I accidentally married a man (who now co-parents my gorgeous kids w me) who suggested adding raisins to EVERY DISH I cooked. "This would be good with raisins!" or "This could be delicious if you added raisins next time!" Like, why would you add raisins to everything? I only use raisins to weird out my kids and make Ants on a Log as a snack...but they pick off the ants anyway.
I also married (then smartly divorced) a man (who now also co-parents my gorgeous kids with me 😉 ) who cooked for me only once in 16 years...mainly because he proudly served me Bobotie...minced meat with raisins, jam and custard...probably shouldn't have ignored that red flag 😆
God you’re good. I love reading something shitty and then later seeing your work pop up in my inbox. It’s like a reminder of people who don’t suck shit. Love your posts !!!
well, i will disappoint and disgust you all😜, i LOVE beets !!! in fact i love all veggies, fruits, especially dried fruit, bring on those raisins, and those promegranate's? Yes please! I am banana mad, eat at least 5-8 a day and adore sticky dates ...why? just because I'm one of those wierd plant based vegans 🤪
A friend convinced me once that I would like beets if I had them candied. Logically that made sense so I agreed to try her candied beets. BIG MISTAKE, they just tasted like sweet dirt!!!! 🤢
I’m convinced the only good salad is one with bacon in it, or one that has a hot bacon vinaigrette. Wedge salads with bacon are the best salads, not too many ingredients and not a lot of chopping. 🤤
Sorry, when I said "beets are Tangier" I was thinking of pickled beets. Yeah, I've tried 'em all kinds of ways. Cuz they're supposed to be healthy.
No, beets taste like dirt, I see now where ya got the comparison with cig butts.
Yeah, I admit it, I'm a kinda health nut.
All my life I've said I could live on nuts and fruits. And meat, of course.
Gimme a moose burger, or a possum steak, or a chipmunk-kabob any time.
And,the fact that in an apartment I had once, on the ground floor of a building, where we woke up one morning with a whole big patch of mushrooms growing in the carpet...
That did not turn me off to 'shrooms.
No, instead I called the apartment manager and pitched a fit so they'd replace the carpet.
(There was also oil stains and battery acid stains in one bedroom that revealed a motorcycle was repaired in there, and it also left kickstand marks.
It WAS on the ground floor. Makes perfect sense to me, in fact I wish I'd thought of it. Maybe that's why it was so obvious to me 😁.)
So, I can appreciate most kinds of 'shrooms. We put some in the spaghetti sauce we made the other night.
Baby Bellas.
Mmmm. Nice. And there was just enough horse manure to give it an earthy taste. Just a bit. Scrumptious.
Oh yeah, love me some strawberries! In fact, I used to eat strawberry shortcake completely covered (as much as the bowl will hold) with fresh blueberries EVERY DAY! Yeah, then I'd make a mountain of whip cream on top of that, and eat it before the cream fell. Yum!
How can someone who goes by the name "Ash"... NOT like munching on cigarette butts?!
I happen to think beets are MUCH tangier than cigarette butts. But I still don't like 'em.
Oh, I've tried!
Cuz, I love me some veggies! I like a lot of different veggies, in fact, except for my meat-fixes, I could (almost) live on 'em.
But, I'm right there with ya about texture.
I happen to enjoy a nice, crunchy salad. As long as the crunches ONLY come from crunchy lettuce, purple cabbage, cucumbers, and maybe a few radishes.
And some chopped celery.
With Ranch dressing, but I'll enjoy most any kind.
But, keep the Klingon cubic thingies, the beggin' bits, and everything else AWAY. And, no fruit on my crunchy salad. Or meats and especially not fish!
I like termayters, too, but only when they're portraying veggies---NOT fruits!
Cuz, KEEP FRUITS OUTA MY SALAD! That's too weird.
Unless except if it's fruit salad, then only fruits. No seeds or grapes. Just nice, fleshy, juicy fruits, like grapefruit, oranges and the like. Y'know, citrus salad.
I do like most mushrooms, too. In fact, all this talk is making me hungry. I think I'll munch on some celery with cream cheese.
Just don't mistake my cream cheese for that dreaded cottage cheese, yuk!
Cuz I don't like the smell, the taste, or the look of cottage cheese, it looks like somebody threw up.
(But what the heck is 'truffle oil?' Never heard of it. It even sounds gross. Like a truffle was discontinent? And then someone wiped it up and ate it?! Blecccch!)
Yay, crunchy salad!
Boo beets and Klingon cubes and beggin' bits.
Meat = good, as long as Not In My Salad.
(BTW, It's ok if the things on my plate touch each other, I'm okay with that...
...just as long as they "go together."
I wouldn't want my citrus salad on the same plate with my smashed taters & gravy. That's crazy! It's nuts!
Oh, yeah, I do like nuts...But NOT in my crunchy salad!
It's a very specific type of "crunchy," and nuts are NOT it!
Not a truffle fan and totally amazed by the number of people in Alaska who go hunting for mushrooms to eat here and 99% of them look like something out of Hanzel and Gretel that the witch would feed you. My mother was as skinny as a beanpole, ate nothing but sweets. I prefer cheese, wine, potatoes of any style (fried, mashed, baked) and pizza. Occasionally I will want a great piece of german chocolate preferably with brandy in it. But try to take away my cheese and wine and we'll have words lol. I do put strawberries in my salad but I make my own dressing and I love strawberries, but beyond that no mushrooms, no other fruit thanks. (oh and I am not skinny beanpole, wish some days I was but alas I like cheese way to much)
Finally someone else who hates truffle anything. It's so gross. It's obnoxious how many restaurants have truffle fries on their menu.
But here's the line that gutted me ... It makes me wonder: what other things do we do to remain comfortable, and safe, and loved, and secure?
The job?
The house?
The partner?
The routine?
Because more and more I find myself moving away from comfort and it's scary as hell. That type of discomfort that makes me want to vomit just thinking about it. But as I like to remind myself... Faith Requires Risk. Which also sometimes makes me want to vomit.
I'm thrilled to find a person who thinks beets are as gross as I do. I think they taste like dirt. BUT, living in Bali, we have a strong Australian influence on food, and dammit if they don't put beets ("beet root") in all sorts of places they clearly don't belong. Burgers especially. Okay, now it's a dirt burger - are you happy?
If you would like to know more about the sweet tooth, I'm it. I AM a giant sweet tooth. I'll eat just gelato for dinner any day of the week. French toast for breakfast? Don't mind if I do.
I accidentally married a man (who now co-parents my gorgeous kids w me) who suggested adding raisins to EVERY DISH I cooked. "This would be good with raisins!" or "This could be delicious if you added raisins next time!" Like, why would you add raisins to everything? I only use raisins to weird out my kids and make Ants on a Log as a snack...but they pick off the ants anyway.
I also married (then smartly divorced) a man (who now also co-parents my gorgeous kids with me 😉 ) who cooked for me only once in 16 years...mainly because he proudly served me Bobotie...minced meat with raisins, jam and custard...probably shouldn't have ignored that red flag 😆
That sounds like something my ex would LOVE to eat! Was he British, like mine??
Let's be real - we're comparing raisins to ANTS here. Why wouldn't an intelligent child pick bugs off their food prior to eating it?
Omg, this reminds me of the SNL skit Chadwick Boseman was in about potato salad with raisins in it!!! 😂😂😂😂 I wish I had the link to share. 😂😂
God you’re good. I love reading something shitty and then later seeing your work pop up in my inbox. It’s like a reminder of people who don’t suck shit. Love your posts !!!
well, i will disappoint and disgust you all😜, i LOVE beets !!! in fact i love all veggies, fruits, especially dried fruit, bring on those raisins, and those promegranate's? Yes please! I am banana mad, eat at least 5-8 a day and adore sticky dates ...why? just because I'm one of those wierd plant based vegans 🤪
I love beets as well. I especially love any juice that has beets in it.
A friend convinced me once that I would like beets if I had them candied. Logically that made sense so I agreed to try her candied beets. BIG MISTAKE, they just tasted like sweet dirt!!!! 🤢
I’m convinced the only good salad is one with bacon in it, or one that has a hot bacon vinaigrette. Wedge salads with bacon are the best salads, not too many ingredients and not a lot of chopping. 🤤
.... I died at "they just tasted like sweet dirt!!!"....
So gross!!! 🤮
Sorry, when I said "beets are Tangier" I was thinking of pickled beets. Yeah, I've tried 'em all kinds of ways. Cuz they're supposed to be healthy.
No, beets taste like dirt, I see now where ya got the comparison with cig butts.
Yeah, I admit it, I'm a kinda health nut.
All my life I've said I could live on nuts and fruits. And meat, of course.
Gimme a moose burger, or a possum steak, or a chipmunk-kabob any time.
And,the fact that in an apartment I had once, on the ground floor of a building, where we woke up one morning with a whole big patch of mushrooms growing in the carpet...
That did not turn me off to 'shrooms.
No, instead I called the apartment manager and pitched a fit so they'd replace the carpet.
(There was also oil stains and battery acid stains in one bedroom that revealed a motorcycle was repaired in there, and it also left kickstand marks.
It WAS on the ground floor. Makes perfect sense to me, in fact I wish I'd thought of it. Maybe that's why it was so obvious to me 😁.)
So, I can appreciate most kinds of 'shrooms. We put some in the spaghetti sauce we made the other night.
Baby Bellas.
Mmmm. Nice. And there was just enough horse manure to give it an earthy taste. Just a bit. Scrumptious.
Oh yeah, love me some strawberries! In fact, I used to eat strawberry shortcake completely covered (as much as the bowl will hold) with fresh blueberries EVERY DAY! Yeah, then I'd make a mountain of whip cream on top of that, and eat it before the cream fell. Yum!
So...riddle me this:
How can someone who goes by the name "Ash"... NOT like munching on cigarette butts?!
I happen to think beets are MUCH tangier than cigarette butts. But I still don't like 'em.
Oh, I've tried!
Cuz, I love me some veggies! I like a lot of different veggies, in fact, except for my meat-fixes, I could (almost) live on 'em.
But, I'm right there with ya about texture.
I happen to enjoy a nice, crunchy salad. As long as the crunches ONLY come from crunchy lettuce, purple cabbage, cucumbers, and maybe a few radishes.
And some chopped celery.
With Ranch dressing, but I'll enjoy most any kind.
But, keep the Klingon cubic thingies, the beggin' bits, and everything else AWAY. And, no fruit on my crunchy salad. Or meats and especially not fish!
I like termayters, too, but only when they're portraying veggies---NOT fruits!
Cuz, KEEP FRUITS OUTA MY SALAD! That's too weird.
Unless except if it's fruit salad, then only fruits. No seeds or grapes. Just nice, fleshy, juicy fruits, like grapefruit, oranges and the like. Y'know, citrus salad.
I do like most mushrooms, too. In fact, all this talk is making me hungry. I think I'll munch on some celery with cream cheese.
Just don't mistake my cream cheese for that dreaded cottage cheese, yuk!
Cuz I don't like the smell, the taste, or the look of cottage cheese, it looks like somebody threw up.
(But what the heck is 'truffle oil?' Never heard of it. It even sounds gross. Like a truffle was discontinent? And then someone wiped it up and ate it?! Blecccch!)
Yay, crunchy salad!
Boo beets and Klingon cubes and beggin' bits.
Meat = good, as long as Not In My Salad.
(BTW, It's ok if the things on my plate touch each other, I'm okay with that...
...just as long as they "go together."
I wouldn't want my citrus salad on the same plate with my smashed taters & gravy. That's crazy! It's nuts!
Oh, yeah, I do like nuts...But NOT in my crunchy salad!
It's a very specific type of "crunchy," and nuts are NOT it!
Who's picky? Not me!
Not a truffle fan and totally amazed by the number of people in Alaska who go hunting for mushrooms to eat here and 99% of them look like something out of Hanzel and Gretel that the witch would feed you. My mother was as skinny as a beanpole, ate nothing but sweets. I prefer cheese, wine, potatoes of any style (fried, mashed, baked) and pizza. Occasionally I will want a great piece of german chocolate preferably with brandy in it. But try to take away my cheese and wine and we'll have words lol. I do put strawberries in my salad but I make my own dressing and I love strawberries, but beyond that no mushrooms, no other fruit thanks. (oh and I am not skinny beanpole, wish some days I was but alas I like cheese way to much)
Finally someone else who hates truffle anything. It's so gross. It's obnoxious how many restaurants have truffle fries on their menu.
But here's the line that gutted me ... It makes me wonder: what other things do we do to remain comfortable, and safe, and loved, and secure?
The job?
The house?
The partner?
The routine?
Because more and more I find myself moving away from comfort and it's scary as hell. That type of discomfort that makes me want to vomit just thinking about it. But as I like to remind myself... Faith Requires Risk. Which also sometimes makes me want to vomit.
I'm thrilled to find a person who thinks beets are as gross as I do. I think they taste like dirt. BUT, living in Bali, we have a strong Australian influence on food, and dammit if they don't put beets ("beet root") in all sorts of places they clearly don't belong. Burgers especially. Okay, now it's a dirt burger - are you happy?
If you would like to know more about the sweet tooth, I'm it. I AM a giant sweet tooth. I'll eat just gelato for dinner any day of the week. French toast for breakfast? Don't mind if I do.
No, I'm here to confirm that you wouldn't like raisins. There's no point to raisins. At all.