Trying New Things.
If you ask my family what kind of eater I am, they may say I’m kind of picky…which I am. But I have been eating new things over the past couple of years and eating things I wouldn’t used to. I also have this weird I only eat this with that quirk. Or if I eat this I have to have that or that and this. The pairings are important to me. Also the things I “didn’t like” (usually I had never tasted these things) weren’t usually about not liking the taste. I don’t like certain textures. I don’t like gooey…like fat on meat, I don’t like rubbery…like scallops, not into gummy….as in gummy bears and orange slices, and I have never liked peppers. Well, Except for these peppers.
We have all kinds of peppers growing in our little garden, and usually when The Husband wants some with dinner he has to cook them and eat them by himself. He always begs me to try some. No. Thank. You. Tonight I walked in and he had some peppers in the wok getting ready to cook em up, I exclaimed my disgust with a crinkly nose face, and went to get out of the work clothes. When I came back he was cooking them in soy sauce…and they smelled heavenly! All of a sudden, I got excited about them! I wanted some too! I don’t know what it was..it smelled like chinese food? I threw some peanuts in with them. Mmmmm…they looked even better.
I put a scoop on my plate, right next to the pork chop…and ate every last one of them. They were goooood! Mark the date people. Today was the great pepper turnaround.
