What is the last new food you ate?

Lotus root. Used sometimes in Chinese food.

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Samphire, I have tried it steamed and stir fried in butter, both are good. It tastes slightly salty which I like.

It tastes slightly salty because the tides wash over it. I grew up picking samphire and in Norfolk we rinse it thoroughly then boil it for 8-10 minutes until it just pulls off the stems. Eat like you would asparagus. Enjoy with vinegar and pepper.
Glad you enjoyed it!

Smoked Basa fish. Looks like smoked Haddock. I enjoyed it, but my sister didn't.

Thank you for the gluten free advice upthread. I shall try them. Just finding it a really antisocial and isolating condition.

We have just about every food known to man here because of the many,many different restaurants and cafes and I have tried just about everything, especially south East Asian food. I suppose the last ‘new’ thing was Vietnamese coffee. Very sweet, drips through onto condensed milk over ice. Just too sweet for me but the friends with us liked it.

Not had anything genuinely new since roughly Christmas when I had a purple rice pudding type dish as eaten in the Philippines.

Most of the vegetarian things mentioned above aren't particularly new to me - matcha, kohlrabi, samphire etc.
Kefir is something I've been making since the 70s.

I love trying new things but have to confess I can't find a way to cook Karela to make it palatable!

Freekeh. It's a wheat grain harvested when young and smoked. In a delicious recipe by my favourite gastroenterologist/cook Dr Saliha Mahmood Ahmed.