(Hehe!!! Darn morning people got ahead of me!!!)
It's Foodie Friday!!! Did you make anything new this week? Try anything new even if you didn't actually make it? Bonus question- What is the most "exotic" food you've tried (healthy or otherwise)? Did you like it?
I have a zillion new things this week (I like to overstudy when I know there will be a grade...
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The big one is that I tried some weird Indian food off the hot bar at Whole Foods. I have never liked curry--in fact, for decades, the smell alone could make me sick. I theorize that when I was little, living in a neighborhood with a lot of Pakistani refugees and very lax rules on selling food right out of your kitchen window (which was actually really cool...) that my parents bought some that made me sick, and I just don't remember... but can't prove it. At any rate, when roughly 1-in-5 people in the world live there, I figure it's worth trying to understand a little about them, and food is an easy starting place. So I tried bites of chicken curry (didn't make me barf, and if it was that or starving, I'd be ok with eating it, so I guess I'm getting less sensitive over time.) I also tried "vegetable korma," which looked like barf and tasted a bit like perfume. I also tried "Aloo Matar," which also looked like barf, but tasted ok. I also bought some packaged Indian foods to try here-and-there over the month.
Same day, I also tried some of their Apple-Pear Slaw, which I would argue the health of because of the dressing, but it was ok tasting... didn't notice any apple in it, but the pear/cabbage combination was interesting and spring-ish. And, I've had radishes before, of course, but they had a variety I'd never had before, so I'm saying it counts...
And, for balance, I am pleased to say that I tried a new recipe that *WASN'T* healthy, and I didn't like it, so I am not tempted to eat any of the leftovers!!! (The others seem to like it, so it will get used, and if not, I'll feed it to the chickens...)
For the bonus question:
Cactus- didn't care for it raw, but I've never tried it in a recipe
Jicama- loved it raw, julienned, like crunchy little French fries
Dove- tasted like chicken, go figure
Horse- hard to say, it was dried and shredded over a salad... so it tasted about like any other jerky, but kind of ruined the salad
Alligator- not sure, it was in jerky and heavily blended with pork, but I'm guessing on it's own it would be too fishy...
Lotus root- very similar to water chestnut, but not quite as crunchy once you cook it.
And while lamb is not really exotic, it's also not the most common food here in the states, so I'll add that to my list... I make a MEAN gyro using a lamb-and-beef blend... (but I don't do it often, because lamb is really expensive...)
No apologies needed!!
