Without cilantro, cumin, or green pepper, Cuban cooking just isn't right.
The only foods I have any real objection to are lemongrass (has to be used sparingly) and watermelon. Hate the texture, hate the non-taste.
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Barb - Apr 22, 2009 12:09:41 pm PDT #7528 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Polter-Cow - Apr 22, 2009 12:09:52 pm PDT #7529 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I am not a fan of green peppers either, but I can deal with them if the food is tasty enough and I'm hungry.
Hil R. - Apr 22, 2009 12:11:09 pm PDT #7530 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
The other food I really can't eat is mint-flavored stuff. Fresh mint leaves are OK, if used sparingly, but I cannot stand mint candies or anything like that.
Amy - Apr 22, 2009 12:11:29 pm PDT #7531 of 30000
Because books.
Oh, I LOVE peppers of any color (bell peppers, not spicy ones) and I love broccoli, too! Carrots are my problem. Raw they're ... sort of edible, especially if shaved into thin curls, but cooked they make me really nauseous.
Oddly, I have no strong feelings about cilantro.
Typo Boy - Apr 22, 2009 12:14:55 pm PDT #7532 of 30000
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wheras I like cilantro. and broccoli. and green peppers (also red and yellow and orane sweet peppers too). Also like chili peppers. Very few foods I don't like. I don't like sea urchin. I don't like geoduck. Offhand I those are my only "noes" when it comes to food, though there is a larger number I don't want much of.
erikaj - Apr 22, 2009 12:19:43 pm PDT #7533 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Cilantro is fine, if you can cook in the first place. But it's not for rookies.
Polter-Cow - Apr 22, 2009 12:21:56 pm PDT #7534 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I didn't think I liked any peppers, but then a friend had fresh red and yellow peppers to dip in hummus, and they were so good and sweet and tasty! So I have to reevaluate my feelings on peppers.
Vortex - Apr 22, 2009 12:26:32 pm PDT #7535 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
The other food I really can't eat is mint-flavored stuff. Fresh mint leaves are OK, if used sparingly, but I cannot stand mint candies or anything like that.
I feel that way about spearmint. I mean, I'm not wild about mint stuff, but I can eat altoids or a peppermint candy. However, my aversion to spearmint is such that I can't even talk to someone who is chewing spearmint gum, the smell makes me ill.
hippocampus - Apr 22, 2009 12:28:26 pm PDT #7536 of 30000
not your mom's socks.
Loves cilantro (sorry Sparky) and avocados. And peppers. Anything but okra.
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lisah - Apr 22, 2009 12:34:08 pm PDT #7537 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
However, my aversion to spearmint is such that I can't even talk to someone who is chewing spearmint gum, the smell makes me ill.
I'm the same way about wintergreen!