what foods have you never tried?

[savingdogs]

You haven't had a tamale, Java...you haven't lived.

I have a great recipe if you want it.

 

[Javamama]

Tamales look like too much work to me Are they? Post that recipe, I'll have time to experiment soon.

 

[patandchickens]

Hm, I've had most of the aforementioned things. I like most of them. Especially chicken feet, did anyone mention chicken feet, nothing better than chicken feet in a chinese-type sauce. Mmmmm.

Things I have not tried and have no burning desire to either, unless prepared by a *very* good cook or I'm on the brink of starvation: most organ meats (other than liver, heart and tripe), summer turnips, kohlrabi, cheeses that smell like fermented feet. Frankly I'm not especially interested in trying truffles.

Things I have not tried but would be interested in although I'm chicken : blood pudding, sardines, any number of oriental dried-whole-fish products.

Semi-exotic things I have tried and now never have to come near them again: various edible insects, escargot, burdock root. Ptui, bleah.

Pat

 

[savingdogs]

Tamales look like too much work to me Are they? Post that recipe, I'll have time to experiment soon.

I used this recipe, it wasn't hard at all. I made a quadruple batch as a matter of fact and we have been eating tamales for a month now and I have them begging for a repeat performance. I never had such a good reaction to a recipe, I'm a crappy cook.

Compared to canning and such and all the hard work people put into it, tamales are a piece of cake.

Note: I did cut down the fat and sodium in my batch to 1/2 the fat and 1/4 the sodium and it came out wonderful.

Oops, here is the link! http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=126173

 

[noobiechickenlady]

Kolrabi, Haggis sounds interesting... Steak tartar.
I've tried lots of "weird" foods like squid, raw fishes, escargot, I'm adventurous when it comes to food. I'll try almost anything once.

 

[ORChick]

Kohlrabi souds weird, but it tastes like mild cabbage, is actually a member of the cabbage family. My MIL would cube the peeled Kohlrabi, and steam or boil it till tender, and then stir the pieces into a white sauce - creamed Kohlrabi. I season my sauce a bit more than she did, otherwise I find it a bit bland. Take it a step further, and Cream of Kohlrabi soup is nice.
And "Wurst" is just sausage! Any sausage. If you have eaten sausage you have eaten Wurst, with a German name.
Escargot I've had a couple of times - I love the garlic butter, but I can do without the little pencil erasers that they serve it with . Still, I suppose it is a protein source for the peasants.
There aren't too many things that other people find edible that I have either not tried or wouldn't like to try someday - though maybe not grubs! On the other hand ... maybe once, just to say I did .

 

[JRmom]

I was born/raised in the south and have lived here most of my life and have never tried hogshead cheese or cracklins'. The little country grocery store at our cabin has both and I stop and look at them all the time but still haven't bought any.

Have never tried leeks - can't find them for some reason.

 

[hillfarm]

Hmmm. I have had rocky mountain oysters aka testicles. Fried up, they are very tastey. I love fried chicken livers. Cheap meat source and fed to me often as a kid.
I look forward to someday getting to travel more and taste everything I can.
I love escargot, when cooked by a good chef. Squid, again, fried up its tastey. I always found when in doubt, throw it in the fryer. Seems to kill off anything that is questionable tasting.
Salmon jerky is one of my favorite finds, buffalo and emu burgers are greasy weird and gamey, not a fan. Deer everything. Love sushi and shashami. I love cajun, southern, and even an avacado and sprouts on a burger too.

I have had snake, rabbit, squirrel, crawdad. All were regular meat sources, I grew up country and poor. We ate what we could.

Im gonna get my first taste of honey mead in about a week.

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

Hmmm. I have had rocky mountain oysters aka testicles. Fried up, they are very tastey. I love fried chicken livers. Cheap meat source and fed to me often as a kid.
I look forward to someday getting to travel more and taste everything I can.
I love escargot, when cooked by a good chef. Squid, again, fried up its tastey. I always found when in doubt, throw it in the fryer. Seems to kill off anything that is questionable tasting.
Salmon jerky is one of my favorite finds, buffalo and emu burgers are greasy weird and gamey, not a fan. Deer everything. Love sushi and shashami. I love cajun, southern, and even an avacado and sprouts on a burger too.

I have had snake, rabbit, squirrel, crawdad. All were regular meat sources, I grew up country and poor. We ate what we could.

Im gonna get my first taste of honey mead in about a week.

As a woman, I will not eat rocky mountain oysters.
They are packed with testosterone.

 

[hillfarm]

I ate them mostly as a kid. Didnt seem to do much damage. Cept my boobs are small, but that I think was a genetic malfunction.