First Time for Everything

I really should be posting about Maui. But I've just been busy uploading pictures to Flickr, annotating and tagging them when I'm in the mood. Mostly I've been watching Battlestar Galactica and cooking. I made a chicken white chili last week in my BRAND NEW MARTHA STEWART DUTCH OVEN, Monday I roasted a chicken in the dutch oven, last night I made quinoa pilaf to go with leftover chicken, tonight I made a big pot of chili.

So anyhow, despite my reputation as an adventurous eater (growing up in Asia helps), there are a few foods I shunned:

Pineapple
Eggplant
Yogurt

Totally innocuous foods that turned my stomach. Probably because my initial experiences were with poorly prepared dishes or unripened pineapple, I did not eat these things for a really long time. I did eat pineapple if it was on pizza or on an upside down cake though. Gradually, it took a trip to Costa Rica and my friend's Eggplant Parmesan for me to eat the first two of the list.

Today, I have conquered the last food on my shun list.

Empty yogurt container
Empty yogurt container


This, my friends, is the very first empty yogurt container I have ever produced. Yogurt always smelled like moldy bread to me. People would say, "just eat it without smelling it, it's really good for you", that never worked. Yogurt worked fine as a condiment in Indian and Greek/Middle Eastern food, even as a beverage mixed with soju, but not as a food group. Greek Gods yogurt was better than most, in that I was able to eat about the first 1/4 of it.

Then I read an article about some foodie kid going to Per Se for his 16th birthday, and how he and all the restaurant staff ate Fage yougurt, that's when I decided I should at least try it.

Fage yogurt is really good, and the version I had is 17.5% fat. It's almost like eating cream cheese. Next time I should try the 2% and 0% fat. It's also really expensive, so it'll be a sometimes treat.

I feel like I summited Mt. Everest.

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Kendra
the 2% fat is the norm for me, i buy those big tubs at trader joe's. a tip is to put blueberry sauce in it -- the only place i could find the sauce was as trader joe's. hopefully they have one by you, buty ou could also use fruit preserves and the yogurt tastes sooo good.
HapaLove
[this is good]
Wow, nice! You should sell food reviews or something... having 0 shun foods just seems like such a lucrative asset. I have a hard time with organs.
JsinGood
Having tried it, I can honestly say, I don't like goat bile soup. Gotta draw the line somewhere.

You know what innocuous food can really turn me off? Cheesecake. That is some f***ed up s*** right there. Although, admittedly, I can take, and even like, a bite or two. Not stomach turning, by any means. But I'd never want to eat a whole piece, and I really only try a bite to be nice to someone. It does nothing for me.

I hope you tried the pineapple in Hawaii, because it's an entirely different animal than what you get here.
Aquanetta
That's a great idea. I have received and purchased a ton of fruit preserves and honey for the holidays. Now I will know what to do with them other than regift.
Aquanetta
Cheesecake is not a favorite of mine, like a lot of other foods, when it's good, it's amazing. But 99.9% of the time it's going to be bad so I just don't even chance it even when people are saying "oh my god, this is so good you got to try it". It's mostly just bland and sweet. I did win a second place in a savory cheesecake contest at Del Mar Fair and second place in citrus cheesecake category the next year.

Yes, I ate a lot of pineapple in Hawaii, probably more than all the pineapple I've ever eaten combined. I also ate pineapple in Costa Rica, that was more than all the pineapple I've ever eaten combined. So my pineapple consumption curve is tending towards exponential.

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