Mushrooms

Well, family, I must tell you all that after vehemently opposing the consumption of mushrooms from an early age... I am loving to eat them cooked or raw! (NO, I am NOT pregnant!!) For the last 5 years or so I have not picked them off of my pizza. Much more recently I have been actually desiring to consume RAW mushrooms with ranch dressing.

What in the world has happened to my taste buds? I like carrots, broccoli, MUSHROOMS - raw or cooked. I guess this is yet another instance of my parents being right: I will grow to like veggies. I just cannot believe that I have been craving to eat the squishy, dry fungus colony. I am sure you can all remember me turning my nose up to mushrooms... but another day has dawned! :S I have become weird like the rest of the adults ;D

I have thought of many family times this weekend because I made spinach dip with cut up vegetables. When I took my first bite of broccoli lavishly doused in spinach dip, I was propelled for a moment to Grandma & Grandpa's basement for a Thanksgiving or Christmas feast. Sweet memories. :D It is so interesting that a smell or a taste can be so deeply associated in our brains with a location or a time. God makes us so complex!