CarolPa
Executive Chef
I use my ricer to help squeeze some of the water out of shredded zucchini when I'm putting it in zucchini bread. I saw that on a TV cooking show.
Now that's something I love to see on my plate. Just not the chubs.
What foods you don't ever want to see on your plate?
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I use my ricer to help squeeze some of the water out of shredded zucchini when I'm putting it in zucchini bread. I saw that on a TV cooking show.
Now that's something I love to see on my plate. Just not the chubs.
CWS4322
Chef Extraordinaire
Timely--I'm making more zucchini fritters for the freezer today. Thanks.
Raspberrymocha55
Senior Cook
Northeastern Iowa where my college is located is chock full of Norwegians and Czechs. I was born in northern Wisconsin and the former ALC synod Lutheran church is Norwegian based. The LCA synod Lutherans were more Swedes. Now they are combined. I lived in Minnesota, full of misc Scandinavians. I now live in west central Illinois, where you'd be hard pressed to find an Olson, Johnson or Magnuson in a phone book. No one knows what lefsa is, much less finding it in a supermarket.
I'm 1/4 Czech...I have no idea what they eat. My Grandmother, who was born there, never did anything or cooked anything that was from Czechoslovakia.
Andy M.
Certified Pretend Chef
Chex Mix????
Raspberrymocha55
Senior Cook
I'm 1/2 Czech (Bohemian). My sister is the president of the biggest Moravian society in the Chicago area. Dad didn't learn English til he went to school. Grandma made wonderful kolache and rolls/breads. Czech cuisine is much like southern German. Lots of sour kraut, pork, etc. Milk soup, blood sausage, head cheese, garlic, and beer.
Dad is 1/2...he likes all that stuff. I learned how to make kolaches from a cookbook. Gran made a wonderful poppyseed coffeecake type thing that was heavenly. I've never been able to reproduce it. It was a sweet yeast dough wrapped with the sweet poppyseed mixture, baked as a loaf and a sugar glaze on top. It's the poppyseed mixture I cannot duplicate.
Raspberrymocha55
Senior Cook
I love the poppyseed stuff. We even have a poppyseed grinder. When I head north this week, I want to buy some bulk poppyseed. Oh, I found a recipe you might like. Let me dig for it , and I promise that it isn't liverball soup.
Raspberrymocha55
Senior Cook
Poppyseed Loaf.
Poppy Seed Loaf Recipe - Allrecipes.com
This isn't the one I was looking for, as Grandma never used lemon in hers. I'll keep looking.
Poppy Seed Loaf Recipe - Allrecipes.com
This isn't the one I was looking for, as Grandma never used lemon in hers. I'll keep looking.
Raspberrymocha55
Senior Cook
Aha! I found a liverball recipe (liver dumplings). Dad always put them in a beef broth soup with celery, carrot and onion. They are traditional Czech food which I personally hated. Grinding liver was so disgusting!
Liver Dumplings Recipe - Allrecipes.com
Liver Dumplings Recipe - Allrecipes.com
That's why I seldom make Danish leverpostej (liver pate). It's yummy and better and cheaper than store-bought pate, but it makes such a gory mess.
It sure looks good, I'm trying to remember if Gran used chopped nuts in hers. But it looks like the same texture and the flavor (minus the lemon) is real close on my minds tongue.
Thanks for the assist.
just a quick update: strike 'yams' off my list, I like them fine now. only I call them sweet potatoes, and don't combine them with marshmallows....
...and just to be fair, lets give rutabagas a pass too. actually, I can't even recall the last rutabaga encounter I had. it's entirely possible I've never even eaten a rutabaga. don't know what it's doing on my list of inedibles--sorry, rutabagas.
hmm, that leaves raw bananas. now, that's gonna be a tough one....
Pfffft...that's an easy one....dip the banana in dark chocolate and roll it around in...nuts. Food of the Gods...oh wait..that's the chocolate.
Greg Who Cooks
Executive Chef
Wrap your shredded zucchini in cheesecloth then twist it until all the water comes out.
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Addie
Chef Extraordinaire
When I started this thread, I never dreamt that it would go this far. Such a varied list of disliked foods among all of us. 
Greg Who Cooks
Executive Chef
I want raw, dead fish on my plate. I might even eat raw live fish considering exactly wha it is...
If it weren't for parasites I'd love to catch a live tuna and carve hunks of sashimi out of its living body and dip it in wasabi and soy sauce and consume it!
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reminds me of the song:
If it weren't for parasites I'd love to catch a live tuna and carve hunks of sashimi out of its living body and dip it in wasabi and soy sauce and consume it!
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reminds me of the song:
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Just hit my URK factor...
Greg Who Cooks
Executive Chef
I remember there was a spoof website, something like manmeat.com that purported to sell steaks made from human flesh.
It looked like a real site. Perhaps the jokesters tired of their jokes, or perhaps they were pressured to quit teasing about such a sensitive subject.
I also remember petv.org, "People for the Ethical Treatment of Vegetables," which is also now defunct. It was a great spoof of the PETA site.
Personally I have no objection to killing any animals except those who are our common pets (dogs & cats) ... and humans of course ... for meat. As far as plants, I don't think they have any ability to perceive pain or any central nervous system to recognize it, so kill all the plants you like (except endangered species).
I recall a story told to me by my Chinese friend and colleague Qiuyan who was loaned a pet dog when she was a girl growing up in China. (She eventually earned an engineering degree and emigrated to the US and worked with me at a medical electronic company.) One day her neighbor who loaned her the pet dog reclaimed it, hung it by its hind legs and beat it with a baseball bat (to tenderize it) until it died, and then he cooked it and offered Qiuyan some of the meat, which of course she declined.
It was a pretty strong story, I hope you don't mind me sharing it, but it illustrates that other cultures may regard our pets as food animals. And to cap off the story, many people regard cows as sacred in India yet beef is one of our biggest meat sources in Western society.
Is it a pet or is it food? It depends on your cultural and culinary values and customs.
It looked like a real site. Perhaps the jokesters tired of their jokes, or perhaps they were pressured to quit teasing about such a sensitive subject.
I also remember petv.org, "People for the Ethical Treatment of Vegetables," which is also now defunct. It was a great spoof of the PETA site.
Personally I have no objection to killing any animals except those who are our common pets (dogs & cats) ... and humans of course ... for meat. As far as plants, I don't think they have any ability to perceive pain or any central nervous system to recognize it, so kill all the plants you like (except endangered species).
I recall a story told to me by my Chinese friend and colleague Qiuyan who was loaned a pet dog when she was a girl growing up in China. (She eventually earned an engineering degree and emigrated to the US and worked with me at a medical electronic company.) One day her neighbor who loaned her the pet dog reclaimed it, hung it by its hind legs and beat it with a baseball bat (to tenderize it) until it died, and then he cooked it and offered Qiuyan some of the meat, which of course she declined.
It was a pretty strong story, I hope you don't mind me sharing it, but it illustrates that other cultures may regard our pets as food animals. And to cap off the story, many people regard cows as sacred in India yet beef is one of our biggest meat sources in Western society.
Is it a pet or is it food? It depends on your cultural and culinary values and customs.
CWS4322
Chef Extraordinaire
The ricer actually does a better job. I used to drain it with a bit of salt added and then use cheesecloth or a dishtowel.
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