What I ate and drank for the first time in 2015

[squirmelia]

What did you eat in 2015 that you’d never eaten before? What did you drink in 2015 that you’d never drunk before?

Fruit:
Níspero

Vegetables:
Watermelon radish

Chocolate:
Bakeable sweet potato kitkat
Bakeable pumpkin kitkat
Bakeable cheesecake kitkat
Citrus golden blend kitkat
Chocolate with bergamot

Ice-cream / ice lollies:
Blue sky caramel ice-cream
Saffron ice-cream
Cornish blue cheese and walnut ice-cream
Raspberry, tea and cake nitro ice-cream
Cantuccini and vin santo, and amarena croccante ice creams in a brioche bun
Damson and sour cream ice-cream
Quince and moscato d'Asti ice-cream
Mulled wine ice-cream
Panettone ice-cream
Dried yeast ice-cream
Strawberry and basil ice lolly

Other sweet things:
Kleinur
Bright purple taro cake
Tiramisu mochi
Espresso macaron with whipped blue cheese
A giant custard cream
A cronut
Smoked paprika fudge
Skyr
Spinach cake

Savoury:
Bibimbap
Injera
Happy hemp burger
Corn pudding
Cactus omelette
Lahmacun
Yakisoba in a brioche bun
Tarragon sponge
Mushroom and truffle steamed buns
Chengdu street tofu
Quail egg croquette puff
Yunnan style fried cheese
Shaanxi honeycomb oat noodles
Prosecco and elderberry crisps
Shakshuka

Drink:
Rosemary mojito
Cucumber soda
Cinnamon punch
Coffee berry and hibiscus soda
Rose lemonade tea
Gingerbread green tea
A Brazilian Monk
Gin and tonic mist (not really drinking)

Previous lists: 2013 and 2014.

What did you eat or drink for the first time this year? (No animals, please.)

Comments

[nickmurdoch.livejournal.com]

This is handy because I've been keeping a list! Some of these might be local Hawaiian names.

* Green Papaya Salad
* Longans
* Tree grapes
* purple sweet potatoes
* Abiu
* Taro
* Aloe
* Mountain Apple
* Poi
* Sugar cane
* soursop
* cacao pods
* ice cream cake (from KTA)

The nicest things there were the abiu and the green papaya salad, and the least nice things were the poi and the soursop.

I have also made lots of recipes I haven't tried before, but I haven't kept a list of those.

[nickmurdoch.livejournal.com]

Oh, and Skyr of course, now it has come to the UK. It is very good with honey :)

[elseware.livejournal.com]

I've quite a long list, but they are all animal-related, going to a challenging chinese resturant lately.

But, I can list Erguotou which is a chinese liquor which I quite like. Later in the year I read (OK, audibled) the Three Body Problem and was quite pleased when they went out to drink shots of Ergoutou and I knew what it was.