More adventures in healthy eating

[sparkindarkness]

Healthy eating kick marches on - people will not fiddle with my food! :) And it’s fun seeing what is out there and the different alternatives we have - though we do have some disasters:

The Good:
I always thought this city was fairly homogenous. It’s not exactly diverse and cosmopolitan (though we are, oddly a gay mecca of sorts. Don’t ask me why, it just happened). The majority here is pretty much overwhelming in numbers.

However, in my quest to find food that has not been fiddled with (and, consequently, moving even more of my shopping from supermarkets to smaller shops - we’re already a huge fan of markets because the meat market here is AWESOME - cheap and extremely good quality - we cooked 2 huge, thick BRAISING steaks the other day - quick under the griddle and server rare like any steak - tender and perfect as quality rump or sirloin) I’ve discovered a hidden treasure trove. We have Halal butchers and Kosher shops and 2 Chinese markets, a Polish corner store and a Latvian delicatessen, 2 Turkish shops and 1 Kurdish and 1 Indian/Thai. And that’s just with a cursory search - why knows what else is out there. Lots of new food to try and the added bonus is virtually none of it has been brutally messed around with :)

So I may not know exactly what it is, I may not speak the same language as the shop staff and other customers and I have a good chance of cooking something that shouldn‘t be cooked or, pouring gravy over a dessert (or even eating something that was never meant to be eaten), but it’s fun and tasty and healthy :)


The Bad:
Home made ice cream with the ice cream maker has had a set back... Beloved lavished his care and attention on it to make ice-cream that probably tastes lovely.

Probably.

Beloved: *hacks again with the large knife having bent and broken 3 spoons*
Me: Oooh, look that left a mark!
Beloved: maybe we should put it in the oven again?
Me: It’s like watching someone trying to tear down a prison wall by scraping away the mortar with their finger nails.
Beloved: I could always sell it to the military? I mean it’s indestructible! That’s got to be worth something?
Me: If you make more we could have a flavoured igloo!
Beloved: *watches knife bounce off again* which doubles as a fallout shelter.

Comments

[makarov.livejournal.com]

ice cream that'll stop a round from a MN 91/30 ?
what flavvor is it ? (hope it's not green mouse & telephone)

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

It would ricochet

The flavour is (allegedly) strawberry :)

[helbling.livejournal.com]

God, I wish they sold kosher meat around here; my best friend lives in a kosher house, and while they've flanged the kitchen by having such things as separate pans and washing up bowls, there isn't a kosher butcher in the city, so roast dinners are not happening. I made him roast lamb the other day, and he looked like he was going to cry.

That being said, he does derive amusement from having to tape down the switch on the fridge light so that his Jewish housemates can open the fridge door on the Sabbath...

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

We eat roasts a lot so i tend to get a little blase about them - in fact we're having a hiatus on them because they're reaching the stage of "not a lamb roast with all the trimmings AGAIN?"

Thats cruel - but funny :) Isn't that more orthodox than most?

[illiana-galean.livejournal.com]

"Maybe we should put it in the oven again?"

Sparky? You just make me snorffle coffee...out of my nose. Please, please let there be pictures of the indestructible ice cream!

I love your conversations that you post with Beloved. They're so akin to the conversations I have with Monsterman it reaffirms my faith that there are others in the world who love as deeply (and crazily) as we do. It makes me miss him more, but at the same time..it's comforting.

Okay, I'll stop rambling now.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

I shall take my phone and take pictures of the slab of indestructableness!

Aww *hugs* it's good to know there is goodness out there. And craziness, because that's fun too

[tanarill.livejournal.com]

Mmm, Arab stores are the best. Of course, this is from a poor lady who has never gone looking for the local Indian store, which probably has even better spices . . .

Japanese stores can provide raw sushi rice and the high-quality fish needed, but I don't recommend buying any of the food products. The first three ingredients for a Japanese beverage called "Delicious Water" are glucose, fructose, and syrup. There is no water in "Delicious Water."

Have I mentioned I'm jealous of you living-in-England types? Because I am.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

I have no ideas what they sell but this seems to amuse the shop owners - including one little old lady who grins and fills my basket for me (and removes anything i may have picked up by mistake like foot medicine) and tries to give me vague pointers on how they're used.

Yuck sounds awful - I'm avodiing any kind of excessively processed food even the foreign :). I like Sushi but most Japanese food is rather bland to my taste buds.


I took the random variety shops as fairly for granted - don't most decent sized cities have them (if you look apparently)

[mrmeval.livejournal.com]

"Hawaiian Shave Ice"

It's another gadget for him to get. . . . .

*bounce*

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Nooooo! Not more gadgets!

Oh.....

[mrmeval.livejournal.com]

It might be a version of

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pykrete

Just forward the link on over.....

Re: Oh.....

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Now that stuff is shiny. We have invented new concrete!