It has been quite the week for nasty cold or flu viruses going around our household. We’ve all had a bit of it. I’ve been home from work for two days, but I am feeling better tonight and hope to be back to work tomorrow, provided a decent amount of sleep is attained.
Hopefully I will have more to write about this weekend.
Great Saturday! We slept in this morning and got up slowly, petting cats and just being lazy.
Althea and Bryan brought Andrew over and dropped him off for a while to go car shopping. We picked a few cherry tomatoes, had snacks, played in the backyard, watched My Neighbor Totoro (Andrew watched the whole movie), and had mac and cheese for lunch. When Andrew’s Mom and Dad and sister Sylvie (almost 7 months) arrived to pick him up, we all went apple picking!
We filled two huge bags with apples (Macintoshes, Galas, Golden Delicious) and had a great time at the apple orchard/farm a few miles from our house.
This evening so far we have played Powergrid (a new board game) with Alice and Sean. I have gobbled down a sandwich for dinner. Michael is going to eat something eventually … I think had a bowl of cereal. We might play more games this evening. We might not do our weekend shopping until Sunday. It’s nice to just have a day of fun with no work sometimes.
EDIT: I added a new Fall 2008 album to my Picasa.
EDIT 2: This weekend we are quietly celebrating 5 years of dating … and approximately 13 months until our wedding.
This list was linked on Chocolate & Zucchini, a popular food blog I occasionally read. I thought it was interesting, so I decided to play along. Here is the link to the original post about the list. And the rules:
1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Optional extra: Post a comment here at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.
The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred:
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake
Not sure about #s 55, 87, and 90. I’d say probably for the criollo chocolate. Possibly not #55- I realized once that I had never had a Big Mac and I can’t remember whether I ever rectified that or not. I am a little ashamed there has been no Lobster Thermidor or Kobe Beef. Not too sure about the egg dishes, either, but I didn’t eat eggs at all until I was almost 30, so probably not. No vodka shots, alas.
I think I might be unlikely to try sweetbreads or chitterlings, but I am on the fence about haggis. I had the chance to try soft shell crab recently, but didn’t because there was a lot of other food on its way.
And I’ve never had clam chowder in a sourdough bowl.
My dad threatened to bring home and cook #75, but he never really did. Thanks, Dad.
Powered by WordPress