Eight (not so) random things
May 25th, 2007I’ve been (implicitly) tagged in a synchronous crossfire by Litlove, Dorothy and Emily, so there we go: eight random things about me.
- I can eat celery, brussel sprouts, cabbage, swiss chard, broccoli. As a kid, I would have died on the spot had my mother tried to force-feed me any of those. Parents, never despair.
- I can cook an excellent cassoulet.
- I love making my own bread, and it is occasionally good
- I love my cereals with organic full-fat milk; the rest is white water.
- I like to shred my salad fast-food-iceberg-lettuce style.
- I cannot resist a genuine Pan Bagnat.
- I can make English muffins, and they are sometimes delicious.
- I add tabasco sauce in near-lethal doses to most of my hot dishes.
Apparently, my random selection looks biased. I wager there is correlation with my glycemia somehow. Never write on an empty stomach.
Bon appétit.
PS: I will post a picture for each of the above things before the end of 2007.
I’m with you on number one, although as a kid I’d eat celery (especially when it was topped with peanut butter), and as an adult, I will eat, but don’t exactly seek out brussel sprouts and Swiss chard. I’ve recently re-introduced organic whole milk back into my diet. It’s heavenly. I’m not planning on going back to skim.
Oh, I bet your English muffins are wonderful! I keep thinking I should cut down on the amount of bread I eat, but that would be very, very hard …
I make bread too, and have since I was very small. Once in a while we run out and I don’t have time to replenish the supply and we have to buy bread. This always makes me feel terribly guilty. I have been told that my bread is excellent, but to say it is always good would be bragging. . . OK. It is always good.
Emily: as we have subscribed to a direct farmer-to-customer system where we get a basket of fruit and vegetables every friday, we do not get to choose what we eat. Even if I do not seek out celery or Swiss chard, when there is some in the basket, we have to eat it. I really learnt tons of great ways to prepare vegetables I used to dislike.
Dorothy: as a matter of fact, it has been pouring down since morning, and I think I’ll prepare muffins for this afternoon’s tea. Picture will follow.
healingmagichands: do you use special flour mix or yeast? I use plain white flour and supermarket dehydrated yeast, and I find it very challenging to reach the same quality as what I can get from the next boulangerie.
I bet your bread and your English muffins are better than you let on
You’d have to come here to check.
Well I’m coming to dinner round yours! Cassoulet sounds yummy yummy. And your first comment about green vegetables cheers my maternal heart. My son believes green to be the sign of poison….
I do not know kids who cannot walk because their parents failed to teach them properly. Maybe taste is one of those things that can be helped but can’t be taught.
Fish. Fish was something I couldn’t stand in childhood. It was more because of the bones than just the taste, but the taste and smell too. The only way to feed me fish was one of my mother’s special recipes (fried in bread crambs).
And I ate almost no fish until about a year ago. Suddenly, everything changed. Fish is one of my favourite foods. Any way it comes - fried, smoked, dried, soup, you name it.
I’m not sure what happenned exactly, but purhaps it was somehow connected to the change in my dieting habits due to some weight loss. Not intentional though.
I am not grown up enough for fish (yet). But it is bound to change as I get older. Just look at the age average of fish-restaurant customers. Maybe world population ageing is the main reason behind overfishing
Now you just gave me all that food for thought…