Friday, September 15, 2017

As You Like It


Everyone has favorite foods. Some of my favorites are watermelon, devil's food cake with fudge frosting, and lobster.

Most of us have foods we really do not like. I cannot eat liver even though I have tried. I will not eat "gamey" meat even though I have tasted some of the varieties and some are not bad. I still will not eat them.

I also do not like pancakes. I used to eat them when we stayed on my grandparents' farm. Grandma made pancakes for breakfast and she made her own syrup. It was the syrup I liked. There were usually leftover pancakes too. We would sprinkle one with sugar and roll it up to make a "cigar". It was a fun treat for mid-morning.

I still did not like pancakes. But I could make pancakes. Remember this is before mixes were available. My pancakes were very good they tell me. Mom loved pancakes.

I do like waffles. Mom did not like waffles at all. She made good waffles.

What we did was one of us would make waffles and the other would make pancakes. We found out who in the family wanted which and we would make breakfast.

We could not afford maple syrup. What we had on our pancakes was Karo syrup. I did not like the dark Karo. Mom preferred it. We would have both on the table.

My youngest brother loved pancakes but did not make them as good as his wife. She liked over easy eggs but never was able to make them without breaking the yolks. She did not like pancakes and he did not like eggs.

Sunday mornings when they had a big family breakfast my brother would make her eggs and she would make his pancakes. Their children put in orders for what they wanted. It was a good arrangement.

Do you have a favorite that someone else makes for you because they do a better job?

19 comments:

  1. I literally do not cook, Emma, so my favorite is supper and anyone does a better job.

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  2. Whatever I cook is so bland that Lynette does all the cooking. I make the salad and clean the dishes.

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  3. I can't make pie dough - I always overwork it so it gets tough. My husband makes beautiful pie dough. So when we make pies, I make the inside and he makes the outside.

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    1. My mother and I used to argue over which of us made better pie crust. It was me of course but she insisted it was her.

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    2. Big smile...thanks for the laugh.

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  4. There aren't many foods I dislike. I have to say that my children didn't take after me in that department. They are both fussy eaters, but now that they are older they cook their own food. :-)

    Greetings from London.

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    1. I did not care for most vegetables as a child . Corn and spinach were about all I would eat. Now that I am older there are few vegetables that I do not eat. Maturity is a wonderful thing.

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  5. Oh, you have a list of "Do not eat me sign" in your mind.

    They will shrink you, or the other way around, like Alice did?

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  6. I think watermelon, devil's food cake with fudge frosting, and lobster are the perfect meal, not necessarily in that order.

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  7. I could be fussy sometimes, but generally like most food types -except sea food. Greetings!

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  8. My my dislikes list was long when i was little but gradually i started to eat vegetables as i mostly was eater of potatoes and pulses rice 'chicken and eggs .

    I can't eat mutton and beef as

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    1. I think as we mature we are able to try things we would not try as children.

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  9. Still remember that once i started vomiting while passing beef dish to my brother.

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    1. When I was very small I would not eat ketchup. I loved tomato soup. After a year or so I suddenly would not eat tomato soup but developed a taste for ketchup. My mother solved the problem by telling me the tomato soup was ketchup soup. Kids!

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