This was just based on the general idea of shrimp paste fried chicken. I added plain yogurt to the marinade (original recipe I based on just used water to dilute the marinade) because I just love how tender and moist the resulting cooked chicken is when marinated in yogurt ( Read more... )

Lactose intolerance is a common inherited condition in which a person's gut loses, after childhood, its ability to digest the milk sugar called lactose. The sugary molecules float around undigested in the intestine, ferment, and create a gassy havoc. The effect is somewhat like eating any other indigestible carbohydrate, such as cardboard or grass.

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Because instant noodles don't need to be boring.


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We don't know beans about beans. Asparagus, potatoes, turkey drumsticks-you name it, we don't have a clue how the world makes it. I usually think I'm exaggerating the scope of the problem, and then I'll encounter an editor (at a well-known nature magazine) who's nixing the part of my story that refers to pineapples growing from the ground. She ( Read more... )

Absence of the knowledge has rendered us a nation of wary label-readers, oddly uneasy in our obligate relationship with the things we eat. We call our food animals by different names after they're dead, presumably sparing ourselves any vision of the beefs and the porks running around on actual hooves. Our words for unhealthy contamination-"soiled" ( Read more... )

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I can't stop reading Ender's Shadow! Bean is a very interesting character, and, admittedly, I'm looking forward to reading about Ender from another POV. Heh. Now headachey for more than a day though. Not a head-splitting migraine type that makes me puke and renders me useless, thank.you.God. But a headache, all the same. Maybe it's time to have my ( Read more... )

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