Posted on 03/30/2009 8:56:15 PM PDT by Sally'sConcerns
I recently bought me an inexpensive bread maker. My reasons were two-fold. I had stomach surgery back in June, 2006 and due to a few neurological changes, my taste buds changed.
As an example of the changes, I actively disliked cauliflour as well as spinach. Now I don't automatically say I don't like something just because I despised it prior to my second tummy surgery. I haven't actually gone out to buy caulifour but I AM keeping frozen spinach on hand.
In some ways this change has been a blessing because it opens a whole new world to my taste buds. I've had freshly caught fried fish and thoroughly enjoyed it with or without tartar sauce. Unfortunately or maybe fortunately given the cost of fresh salmon, it's still on my "take it or leave it' list.
Am I the only one whose taste buds have changed after they became a little older? or had surgery or even had a change in likes or dislikes after after adding a few chronicallogical years?
What got me to thinking about this is I'm baking a loaf of bread in my almost new breadmaker. I've been going through one of my books, making a list of ingredients I'll need in order to make breads I never would have considered much less actually eat.
As I mentioned, spinach had a major ick factor for me but I now really enjoy it. Same with brussel sprouts, beets, even eggplant which is now in the like column. Up until a few months ago there wasn't enough money in the world to get me to eat spinach or cauliflour.
I've even go so far as to buy and keep frozen spinach in my freezer. I love spinach-artichoke dip now.
I know part of my changeing is because for whatever reason I can now taste corn syrup in so many things and I've developed an aversion to how sweet corn syrup tastes to me.
I even now eat fried catfish and bass where I used to actively dislike them.
That’ll leave a mark. . . LOL!
They have the flours, and other foodstuffs, but they also have gadgets, cookie cutters, beautiful Polish stoneware and other things.
When I’m looking for reviews of cooking items, I usually check Amazon.com, but there are also some reviews on Cooking.com sometimes.
“Funny that I’ve never seen you comment about distasteful, frivolous posts when the subject matter involves semi-clad members of the opposite sex.”
I haven’t seen any posts like that on FR; you must be mixing it up with your more favored DU site. If there were things like that on FR, I wouldn’t waste my time anyway.
If, on the other hand, you’re trying to be cute about my screen name, then you simply don’t know your art.
I haven’t seen any posts like that on FR; you must be mixing it up with your more favored DU site. If there were things like that on FR, I wouldn’t waste my time anyway.
Funny, but then I suppose one could go for years without running into a picture of Helen Thomas without a call for a picture of a sexy Catherine Zeta Jones to offset the ugliness that is Helen Thomas.
Copy/paste if you dare as you'll find where you were posting on a rather non-political thread. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2215834/posts?page=97#97 Here, let me make it easy for you.
"Whenever I feel under the weather, I eat a bowl of chili. It always cures the nasties for me."
You might want to try eating some of your chili as it might help cure your nasties,
As someone said above; Pot Meet Kettle or one could use the adage of "People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones".
If, on the other hand, you’re trying to be cute about my screen name, then you simply don’t know your art.
The only reason I would ever even recognize your screen name is where I'd know what type of person I was dealing with. Rembrandt created beauty and as far as I can tell you're the antithesis of Rembrandt.
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