Not a picky eater

November 7th, 2009

I have always been a picky eater. I just am. So much is texture (how do people eat sausages?) but some is taste, I just cannot stand rich foods, or as Matthew calls them “flavorful” what-EVER.  Please don’t butter my toast and don’t dare let that sour cream touch my potato. Sauce on the side! I have gotten so much better the past few years but for instance, I used to take the cheese off pizza. Yeah, I don’t know what I was thinking either.

{pizza courtesy Pequods, Chicago IL}

Thankfully I am over that nonsense.

With Matthew in Boston this weekend I really wanted to make dinner using one of the forbidden ingredients. We have complete opposite taste in food and it can be overwhelming to decide what to have. We eat a lot of chicken. He thinks he is a chef’s gift to eating because he is adventurous. He will eat sweetbreads and haggis but dare a stray tomato touch his salad! Unfortunately the list of ingredients he dislikes is becoming fairly long and I am having a hard time finding new recipes that meet these intense demands. Unbeknownst to him I have been keeping track and now I am going to out him right here on my internet website.

Me:

Processed Meat (incl ground meat, flat meat and sausages)

Game and offal

Fishy fishes (trout, bass)

Cheese besides mozz, cheddar and brie

creamy sauces

anything from a raw bar

spicy I like spicy food now!

{burger courtesy of Sheep Station, Brooklyn NY}

Matthew:

Tomatoes

Spinach

Eggplant

Sweet Potato

Olives

baby corn

Pickles that are not cornichons

Lemon zest (any zest)

Chocolate dessert

citrus dessert

tofu

blue cheese

I’ll let you decide.

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