Foods You are Embarrassed to Like

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by squirell nutkin

Have you tried slowly cooking carrots in lots of butter until the begin to very slightly brown on the edges, then add a small amount of honey and a bunch of dried dill?

Even my 6 year old eats them. add a tiny smidgen on lemon juice and it's amazing.

BUTTER RULES111!1!!

Similar idea with less butter -- just a pat melted in at the end of cook time -- is to cook the carrots in waterless cookware. Expensive gear, but impressive results, and it saves on gas because you don't need to get the pans very hot anywhere for them to do their job. Their heating is remarkably even, so as long as you keep the flame pretty low to start and very low to continue ("Medium to Low is what you need to know; Don't Look while you Cook!") you get excellent results. Remarkably moist meat, too.

Literally, you cook veggies in waterless cookware with no added water, using solely their own juices. I've spent at least fifty of my fifty-almost-four years despising carrots, eating them only shredded in salads and only in modest quantities. At most, the carrots go in the pan damp from being rinsed and drained, and at least two-thirds filling the pan. Water leaches most of the fun right out of a carrot; its natural sugars go away. Waterless cooking keeps the water inside the carrot, and with it everything that internal water has in solution. If I'd gotten carrots that way as a sprat...

The dill with a drizzle of honey sounds wonderful.

[DanaC]

I'm very into fresh dill at the moment. I bought a bag of it the other day to go with some salmon. Lovely.

[Glinda]

Originally Posted by DanaC

I'm very into fresh dill at the moment. I bought a bag of it the other day to go with some salmon. Lovely.

MMmmmmmm...... fresh dill!

If you don't mind my asking, what does it go for in the market, these days?

When I need fresh dill (or chives or rosemary or onions, etc., etc., etc.), I just walk 20 feet out the front door and pick some.

You should get some seeds and plant a pot in your windowsill. Dill is absurdly easy to grow.

[Pie]

That's part of the problem. It'll take over quickly!

Reminds me: need to buy pots for mint, dill, oregano, basil, chives, thyme.

[DanaC]

A little .68p for a 25g bag. So, maybe around $1?

[Glinda]

Originally Posted by DanaC

A little .68p for a 25g bag. So, maybe around $1?

OUCH! I'm always amazed when I see what grocers are charging for fresh herbs or organic fruit/veg. And then I go home and pick my own for free.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Not exactly free... you have to add in the cost of that 1.14 acres.

[DanaC]

Given how sporadic my interest in herbs and cooking is, it is way better for me to just buy a bag :P

[Glinda]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Not exactly free... you have to add in the cost of that 1.14 acres.

[skysidhe]

Not embarrassed to like fresh spinach.

Remember when the schools used to put cooked spinach on the lunch trays?? Now that's embarrassing.

Show of hands. Who ate the cooked spinach schools served?

[classicman]

we all probably did ONCE! hahahahaha

[skysidhe]

hehehe

I wonder when they figured out that fresh vegetables was a no brainer to getting kids to eat them.

[Glinda]

Originally Posted by skysidhe

Not embarrassed to like fresh spinach.

Remember when the schools used to put cooked spinach on the lunch trays?? Now that's embarrassing.

Show of hands. Who ate the cooked spinach schools served?

Fresh spinach = teh YUM

Cooked spinach =

When my brother was a kid, he pestered my mother forever to buy him some spinach in a can like Popeye eats. She knew he'd hate it, but finally gave in. He gagged trying to eat it and barfed up his supper.

[DanaC]

Oh I used to love cooked spinach. It only looked like Popeye's spinach if it had been cooked into a slimy gloop. I liked it dripping with butter. Mmmm. Still do; but it makes my throat close up, so I don't eat it :P

[skysidhe]

The only time I eat it cooked is in lasagna.

I wonder why it makes your throat close up? Besides the obvious.