The 5 eating traumas of the past
Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the gourmands at online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat it and what to cook. This time our cheffies serve you: the 5 food traumas of the past.
When I still lived at home, my mother chef de la maison. For many of her dishes, I could (and still can) be woken up: she makes the tastiest nasi and the best pasta, if you ask me. But like probably everyone, I also had a number of food traumas in the past.
Don't get me wrong: I understand that as a mother you are busy with 1001 things at once and never have time, but always in a hurry. And that sometimes you forget that the beans have been cooking for a long time, or that you need to turn the meat on time. I don't blame my dear mom for that. But still, I don't have the best memories of the following 5 (side) dishes.
Overcooked broccoli
Broccoli is not my favorite vegetable. It wasn't back then and still isn't my preference now. I can't help it, but I always feel like I'm eating a little tree (if you're doubting because of this statement: I'm 28 and not an 8-year-old child). What definitely does NOT help if you want me to eat broccoli is cooking the vegetable too long. Then it is no longer a proud, firm, fresh green stalk, but a limp and soggy mess. You understand that I preferred to leave that on my plate back then.
Overcooked meat
Cooking meat is not that easy. Let alone when you have to prepare a complete AVG meal for a whole family in a hurry. So it's not surprising that you sometimes got an overcooked steak or dry piece of sausage served. But honestly: endlessly chewing on a dry and tough piece of meat (and only being allowed to leave the table when your plate is empty!) is nobody's favorite memory.
Limp beans
No vegetable becomes tastier if you cook it too long. This also applies to green beans. The result? A limp, tasteless bean that suddenly has turned three times darker in color. I always thought it looked quite sad.
Dry boiled potatoes
This is undoubtedly a point of discussion, as there will be many who cheered when they got boiled potatoes. My sister, for example, loves them. And honestly: if there's a nice gravy with it, I like them too. However, that wasn't always the case back then, and it was mainly a matter of drinking after every bite. Then a dry potato slid down your throat just a bit more pleasantly.
Tasteless Brussels sprouts, endive, kale...
If you ask a child what it definitely does NOT want to eat tonight, there's a good chance you'll hear Brussels sprouts, endive, or kale. Not so strange, because these are vegetables that are generally quite bitter. And most children just find that disgusting. Funny, because I find kale mash, endive with ham and cheese from the oven and stir-fried Brussels sprouts really delicious now. See, I have actually grown up quite a bit in 28 years.
