Posts from ‘Food’
Robocop was a student once
What can I honestly say about this!?
I mean obviously the words Awesome and Bloody Marvellous come to mind, but it also raises some questions not the least of which is why isn’t Robocop trying to sell me stuff in Australia!?!?
It’s OK to desperately crave noodles at the end of the ad!
PS I know about the crispy chicken things that Robocop tries to sell us in that other ad!
So the other day I made up a batch of pesto to have with pasta, the pesto had pine nuts in it.
Had I been made aware of the following excerpt from the wikipedia page reagarding pine nuts I may not have done this:
Risks of eating pine nuts
The eating of pine nuts can cause serious taste disturbances, developing 1-3 days after consumption and lasting for days or weeks. A bitter, metallic taste is described. In general, a minority of pine nuts on the market present this problem. Though very unpleasant, there does not seem to be a real health concern.
This phenomenon was first described in a scientific paper in 2001. Since the article, experiences of the phenomenon have been reported by hundreds of people worldwide (US, Canada, South Africa, Finland, Iceland, Germany, and many more).
In fairness to the article I doubt I would have believed it, but don’t worry baby because I’m a believer now!!
Everything I’m currently eating has a bitter metallic taste to it, the best I can explain it is like dishwashing liquid in the back of my throat.
It’s gross.
I hate pine nuts.
They’re stupid.
Over recent years I stopped watching a lot of reality television, I used to enjoy Survivor and The Amazing Race for numerous reasons that I won’t bother going into here but I bored of them after a while and pretty much swore off them (this is not an opening for you reality TV snobs to spit your bile everywhere – we know that a lot of reality TV is absolute trash so no need to act superior about it).
Tracey and I have however been watching MasterChef Australia, which for my international readership that might not know of it, is a cooking show where amateur chefs compete in cooking challenges etc.
I admit the show has sucked me in, we have favourites and of course villains but the best part of the show isn’t even on the show!
You see Tracey and I were eating really poorly, same meals over and over, really poor processed junk, yes even vegetarians can eat badly! Now after watching MasterChef we’ve been encouraged to plan out our meals and eat better, the dessert above is a prime example of this, double choc brownie with double cream and strawberries. Yeah sure it’s probably not healthy but damn it tastes nice and it’s a lot better than some chocolate bar for dessert!
Two other meals that I’ve done over the last two nights:
That’s Sweet potato frittata with tomato salsa – everything from scratch including the salsa (thank you chef Ramsey).
The other meal (tonight’s) was a spiced lentil soup served with a simple flat bread, again everything was made from scratch and I even got to use my coriander that Baxter has been guarding.
I think one of the smartest moves of the show was to put it on at dinner time, so for the last couple of weeks when we had pizza over and over again there was natural jealousy of what they were making on television. I’ve always loved cooking and yet just haven’t been making the time for it. It’s also been fun watching people’s reactions on Twitter.
Now to open my comic book themed restaurant! (G’nort garden salads?)
