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January 14, 2006

Tastes can change

When I was a kid, I never liked oatmeal. I also absolutely hated sweet potatoes and lima beans.

I still hate lima beans.

A couple of months ago, the doctor said my cholesteral was getting too high (they changed the limits of acceptable). He wrote me a prescription, but after reading all the possible bad things the drug could do, I thought I'd maybe try changing my diet first. So I tried some Quaker Instant Oatmeal - and surprisingly, I kinda liked it.

Next time I went to the grocery store, I looked at all the different varietis of Quaker Instant Oatmeal. I found this Quaker Oatmeal Supreme, and I tried it, and I absolutely love the stuff. Go figure - I've spent over 50 years thinking I despised oatmeal (except in cookies) and I love the stuff!!

And then ... sweet potatoes??? I despised the damn things - but then last year, at a hotel restaurant in Springfield, Mass, I had a salmon dish with fried sweet potato straws on the fish, and I really liked it.

A year later, John and I went to a comedy club and I ordered sweet potato fries - oh, my, I loved them!

And then, when I was in London right before Christmas, there was a pub on my way back to my hotel that had the British equivalent of cheese fries - big chunks of roasted white potatoes and sweet potatoes with some kind of white cheese melted over them and some kind of mayonaisse based sauce to dip the taters in. Oh, my - it was good!

So now, I take a sweet potato, cut it into big chunks, sprinkle some salt and olive oil over it and bake in the oven at about 400 for 30 minutes. You don't need butter on sweet potatoes, they are creamy and yummy by themselves, but if you feel like dipping the pieces in mayonnaise, well, that's pretty good, too.

I have tried lima beans again, thinking maybe I could stomach them, but no. They still suck. Biting into a lima bean just is icky -squish, if you know what I mean!

Posted by Beth at January 14, 2006 08:23 PM