Tasty Tuesday or any other day?
My taste changed. For some weeks I did miss a certain "taste sensation", like my kid called it, by now I do not care anylonger.
This morning I had breakfast for the first time since long.
What did I eat? Beschuit! It is typical Dutch and yes we Dutch people still eat it after all these years. It is not expensive and you can save it longer as bread. Once it was ment to be for shipmen. For sure it did not look the way it looks now. It was dry and hard.
Beschuit is actually a roud bread. It is once baked, after that it is cut in 13 slices and baked for a second time.
You can eat it with: cheese, brown sugar, strawberries, "muisjes" (after a baby is born), marmelade and.... chocolate sprinkles!
No, not the ones you buy for your cake, those tiny, tasteless ones, but the kind we have and eat with our bread.
By the way: You can eat beschuit with yogurt or add some hot milk to it.
Already as I little kid I loved it.
Once I made my mother's breakfast, served it to her at bed (more a must, she ordered it).
I made "beschuit with hagelslag" (hagelslag = chocolate sprinkles). My mother was furious, she kept yelling at me, threw it through the bedroom and beat me up. According to her it was not the way how to eat "beschuit". It had to be brown sugar!
To be honest I still do not understand why. I gave her something I loved most of all.
It did infect me... I try to ignore it after all these years, but still find it hard to really enjoy eating it the way I like it most.
My second (and last) meal of today will be: Brussels sprouts.
It is winterfood and healthy. I will eat it with some applesauce (if toddlers/kids do not like the taste of their food it is common to give some applesauce with it).
I always loved eating Brussels sprouts. Our whole family did. They say people hate it or love it and no I do not find it smell.
The ones I will eat today I bought about 4 weeks ago. I saved them in the hall since I have no longer a fridge and freezer.
Fresh they taste way better as the frozen ones or what you can buy in a pot.
The water I did cook the Brussels sprouts in I save.
There are vitamins in it. I will not use it for us this time, but for the dogs. I will cook in it what I did cut off the Brussels sprouts (some edges and leaves. Vegetables and especially cabbage is hard to digest). I will add this to the dogfood. We do not waste anything.
As a baby and toddler I was severely malnourished. I still have problems if it comes to eating and digesting. I take certain vitamines and minerals, also because I take prednisone.
This is my entry at the #tasty-tuesday-competition. If you like to join too have a look at @qurator.
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@wakeupkitty Mothers say things that they do not know will stay with their child for many years, If she knew that I am sure she would not have said it. I love Brussels sprouts but have never heard of eating them with applesauce, I will have to try it.
I wish I could agree with you... my mother did not care about her children or other people. She beat us kids up with wipes, dog chains and more. My bother in law said she is still the same terrible old witch. He was married for 20 years with my sister so saw enough. As my sister died she kicked him and her 4 grandchildren out, moved without a word. She knew what she said, did and still does everything in her power to break people. I left as I was 15, as she tried to strangle me again.
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OMG @wakeupkitty I am sorry for the childhood you had, I can not fathom a mother being like that. Someone should have stepped in and took her kids from her, you are lucky to be alive. I am sending you a virtual "HUG".
My father left, year later I asked him why he did not take us with him. His answer: if I would have done that she would have been in a madhouse. I said that is exactly the place were she belongs.
But fact was he started a new life and did not want us and left the responsibility of taking care of a psychopath with me as he left with the words: Take good care of your mother.
I know there are way more mothers like that. I once read a book about a girl with a mother like that. She was tight to the table, looked in the shed, beaten up and as cps came mother was so kind and fooled everyone. Nobody at school knew how or what. As I read it I thought: OMG this is exactly my life. I forgot the name of the book and still can not find it. Well if I want I can write my own horror.
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@wakeupkitty I feel bad for you, and shame on your father. He is to blame for not speaking up and saving his children from her.
I agree with you and also told him so. He only saved his own butts my little brother survived but is broke for the rest of his life. My father even denied what happened... did as if he made it up.
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so sad @wakeupkitty, in cases like yours it is wise to only look ahead not what is behind you. You sound like a strong woman ,a true survivor
It is the only way to survive and have a life as well. Thanks
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