As I eat my Palak Paneer, I'm wondering if there are any foods that you find to be visually revolting-- but the taste is so good that you eat it anyway.
So my question is: What foods look bad, but taste great? I will start...
-Palak Paneer
-Injerra
-Gummy worms
-Mollusks
I'd love to see a battered (w/ 11 Herbs and Spices), deep fried, sauce (Spicy Garlic from Buffalo Wild Wings) smothered, meatless option on the menu at chicken restuarants. Do you think it'd do well?
I heard that Peta has pushed so hard that KFC Canada is getting a meatless chicken option on the menu.
I'm thinking about going to culinary school next year. The thing is, I don't think I want to work as a chef after I graduate. My goal would be to improve my cooking skills and to learn more about the art from professionals (not to mention have access to tons of cool cooking equipment) Are there any culinary grads out there who did it just for fun?
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/263
You may or may not know Mark Bittman, but he presented some good points in his lecture about food. It is very interesting and will probably make you think.
Call it cheap, call it ghetto, call it trashy... who cares, it's delicious!! What are some of your favorite cheap eats?
For me:
-Ramen noodles
-White bread with just mustard (midnight snack)
-Kool-aid
-30 cent frozen bean burritos
Sandwiches help me. Go out and get the best bread, meat, cheese and sauce as well as some special veggies. Make a big hogey and eat it all day long! Have some chicken soup too or whatever soup you love. Just go all out. Feel better!
I don't like store brand prepared foods. I don't mind ingredients like oil or sugar or stuff like that but I don't like store brand soups, chips, soda or icecream.
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Drink: a spicy, sour, salty bloody mary
Food: Buttered noodles
My mom makes jello salad with lime jello, shredded carrots, celery and crushed pineapple. I still love it.
My mom makes this cassarole with Bisquick baked on the top. We have had creamed beef on toast (my brother called it creamed sneeze on toast).
@Bangie- that was nice of you to offer fresh fries. I feel like I'd be annoying if I actually said "I'd like fresh fries please".
Right as my waiter was asking how everything was, I took a bite of my pancakes along with a piece of broken plate that was cooked in the batter! That hurt!
Also in 3rd grade, my classmate found a screw in her cupcake that another student brought in.
I remember my mother and grandmother eating canned green peas, which they creamed, on toast. Just writing about it makes me gag. I have a recollection of creamed onions and cod as well, but the peas are the worst. Other than that, they were both great cooks -- I'm sure some of the things I eat regularly would elicit the same strong reactions from them -- I know they would never eat sushi for example or tofu.
Two ideas:
The first idea is to have whatever your guilty pleasure is - ice cream, cookies, pizza, margaritas....whatever. For me, it's either a pint of Ben & Jerry's, or chocolate chips dropped into a jar pf peanut butter and spooned out. :o)
That said, it may make you feel better to eat something that is healthy for you, and then go for a long walk/jog or workout. It's obviously good for your body, it will probably help clear your mind, and it will also give you no small amount of pleasure knowing that if you ever see him again, you will look fantastic and feel great! I'm not sure there's any better revenge than that....
Best wishes....
He had his friend text you. Seriously? What are these guys, like fourteen years old or something? Maybe it would help to consider this less 'him rejecting you' and more 'him rejecting all sense'. I'm sorry for your pain, and hope you're able to see past the jerk enough to take care of you. (and ChelleyD01, likewise)
Food:
Bananas (a PB, honey, and Banana sammy on whole grain bread would be even better, but start simple)
Chicken noodle soup is sustaining, nourishing, and mild. (even just a mug of broth is good if you can't keep anything else down - don't let yourself dehydrate!!!)
The recommendation of Ensure was a good one; keeping your nutrition up will help keep your mood and coping ability up. Emergen-C is a good alternative, because it doesn't upset the tummy like a huge multi-vitamin can.
You deserve to eat well, you deserve to be healthy, and you deserve to be loved - by yourself first and foremost. Good for you for asking for help!
Spend a day or two wallowing in your misery, but set a limit on it. For the day after, celebrate the fact that you are free of a creep who doesn't even have the backbone to break up in person. Be happy that you didn't waste more time on him -- you are now free to find someone who is much more compatible.
Plan on doing something that you really enjoy duting the day. Go shopping and buy something for yourself. Go to the zoo or a museum. Spend the day doing things that you enjoy doing, and just be nice to yourself. Get a haircut or a massage. Or both. Get your nails done. Buys shoes.
Take yourself to a marvelous restaurant for dinner. Bring a friend, if you want to, or go alone. If it's a place he wouldn't have gone to, or wouldn't have liked for some reason, that's even better. Order wonderful foods, and savor them. Enjoy each bite. Have a decadent dessert. Eating in a restaurant alone is not weird, but if it feels a little uncomfortable, pretend you are royalty or a spy or an explorer from distant lands and really enjoy the whole experience of dining out as if it's something new and exciting.
The next day, you can get back to the business of your normal life.
I have had situation for years. Food is the last thing that I want when I am in this sort of emotion. For me eating is a waste of time since it will not stay (if you know what I mean), so why bother?. Things that help is veggie /tomato juices, smoothies, Odwala drinks, beer (BUT for myself, not for anyone). Time heals, just take it day by day, your appetite will come back.
ok, third comment, but I don't care this one is awsome.
in college, my dad's friend and his newly announced fiance were cooking for a meet the parents dinner. she brought a cassarole dish of something already made to stick in the oven. before the family got there, they got high off their asses. she stuck the cassarole in the oven, plastic wrap and all! and they ate it.
Oh! I forgot to mention! also while in highscool, dining at 3 in the morniong at waffle house, my friend's fried egg had a big huge pube, right there on the yolk. very easy to see, and remove, but I guess that's not in the waffle house style.
These things seem to happen in highschool alot.
When my dad was in highschool, ( 70's) he worked at a snack shack on a beach. There was always a big pot of chili going to put on hotdogs or fries or other crap. He was getting some ground chuck out of the fridge, and noticed it was totally rancid. He was throwing it out, and his boss yelled at him " What the hell are you doing!? Throw that in the chili!". And so it was with dropped hot dogs or burger patties, or other such things meats normally disposed of.
And once I opened up a baked potato in my highschool cafeteria, and there was a big fat baked worm inside. since I went to a private all girls school, I got to make a big fuss about it. it was great fun. :)
why worry about pasting a label on yourself?
You could describe me the same way as your description. I just love food. That's all I know. Foodie Shmoodie. Who cares?
@Nightowl - My family had/has peanut buttered english muffins with goulash so eating it with chili doesn't seem as far of a stretch.
My family makes their BLTs with the traditional bacon, lettuce and tomato and mayo...where we veer from "normal" is that we add peanut butter too. In fact, I put peanut butter on my BLTs now too. I get some odd looks from waitresses let me tell you.
My mom's best friend raised ostriches. Not many kids can say they had Rocky Mountain OSTRICH Oysters growing up. *yipes*
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Location: South Korea
About: I'm a young American living abroad and working as an English teacher. I long for a good kitchen and cruelty-free, local, delicious farm meat. (2 things I haven't been able to get) I love to cook and eat. Or just cook. Or just eat. Preferably both.
Favorite foods: I'm a recent vegetarian (about 2 years) but I miss good old hotdogs and hamburgers and when I can't fight my cravings, I will give in. I love cheese, spicy food, Pho, fattouce salad and rice pilaf (one bite of salad, one bite of rice).
Last bite on earth: Probably the fattouce salad and rice method in my list of favorites... or a cheeseburger with a thin beef patty.