Yes you were a very picky eater! But we managed to get you to eat! I remember making grilled cheese sandwiches which I would have to cut into 4 pieces before you would eat it. You said it didn’t taste the same uncut. So I guess presentation does make a difference!
I still think presentation makes a difference! I used to painstakingly cut apples into thin slices, place them into a spiral on a plate, and drizzle peanut butter on top--and this was just as a snack for myself! I still do it sometimes, but I also finally bought an apple corer a while ago and it’s so much easier and faster than cutting the apples by hand 😅
Boyfriend hates soups... but when it's time to eat them, because I do love a soup and make it often at home, he always ends the meal very happy and satisfied. He just doesn't like the concept of it lol 😆 this zucchini valoutée sounds like a good idea to use up the last of the summer surviving veggies (not sure we have leek around already though, might use onion)
Thanks, Sinù! I used to be the same way with fish soups...for some reason they just sounded unappetizing to me (because I’d never really had seafood in soup before living in Spain) but I always ended up liking them. Now I know better and don’t complain when I hear it as an option for dinner 😂
Onion is definitely an acceptable replacement! Leeks are hard to find where my parents live (and expensive) so I usually end up subbing onion a lot when I visit them!
But getting back to the topic which I went far from, I’ve never thought of calling something soup or not. I’ve always thought if you eat it in a bowl it’s soup.
Yeah, but like--you also eat cereal in bowl. Does that make cereal a soup? 🧐 Clearly not, and the whole conversation is super silly, but it is interesting to think about where the line is drawn for classifying certain dishes!
This looks delicious! And do you know what, I've never thought so much about if something is a soup or not?! J will only eat soups that have been fully blended (off to make a vat of my Leek & Potato right now in fact to stash in the fridge) so I don't get to do much of the other type, but I think something is a soup if it is more than 50% liquid than solids when it comes to consumption. Otherwise it is a stew?
I think your definition of soup makes sense! It’s also more in line of what I think the definition would be here in Spain. In the US I feel like we go rogue and just call everything a soup. A cookbook would probably be more specific and have “Soups and Stews” as a section, but I think finding whats actually a stew in a list of “The Best Fall Soups” on a blog post wouldn’t be uncommon there. David and I have had lots of conversations about the distinctions in Spanish because I love knowing the detailed semantics of things haha
Yes you were a very picky eater! But we managed to get you to eat! I remember making grilled cheese sandwiches which I would have to cut into 4 pieces before you would eat it. You said it didn’t taste the same uncut. So I guess presentation does make a difference!
I still think presentation makes a difference! I used to painstakingly cut apples into thin slices, place them into a spiral on a plate, and drizzle peanut butter on top--and this was just as a snack for myself! I still do it sometimes, but I also finally bought an apple corer a while ago and it’s so much easier and faster than cutting the apples by hand 😅
Hello Kiki! Thanks for this lovely post :)
Boyfriend hates soups... but when it's time to eat them, because I do love a soup and make it often at home, he always ends the meal very happy and satisfied. He just doesn't like the concept of it lol 😆 this zucchini valoutée sounds like a good idea to use up the last of the summer surviving veggies (not sure we have leek around already though, might use onion)
Thanks, Sinù! I used to be the same way with fish soups...for some reason they just sounded unappetizing to me (because I’d never really had seafood in soup before living in Spain) but I always ended up liking them. Now I know better and don’t complain when I hear it as an option for dinner 😂
Onion is definitely an acceptable replacement! Leeks are hard to find where my parents live (and expensive) so I usually end up subbing onion a lot when I visit them!
But getting back to the topic which I went far from, I’ve never thought of calling something soup or not. I’ve always thought if you eat it in a bowl it’s soup.
Yeah, but like--you also eat cereal in bowl. Does that make cereal a soup? 🧐 Clearly not, and the whole conversation is super silly, but it is interesting to think about where the line is drawn for classifying certain dishes!
This looks delicious! And do you know what, I've never thought so much about if something is a soup or not?! J will only eat soups that have been fully blended (off to make a vat of my Leek & Potato right now in fact to stash in the fridge) so I don't get to do much of the other type, but I think something is a soup if it is more than 50% liquid than solids when it comes to consumption. Otherwise it is a stew?
I think your definition of soup makes sense! It’s also more in line of what I think the definition would be here in Spain. In the US I feel like we go rogue and just call everything a soup. A cookbook would probably be more specific and have “Soups and Stews” as a section, but I think finding whats actually a stew in a list of “The Best Fall Soups” on a blog post wouldn’t be uncommon there. David and I have had lots of conversations about the distinctions in Spanish because I love knowing the detailed semantics of things haha