Cooking without tasting!

[mygarden]

I am learning a new skill. Cooking for my family without tasting. I just made it through one of my "previous" favorite dishes without tasting a bite.

I just realized that I may have made way too much since I can't eat 1/2 of it...like I used to.

[JulieB]

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My hubby has been doing Atkins with me, but he is at goal now so I've been making potatoes & brown rice for him...it is WEIRD cooking something I can't taste! Potatoes are pretty easy, but I wanted to try the rice to make sure it was done...didn't tho

[Whatsername]

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I did the same thing recently. I now have 1/2 of a dish of a goulash in my freezer for my kids to have another night. Initially, I was saying to myself "What was I thinking!".

Jane

[chinadoll]

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Sometimes I bite a piece of pasta to test doneness and then spit it out. LOL Usually I call the kids in to taste test food.

[Ohbehave007]

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I remember making banana cream pie or my in laws (they visit once a year) and I had to make two pies...one for my boyfriend and brother to taste so I knew if it needed anything and then the other for the in-laws. I never tasted it but I was told I am a goddess . I love baking.

[chauber]

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I catch myself all the time when I am making macaroni and cheese for the kids...I pick up a noodle to test if it is done...then I feel like smacking myself as I throw it in the sink. It is a hard habit to break!

[not2late]

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Just a story about "tasting"....

When I was growing up, I had two male cousins who would stay over with us during summer vacation. If mom cooked something, for example spaghetti sauce, and wanted a taster, they would volunteer. This is how they "tasted" the sauce: they would each take a bowl. Then put a couple of ladles of the sauce into their bowls. then they would eat the sauce with bread. After that, if the sauce needed more salt they would tell my mom. she would add more salt and they would "taste" it again---a few more ladles of sauce into their bowls, more bread, etc. Needless to say, mom would have to cook a vat of anything when they were around because they didn't taste---they ate!

They did the same thing with cookies, muffins, rolls, etc. : if my sisters or I baked a dozen cookies, they would "taste" at least 6 of them.

Same thing for beverages. I remember making a pitcher of lemonade. After they finished "tasting" more than half of it, they determined it needed more sugar.

I remember asking them why can't they just taste a spoonful and they told me that a spoonful wasn't enough to taste anything.

Everyone thought this was really cute. Afterall, they were "growing boys" with "healthy appetites". So the entire family tolerated it.

Now those two "growing boys" are morbidly obese men with the usual high blood pressure and diabetes problems that run in my family. Oh and if you ask them to "taste" anything, they still do the same exact thing as they did when they were younger.