Bananas - Only Good for Sex Ed Class

I have to tell you that I hate bananas with a passion and on all levels.  I swear the only good use for them is in sex-ed class to demonstrate how to put on a condom.  The texture, the taste, the smell, all of it.  The first time my husband cooked me dinner, he served be a beautiful dessert filled with bananas.    I managed to eat it because I was being polite, but I avoided the bananas themselves as much as possible.  Dominic teases me about that all the time to this very day.   He and I can laugh about it now, but at the time the menu was such that I really was wondering if I was going to leave hungrier than when I arrived.

A few years ago, a friend found out about my banana thing as she calls it and BA Tortuga thought it was funny.  See I told her how much I hated them and that when you add bananas to fruit salad, you can't just pick them out because they taint the entire salad and make to taste banana-y.  (Yuk as far as I'm concerned.  She thought it was a hoot and then the packages started.  I really wish I knew what makes me react this way.  I love most all other fruit, but this one I can't stand.


Every year for Christmas and my birthday, she sends me something with bananas on it.  I have gotten squeaky bananas, stuffed bananas, banana plates and god knows what else.  But the best item she ever found is a banana stained glass panel.  That particular gem she sent me for my birthday this year.

The only thing I wonder, read dread, is what she's going to come up with next.  Dominic just laughs at me and the gifts as they come.

Welcome

Hello everyone!!!!   My name is Andrew Grey and I am a romance author as well as a lover of food.   I also a very picky eater.  My family will tell you stories about the things I will and won't eat.  For years I tried to hide the things I didn't like, especially when I'm in public because for a very long time, I was ashamed of it.  Let's face it, there are a number of foods that I do not ever want to eat and I may as well be up front about it.

My husband, Dominic, spent many years as a pastry chef and he is an amazing cook.  I love him dearly, for many reasons, but partly because he never makes meals that I don't like, but that often means that he either makes something different for himself or that he goes without eating some of the things he likes.

So this blog is a way for me to exorcise my reluctance and try to deal with the fact that I make my husband's life more difficult because of my pickiness.

It is my hope that together we can discuss and laugh over things I don't like as well as some of the worst restaurant experiences I have ever encountered.  So stay tuned. I hope there is plenty of fun in store.