Tastes Like Despair

[sychobunny]

My mother is a really great cook. She is also a scientist (actually she's a food scientist), and some things are more like experiments. Now, meatloaf has grown a bad name in our culture as something that is gross, but my mom has been making these amazing turkey meatloafs and I thought she became a master at it. Until today. This is leftover from yesterday (usually this does not matter, they still taste great). It is dark on top, and extra crispy, it is unusuallly dry, and I wonder what happened? How did she fail? Does she know she failed? She left before I started eating it, but she had it for lunch too. I am made sad by this dry- extra crispy on the outside meatloaf, that is also rather bland.

Share your food woes so I do not feel alone in this. And I just might share our adventures in pirogies [sp?]!

[Chu]

I thought that your title was referencing something. I don't know what I thought it was referencing though. D:


Hm... I can't remember anything specifically, but I'm the type to get snippy/very sad whenever I don't have a good meal. XD Luckily, my expectations are pretty low for food. A bowl of cereal or sandwich is sufficient enough.

[Kimi_Delaetus]

MEATLOAF! *cowers*

My mom's isn't that bad the first time around XD But the leftovers taste horrific. They're dry or greasy or dry and greasy (don't ask how it manages that; I'm still working on figuring that out).

Well, one night when I was home from college, I cooked threw some stuff together.

I took this frozen chicken (tastes like Chik-Fil-A, breaded and everything), put that in the oven to bake. Then I took some chicken corn chowder soup and began to cook it whilst I threw a bag of the rice that can be steamed in the microwave in.

I then added the rice and copious amounts of milk, garlic, pepper and a dash of salt to the chicken corn chowder and used it as a sauce on top of the chicken. Those in my family that ate (*glares daggers at brothers*) enjoyed it and said it actually tasted good.

Mebbe next time I run into this thread I'll share the secret of my potato soup. (Cream of potato soup...? XD)

[Athilea Majiri]

Maybe she tried something new and it didn't really work out, but she ate it because it was already made.

Meatloaf is not as bad as people try to make it out to be. At least not the way that my father makes it. I always assumed it would be terrible, but it's not.

Here is my story though. Until very recently I would not touch a steak. I thought they were gross and I wanted nothing to do with them. Why, you ask? Well, I will tell you. My parents are poor, they can not afford good cuts of steak. In my opinion that means they should just forgo steak all together. Until my father in law found out that I did not like steak I had only ever had what my father made. You can only do so much with a bad cut of steak, and that was not enough to make me want the food any more.

So, my father-in-law found this out and took us to eat at a steak house. He and my husband made me order the rib-eye with aus-jus sauce. It was the first good steak I ever had. Now I love steak and I make them fairly regularly. As my husband said, I can make a steak in a skillet as though it had been cooked on a grill. So, yeah. Stay away from bad cuts of steak.

[sychobunny]

Chu: It was actually a reverence to Better Off Ted, where they make cowless meat, and the first tasting had the guy decide it tasted like despair. I still roffle from it if I see it.

Generally my expectations aren't grand unless its my mother cooking it and it doesn't come from a box.

Kimi: XD leftovers are a mystery.... I really don't know how ours stay edible sometimes~ we never wrap them or anything
And that sounds yummy! I was expecting a horror story, like that time that we had frozen chicken, followed the directions, and one of the pieces we cut into looked fine, so we took them out, and I take a big bite, to find a gelatinous consistency and that in fact they were not done.

Athilea: I actually got to ask her today what happened, and apparently when she was mixing it, it was too wet, so she added breadcrumbs, and after it cooked it ended up being too dry. She ended up making pizza last night and before I left for work I requested a white garlic sauce instead of a tomato sauce, and it is delicious. (chicken and onions are the topping)
xD my roommate's dad grew up on government meat and cheese. Apparently gov meat is horrible, but the cheese is really good. He is now a vegetarian.
I actually don't eat things that lived in the water. I don't like the flavor and we don't know why. When I was younger I did, and we lived in Louisiana, so the crayfish and whatever else we had was good, but at some point when we moved to Illinois, I started hating it all.

[Athilea Majiri]

That is really, really odd. You know, though, that your taste buds change ever 7 years. So, that might be what happened.

I can't really think of much that I use to eat that I don't like anymore, but there are some things that I love now that I never had before. Apples are one thing. I know it sounds odd, but I never liked the taste of apples.

[sychobunny]

My mom thinks I got sick from some fish or something and just don't remember, but this seven years thing is interesting...

Do you only like apples when they're in season? I like super sweet apples, which I generally have to have in season... out of season they are bland and icky. Much like strawberries.

[Keylaleigh]

My mother is known for her experimenting as well. And one day she made Potato-Pumpkin soup. It tasted terrible.

[sychobunny]

that sounds awful!