What is the last new food you ate?

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

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!

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.

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

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

Magenta8

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!

Lotus root. Used sometimes in Chinese food.

Elusivebutterfly

I tried kimchi recently but did not like it.

Yes I had this earlier this year as part of a dish in a Japanese Sushi restaurant.
I didn't like it either.
I almost never try new food.
OH and I are both terrible stick-in-the muds over food but I am the worst.

I'm suffering from PHD this week - Post Holiday Depression.

The best cure for this is to book another one 😎

Coffee flavour gelato at Lake Garda last week, yummy. I don't usually go for coffee flavoured things but really enjoyed it.

I'm suffering from PHD this week - Post Holiday Depression.

We have an SiL who is coeliac, you can buy Warburton’s sourdough bread from most supermarkets or a lovely sourdough loaf from Gail’s and Waitrose sell a good sourdough loaf, all gluten free.

I buy Warburton's gluten free Tiger bread from Tesco, it's the nicest I've found.

My Panasonic bread maker has gluten-free programmes for bread, cake, pasta and pizza dough.

Romola

I'm staying with friends and am drinking a margarita for the first time. Delicious, a bit like tequila which I had with DH in Malibu years ago.

Is a margarita not made with tequila?

I'm staying with friends and am drinking a margarita for the first time. Delicious, a bit like tequila which I had with DH in Malibu years ago.

I tried kimchi recently but did not like it.

I tried Keffir, not sure of the spelling there, is a yogurt drink. A bit like a milkshake but I wasn’t impressed, not overly fond of milky drinks, or yogurt 🙄

Plevey08

As newly diagnosed with Coeliac Disease I tried to make my own gluten free bread....it was disgusting. Oh how I miss the delicious sourdough. But alas no more.

We have an SiL who is coeliac, you can buy Warburton’s sourdough bread from most supermarkets or a lovely sourdough loaf from Gail’s and Waitrose sell a good sourdough loaf, all gluten free.

Kohlrabi. I was staying with my daughter a couple of weeks ago and bought it at the local farmers market. Totally new to me, but thinly sliced into a salad it was really tasty and apparently really nutritious. I've never seen it for sale before.

As newly diagnosed with Coeliac Disease I tried to make my own gluten free bread....it was disgusting. Oh how I miss the delicious sourdough. But alas no more.

Matcha tea. I can only assume it hadn't been made right. It was absolutely foul!

Vegan chocolate banana cake in a café. It was great.

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

Mamie

Guanciale from the local Italian deli. Cured pork made from pigs' cheeks. Like nothing else I have tasted, fabulous in spaghetti carbonara.

The only way to make a 'proper' carbonara!

MartavTaurus

Don't laugh, but heritage tomatoes.
I'd never tasted them before, and the flavour was amazing, well they were from a French Market in the South, and totally ripe. We drizzled olive oil on them, too good to put in a baguette!

We used to grow those in our garden in Normandy. DH used to keep the seeds for the following year. Here in England we have found some good ones in M and S from the Isle of Wight.

Not a food, but a drink - matcha .
It tastes like grass cuttings and needs flavouring .

Guanciale from the local Italian deli. Cured pork made from pigs' cheeks. Like nothing else I have tasted, fabulous in spaghetti carbonara.