Comments on: Question of the month: What cooking trend would you like to see disappear?

By: Cyndi Lavin

Cyndi Lavin — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:13:48 +0000

Do you guys think it’s a macho thing? You know, “My mouth is stronger than your mouth?”

I love hot food, up to a point, but if that point is crossed, my taste buds go numb…what’s the point of that?

By: Jera

Jera — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:18:11 +0000

Lisa, I agree with you! I’m not allergic to hot peppers and I love TexMex, but I don’t like food that burns my mouth so much that I cannot taste anything else for the rest of the day. When I see hot peppers in a recipe I usually just omit them and in a restaurant I will ask them to omit the hot peppers, or I just order something different. I know more people who will not eat hot peppers than ones that will, so I don’t understand why these restaurants want to make everything so hot.

By: Lisa Harrigan

Lisa Harrigan — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:35:31 +0000

I would love to see the end of Hot Chili Peppers in Everything, whether it was in the original recipe or not.
I am allergic, and more and more I can’t eat at restaurants, as they are throwing those hot things in every pepper blend and on everything!
Oh, and Tex Mex Everywhere! (see that chili peppers allergy). I went to one of my favorite IRISH Restaurants (its a chain) and they had changed the menu to TexMex. WTF? What happened to IRISH?
*sigh*
I can’t wait for this fad to be over.

By: Cyndi Lavin

Cyndi Lavin — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:33:50 +0000

Thank you, Jera, I couldn’t agree with you more! I love real organic produce, and often times I can really tell a difference in the taste…meaning it actually *has* a taste!! I will tend to choose local over “organic” that has been raised far away, because I think I’m spending more on transportation and storage, and it’s just not as fresh as my local stuff.

By: Cyndi Lavin

Cyndi Lavin — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:31:28 +0000

Jean, you probably need to move it into your *art* drawer, where you might actually find a use for it

By: Jera

Jera — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:43:46 +0000

I love produce from Farmer’s Markets, but I do not like when companys tag their food with the word “organic” and charge twice the price. I do prefer buying locally grown and I think the public needs more clarification on organic products so we can know when something is overpriced. I don’t think the trend for organic foods should disappear, but the fake organic foods should.

By: Jean

Jean — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:02:13 +0000

I bought a little thingy to cut carrot spirals and do other cute things with veggies. The live demo was so entertaining that I was simply seduced.

I have never used the silly thing and wouldn’t even remember how.

Yet there it still sits in my utensil drawer because, who knows, someday I may really need to do some vegetable art

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