Happy Friday! Well the end of the week is here and I was debating on what to talk about today. I tossed around a couple of dessert ideas with some strawberries and realized that I haven’t written a fun post in a long time. Now my idea of fun may not be the same as yours but lets give it a try.
Name one food you hated as a child but LOVE now! Leave a comment and tell me the food. If I get 100 comments on this post – I win a bet with a friend and I hate losing so make sure you tell your answer!
For me it has to be “BEETS”. I was totally against them as a child and never wanted to touch them. I would see my mom making beet preserves and eating them all summer with everything from meat and potatoes to summer hams and roasted beet salad. I wanted to stay as far away from them as humanly possible. Then maybe 5 years ago, I tried mom’s beets and guess what… I loved them! The texture and flavor was sensational and now I cannot get enough of them. I pretty much clean her preserves out when I go over there for dinner. Oh dear – sometimes I wonder about myself.
Enough about the beets for now. I have to tell you some more news! I was poking around today and noticed that I made a list of the top 25 recipe blogs of 2009. I thought that was pretty neat.
Around the Blogsphere
- Gena delivers – A Very cool salad by Choosing Raw
- Heather reveals a very cool recipe for SourOat Bread
- Nate still keeps his readers laughing, check out his latest work.
- Jaden at the Steamy Kitchen shares a very cool drink
I am on the road next week but I have rounded up some guest posts for the week. I will be in (what better be) “Sunny” Florida for the week on business but I shall return. I will be fully active with the blog next week so feel free to keep your comments coming.
Now do not forget – I want to know the answer to the question: Name one food you hated as a child but LOVE now!
Take care
zesty
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My diet has probably tripled since I was a kid. Things I didn’t like then but do now …
Seafood – now Salmon sashimi is probably just about my favorite thing in the world!
Peanut butter. Broccoli. Sweet potatoes. the list is pretty endless.
Brussels sprouts! Always hated them. Then I went to my birthmother’s for Christmas and she made sprouts. I took just a few to be polite, but ended up having seconds. They are now my favorite vegetable: The difference is in how they are prepared!
Well you already broke 100 but I’ll contribute anyway!
Nuts. I hated nuts of any kind! I’m slowly warming up to all of them but still not up to some that taste too earthy, like walnuts. But I love pecans, especially. I can’t believe I ever passed up Pecan Pie!
Believe it or not, I hated pizza! I can’t imagine in what universe a child could hate pizza, but I did. Now, oh my gosh . . . one of my favorite foods ever.
I just wrote an entire post about this!! Here are mine:
Tofu, crunchy peanut butter, artichokes, coffee, beer, and coconut
Onions. Shocking, I know.
For me it is definitely asparagus! I hated them so much as a child, I think probably because my mom bought frozen ones that got soggy and overcooked. Then a couple years ago I ordered something at a restaurant that came with a side of asparagus and I tried it just because it was there and I LOVED IT!
plain yogurt. now I love Fage!
Cantaloupe melons.
Green beans – I’d hide them underneath the table and then clean them up after my parents had gone to bed. Now, they’re one of my favorite veggies!
beets!!! and nuts (other than peanuts), fish, onions… the list goes on
I’ve never been a very picky eater. I liked trying new things, and I ate most of my veggies without complaint. Except for mushrooms, zucchini and eggplant. I could not stand them, and thinking back I can’t imagine why I hated them so. Now I’d count them in my top five favourite vegetables! Last night I ate a giant plate of only mushrooms and zucchini, and it was delicious!
It would be scallops for me!
* oatmeal
* asparagus
* goat cheese
* tomatoes
* coffee
* spinach
Hey Zesty~
I always hated anything green as a kid. It’s no wonder I was about 40lbs overweight…Now I eat salad daily and get angry without my greens!
I absolutely hated salad as a kid. I would have to sit at the dinner table (sometimes until 9 p.m.) until I ate some!
Now, I love salad!
Avocados! My mom has always loved these omega packed gems. But, I always thought that they smelled like lawn clippings. On my 21st birthday, I went to a Mexican restaurant with my mom and dad to have my “first drink”. After just a few margaritas I started flirting with the guacamole an I fell in love! I have been a fan of avocados since!
Tomatoes, Mustard, Pickles, Onions – sounds like burger toppings but I mean in all dishes!
Cabbage. I can still remember the nauseating smell of boiled cabbage wafting through my house. That is the only way my mother ever served it. I realized as an adult that cabbage (if not boiled to mush) is quite tasty.
avocados… my Dominican family ate them with every meal and I couldn’t get past the color (I was a strange child) and refused to eat them… now I want them everyday!
Eggplant! I thought it was so gross and mushy when I was a kid and now I can’t get enough!
Cheese! Now I love it and the stinkyer the better!!!
I actually wrote a post about my love for beets this week, but the food that I could not get past my lips as a child and I love now is oatmeal! Unfortunately gluten intolerance means I don’t eat it very often, but it’s divine!
Fish! I wouldn’t even eat fish sticks as a kid. Now I could eat sushi every day even the really weird stuff like eel and uni. I love it all!
I used to had avocados and would pick them out of my california rolls… what was I thinking?! I love them now.
I hated pizza as a child. Would not go near it! I don’t think I even tried it until I was in college. I was a very VERY picky child growing up. Now I love trying new things and exploring flavors. Pizza happens to be my favorite now with all sorts of veggie toppings. Oh and by the way, hated beets back then and still don’t like them today!
Pretty specific here, Ranch Dressing. I absolutely hated it. Sometime in my mid-teens I became absolutely addicted to it.
Broccoli! I would literally gag. Now I love it.
Brussel Sprouts….. Yuck!!! Love them now though
Carrots – hated them, but now love them especially raw. (Beverley)
Meatloaf – hated the texture. (Michael)
Garlic – smell/taste Now I love it (Marsha)
You’re a great help at moving Zesty – must be because you are so experienced.
Have you considered a blog on interior design?
rhubarb! I hated it and would pull out it out of baked goods, as I thought it ruined them. Now I think it’s tasty!
Great job on making the top 25 recipe blogs!! And it looks like you have well over 100 comments but I’ll add another one. I used to hate onions – but now I love them!
I pretty much hated ALL veggies when I was growing up…now, I’m a vegetarian! LOL go figure!
Asparagus is the first food that comes to mind for sure. I used to say it tasted like dirt – I have no clue why. But I think it’s pretty awesome now, even with the whole “asparagus pee” issue!
bittergourd…
haha, you already more than 100 comments
I know this comment is way after the fact but I used to hate beets as well, plain yogurt, sushi, caviar, olives, beans and broccoli. The only one I can’t bring myself to try now that I’m older is caviar – I had such a bad experience with it when I was little…
Mayo, I couldn’t stand it as a kid but can’t eat a sandwich without it now.
Turnips!
Hated them then…….love them now! MAybe I am a better cook then my mother??Her generation boiled the bejesus out of everything !
Yogurt.
Cheese ..well, any cheese except mozzarella I wouldn’t touch at all. Now, thanks to my college dorm-mates I love a variety of cheeses.
And brussels sprouts. (Everything else I didn’t like I still don’t like. But I loved beets as a kid, wtf?)
Asparagus and Eggplants. It’s amazing how our taste buds change as we get older