Considering how much time lately I spend thinking about food. My most recent idea? I think that I need a list of 10? foods that I should try in 2008. I tried this a while ago when I became a vegetarian – I went through a list in the beginning of Vegetarian Planet that 
gave me for my birthday (which is an excellent book if anyone is looking for an extensive vegetarian cookbook but doesn’t need pictures, because it has a lot of sidebars and explanations of things) of vegetables A-Z and just started trying them. Of course, I didn’t get very far before losing interest, but in the process I tried asparagus (which was awful, and it took me another 5 years to try them again, love them, and then learn how to cook them for real) and artichokes (which I loved) and avocados (also something I love). All I can remember from B is Brussels sprouts, which were awful and I’ll never try again.
In many ways, being a vegetarian expanded my food repertoire. I had to go outside of what I was familiar with or die of boredom. But living on my own for many years also aided in some… finicky-ness that I still have. Don’t get me wrong – I was always a picky eater, from the time I was a baby (what baby doesn’t eat applesauce? me, apparently). But cooking solely for myself for so many years meant that I could cook everything without onions and tomatoes and so forth. Of course, I no longer have this luxury (likewise when I was a vegetarian, I knew it wouldn’t be a lifetime decision because some day I might get married and have kids and that just wouldn’t work, or at least not with a lot of effort behind it), seeing as how 
likes his food with onions and tomatoes and he likes to eat a lot of foods that I would prefer didn’t exist (Manwich?). To be fair, he probably has to eat foods he wouldn’t were he single.
At any rate, I think it might be time for a new list, and I’m asking you for help. I’m thinking along the lines of ingredients, not specific recipes. I have to say that I don’t particularly care for fruits, but you can always suggest them anyways. I’m not going to list the foods I have tried, but I will try to respond in the comments to your suggestions.
