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Summertime, and the living is yadda yadda
Jul. 21st, 2004 03:28 pmI'm having a food renaissance. This is greatly helped by the fact that we've finally hit that point in summertime when the vegetables of this season actually taste good, and are little mini-orgasms in a salad, or on top of toasted bread, or grilled, or all on their own, frankly. I had a tomato yesterday courtesy of the "Might as well be a farmer's market" store not far from where I work, and it was so wonderfully good that I'm going back tonight for more, even though what I'd really like to do is crawl under the covers and not come out again since did I mention I was both tired and filled with headache?
Still - tomatoes. And soon after this I will have tomatoes of my own, ready to pick off the plant on my porch. I checked them at lunch and one of them is actually starting to turn red. Plus I've got a batch of strawberries coming into their own. The peppers remain green, which perturbs me because theoretically at some point they're supposed to stop doing that, and I'm not sure if I was supposed to do something to help them. I don't know what I would do to help them, but I'd like to be a good pepper mommy. Assuming that one day they'll forgive me my eventual cannibalism. (Does it still count as cannibalism if the kids are adopted? And also of a different answer to the question of animal/vegetable/mineral? Ah well).
Interesting factoids I have learned: Apparently it has been found that for some people broccoli really does not taste good. As in their sense of taste is not geared to ever find pleasure in eating that food. Similarly, there are some people (myself included) who cannot enjoy the taste of cilantro, because their taste buds are geared to think that cilantro tastes like soap.
I'm all about broccoli, so that one was just academic for me, but the cilantro thing was such a relief. I kept wondering why on earth people liked this horrible thing. Apparently it is not a horrible thing, but the fact that I am a mutant freak. Which I guess could not be comforting in a way, but I'll just find the other soap-freaks like me and we'll rise up and take over the world. First order of business: telling Thai places to stop putting that awful herb into dishes that would otherwise be quite nummy.
Of course this does make me wonder what the heck cilantro does taste like to you oddballs who actually find it enjoyable. I just assumed y'all liked the taste of soap for some reason.
Live and learn.
Now if only I could get my head to stop hurting.
Still - tomatoes. And soon after this I will have tomatoes of my own, ready to pick off the plant on my porch. I checked them at lunch and one of them is actually starting to turn red. Plus I've got a batch of strawberries coming into their own. The peppers remain green, which perturbs me because theoretically at some point they're supposed to stop doing that, and I'm not sure if I was supposed to do something to help them. I don't know what I would do to help them, but I'd like to be a good pepper mommy. Assuming that one day they'll forgive me my eventual cannibalism. (Does it still count as cannibalism if the kids are adopted? And also of a different answer to the question of animal/vegetable/mineral? Ah well).
Interesting factoids I have learned: Apparently it has been found that for some people broccoli really does not taste good. As in their sense of taste is not geared to ever find pleasure in eating that food. Similarly, there are some people (myself included) who cannot enjoy the taste of cilantro, because their taste buds are geared to think that cilantro tastes like soap.
I'm all about broccoli, so that one was just academic for me, but the cilantro thing was such a relief. I kept wondering why on earth people liked this horrible thing. Apparently it is not a horrible thing, but the fact that I am a mutant freak. Which I guess could not be comforting in a way, but I'll just find the other soap-freaks like me and we'll rise up and take over the world. First order of business: telling Thai places to stop putting that awful herb into dishes that would otherwise be quite nummy.
Of course this does make me wonder what the heck cilantro does taste like to you oddballs who actually find it enjoyable. I just assumed y'all liked the taste of soap for some reason.
Live and learn.
Now if only I could get my head to stop hurting.
