Broccoli caused it

[kwselke]

you know, if you grow it in your garden, it is super.
now, okra tastes disgusting, but i bet that's because i don't know how to cook the slimy stuff.

Cook okra with an acidic... tomatoes, a bit of lemon juice, or vinegar to de-slime. Okra, tomatoes, onions and bell pepper are a classic. Toss in some lump Blue Crab meat, serve over rice with a good corn beard roll or two and I'll eat to the point of being a tick ready to burst.

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

It is the scarcity of prepared bacon causing all the problems, plenty of bacon running around Texas on four hooves, just not enough in my fridge.

 

[oldbrownhat]

I was a fussy eater when I was a kid (still am- at 65. Still a kid, too, but that's another story.) Hated cooked "greens" generally, including, of course, broccoli.

I still clearly remember one visit to the doctor's for a general checlkup when I was quite small. My mother mentioned my fussy eating, expecting the doc to back her up and say, "Eating broccoli/spincch/asparagus etc. is good for you, etc." Instead, he said, "Well, ma'am, he looks pretty healthy to me. I wouldn't worry about it too much." If looks could kill...

 

[Gamecock]

Same thing happened to me when I was forced to eat oysters. To this day I can not even stand to hear prople talk about them without getting queezy.

Franc White (RIP) used to say, "The bravest man who ever lived was the first one to eat a raw oyster."

 

[OFT II]

Franc White (RIP) used to say, "The braves man who ever lived was the first one to eat a raw oyster."

The wisest man was the one who discovered that oysters were best after shucking.

 

[CajunBass]

I love oysters, any way but raw. And I freely admit that I've never been man enough to try them raw.

Back when I was a kid, my grandfather used to bring home a bushel of oysters he'd tonged himself. I remember watching him shuck them. About a dozen or so would go into the bowl, then the next one would go down the hatch. Not for me thank you.

I don't mind liver and onions. I can't stand onions, so I just push them to the side and eat the liver.

My mother had a reply to "I don't want (whatever she'd fixed)." If you don't like it, go to the Hotel John Marshall." Since I didn't really know where the "Hotel John Marshall" was (in Richmond), and knew I didn't have the money to pay for it, whatever was on the table looked better.

 

[Ole Joe Clark]

you know, if you grow it in your garden, it is super.
now, okra tastes disgusting, but i bet that's because i don't know how to cook the slimy stuff.

If you have a garden, cut the pods before they get tough. Wash, remove each end, and slice into pieces about 1/4-1/2 long pieces. Batter with seasoned cornmeal and fry until edges just start turning brown.

Have a blessed day,

Leon

 

[jtcarm]

I hated it when I was young, now I love broccoli, but NEVER frozen, that stuff is gross.

Of course having some at dinner means sleeping on the couch.

 

[Kurusu]

I just went through s series of Memes about "First World Problems".

I decided against posting one.

Must be getting soft with old age.

 

[Gamecock]

If you have a garden, cut the pods before they get tough. Wash, remove each end, and slice into pieces about 1/4-1/2 long pieces. Batter with seasoned cornmeal and fry until edges just start turning brown.

Have a blessed day,

Leon

Or just buy Pictsweet breaded okra at Walmart. It's ready to go into the fryer.

 

[Gamecock]

I used to grow okra when I lived in Chesterfield Cty, VA.

A very surprising thing about okra is how pretty the flowers are.

 

[Warren Sear]

Why is it that when I say I hate liver someone, usually someone you can't make mad, always chimes in with "Well you haven't ate mine." Next thing you know your looking for their dog or gagging their liver down.

Hahahaha!!! Same exact thing with venison! It makes me gag. I feed it to my dogs; they love it.

 

[Roadtrash]

I grew up in a poor household in the South so we ate everything. If it walked, crawled , swam or flew we ate it. If it grew out of the ground we ate it. About the only thing we didn't eat was a rock, but if you put it in a pot and boiled it with the right spices it made a pretty good soup, just had to throw away the leftover rock but the dog would chew on it for days. As you might have guessed by now I'll eat just about anything. I remember shucking oysters in years past five or six in the bowl one down the hatch followed by a sip of Vodka. Haven't done that in years but it was good. And by the way you don't swallow the oyster you chew it up in other words you eat it. Now I'm getting hungry all this talk of good food.