... I have spent the last two years training myself to like raw tomatoes. Success is partial: I can now eat them without gagging, and have found some that are almost pleasurable, but there's still an extremely small window for "acceptable raw tomato."
I'm thinking of transferring my efforts over to olives.
This is easy as we only just met. Yes, well, I wanted to start you off easy, so as not to scare you away.
I have spent the last two years training myself to like raw tomatoes. Tomatoes are nasty things until they have been taught their place. Which is baked with oregano and basil on a bed of cheese and pasta. But this weekend, I had a quesadilla where I only picked out most of the tomatoey chunks.
I was getting weird 'lost twin' echoes until we got to the bit about olives. I've always loved black olives, and am learning to respect green olives.
Well, as I shop the upscale yuppie marts, I discover that there are an infinite variety of olives. I have not tried a great variety of them, but many of them seem briny enough that they should not be eaten alone. Black olives, in a most general way, taste.... darker, I suppose. Green olives have a brighter flavor. Yes, that'll do.
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This is easy as we only just met. So...
Date: 2006-08-31 08:48 am (UTC)I'm thinking of transferring my efforts over to olives.
Bleh.
Re: This is easy as we only just met. So...
Date: 2006-08-31 04:22 pm (UTC)Yes, well, I wanted to start you off easy, so as not to scare you away.
I have spent the last two years training myself to like raw tomatoes.
Tomatoes are nasty things until they have been taught their place. Which is baked with oregano and basil on a bed of cheese and pasta. But this weekend, I had a quesadilla where I only picked out most of the tomatoey chunks.
I was getting weird 'lost twin' echoes until we got to the bit about olives. I've always loved black olives, and am learning to respect green olives.
Re: This is easy as we only just met. So...
Date: 2006-09-01 06:08 am (UTC)Re: This is easy as we only just met. So...
Date: 2006-09-01 06:39 am (UTC)Re: This is easy as we only just met. So...
Date: 2006-09-01 07:21 am (UTC)Re: This is easy as we only just met. So...
Date: 2006-09-01 03:43 pm (UTC)been force-fedtried over-brined green olives. When I rinse them I enjoy them.And I love cooking with olive oil.
Maybe this won't take so much effort, then... What's the difference in tastes, then?
Re: This is easy as we only just met. So...
Date: 2006-09-01 04:10 pm (UTC)