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robinbloke) wrote2006-09-14 10:24 am
robinbloke) wrote2006-09-14 10:24 am
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Culinary Conquests
Hello, my name is Robin and I'm a carnivore.
I don't believe this is something I need to particularly confess, it's more just a way of starting a conversation thread and then luring you into my usual rambling style. Then before you know it you're two sentences into this and you wonder if I'm actually going to go anywhere with this.
At this point, traditionally, an evil cackle is normally appropriate.
However, partially in deference to the many people I know who are vegetarians and partially because I wanted to see if I could actually manage it without being physically sick yesterday for the first time in my life I attempted to eat five a day. For those of you not in the know it's the laudable idea to try and get people to eat more healthily by eating five different kinds of fruit and vegetables a day1.
When you're me, this is not an easy thing. Now, most people have one or two veggies they don't like; for myself I view with distaste that can only be purged with napalm any large gathering of the green growing freakish things anywhere near me. It's not so much the taste of these things, which in itself is usually bad enough, but the texture of these things that generally turns my stomach - but enough of my weird ways (Read the book when it is published) - onwards to my Herculean task:
So five a day; this had to principally consist of fruit if I was going to have any chance whatsoever of achieving it, and the first two were pretty easy; I drink enough orange juice to power a sizeable Tango factory so that wasn’t too bad; add to this a crunchy apple and I'm 40% of the way there already. Which is where things get difficult as there is very little else I could eat.
After some searching and thought I finally located some dried banana chips, which were close enough for me. Over halfway there, see, it couldn't possibly be that bad could it?
But by the time for my evening meal, time is running out, from hereon things aren't easy; a side order of new spuds2 with my cod fillets got me almost there - but what else?
Microwaved peas, left over from another meal with strangely healthily visitors. Yum. Oh yes. Yum yum. Bleh.
And with that victory was in my grasp; the tape was cut, the pigs flew and nations cheered. The vegetables had been defeated. After that amount of effort I was certain that I had consumed enough vegeons or whatever it is that is supposed to lie within their fowl green contents to last me a decade at least, I'd lasted this long without them and I think I can manage a pretty long while again without them.
I'm sticking to sugar.
1 This is actually meant to be five different kinds of fresh fruit or veg a day, but I'll need every break I can get here.
2 Although I will contest these are a root and not a vegetable in every other argument I make.
I don't believe this is something I need to particularly confess, it's more just a way of starting a conversation thread and then luring you into my usual rambling style. Then before you know it you're two sentences into this and you wonder if I'm actually going to go anywhere with this.
At this point, traditionally, an evil cackle is normally appropriate.
However, partially in deference to the many people I know who are vegetarians and partially because I wanted to see if I could actually manage it without being physically sick yesterday for the first time in my life I attempted to eat five a day. For those of you not in the know it's the laudable idea to try and get people to eat more healthily by eating five different kinds of fruit and vegetables a day1.
When you're me, this is not an easy thing. Now, most people have one or two veggies they don't like; for myself I view with distaste that can only be purged with napalm any large gathering of the green growing freakish things anywhere near me. It's not so much the taste of these things, which in itself is usually bad enough, but the texture of these things that generally turns my stomach - but enough of my weird ways (Read the book when it is published) - onwards to my Herculean task:
So five a day; this had to principally consist of fruit if I was going to have any chance whatsoever of achieving it, and the first two were pretty easy; I drink enough orange juice to power a sizeable Tango factory so that wasn’t too bad; add to this a crunchy apple and I'm 40% of the way there already. Which is where things get difficult as there is very little else I could eat.
After some searching and thought I finally located some dried banana chips, which were close enough for me. Over halfway there, see, it couldn't possibly be that bad could it?
But by the time for my evening meal, time is running out, from hereon things aren't easy; a side order of new spuds2 with my cod fillets got me almost there - but what else?
Microwaved peas, left over from another meal with strangely healthily visitors. Yum. Oh yes. Yum yum. Bleh.
And with that victory was in my grasp; the tape was cut, the pigs flew and nations cheered. The vegetables had been defeated. After that amount of effort I was certain that I had consumed enough vegeons or whatever it is that is supposed to lie within their fowl green contents to last me a decade at least, I'd lasted this long without them and I think I can manage a pretty long while again without them.
I'm sticking to sugar.
1 This is actually meant to be five different kinds of fresh fruit or veg a day, but I'll need every break I can get here.
2 Although I will contest these are a root and not a vegetable in every other argument I make.
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Nothing wrong with frozen peas!
What about frozen mixed veg from waitrose? They do a good line in frozen grilled veg which can be a lazy persons saviour.
Sweet peppers, aubergine and onions can go with almost everything - pizzas, omelets, stir frys, curries, soups, pasta, chille, tacos...
Go on! just shove em in!
I've got a fab winter reciepe for curly cale with herta worst and mash. Dead easy and definatley comes under the category of comfort food.
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It should be well soft I aggree other wise they are like undercooked marrow or pumpkin both of which can end up tasting like a under ripe melon from hell.
They are good stuffed with mince too - cook some mince with onions, peppers, bit of worcester sauce and any herbs you fancy. Cut the aubergine down the middle long ways hollow it out a bit, leaving about an inch and a half of flesh. (that's a big aubergine)
Fill the aubergine with the mince mix, bung it in the oven on 180 for 1/2 hr to an hour depending on how quick your oven is - it should be nice and soggy. Works well with Marrow and them big funny shaped yellow things...nope can't remember what they are called. Needs longer in the oven the bigger the veg you stuff.
We've been eating stuffed Marrow with Lamb mince for a couple of days now, I'm still not bored of it.
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Otherwise, brush it lightly with olive oil (rather than putting the oil in the pan, otherwise they just soak it all up like a sponge & taste horrid), salt, and fry until nicely browned.
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Cut in half lengthwise, remove flesh leaving about half a centimeter, chop flesh finely, sprinkle shells with lemon juice to prevent them turning too brown.
In a frying pan, fry some mince (your choice, quorn should work if you're vegetarian) with finely chopped onions, garlic and the aubergine flesh, stir in some concentrated tomato puree and season to taste just before it's done.
Fill filling into aubergines, sprinkle generously with grated mature cheddar and bake in the oven for about 20 minutes.
Or this pasta sauce, which I randomly cooked up a while ago when I had one in my box.
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ROAST WHOLE SUCKLING PIGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!
I just had to say that, theres far too much mention of veggies and there needs to be a balance.
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