General Chat

We find many things dont taste the same, but a lot of that is due to changes in your taste buds as you grow older. We neither of us like ready made foods which all seem over spiced and full of garlic or peppers. Cant find a suasage that is not spiced.
I have made my own bread for over 40 yrs but have recently started to use my Kenwood to do the mixing. It is nicer tasting than shop bread, but not the same as properly kneaded bread. On that subject, bought a large loaf in an emergency, from a bakers. It was twice as large as my own, so I weighed it, only to find it was lighter by a few ounces than my own loaf. Now this could lead to mistakes in diet for diabetic people.

I've tried growing my own vegetables, but the slugs & snails have a field day!
I can't use slug pellets (not that I ever would) because I have slowrms and hedgehogs in the garden.
I know I'm capable of growing my own - I had wonderful crops when the children were young - but I also had ducks that ate the slugs & snails!!!
I, in turn, ate the many 'home grown' ducklings the mother duck brought back from the woods, where she insisted on laying and brooding her eggs!! They were REAL free range!! LOL

edit: We all also drank raw milk.

We kept a Guernsey cow for 14 yrs and the milk was lovely. I took some in to work once and the cook decanted it into bottles. The next nurse that came into the kitchen asked what It was, she had never seen milk that looked like that, with a head of cream on it!

DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN A BOTTLE OF MILK

HAD A CREAMY TOP
MUM WOULD CAREFULLY SAVE IT FOR DAD

I do agree with Jean that your taste bud's change over the year's but what about celery! I remember when you used to be able to buy big white stalk's of celery and it would be all covered in dirt. The smell was so pungent it will fill the house. Now all you can buy is a stalk of green stuff, not a smidgen of dirt in sight and with hardly any flavour what so ever. Not lovely and crispy like it used to be, just chewy and stringy these day's! Mind you, i used to dip each slalk into half a ton of salt before i ate it in those day's!!
Edit: I think my stalk should have been stick! Mind you the green stuff is a bit like chewing on a stick!! :>)

I COOKED A TINY BITT OF BEEF LAST NIGHT,,,
AN I GOT DRIPPING REAL DRIPPING
JUST ENOUGH TO HAVE A DOORSTEP OF BREAD
AN DRIPPIN,,ERRR RIGHT NOW,,,MMMMM

Susan, you are so right when it comes to celery, which is another one of my bugbears when it comes to food. Most celery in the shops is imported from Israel, and is green. If you buy a head of celery, you have to pull off all the green sticks, to get to a couple of very small white sticks in the middle, to eat with a pot of salt (as I like). It is a good job that I make lots of soups, and use up the greem sticks, or it would be a total waste. I am sure that eating green celery cannot be good for you. Afterall, you would not eat green potatoes, would you
Julia in Derbyshire