Well, someone thought it was good!

[IamLoved]

Hello all!

I was experimenting tonight and tried to create a mushroom pate.
I added crimini mushrooms, garlic, nama shoyu, garlic, scallions, more garlic (do you see a problem here?) and some vaious other items and it was so awful! It was incredibly overpowering (gee do you think it could have been from all the garlic? When will I ever learn that you can always add more later?)
I thought it was horrible, but my 4 year old son wanted to try it too. I told him it wasn't very good but he insisted. I gave him a spoonful and he ate it and shook his head no at me to indicate that he didn't like it. "I told you." I said. Well along comes my 3 year old son and of course he just had to try it too. "It doesn't taste good." I said. Didn't matter, he had to try some. So I gave him a spoonful. He made a horrific face and shook his head and said no. "I told you it doesn't taste good." I told him.
Well by this time our 18 month old daughter (who is all raw, the others are about 80%) was making all kinds of noise over at the table indicting that she too, would like to try this goop. I really didn't want to give it to her, it really was very bad. Poor thing, I thought, she's going to hate it. Well she insisted (18 month olds can be so persuasive!). So I gave her a spoonful. She LIKED it! I couldn't believe it! She kept leaning forward in her chair to get another spoonful. (That's what she does when I feed her really good stuff like avocadoes, her favorite food)
So I guess it wasn't a total wash after all, but now she has really bad breath! Maybe all the garlic eh? :p

[Shan]

So cute! Raw meals take so much practice, don't they. I finally made something that worked out- corn chips.

[rawpriestess]

I don't care for any type of mushroom pate'


I LOVE mushrooms, but I don't care for what I lovingly call baby food, so although I make alot of pate's, I don't eat them all mushy, the texture is just ick to me.

I like to dehydrate them into a burger, or crackers, or a nugget or something with some moisture in the middle and some sturdiness on the outside.

so you might try that, but if you don't like the flavor, it's not gonna' get better in the dehydrator.

but experimentation is the only way to learn, that's how I learned, LOL and had numerous disasters along the way.

[rawhomeschoolmom]

Boy, you can say that again! I'm always making some mistake -- but the successes keep me going! :)

Yesterday I made the enchilada recipe for the first time. The enchilada itself turned out super ... BUT the filling tasted bitter -- I think because I added too much cumin; the recipe says just a dash, then I had just a little (I thought) in the bottom of the container, and thought, oh what the heck, and threw it in. When I get some more corn, I'll make it again and leave the cumin entirely out. This ever happen to anyone else out there?

On the other hand, I just had the most delicious raw lunch -- the angel hair pasta/marinara recipe with the Italian rawsage patties broken up and scattered on top of the zucchini and underneath the sauce ... YUMMM We used to be carnivores need our meat fix!

Going to make falafels later on today too; I've made them before and they turned out well. Plus the cucumber sauce .... yum yum yum

I still have some zucchini left ... going to have it tomorrow (noodles) with RP's delicious cheese sauce.

Anyway, glad to know I'm not the only one out there who has to keep throwing stuff out here and there!

Along that line -- I tried the mawintheraw recipe with the eggplant/chili -- the eggplant was okay but the chili was so salty ... yep you guessed it, out it all went. :D

[IamLoved]

Alot of it is trial and error.
For instance, I have learned that I do not like walnuts in savory dishes, just sweet, so I substitute a different nut or some sunflower seeds.
I was surprised that our little baby girl liked it though! I'm glad someone did, but I won't be making it again!