Food and drink - 2020

[squirmelia]

2020 isn't over yet, so maybe I'll add more things to this list! What did you eat and drink for the first time in 2020? (No animals please!) Also, if anyone has recommendations for online places to order interesting food, please let me know!

Food and drink I think I tried for the first time in 2020:

Ice-cream:
Toffee apple and bourbon
Halva pistachio
Edamame bean
Port
Cantaloupe melon
Fermented amarena cherry sorbet

Chocolate:
Algae/caramel/pineapple
Cheese/walnuts/grapes
Spaghetti ice-cream
Hemp praline
Waldviertler grey poppyseed
Scarlet runner bean
Sweet potato-passionfruit-polenta
Yuzu matcha Kit Kat

Savoury:
Vegan black pudding
Sausage roll crisps

Fruit:
Pineberries
Kiwi berries
Kissabel apples (red inside)
Red kiwifruit

Vegetables:
Fiddlehead ferns
Garlic scapes
Salty fingers
Kalettes

Drinks:
Commodore cocktail
Different kinds of port in Porto
Rhubarb and custard cider
Parma violet cider
Inka
Dalgona coffee

Previous years:
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013

Comments

[miss_newham]

I'm glad you've still been able to eat new things! I haven't really experimented much, but last week I had a chocolate orange stout and a cruffin (not on the same day, that would have been overwhelming!).

[squirmelia]

Some of the things were from the start of the year, but I did start ordering things like chocolate and strange vegetables online, which does add some novelty to my life sometimes!

Cruffin sounds interesting! Is that half croissant and half muffin? Or half crumpet and half muffin?

[miss_newham]

It seemed to be a croissant in the shape of a muffin, with a dollop of lemon curd in it (there was also a jam option). But I'd probably have to get another one to make sure...

[squirmelia]

I think you should indeed try more to check. Sounds good!

[mrs_leroy_brown]

I always enjoy reading this post :)

I am terrible at remembering new foods and/or am not particularly adventurous, but I the things I can remember are:
- crabeye beans - which according to Wikipedia is a kind of borlotti bean, which I have had before, but this was pink so I say it's new!
- Seedlip alcohol free spirits
- Lyre's Amaretti aka alcohol free amaretto, which I just had last night. Very nice in coffee!

[squirmelia]

Crabeye beans, excellent! I've not even heard of those.

[glyn]

Lemongrass chocolate.
Le Welsh (Welsh rarebit, as served in France)
Many novelty/craft beers - without reproducing my Untapped history, the most memorable was a mango sour. I'm saving the Peaky Blinders-branded Christmas Pudding Stout for later in the week.

Most of the new things I've tried were home cooking experiments: dalgona (with and without spirits), cashew carbonara. I finally made my own vegetable stock.

[squirmelia]

Oh, I forgot all about the dalgona craze! I did make that also.

Peaky Blinders-branded Christmas Pudding Stout sounds interesting!