Is there a frugal food you wish you could make yourself love, but really hate? - Page 3

[i0lanthe]

but other beans? what do I do with them? what do I eat them with?

I would start at http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/
After that I hit food network and found a decent Paula Deen "white chili" recipe, and googled a Cuban black bean recipe somewhere else (throw in stuff like cumin, bay leaves, onion celery green pepper, hot sausage, and a can of tomato paste and I'm not sure how Cuban it really is by the end but it was good) and now I have something to do with pretty much every kind of dried bean found at Walmart.

(replying to other random posts)
Of course stuff tastes bad without fat in it. Put fat (some kind of cheap meat if not opposed to meat (and that reminds me, what is wrong with the world that I can buy 100%-boneless pork sausage for less than 95%-bone random smoked pig part that a recipe calls for? Very weird but hey, let them eat sausage)) in with the beans. Pour some EVOO in or a pat of butter when you start to cook brown rice, saute the dry uncooked rice in your fat until it is "fragrant", then add your water and follow cooking instructions. Salt anything that you can (within reason.) Put nuts in your oatmeal. Spring for a brand of oatmeal that actually tastes like something (amazon will deliver a 6-pack of McCann's with subscribe and save.) The cheap food won't be *as* cheap when you're done but the cheap(ish) food that one eats is more economical than cooking something too awful to eat and having frozen french fries instead or something. If something is too awful by its very nature (like, i refuse to eat bananas) then avoid like the plague by all means, but otherwise I would at least give the food a fighting chance.

[lil_earthmomma]

Well...

I'm just learning to like food. In the last two years, I have learned to love:

Onion, mushrooms, spinach, parmesan cheese, cream cheese, beef, chicken, pork... the list goes on and on.

For the first time ever I cooked black beans... they were ok. Kinda bitter ish?

I HATE chili. Still can't do chili. Yuck. I just don't like ground beef, I don't like kidney beans, I don't like the flavor of chili! lol

I also dislike oatmeal. Not a big deal as I'm trying to cut grains down to a minimum.

[BetsyS]

Originally Posted by Magelet

I'm learning to like them when I make them myself from dried, but the whole beans and rice thing... boring! It has so little flavor.

Red beans and rice with andouille. Yum! That's my favorite way to eat beans (though I love lots of ways--that's the best).

[WC_hapamama]

Originally Posted by Sailor

Those tuna fish casseroles. Actually, anything with tuna fish. I really dislike tuna.

If you're feeling adventurous, you could always try dumping a couple of cans of drained tuna into marinara sauce, add some lemon zest and lemon juice, and serve over spaghetti. The lemon and tomato really neutralizes the fishy flavor.

For me it's cabbage... I can't eat it unless it's either cooked to death or smothered in miso dressing and sprinkled with crushed ramen bits.

I'm really picky about tofu too... I love in it is mizutaki, sukiyaki, miso soup and when it's been fried... but in stir fries? No way Jose. It is really too easy to screw up tofu.

I like ground turkey as long as it's in something that is seasoned aggressively, like taco meat. IMO, it's awful as burgers unless you're doctoring it up with other stuff to add moisture.

I'm one of those odd balls that like homemade oatmeal... I grew up eating it with just milk and a little sugar.

[limette]

Originally Posted by LuckyTrish

I'm a big smell/texture person, and I can't STAND eggs! I can't even be around when someone else is cooking or eating them. I really want to like them, because you can do so much with them.

Oooh and yogurt. It's the smell thing...I WANT to like it so much for all the good stuff it has in it, and I would love to make my own, but I hate it! My mom really doesn't like it either, so maybe that's where I got it from.

I totally agree. Eggs and yogurt. Especially the eggs.

[jimblejamble]

I like lentils but can never get them to cook the way I want them. I want them soft and like Progresso's lentil soup but mine always come out harder than I'd like. I've been told to try a million different preps for them and can't get them soft.

[oiseau]

Add me to the oatmeal crew. I actually really like oatmeal if I stir in a little applesauce or banana and a splash of vanilla and cinammon. I like it with a little milk and brown sugar. But no matter how I eat it, it either makes me vomit or it's just like I haven't eaten any breakfast at all. I don't think I can digest it. It would make breakfast time so much easier for me.

My other big thing is lettuces and salad greens. I really just don't like any of them, they're all too bitter for me (well, except iceberg, but who wants to eat that?). I can do cooked greens and raw spinach, that's it. No matter what you do to a salad, I just don't like it.

[jjawm]

Beans. The only kind I can stand are the green ones

[cristeen]

Originally Posted by Magelet

Organ meats in general, I'm scared of. It turns out that when you soak heart in an acidic marinade for a while, I like it though, so I'm being brave and trying tongue this week...

: Yummy, tongue.

Liver though... only duck liver and only in flan. It took a massive effort of will to get me to put it in my mouth the first time, but it turns out I love it. But the smell alone of any other kind of liver is enough to make me hurl. When I was a kid my mom would cook liver and onions for my dad and sister for dinner, and she and I would have a dinner of baked winter squash with butter.

I dislike some beans - the only ones I buy are navy and red, but really navy are my preference. But like several pps, only with plenty of fat (usually refried). Without the fat, I can't stomach the beans. Same thing with cornmeal (tortillas, polenta, etc.) - must have fat or I can't handle it.

Of the "frugal" foods, probably one of the few I dislike is collards. I have yet to find a way to make them palatable. Kale and chard are fine, but collards, nope. Oh, and turnips/rutabagas. Yech.

[elmh23]

Oatmeal. I can handle the instant flavored ones (and really only the apple cinnamon flavors) but not the cheap kinds. I've tried to make apple cinnamon oatmeal and it was just nasty.

Liver is just gross. I used to eat it as a small child, right up until I entered Kindergarten and was told that it was gross, and so it was. Haven't eaten it since.

Cooked spinach. Like it raw though.

Mushrooms. I can deal with them in a stir fry, but any bigger than that and I can't deal.

I can only handle eggs scrambled with lots of cheese and salsa on top. I love salsa.

[robugmum]

When I was small I used to beg my mum to serve liver!
I never cook it now though. My husband and kids can't stand it!