I am the type of person who hates disliking foods, let alone an entire group of foods. As evidenced by this blog, I love food, trying new things, and sharing my experiences with others. There are few foods I truly hate, but throughout most of my life I’ve despised seafood. 🙁
This distaste for seafood has caused me a great deal of sadness over the years, and a while back I made it my personal mission to trick train myself to tollerate enjoy seafood. Once during my teens, my mom actually bet me $20 I wouldn’t eat a piece of sushi. This bet ended with me in tears and a lonely uneaten piece of sushi on my plate. (BTW – my mom still paid me the $20–think she felt bad for envoking tears 🙂 )
Whelp, I must say I’ve come along way since then! At this point, I thoroughly enjoy shrimp, crab, clams, and most other shell fish. I L-O-V-E sushi and calamari. (Insert golf clap here)
Despite these applaudable advances in my palate, I have not been able to find a fish I thoroughly enjoy eating. Every fish that I have tried comes up subpar (well unless it is fried — but fry pretty much anything and it’s tasty).
All day, I’ve been dreading tonight’s dinner. The plan: to eat and thoroughly enjoy a salmon patty sandwich courtesy of my Sunday Trader Joe’s shopping excursion.
When I got home, I noticed I was subconsciously avoiding dinner. I found plenty of things to clean and straighten up even though my stomach was grumbling. Finally I pulled the salmon out of the fridge and stood there staring at it for a few solid minutes. After much contemplation, I decided I needed a sauce for the salmon patty so I whipped one together:
Fish Sauce Recipe (not really sure what else to call this concotion…)
- 2 tbsp breakstones fat free sour cream
- ½ tsp horseradish
- 1/8 tsp minced garlic
- ¼ tsp lemon juice
- Salt and pepper
- Frank’s red hottttt
Once the sauce was assembled, I started choppin excessive amounts of onion and lettuce to top the salmon patty.
At this point, there was no more delaying the inevitable, so I threw the patty on the george. 😯
When I finally mustered up the courage to try the sandwich, I realized it wasn’t horrible — but it’s not exactly something I would look forward to eating either. I just don’t enjoy the flaky texture of fish, and I find it pretty bland. I would rather sink my teeth into a hamburger, turkey burger, piece of chicken, steak, etc.
I guess it’s one small step for woman… one giant leap still to come?
Stats on the sammy with 1 tbsp fish sauce recipe (above): 200 calories, 24g carbs, 3g fat, 23g protein, 4g fiber
Since dinner was mediocre, I figured I’d try something else new and throw together a protein shake using one of the samples the BF got me at the Vitamin Shoppe over the weekend.
Here’s what went into my first ever protein shake:
- 1/2 of a serving IntraPro Double Chocolate Pure Whey Protein
- 1/4 cup sliced frozen banana
- 3 ice cubes
- 8 ounces of water
Topped her off with a dollop of fat free whipped cream! This was actually quite tasty! I could really taste the bananas, but the chocolate was a little too subdued for me. Next time, I may use coffee instead of water (mocha frap baby!) or try adding some different fruits and cocoa powder.
Stats on the protein shake: 130 calories, 13g carbs, 2g fat, 13g protein, 2g fiber
7 Comments
I’m loving this blog, btw . . .
Yay! Mary likes fish, Mary Likes fish!
Funny how you tried to hide it from yourself under that big ass stack of lettuce,lol
Fish Tacos are great,with some cilantro and cooke pico de giao = great
Do clue what the cooke is.. I meant to say “and some pico de giao = great!”