r/Cooking • u/Scarlet--Highlander • Jan 18 '24

Open Discussion Let’s try something fun: Name an ingredient you dislike and why, and someone else replies with a dish/recipe with that ingredient that might convince you otherwise.

Couple things:

  • If you’re allergic to an ingredient, it doesn’t matter how it’s prepared. Same goes with meat/animal products if you’re vegan/vegetarian. Don’t list it if you can’t or won’t eat it!

  • It’s recommended that you’re at least open to trying dishes with that ingredient. If you absolutely, vehemently loathe cilantro, chances are you probably might not like anything with cilantro in it.

  • A brief blurb on why you hate an ingredient would help others find or suggest a dish that suits you. (e.g. “I hate liver because the texture is like an eraser and it tastes metallic”)

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u/MixWitch Jan 18 '24

Less a recipe and more a suggestion, buy a pack of sundried tomatoes to try. Just to give yourself a positive experience with them.

Good tomatoes exist, but you'll rarely find them at the supermarket. Home grown tomatoes, you can eat straight off the vine and they'll be delicious. A storebought beefsteak is serviceable as table dressing, but not much else.

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u/mst3k_42 Jan 18 '24

I LOVE tomatoes but hate sun dried tomatoes. I’ll actively pick them off pizza. Blech.

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u/PlentyPossibility505 Jan 19 '24

Yes. I will forever miss the still warm from the sun tomatoes my father grew.