11 Best Foods You Aren't Eating
Monday June 30, 2008
Categories: Food
A list from the New York Times. How many of these are you actually eating? Beets, cabbage and Swiss chard are all among my favorite things to eat. Sardines, not so much. Anybody want to talk about a food most...
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Mash up sardines with a whole bunch of your favorite hot sauces and put them on fancy crackers. You'll like them that way if you like hot sauce.
Parsnips, baby. Roasted with carrots in the juices of a meat roast.
Just sweet enough, just enough snap to withstand the roasting (unlike potatoes which always taste dry to me when roasted) and better able than the carrot to take on and enhance the surrounding flavors of the roast.
Parsnips, baby.
Our favourite trick: mix the pumpkin seeds into raw muesli: serve with yoghurt (we're lucky enough to have fab local jersey milk maple-flavoured yoghurt) and blueberries for breakfast. Here's my muesli recipe: 4 cups rolled oats (not quick cook), 2 cups rye flakes, 1 cup sesame seeds, 2 cups dried fruit (I like dried cherries and apricots), 2 cups chopped nuts (almonds and pecans are good) and 1/2 cup pumpkin seeds. This will scrape out your innards something lovely, keep you full till lunchtime and make you a better person.
I like pickled herring. Yum. They're probably as good for you as sardines, which I also like, but sardines are cheaper. If you live in Michigan, you should definitely eat smelt! Tails and all! Crunchy, yum! Onion-flavored liverwurst is another bad habit I picked up from my father . . . but a health food, it's not. As they say on lolcats, NOM NOM NOM. . . .
I love sauerkraut; does that count as cabbage? I order Reubens for the sauerkraut. When I worked at a hot sandwich shop in college I would make sauerkraut sandwiches (sauerkraut, mozzarella cheese, and mustard) for my snack during Lent. And to this day the favorite birthday meal my mom makes for everyone is hot dogs cooked in sauerkraut served with mashed potatoes (you mix the kraut in with the potatoes). My husband and kids won't touch it and don't like the smell, so I only get to make it at home once in a blue moon. And I don't get to go back home for my birthday dinner, either. :-( One thing I love about going to see the Brewers is the vat of kraut on the condiment stand.
Yes, sauerkraut is good! And so is kimchi--the Korean version of sauerkraut. Pickled cabbage and other veggies, plus hot red pepper! Sauerkraut is excellent mixed in with potatoes, and kimchi is excellent mixed in with rice or noodles.
I love Brussel sprouts. Oh yum. Steamed with butter, a little sea salt and coarse pepper.
Spinach. Squid. Tripe.*
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*The kind you eat, not the kind you read.
Cephalopods are my totem animal. Thus I turn in horror from the thought of anyone eating them. Octopods may well be as intelligent as cats or dogs . . . just because they're not furry and cuddly is no reason to eat them! Vengeance is mine, says Cthulu!!
I eat sauerkraut religiously. Gosh, is it good. Kimchi too, when I have occasion.
Pumpkin, soy milk and cinnamon smoothies for breakfast. Yummy and you get two out of the 11.
Try the delicious cold beet soup in Why French Women don't get Fat (p. 125)
Brussells Sprouts, cut lengthwise and blanched. Sautee with bacon until the sprouts carmelize, toss with sliced almonds and deglaze with amaretto. Eat. Thank Lord.
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