You want food photos, eh? It's dangerous to ask me for photos. I like posting them a little too much

[arwyn]

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[anikay]

Yumm x 4!!

[natichu]

we eat similar breakfasts.

[natichu]

what did you do to prepare teh beet greens?

[arwyn]

chopped 'em up and stir-fried 'em with garlic, salt and probably a bit of lemon juice or balsamic vinegar (can't remember now but that's usually what I do with beet greens if I'm not putting them in a soup or a smoothie). Sometimes garlic, ginger and lemon juice is good, too.

[seaopaque]

OH MAN BEET BURGERS. So sad I missed those.

Now, I know how good goji berries and molasses are for you but I don't like them, especially molasses. Gotta work on this.

[arwyn]

I think I was just so iron deficient for a while there that now anything containing iron tastes delicious to me. My favourite foods are all the ones with the most iron: oysters, mussels, medium-rare beef, raisins, molasses, etc.

Oh who am I kidding. I just like everything except fish balls.

[seaopaque]

Haha, you don't like fish balls? What do you mean exactly by fish balls?

On your iron list I like all of those things except the raisins and molasses. When I ate beef, I would order a steak medium-rare. Does the iron leech out with cooking?

[arwyn]

In Malaysia (and other parts of S.E. Asia, I believe) they make these grey meatballs of processed fish. They range in size from golf-ball (on a stick) to marble (thrown into every vegetable dish imaginable). They taste really fishy. Maybe I would like them now, it's been about eight years since I tasted one, but I hated them at the time. At the university cafeteria in Penang (buffet style) there would be these big vegetable dishes that looked so good: steamed greens or green beans or whatever and I'd be excited because everything else was so oily and slimy and spicy and I'd take a big portion of the green stuff... and then it had fish balls in it. Ewwww. And it would taste like really fishy fish instead of green beans or whatever I was hoping for.

I don't know anything about iron leaching. I just hate over-done steak.

[thursiya]

Fish balls are so gross! They're popular *everywhere* in Asia. But there is no shortage of gross foods in Asia, like tea eggs, stinky tofu, and congealed pig's blood pops.

[arwyn]

Good thing most Asian countries make up for it by having so much extremely delicious food!

[seaopaque]

FUCK STINKY TOFU. Of course I couldn't ever eat it... I could barely stand to walk by it. I didn't get exposed to it on my first trip to China but it seemed omnipresent on trip #2.