What new foods have you tried recently?

[Voley]

Gravadlax. Very nice. I love pickled stuff. I'd never heard of it before.

 

[Orang Utan]

There's an American section in my local Tesco Metro so I came home with some Lucky Charms and a box of Twinkies.
Sugary goodness!

 

[Callum91]

There's an American section in my local Tesco Metro so I came home with some Lucky Charms and a box of Twinkies.
Sugary goodness!

For my brothers Christmas

 

[Callum91]

I've tried about a dozen different kinds of coconut oil before and this is the second one I've found that has calories in the 700 area, not the usual 900 (if such things matter to you). The quality is really good, on par with my usual ''Groovy'' brand coconut oil. Found at Tesco, the 250g tub pictured is meant to be £6 odd but they're a fiver at the moment, the larger 500g tub is £10. Really good stuff for using in baked goods especially, don't be worried it'll make everything taste of coconut, it adds a fresh and fruity hint that other fats don't give.

Edit: Oh and it could be me but it seems to make spicy dishes somewhat more...intense? Sorta cleans up chilli flavours where a fat like ghee or olive oil would mask and blanket (for me using ghee really smooths out a curry dishes heat).

 

[dessiato]

My students gave a local delicacy to try. Its like a light pastry folded into a shape similar to a pasty and filled with cinnamon sugar. It's eaten hot. Tastes great.

 

[Geri]

Lime marmalade. Not keen.

 

[polly]

Pecorino and basil dip from Waitrose. Unbelievably nice with everything, even just a spoon.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Persimmon. Now officially my favourite fruit.

 

[Callum91]

Persimmon. Now officially my favourite fruit.

What are those like? Been tempted about a dozen times to buy but I'm unsure?

 

[Jeff Robinson]

What are those like? Been tempted about a dozen times to buy but I'm unsure?

You have to wait until they're ripe enough, but they're kinda like a peach...

 

[Callum91]

You have to wait until they're ripe enough, but they're kinda like a peach...

Good enough for me, sold!

 

[Maggot]

Pecorino and basil dip from Waitrose. Unbelievably nice with everything, even just a spoon.

Is it like pesto?

 

[polly]

Is it like pesto?

No, it's creamy and very cheesy The basil is definitely secondary!

 

[Mogden]

*cracks knuckles*

Crab, no really I've never eaten it before
Barracuda
Spicy squid crisps
Scallop flavoured crisps
A proper coconut to slurp and eat
Catfish
Pad thai noodles. They're weird and squishy but nice.
Worms, just little grub things
Cricket or grasshopper. I think cricket.
Proper sticky coconut rice with mango
Rambumtans
Longans
Sapodillos
Guavas
A decent Thai curry that wasn't just red or green from a jar
Rice soup
Morning glory

And then more when I think of what else I've scoffed

 

[Yu_Gi_Oh]

You have to wait until they're ripe enough, but they're kinda like a peach...

I don't think I've ever had a fresh persimmon, but I love them here in the wintertime when they're dried, yet still soft and squishy.

 

[Mogden]

I used to buy persimmons with my pocket money when I was a little Mogden. I like them too. Always been a weird kid

 

[Onket]

Just had a McDonalds breakfast wrap.

Not as good as their muffins.

 

[tufty79]

Sunpat no added sugar peanut butter. Total win.

 

[weltweit]

I ate roasted Wild Boar yesterday for the first time, nothing like ordinary pork, Boar is very nice indeed!

 

[Orang Utan]

Sauteed artichokes. Fucking hell. Amazing, almost meaty taste

 

[Yu_Gi_Oh]

Sunpat no added sugar peanut butter. Total win.

You can't buy unsweetened peanut butter here, but I did find that if you put peanuts in the blender you get peanut butter very easily.

 

[Orang Utan]

Roasted Marcona almonds. Well moreish.

 

[Orang Utan]

Sauteed artichokes. Fucking hell. Amazing, almost meaty taste

Just burped and had a taste of the other key ingredient I had inexplicably forgotten: truffle oil. Also has some beetroot crisps with it. Best thing I've tasted in 2014.

 

[tufty79]

You can't buy unsweetened peanut butter here, but I did find that if you put peanuts in the blender you get peanut butter very easily.

I used to do this when i had a blender have you tried adding cinnamon? It's well nice.

 

[antimata]

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well worth the effort.
im only a recent convert but it does elevate a dish to where it should be. imho.

 

[Tankus]

Smoked hazel nuts ..........normally ,with me , in a mixed pack of nuts ....the hazel nut ones would be all that's left .....but these were well good

 

[Nine Bob Note]

There's an American section in my local Tesco Metro so I came home with some Lucky Charms and a box of Twinkies.
Sugary goodness!

And at five british pounds per box! I don't quite understand why it costs them so much more money to import American 'imports'. For example, one US-exclusive peanut butter Twix will set you back one fifty, yet for the same price (well, ten pence more) you can get three packets of Reece's Pieces, also made in America What I do know is that all this stuff occupies the space previously allocated to the many varieties of Polish fruit juice

 

[Tankus]

Heh ......authentic init!

Tasted like a mulligatawny

There's tasty for you

I've also tried the "chicken cwtch". Too mild and a bit meh for my tastes......but the beef ones a goer .....

 

[Callum91]

This weeks haul. I've tried the mustards before and the normal Bacon Jam, the Chorizo one is new to me as are the posh lemons Gonna make me some curd.

 

[iona]

Cranberry and chocolate jaffa cakes from M&S. I wasn't sure about them at first and the shape threw me a bit (square jaffa cakes?!) but they're really nice. The sponge is chocolatey instead of plain and thinner so they aren't as dry as regular jaffa cakes, but it does mean you have to eat them all at once instead of dismantling them. The cranberry is tangier than the orange stuff and less jelly-ish.