So what new "food" was introduced to you by your partner?

[speedymama]

When I started going out with DH, we use to take turns to cook. He introduced me to things like instant mash, Fray Bentos pies and stewed meat in a tin.

I still married him anyway.

I still treat DH now to Fray Bentos pies but he still refuses to indulge my love of cous-cous, chickpeas or lentils.

So what delightful, mouthwatering culinary delights did you first happen on when you met your partner or did you introduce them to your favourite treat?

Mine introduced me to "thunder and lightening". Bread with clotted cream and syrup.

My hips will never forgive him

pak choi

i introduced him to fried egg sandwiches

He introduced me to packet stir-fry sauces.

yorkshire puddings - they were just something my family never cooked.

Mushrooms in spag bol. I never bothered before. Actually, mushrooms in absolutely everything - we are family Fungi now.

Pot Noodles and Findus Crispy Pancakes...

(Barf emoticon)

Packet everything - I never touched before. Will never convert me to:
Fray Bentos or any tinned meat dish (e.g. curry)
Packet mash
Packet sauces
gingsters pasties
Vindaloos
English mustard
Lava bread
Overcooked liver

Has converted me to:
pasta sauces (but only the guy from New England who's name escapes me)
Packet rice
French mustard

Speedymama - we're not married to the same blocker are we?!

big hams (he once made a huge noise about making a cheesy white sauce to go with a big ham around xmas -- but accidentally used wholemeal flour. Mmm, nice.)
Pasta with tinned tomato
Pasta with tinned tuna
Pasta with longlife cream and bacon bits (carbonara, apparently)

Brown rice, tofu, soba noodles/buckwheat noodles ect. It's not that I didn't have these foods before but just that now they are regularly in our diet and they wern't befor.

Oh and don't think for a moment that dp can cook, he just requests these foods.

He introduced me to gin and tonic and hollandaise sauce - which his family all adore. I think they would have for breakfast if they were allowed. Obviously I had tried both before, but he brought them into daily use!

Oh and dried Shitake mushrooms which are actually totally fab.

Biltong. DH refuses to eat anything processed and packaged. Mind you this is the man who was weaned on pureed fillet steak (his dad is an aspiring chef).

rhubarb
gooseberries
mapple syrup
greek yogurt
sushi

M&S Food hall

dp introduced me to Salt N Pepper Squid!...it is v. yum yum (it gotta be cooked right). Indian foods...i was brought up having english homemade dishes and now and again have burgers and chips!...

Dp had literally tried everything as he like to cook

Under ripe mango or sour green cooking apples dipped in a mix of Garam Marsala powder, brown sugar and Vinegar. Sounds barftastic but it is gorgeous and something he ate alot growing up in Fiji.

And what he used to call "Chinese lollies" which are dehydrated plums with some sort of sugary, spicey coating. We sometimes find them in Chinese Supermarkets. They are a weird combination of extreme sweet and sour and practically turn your mouth inside out, an aquired taste but I love them now.

Pesto, Tartex and Sosmix (not together).

aromatic duck pancakes - up til i met him i could live with only eating chicken, beef, pork and occasionlly lamb (love it but hte the guilt) but he's one of these who will try any meat possible zebra, alligator, kangaroo etc. but i wont entertain it as i dont see the need to.

but now i love crispy duck pancakes and its all his fault lol

Oh yes, I forgot about the Pot Noodle. I tried one mouthful. Never again. It must be a man thing because I just don't get it.

He once complained to me that I should give our 3yo DTS proper food like he received as a child, e.g. tin stewed meat with with Smash and tin veg.

Maybe it is cultural thing because I grew up on West Indian food whereas he is English.

I introduced DH to anything that doesn't come from a packet in Iceland or isn't indigenous English Fare.

He'd never even tried a kebab (I mean, what a waste of those teen years!)

Now he loves good food, wine (also new to him with the exception of his Mum's favouriote- she who swapped some lanson we gave her for her mates Liebfraumilch!) and ahs gained 2 st (A good thing, he was a skinny rake before.

lol peachy-my DH had never even had a chickpea
Oh that boy owes me soooooo much!!

Dh had once tried a curry

or rather a VESTA curry which isn't the same thing
at all

These days he plans holiday trips around the fidhmopngers (he grills them on the abrbie for us in whatever marinade I had made previously)

Now, DH and MIL blamed the linited diet (sunday roast on a four week rotation of chicken, pork, beef and lamb; monday bubble and squeak; tuesday shepherds pie; wednesday egg bacon and chips thursday salad (ie lettuce cucumber and ham or egg); friday chippy; saturday egg bacon and chips again)
on FIL, but as soona s FIL ran off with his girlfriends he started eating in restaurants and takeaways which was a bit .

yet MIL is a canteen chef / professional wedding cake confectioner

So quite what was going on there I will never know

Steak Pie, Beans ad Crisps together on the same plate. You eat the beans by scooping them up with the crisps