What new foods have you tried recently?

[gentlegreen]

Someone elsewhere mentioned mint sauce, but as my diet is fairly bland vegetables I wonder what it might go with - I know people make raita with soya yoghurt but that's to compliment spicy food ...
Perhaps when I occasionally start cooking in ways other than throwing things in a pan - nut roasts etc ...

 

[Monte]

Someone elsewhere mentioned mint sauce, but as my diet is fairly bland vegetables I wonder what it might go with - I know people make raita with soya yoghurt but that's to compliment spicy food ...
Perhaps when I occasionally start cooking in ways other than throwing things in a pan - nut roasts etc ...

Pea, and mint fritters with a spicy peanut sauce.
Mmmm.
Can add haloumi if you eat dairy.

 

[Monte]

Lots of recipes out there, this one looks as good as any.

Pea and mint fritters

We’ve used petits pois here as they’re smaller, more tender and have a lovely flavour. But you can use garden peas, if you prefer.

www.goodhousekeeping.com

I'd probably use gram flour instead of wheat flour but wheat is fine, you could leave the egg out if using gram flour just add a couple of spoons of water to make a batter.
For the animal eaters out there, substitute ham for the haloumi/feta.

 

[Callie]

Today I had Bibeleskaes which is basically cold, creamy cheese and it's served topped with parsley and garlic with bits and pieces you can dunk in it. It was great!



Not my pic but mine was very similar but it had a biiiiig slice of ham on the side, salady bits, some munster cheese and a bowl filled with sauted potatoes.

Really nice, would eat again!

 

[rubbershoes]

Accidental apple and cumin cake. It was meant to be cinnamon.

It was better than expected. I possibly would have eaten another piece

 

[Oriole]

Aldi had cauliflower on offer.. I love almost anything cruciferous, but once again the anaemic undifferentiated meristem failed to light my fire...
It will probably have to wait until I'm much skinnier and can afford to increase caloric density with airfrying and fake cheese...

If you find it too bland cooked you can try using it raw, either in tiny florets or sliced really thinly in a lemony or mustardy dressing either on its own or to add crunch to a spinach salad or to tone things down a bit if you bought mooli or radishes that turned out to be too peppery to eat on their own.

 

[gentlegreen]

If you find it too bland cooked you can try using it raw, either in tiny florets or sliced really thinly in a lemony or mustardy dressing either on its own or to add crunch to a spinach salad or to tone things down a bit if you bought mooli or radishes that turned out to be too peppery to eat on their own.

yes I eat a lot of pickled veggies - this thread had me thinking I might see what the Polish shop has when I next visit - I think I looked up cauliflower on Cronometer and I think it is richer in some things than sprouts, broccoli or kale ...
I used to dabble in picallili ...

 

[Spymaster]

Natto? Would I get that in in an asian supermarket in the UK as no idea what it tastes like

Yes. If you’re in London, any Longdan would have it. Or order online.

 

[Orang Utan]

Have tried the Raspberry Drumstick one. Am curious to try the rest:

 

[Silas Loom]

Have tried the Raspberry Drumstick one. Am curious to try the rest:
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Even the parma violets? Really?

 

[Orang Utan]

Even the parma violets? Really?

Oh yes - the taste of old ladies

 

[Silas Loom]

Oh yes - the taste of old ladies

This is why I have the gerontophilia thread on ignore.

 

[existentialist]

Oh yes - the taste of old ladies

Oh, THAT'S what old ladies taste of

 

[Orang Utan]

This is why I have the gerontophilia thread on ignore.

Ageist kink-shaming, tsk!

 

[Epona]

Have tried the Raspberry Drumstick one. Am curious to try the rest:
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You can get some of those flavours as powder to make milk shakes with too - I haven't been tempted however.

 

[shifting gears]

Have tried the Raspberry Drumstick one. Am curious to try the rest:
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Fuck me those look horrific

In a fair and just society, adults who drink sodas should be put to sleep anyway

 

[Oriole]

In a fair and just society, adults who drink sodas should be put to sleep anyway

before someone starts the soft drinks edition of the flavoured crisps thread....

 

[Callie]

Have tried the Raspberry Drumstick one. Am curious to try the rest:
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I had a blackberry and violet sour beer the other day it was lovely so I'd try the Parma violet one.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Have tried the Raspberry Drumstick one. Am curious to try the rest:
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Looked at them in Aldi or somewhere recently but they're full of artificial sweeteners, so I wouldn't buy them.

If you don't mind sweeteners, they'd probably work well with vodka or gin.

 

[Callie]

Ovaltine chocolate. I didn't realise Ovaltine/ovomaltine was invented in Switzerland and they are mad for it.



I quite like it now and then and got a bar of dark chocolate with crunchy Ovaltine in it. It's pretty tasty




Would buy again. If I ever go back to Switzerland wiki has this as a slogan used in 2001


"With Ovomaltine, it doesn’t get better, but it does for longer!”

 

[Oriole]

Ovaltine chocolate. I didn't realise Ovaltine/ovomaltine was invented in Switzerland and they are mad for it.

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I quite like it now and then and got a bar of dark chocolate with crunchy Ovaltine in it. It's pretty tasty

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Have you tried sprinkling the powder on buttered bread or buttered toast? It's quite nice (not in your picture but they do a spread too which is less messy than the sprinkle on version)

(decathlon often has the ovomaltine bars if you are ever on the lookout for them in the UK)

 

[gentlegreen]

yes I eat a lot of pickled veggies - this thread had me thinking I might see what the Polish shop has when I next visit - I think I looked up cauliflower on Cronometer and I think it is richer in some things than sprouts, broccoli or kale ...
I used to dabble in picallili ...

Cauliflower pickles nowhere to be found either in the Polish shop or Aldi ..
Oh well ... maybe one day ...
In the meantime I'm hoping red cabbage turns up in Aldi soon - at the moment through the week I have sprouts, kale and broccoli...

I bought some mint sauce to play with and veganified it ..

 

[moonsi til]

Have we had this yet? It’s awesome

 

[Spymaster]

Ovaltine chocolate. I didn't realise Ovaltine/ovomaltine was invented in Switzerland and they are mad for it.

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I quite like it now and then and got a bar of dark chocolate with crunchy Ovaltine in it. It's pretty tasty

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Would buy again. If I ever go back to Switzerland wiki has this as a slogan used in 2001


"With Ovomaltine, it doesn’t get better, but it does for longer!”

Ovaltine chocolate sounds ace.

 

[Orang Utan]

Maybe not a new food, but certainly a new low: a ginger nut with some chantilly cream squirted on.
Also: vanilla ice cream with ginger nut crumbs stirred in.

I seem to be on the diet Robert De Niro ate to prepare for Raging Bull. Match fit I am!

 

[Orang Utan]

Dishoom House Blend Chai - a bit of a palaver to make but hoping to incorporate it into my bedtime routine as I am finding the ritual of making it calming and enjoyable.
It’s also shaping up to be an ideal bedtime drink for me - sweet, spicy, milky, tasty af and with just the right amount of caffeine to send me to the land of nod.
Recommended as a breakfast drink if you have time and as a bedtime drink if you have ADHD.

Also got a bacon naan roll kit from Dishoom. Expensive but that is excellent high-quality bacon and the chutney/jam is amazing.

 

[Fez909]

I went on a fungi foraging thing at the weekend. The guy running it makes all sorts of mad shit from foraged food. It was unbelievably delicious.

He makes miso from acorns and shoyu from mushrooms.

We had some St George's Mushroom 'jerky' which was so intense and lovely. I could eat buckets of it.

And I had beefsteak fungus for the first time. Very unusual. You eat it raw and it looks like meat but tastes almost like fruit - slightly citrussy maybe. Hard to describe.

I had lots of other stuff that I can't quite remember - hang on some is coming back to me: pickled chantarelles and ceps in flavoured oil, cep pate, cep lasagne with parma ham (that was a wow!)

We had some sort of wild oat, too. Can't remember exactly what it was, but again, it was delicious.

 

[rubbershoes]

The youf don't realise how shit Oreos are.

Which is why someone had the ridiculous idea of Oreo Coca-Cola. My daughter came home with a bottle and tbf it was being given out for free.

It smells of Oreo, has normal coke taste but with an Oreo aftertaste.

 

[TopCat]

Bone marrow. Rank. Would rather rim a loathed ex.

 

[hash tag]

Because I've never heard of such things before, I tried a hash brown cob. It was as described, hash browns in a roll