| 4:51p |
I hate root vegetables.
I've never liked any root vegetables, except for potatoes. I think I can quite categorically say that all the vegetables I like grow above ground (again, with the exception of potatoes). Broccoli, cauliflower, sprouts, lettuce.. okay.. so radish are found below ground too. Let's exclude salad vegetables from this.
So, if this is the case, why have I just spent the past hour or so cutting up such items? I've cut up three sweet potatoes (which I don't know if I've ever had, but I think have had in casserole and never especially liked). One swede, which although smelt lovely I know for a fact that I've never liked. And I don't even know if Rat likes (he never commented when I said I'd bought one). When I rang mum up to check how to cook them she went on about how they're nicest mashed - which hopefully is the reason I don't like them as I also hate mashed potato despite loving potato. And then finally I chopped up three carrots - a vegetable I find bland and boring unless in coleslaw.
The fact is that if you are going to cook a veggie-slop then you need to have vegetables. And preferably vegetables that bulk it up (as the onions and leeks and garlic soon get lost in the tomato). Just having potatoes in a veggie-slop is quite boring so I normally include carrots too since I don't hate them with a vengeance. On Friday I decided that I'd try something new. I picked up a bag of sweet potatoes rather than normal ones to try. And then I found this bag of winter vegetables. Leek and carrots and onions (I have hundreds of onions but still) - how perfect. Shame it also came with a swede. Well, waste not want not as they say. So yes, I'm going to try sweet potato and swede in today's masterpiece. And if it tastes foul we have cod and bacon and chicken and all sorts as backup.
I actually think it's going to be really nice. I've grown out of my inability to eat foul things (except for baked beans which I'd rather not touch with a giant's bargepole let alone a normal one), being able to eat peas and curry now. I'm happy to try new things, as long as they don't smell bad, and don't look even worse.
But it's been damn hard work. I think I'll need to be doing some knife sharpening very very soon. I wonder how many calories you lose from cutting up swedes and carrots and potatoes? Probably not enough to make any difference, but enough to make my fingers ache! I also really hate the fact that my hands now smell of vegetables - there's little point in washing them as I'll be doing more chopping up shortly - and the water is freezing.
My new, favourite catchphrase of the week, by the way, is Wha? I just thought I'd say that.
I'm thinking I should email some of my friends to let them know my new email address...
Current Mood: smelly
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