I make a great ____, but I won't eat it.
I usually pay for the groceries, so when my bf started adding 3 and 4 jars of pickled beets each trip - at $5/jar! - I decided that I should start making them. Thing is, pickled beets gross me out. So when he eats an entire jar in 5 minutes, pausing to ask if I want some, I can't bring myself to do it.
I figure it's not a total pain since it's just one thing and it saves money, but it just seems odd to me since I eat everything I cook except this ... and spicy omelets (I make them way hotter than my tastebuds can handle).
Do you make stuff for other people that you won't/can't/refuse to eat? Is that even normal?
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Yes for my now ex huband:
Fish of any kind way shape or form.
Venision- You name it, roasts, steaks, stews, even the heart, I would make him heart sandwiches
Any birds he baggined , pheasant, grouse ect.
Liver and onions
Now as for other people, friends, mom, my current BF:
Anything with lamb
Anything fish (still)
Clams, mussels, oysters, calamari, octopus, sea urchin.
Liver and onions er anything with liver, anything offal.
Steak of any kind
Goat (curry)
Sweet breads
Rice dishes of any kind
Scalloped potatoes
Beets anything, soups, salads ect.
Duck/goose
pjracz10 at 2:37PM on 01/31/09
fried bologna sandwiches. sometimes with fried onions.
dearrie at 2:40PM on 01/31/09
Ha, ha, I'll bet this will top all! My Mom is a great cook and after the WWll, she moved to Newfoundland with my Dad. She was famous for her "seal flipper" pie, a Newfie delicacy (the flipper being, of course the foot.) She made a rich broth and wonderful pie crust. Friends would crowd into their apartment for a piece. However, she could never bring herself to eat any and even the smell of the cooking pie made her ill. Before the fur people and animal rights guys start yelling at me, this was in 1946, when meat was hunted for food.
bareneed at 2:51PM on 01/31/09
I'm still on my Mark Bittman kick, so I made radish salsa last night. Easy peasy, and the family approved, but I won't be making it again except on demand. I'm having mixed feelings about the grapefruit salsa I promised my husband, and which he is joyfully anticipating.
Otherwise, I'll eat anything I know how to cook.
gentlyferal at 2:54PM on 01/31/09
I had a BF who I used to make beet salad for (with crushed walnuts, garlic and a bit of homemade mayo). He loved it, but I couldn't bring myself to even taste the stuff - always had him taste it for seasoning.
Unless it's brined and smoked fish - any cooked fish. I have quite a few ways of making it, and they all are very popular, I just don't eat cooked fish myself. But at least I can taste it for seasoning myself.
Collard greens. I make them for my OH, he adores them. I don't really care for them.
Granola and granola bars. Family and friends are mad about both (it's a standing order for some), but I don't fancy oats and/or dried fruit. Actually, I think I would be all right with the oats in this application, but the dried fruit does it.
brooke29 at 2:59PM on 01/31/09
When I cook for others, I sometimes make gluten free foods. If I like 'em, I'll eat 'em. Sometimes they have a slightly gritty feel (especially cakes) that they don't even notice, but I can't eat it. Same when they make the gluten free desserts, so it's not just me. Otherwise, I can't think of anything.
PerkyMac at 3:05PM on 01/31/09
I made a chocolate-Guinness cake with Bailey's frosting that smelled amazing and everyone said was great. But I've been making a conscious effort to eat relatively healthy, and I git the feeling that if I had a bite, I would have eaten the rest of the cake. So it's not that it grosses me out, but I still won't eat it.
cycorider at 4:14PM on 01/31/09
If I can't bring myself to eat it, I won't cook it.
gourmetgal at 4:42PM on 01/31/09
@cycoider- That would be a wonderful cake to make on St. Pat's Day, do you have this recipe to post please?
pjracz10 at 5:25PM on 01/31/09
Since the only "normal" food I refuse to eat is coconut (just the coconut meat -- coconut milk is okay in curries) this doesn't come up very often. On the other hand, when I'm baking a lot of sweets, like at Christmas, I get to the point where I don't want to eat any of them.
If DH suddenly had a craving for something really odd and outside my comfort zone, I'm not sure what I'd do. I guess it depends on what it was.
dbcurrie at 5:43PM on 01/31/09
I used to make pecan pies for a friend of mine who was a very picky eater (he's since branched out a bit) and discovered he liked pecan pie when at my mom's house for a holiday. I hate pretty much all pie, but I made it for him because it was something he would eat that wasn't a hamburger or chicken and broccoli.
wellred at 5:49PM on 01/31/09
I don't eat meat, but my family goes crazy for my bbq ribs - baked with a dry rub and beer and then grilled.
deetroitMI at 6:25PM on 01/31/09
@pjracz10 - smittenkitchen just posted a recipe for "Irish car bomb cupcakes" that is essentially a Guinness cake she frosted with a Baileys frosting. Not sure if its the same one cycorider uses, but it looked amazing!
I make grilled cheese for my BF that I can't eat *sniff* because of the gluten... other than that, I only really cook for us, and we have fairly similar tastes.
thinkingincrayons at 6:33PM on 01/31/09
Menudo.
My son, hubby, and in-laws love it.
Me? No thanks.
soozm32 at 7:17PM on 01/31/09
Cheesecake. Not a fan of mine or anyone else's.
beth1 at 7:39PM on 01/31/09
@pjracz10, here you go!
1 stick unsalted butter
12 oz. Guinness
½ tsp. vanilla extract
2 c. all-purpose flour
2 c. granulated sugar
¾ c. natural unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tsp. salt
1 ¼ tsp. baking soda
¾ c. sour cream
3 eggs
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Fill two 12-count muffin pans with paper baking cups.
In a small saucepan over medium heat, combine the butter, Guinness and vanilla. Stir occasionally until butter is melted. Pour into a large mixing bowl and set aside to cool for at least 10 minutes.
In another large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, salt and baking soda. Using an electric mixer on medium speed, gradually combine with the Guinness mixture in three additions. Beat in the sour cream, then beat in the eggs one by one.
Pour the batter into the prepared muffin pans, filling each cup about three-quarters full. Bake for 22 to 28 minutes (mine took 25) or until a toothpick inserted in the center of a cupcake comes out clean. Leave in the pan to cool for 5 minutes, then finish cooling on a wire rack. Frost when cooled completely.
Got it from here: http://www.aminglingoftastes.com/2007/02/guinness-cupcakes-radio-show.html
The frosting I just mixed one of those little airplane bottles of Baileys, a stick of butter, and powdered sugar until the texture looked right (3 cups maybe?).
I think my arteries clogged just looking at it!
cycorider at 8:18PM on 01/31/09
definitely! i'm a vegetarian, and my husband isn't, so i make plenty of things for him that i won't eat. i should say, however, that i follow a vegetarian lifestyle for personal health reasons and not because i believe eating meat is unethical, so i have no problem making him meat-based dishes.
happytummy at 8:32PM on 01/31/09
People love my pastry. Breads, cakes, cupcakes, you name it. Here's the rub: I am allergic to baking soda and usually can't enjoy ANY of it. Also, I am not a dessert person.
People have made pilgrimages and wept openly over my sweets, but I usually only take a small piece to be polite and chase it with strong coffee.
Keight at 10:13PM on 01/31/09
For my DH, I make fried gizzards and liver. Also chicharones. He would love it if I would make menudo or tacos de cesos.....brain tacos....won't do it. Menudo smells like nasty moldy gym locker and the brains...yack...I shudder.
lamora at 11:57PM on 01/31/09
@cycoridor thanks for the recipe I will make that for the Bf's and my name day, St. Pat's Day.
pjracz10 at 12:58AM on 02/01/09
Sorry guys, if I'm not eating it, I'm not making it. Simplifies a lot of stuff.
whoot at 1:35AM on 02/01/09
just about everything. lol About the only thing I make on a regular basis which I can eat some of is a pot of red beans and rice. I cook for SO and a few others regularly, but about the only solid I can keep down is the beans and rice and some crackers and hummus.
huneybumper at 10:10AM on 02/01/09
I can fill in that blank with ** Any deep fried food. ** I make it for my friends but don't eat it.
therealchiffonade at 1:08PM on 02/01/09
Ham. I can't stand it. It makes me slightly nauseated to smell it in the oven too. However, when the kids, the hubby, and my dad are asking, I'll break down. I just thank God it's usually no more thn 2x a year.
donnie at 3:15PM on 02/01/09
I don't have a hard and fast rule that I won't cook something that can't eat, but it does give me anxiety to try and cook something if I can't taste it. How would I know if it's any good the first couple times?
BangieB at 3:41PM on 02/01/09
Roast chicken, Pizza Gain and Chicken Fettuccine.
I don't eat meat or Alfredo sauce. I've been told I make the best. And I always make meat for the BF because he loooves his animal proteins.
sweethunibabi at 10:18PM on 02/01/09
Meat and eggs. I started cooking for myself around when I became a vegetarian ten years ago (I'm lacto-ovo, but don't like eggs when they're not an ingredient to something that isn't specifically eggy), and now I have to cook for my omnivorous boyfriend. It's a little yucky sometimes, but we both know I can make the food better than he could even without wanting to eat it. Now I can cook a mean steak, fry up some damn tasty bacon and make a bacon egg & cheese breakfast sandwich to rival any restaurant.
I'm with happytummy, at this point my vegetarianism is a health choice. It may have been ethical when I first started, but I was in junior high and don't remember what my original motivation was.
VerySmallAnna at 12:04AM on 02/02/09
I am told that I make fantastic brownies and awesome truffles. I won't eat them - I'm allergic to chocolate. Why I do so well with them, I don't know. But that's the thing I'll make and won't eat.
morgancain at 9:50AM on 02/02/09
Buffalo wings--made several dozen of them yesterday for DH and his buddies. I love the way they smell, but hate the icky dark meat, bones & skin!
thehostess at 10:26AM on 02/02/09
I dated a guy in college who didn't eat any simple carbohydrates - no flour, no rice, no potatoes, and no sugar. I baked him a few flourless, artificially sweetened desserts I wouldn't have touched with a ten-foot pole. (He ate them. He liked them. I should have guessed that the relationship wouldn't work out.)
I also picked up a recipe for key lime pie with an ingredient list that calls for Cool Whip and sweetened condensed milk. It gets rave reviews, but I feel vaguely guilty every time I make it.
thebasilqueen at 11:00AM on 02/02/09