Husband will love the lemony shrimp and beans tommorow!
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I wish mine would. 
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Understood. It’s hard for me to imagine anyone’s list can be shorter than my husband’s.
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My cousin Bill: dark meat chicken, wings, pasta Bolognese, hot cheesy crab artichoke mayo dip , white bread, waffles, toast, raw tomatoes, and raw cucumbers. He came to visit me for 4 days and 4 nights, and I wish I’d known his food ‘restrictions’ before the visit. 
I still remember the restaurants where I took him and his wife over a 4 day visit in 2018. Italian at an old school Italian restaurant in Toronto (Bolognese), greasy spoon breakfast, pub (too noisy), waffle specialist brunch restaurant, free breakfast at a Residence Inn in Niagara Falls, small-town family restaurant in rural ON (club sandwich) , chain steakhouse (which served no wings and only chicken breast, so he had great difficulty making a choice), Greek-run family restaurant. His wife is open-minded and loves trying new things.
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Now there’s a great idea for a thread!
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I hear you. Mine isn’t picky at all except for this dislike for fresh parsley and strongly lemony dishes. What I would give for a gremolata!
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We keep a little bowl of gremolata /cilantro/ parsley/ extra lemon for the 2 of us who like it, to add at the table! You should Add Your Own Gremolata.
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I definitely add my own squeeze of lemon and sprinkle of parsley tableside! But dishes where those are the dominant flavors don’t really work.
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did you like?
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Yikes.
I love lemon, garlic, chilies. My step mother can’t eat lemon, garlic, chilies. Makes it very difficult to plan a meal when she’s in town!
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Hmmm…“what’s on their short list”? 
It sounds depressing. Or maybe “frustrating” is a better way to think about it.
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2023 wasn’t a great cooking year for me, so I hadn’t been able to think of anything I’d actually repeated besides my favorites from the cookbook Bavel, especially the buckwheat sourdough bread, but most of those I “discovered” in 2022.
The current NYC bagel thread made me realize that I did in fact repeat something many times this year: bagels! I’ve baked from, made cream cheese from, and made lox from Cathy Barrow’s book Bagels, Schmears, and a Nice Piece of Fish. I’ve used this book so often I wrote a thank-you email to the author, something I’ve never done before (though I probably should to Bryant Terry and Rachel Yang). I guess 2023 was better than I already remember it being. 
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How about: And What Else Don’t You Like That You Haven’t Tried???
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Wow. I think that would be grounds for divorce for me 
I positively love lemon, and tart dishes in general. Thank goodness my PIC and I are pretty much on the same culinary wave-length 
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There’s been seemingly a million threads like that, though. Or at least it feels like it. But a quick search revealed this fairly recent one. I’m sure there are similar ones, as they are chatty and therefore popular 
And this even more recent one:
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What I like about the lemony bean stew recipe is that it has enough things we both like, and I’ve spent some time finessing. While we don’t agree on how long shrimp should be cooked, or the appeal of carbs like rice and bread, the rest of it ( my stash of stock, cooked beans, local citrus, frozen shrimp) works. Not sure how I would theme a thread like that, but I’m thinking about it.
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Any estimates of the volume of leeks used in the lemony shrimp and beans? I think I will use onions and/or shallots since I have some.
