Cottage Cheese and Asparagus
Posted by erin at May 22, 2003 03:51 PMThis week I have tried two foods that I have not eaten in twenty years. One is asparagus, and the other, cottage cheese.
I remember when I was small my dad ate quite a bit of cottage cheese. I tried some once or twice and decided that it was slimy and awful.
When I was growing up, my family kept an asparagus patch. Every spring my mother would pick asparagus and sell it by the quarter-bushel for extra cash. My brother and I had to pick it, too - it turns out asparagus is a giant pain in the ass to pick. One usually needs a pocket knife to cut it, and it requires bending over, as asparagus must be cut a couple inches from the ground. It doesn't grow close together, so this means walking and bending and stooping - which is hard on the back.
Every spring our house would fill with the smell of freshly picked asparagus cooking on the stove - and if you ask me, it smells like piss. I refused to eat such a back-paining piss-smelling food.
That is, until last Sunday when I was at a friend's parent's house for dinner. Rather than be rude and snub the asparagus, I gave it a try. I was neither impressed by the taste, nor disgusted.
Cottage cheese, on the other hand, comes in delicious low-fat flavors with a similar calorie count to low-fat yogurt. It tastes cheese-errific, and otherwise sublime. It is no where near as slimy as I remember it.
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May 23, 2003 12:43 AM, Maggie said:
I used to hate cottage cheese when I was little too. In Poland we serve cottage cheese in a more drained form, so it comes in a block that you can cut, not in a container because it's so gooey. I love cottage cheese now. I went to Poland two years ago and tried the solid kind of cottage cheese and it was even better. Hooray for cottage cheese!
P.S. Asparagus is really good in pretty small doses.
May 23, 2003 08:34 PM, Halifax said:
One would like to like asparagus because it's so Edwardian; unfortunately, it's also foul.
May 26, 2003 09:50 PM, Kari said:
What is Edwardian about asparagus?
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