot with some white wine, finely diced onion & garlic, they're done when they are open

Hermia · 12 July 2017 at 1:19PM

GreenQueen wrote: »

I can't agree with you about kale or spinach though - grow both in the garden and love them. Either shredded and briefly stir-fried(!) with one or more of onion/garlic/red chilli/flaked almonds/pinenuts and a splash of lemon juice at the end is a delicious side dish

Yum! Spinach is best raw IMO. I love including lots in my salads. I am at risk of macular degeneration so my optician orders me to have plenty of spinach and leafy greens in my diet as it is supposed to help.

I will try most foods. The only ones I won't cook are ones that are a lot of faff. I never cook Sunday roasts as I live on my own and it's too much work. I would rather treat myself to one in a restaurant occasionally. I also avoid smelly foods as I live in a flat and it is hard to air it. I therefore eat out if I fancy an Indian.

I don't find any foods overrated TBH. Obviously food fads can be annoying, but I still like to try them.

gilly1964 · 12 July 2017 at 1:38PM

Artichokes and fennel - no idea what you do with them

Jellied eels - why would anyone

Whole fish or seafood - I don't eat food that looks at me. Filleted or steaks are fine

Blue cheese - yuck

Sweetcorn - food of the devil

Duck - find it too greasy

Game - too strong flavoured

Rice pudding, custard, semolina, tapioca, trifle - school dinner trauma

[Deleted User] · 12 July 2017 at 2:14PM

I once went to a 10 course Chinese wedding banquet and only ate 9 of the courses. I passed on the "sea cucumber", a kind of giant foot-long sea slug.

kathrynha · 12 July 2017 at 2:19PM

Pretty much willing to try anything, although I am wary when it comes to cooking shell fish.

Only stuff I avoid are celery and almonds due to allergies

maman · 12 July 2017 at 2:45PM

I'll eat most things and keen to try new tastes.

Although I like seafood (especially cockles and mussels) I've never fancied the slipperiness of oysters.

I don't like the taste of sprouts and not keen on sloppy foods like risotto or yogurt.

Some posts here I find sad. Of course I respect your right to eat what you want but some diets sound very narrow.

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