So, the last few meals my husband cooked were super good, and I when I told him yesterday that he's on a streak of very above average cooking... He started to laugh and said that he changed his seasoning, and that the last meals that I loved so much only had granulated garlic and lovage salt in them.
I guess I should feel kind of insulted but I'm autistic and it makes sense that I prefer food that mostly just tastes like what's in it plus some umami?
@tine_schreibt i totally understand this... i eventually grew out of my beige foods only phase (like, after 18 years) and started to enjoy a wide variety of food. but i like to be able to taste the original flavor of things, and find it a bit overwhelming to have too many competing flavors.
@tine_schreibt My wife always used lots of seasoning in meals she prepared. It's not like they tasted bad, quite the opposite, but the seasoning was always the primary taste. Also, sometimes she used too much salt which really ruins a meal for me.
When it happened that I prepared a meal she sometimes told me how good it would taste and I was like "Well, I've just put stuff together and added a little salt and pepper. Isn't this just how it's supposed to taste?"
When I cook (which is rare), I mostly just use some cheese as seasoning :D
And I feel the same, food with seasoning doesn't necessarily taste bad, but without most of it it's even better. I feel like I can focus more on the taste of the actual ingredients instead of having to taste them somewhere between all the herbs and spices.
Also, strong tastes and too many tastes at once are overwhelming to me. I literally had flashbacks after a salad I once ate -.-