What are you eating now?

[nathan28]

skipped breakfast, and dinner. lunch was a can of corned beef, some coffee and a cupcake. tonight's midnight snack is trazodone and a swig of whatever booze I can find. been an extra rough day.

[barracuda]

Jeez, nathan, sorry to hear about your day. Consider treating yourself to an extra helping of fresh souse.

[Perelandra]

Whatever you love, you are. So I guess that makes me food. Such an entertaining thread.

Nathan, wish I could give you a big plate and a drink.

[freemason9]

skipped breakfast, and dinner. lunch was a can of corned beef, some coffee and a cupcake. tonight's midnight snack is trazodone and a swig of whatever booze I can find. been an extra rough day.

the canned corned beef sounds great, though

[freemason9]

grilled spot prawns in ailoi
prawns picked out of the paella
roast beet, tasted hazelnut and fresh ricotta salad
tiny boiled potatoes with cilantro sauce and red pepper sauce
fresh made linguine with soft boiled eggs, parsley and shaved tuna
anchovy pizza
grilled green onions with romesco sauce
white gazpacho
olive oil cake with hazelnut cream and raspberry sauce

I avoided the use of words like coulis and pissaladiere so Stephen Morgan would have a hope of understanding.

jesus christ

[freemason9]

grilled spot prawns in ailoi
prawns picked out of the paella
roast beet, tasted hazelnut and fresh ricotta salad
tiny boiled potatoes with cilantro sauce and red pepper sauce
fresh made linguine with soft boiled eggs, parsley and shaved tuna
anchovy pizza
grilled green onions with romesco sauce
white gazpacho
olive oil cake with hazelnut cream and raspberry sauce

I avoided the use of words like coulis and pissaladiere so Stephen Morgan would have a hope of understanding.

jesus christ

[nathan28]

From somewhere in the no-man's land between the KFC Double-Down and Chicken Cordon Bleu...

Special Semi-Homemade Meal Edition
(best eaten late, after missing dinner)
(may have potential as treatment for world's worst hangover if egg yolks become involved somehow)

** (small) Freezer pizza brought back to life with fresh broccoli and ample amounts of garlic (also fresh) and vegetable oil
** Packaged (vacuum-sealed "fresh") gnocci (cooked perfectly, I might add) in
** a store-bought red sauce used as a delivery vehicle for made into a white trash arabiatta with an indecently-large "tablespoon" (i.e., 1/3 cup) of I-didn't-clarify-it-yet hog fat, capers and habenero (there's garlic on the pizza) fortified w/ 1 1/2 tablespoons or so of the water used to cook the gnocci.

Meal best preceded by chewing raw ginger and 2-3 shots of 1:1 vinegar to water to get the digestive juices flowing. Best followed with large quantities of alcohol to help piss out all that damn sodium.

This meets dietary recommendations, having three out of the four food groups: cabbage, onions and garlic, and animal fat. The only thing missing is offal. I'm thinking maybe adding in a third course (first, actually) of bone marrow and roasted brussel sprouts finished in a duck fat saute with two or three anchovies (in the saute, not on the plate) would round things out nicely.




On edit my blood pressure, cholesterol levels and pulse are all within healthy ranges.

[norton ash]

Heavy fuel. That's Russian therapy right there. ^^

Hot chocolate and rye toast with raspberry jam. I am a lucky, virtuous child.

[Perelandra]

Smoked salmon, raw milk cheddar, kalamata olives, marinated gigande beans, sweet pickles made last summer, and mango. I was very hungry.

Nathan's actually sounded pretty good. I've never tried that ginger and vinegar thing, maybe I should.

[nathan28]

Smoked salmon, raw milk cheddar, kalamata olives, marinated gigande beans, sweet pickles made last summer, and mango. I was very hungry.

Nathan's actually sounded pretty good. I've never tried that ginger and vinegar thing, maybe I should.

Cheese from raw milk is soooo much better.

We had a kitchen canning the first batch of pickles, so I pressure-canned the second batch since I fear the e.coli. When i opened the lid it pretty much turned into pickle puree.

I can get mild indigestion, usually when I'm under stress, and if I eat too much whole wheat (not an allergy--wheat protein turns into... i forget, but in the stomach it breaks down into another protein that causes indigestion and gas. it's especially bad with seitan and other wheat proteins. white bread is pretty much free of this problem). I find that mixing vinegar into water helps a lot, and taking a shot of that while I'm taking everything off the stove etc. helps. Ginger is good to chew before a meal, too. Again, organic ginger is worth the extra $1/lbs. here since most conventional stuff tastes like... nothing.

Another thing that you'll never find that's really good for stomach issues is bitter melon. There's some Vietnamese farmhands that grow it on the farm that my wife and I got our vegetables from, in their personal vegetable patch. The leaves are supposed to go in stir-fry, but if you chew them raw--they're bitter--they soothe the stomach a lot. Underripe fruit, like leaves, gets chopped (the rind outside is very soft, enough to cut and chew, and edible) and goes in stir-fry. The ripe fruit itself has a watery (uh, melon?) sweet yellow flesh that still has some mild bitterness, the seeds have a mild but distinct peanut-like taste, and they are surrounded by a sweet, sticky red pulp. You can pretty much eat everything on the plant except the root and stalks.

Mint is also good after eating, and apparently can help with gas, too.

Anyway, right now I am eating:

Sandwich made from brisket finished and shredded in a quick (didn't build a roux or sweat the onions etc., just dumped it all together) tomato-chocolate mole-like sauce, which chow-chow

Shouldn't have done the chow-chow, it masks the chocolate on the beef too much

West-African-like Peanut Soup:

sweet potato
the stock from the brisket
diced tomatoes
onion
peanut butter
habenaro
garlic
some leftover coffee
some stale beer

speaking of ginger, it should have gone into the soup. I think it might even be good cold, and I usually hate cold food.

[barracuda]

Wait a minute, nathan - that's what you had for supper, and you're blaming your gas on WHEAT BREAD??

[nathan28]

Wait a minute, nathan - that's what you had for supper, and you're blaming your gas on WHEAT BREAD??

No, no gas or indigestion here or there.

I experimented with this, though. Eating seitan or mock dock, or anything made from wheat gluten, gave me indigestion (not gas) 100% of the time, by itself or anything else, even when I hadn't had indigestion at all for weeks. No problems on the exit, just getting through the door. Eating more than normal-size 3-4 slices of whole wheat bread does, too. That means eating two PB sandwiches, which is probably only around 700 calories, i.e., a normal-sized meal per the FDA's anemic suggestions for a 3-meals a day, 150-lbs. sedentary male who walks from his house to his car to his office to his car to his house and then sits on the couch.

This doesn't happen with rice (or barley), and only a little with oatmeal, which I'd eat in the same quantities. It's much worse if I'm under stress but everything else is.

Liver pudding also gives me indigestion.

Doesn't happen as much w/ onion sandwiches though.

I know I am basically eating Navy #6 most of the time I cook, but I have a hummingbird metabolism.

[hava1]

was looking for a movie thread, as i just watched both "the american" and "creation" was looking for "takes".

BUt will settle for food...

I've recently started a sort of diet, consisting of a lot of yogurt with fruit, dates and nuts. Lots of gas and acid occured, so I added Jarrow Dophilus and the problem was gone. I also added to my daily diet one glass of red wine as I started getting worried about cardio vasculars. I also gave up cow milk entirely, based on some "cow milk scare" in our region, instead I use soy milk and and goat milk.

I consume tons of coffee and cigarettes..

Willing to share very bad experience with fish oil...if anyone is interested. Either the brand I used (sort of generic ) was bad or the hype is unjustified. I dont know if its related but after 3 months generous consumption I fell into depression. When I "quit", the depression was gone.

LAtest hobby - muffins (I bake them a lot, each time with new adventures) and chicken soup. This last hobby led me to almost quit poultry entirely, as I now cannot even look at it, let alone eat it. I just felt disgusted by the feel and look of the bird in my hands, the blood, the skin yikes. SO I shifted to chicken soup based on chicken soup powder of fine quality, and its ok.

[Project Willow]

Oyster stew, roasted elk and potatoes, Troll Porter.

And there is no double meaning in my mention of the brew, it was really a very good porter.

[Canadian_watcher]

Mmmmmmmmmmm PW, that sounds deelightful!

I have some dessert for you, made fresh yesterday:



A little variation on trifle - ladyfingers soaked in orange juice and raspberry jam, homemade custard, lemon zest, coconut, chocolate chips, almond slivers and fresh rasperries, of course! Topped with freshly whipped cream.

It never used to be up my alley but boy do I enjoy this sort of thing nowadays.