I think the robots sent us a pie.
Best ever pizza topping: chicken, garlic and baby spinach, lightly fried in olive oil with some Tuscan seasoning. Also, best ever pizza base if you're too lazy to make your own: Turkish flatbread. NOM.
And now, a pointless food meme, ganked from jocelyncs!
The Omnivore's Hundred is a list of foods the gastronomic Andrew Wheeler thinks everyone should try at least once in their lives.
The rules of the meme:
1) Bold any food that you have tried
2) Strike any food that you wouldn't eat on a bet.
2a) Italicize any food you'll never eat again.
2b) Put an asterisk next to any food you'd be interested in trying but have not yet.*
3) Underline any food you love, love, love!
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros*
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile*
6. Black pudding (it wasn't the taste, it was the texture. Would you believe pigs' blood is wierdly gritty?)
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush (ew, eggplant.)
11. Calamari (again, a texture thing. I just don't do non-skeletal muscle.)
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle (I don't care how schmancy it is, it's still a mushroom.)
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes (mmm, ginger wine.)
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries (yay blackberry brambles!)
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche*
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bread bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly
39. Gumbo*
40. Oxtail*
41. Curried goat (very fond memories.)
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal* (like, a bite of it. With a lot of raita.)
44. Goat's milk*
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more*
46. Fugu*
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel*
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear*
52. Umeboshi*
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald's Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle*
57. Dirty gin martini*
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S'mores*
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin (... okay, I googled this and got a rock. Also, a death metal band. Neither of those things seem edible, unless the gourmand in question is a Discworld troll.)
64. Currywurst*
65. Durian*
66. Frogs' legs (I couldn't, just because I love frogs too much.)
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake (remind me to go to the bakery today.)
68. Haggis (pleah, stomach.)
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho* (if only for the Red Dwarf reference. *geek*)
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe*
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill* (as long as I didn't end up with a car full of rancid cow fluids, being chased across state lines by angry rednecks because I wrote 'Man-love Rules OK' on Richard Hammond's pick-up truck.)
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail (if it's anything like winkle, then definitely not.)
79. Lapsang souchong*
80. Bellini* (looks delicious.)
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant*
85. Kobe beef*
86. Hare
87. Goulash*
88. Flowers
89. Horse (see above re: frogs.)
90. Criollo chocolate*
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa*
94. Catfish*
95. Mole poblano (I've only ever had a taste, but I would love to have some more.)
96. Bagel and lox (love bagels, but I'm not fond of salmon in any form.)
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee*
100. Snake (weirdly enough, the frog and horse thing again. I didn't realise I was this sentimental!)
The two-week break has arrived, which is fortunate, because my computer is crashing like it's never crashed before. Tomorrow, when the student computer place is open, I'm calling the guy down here no matter what, because it is getting genuinely fucking ridiculous. There's a difference between not being able to play games or watch videos without it crashing, and not being able to run the machine for ten minutes at a time. Thank God for LJ's autosave function, that's all I'm saying.
And now, a pointless food meme, ganked from jocelyncs!
The Omnivore's Hundred is a list of foods the gastronomic Andrew Wheeler thinks everyone should try at least once in their lives.
The rules of the meme:
1) Bold any food that you have tried
2) Strike any food that you wouldn't eat on a bet.
2a) Italicize any food you'll never eat again.
2b) Put an asterisk next to any food you'd be interested in trying but have not yet.*
3) Underline any food you love, love, love!
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros*
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile*
6. Black pudding (it wasn't the taste, it was the texture. Would you believe pigs' blood is wierdly gritty?)
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush (ew, eggplant.)
11. Calamari (again, a texture thing. I just don't do non-skeletal muscle.)
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle (I don't care how schmancy it is, it's still a mushroom.)
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes (mmm, ginger wine.)
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries (yay blackberry brambles!)
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche*
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bread bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly
39. Gumbo*
40. Oxtail*
41. Curried goat (very fond memories.)
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal* (like, a bite of it. With a lot of raita.)
44. Goat's milk*
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more*
46. Fugu*
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel*
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear*
52. Umeboshi*
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald's Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle*
57. Dirty gin martini*
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S'mores*
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin (... okay, I googled this and got a rock. Also, a death metal band. Neither of those things seem edible, unless the gourmand in question is a Discworld troll.)
64. Currywurst*
65. Durian*
66. Frogs' legs (I couldn't, just because I love frogs too much.)
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake (remind me to go to the bakery today.)
68. Haggis (pleah, stomach.)
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho* (if only for the Red Dwarf reference. *geek*)
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe*
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill* (as long as I didn't end up with a car full of rancid cow fluids, being chased across state lines by angry rednecks because I wrote 'Man-love Rules OK' on Richard Hammond's pick-up truck.)
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail (if it's anything like winkle, then definitely not.)
79. Lapsang souchong*
80. Bellini* (looks delicious.)
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant*
85. Kobe beef*
86. Hare
87. Goulash*
88. Flowers
89. Horse (see above re: frogs.)
90. Criollo chocolate*
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa*
94. Catfish*
95. Mole poblano (I've only ever had a taste, but I would love to have some more.)
96. Bagel and lox (love bagels, but I'm not fond of salmon in any form.)
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee*
100. Snake (weirdly enough, the frog and horse thing again. I didn't realise I was this sentimental!)
The two-week break has arrived, which is fortunate, because my computer is crashing like it's never crashed before. Tomorrow, when the student computer place is open, I'm calling the guy down here no matter what, because it is getting genuinely fucking ridiculous. There's a difference between not being able to play games or watch videos without it crashing, and not being able to run the machine for ten minutes at a time. Thank God for LJ's autosave function, that's all I'm saying.