September 12, 2007
Giant Space Banana Over Texas
(flash): A giant banana is being launched into space with the goal of floating in the low-level atmosphere over Texas for a month. No word yet on the giant space gorilla.
via boingbanana
Costing roughly one millyun dollars, the project is slated to mean something.
Discuss.
Discuss? Done.
I thought that looked familiar.
Spaghetti.
Pine coffee.
A PIECE OF DRY BREAD
Earl Grey. Hot.
Corn flakes, soy milk, and a nice, crisp Gala apple. That's one of the best things about September in New York - you start to see good, fresh apples again.
Some weird concoction of strange vegetables my SO cooked up. It wasn't bad, but the generous application of hoisin helped. Also a pear and an apple.
Royal Gala apples are mankind's greatest invention.
hoisin glaven!
sorry
OMFG a mess of completely perfectly wonderfully ripe heirloom tomatoes (which looked like beautifully marbled steaks when cut open) (delivered by my buddy who's been volunteering on an organic farm in the Sierra foothills), mixed with a dash of olive oil, 6 or 7 heads of garlic (chopped), three chopped red onions, a pinch each of kosher salt and fresh-ground black pepper, and some cut-up purple basil, baked in a Dutch oven for 2 hours at 400 degrees, then poured generously over a steaming heap of pasta. Heaven.
I discovered an application for Worcestershire Sauce last night that was less than optimal. I mixed it in with scrambled eggs as I cooked them. Not that great. I think I'll stick with my Branston Fruity Sauce with scrambled eggs from now on.
My Worcestershire Sauce experimentation will, however, continue.
Also - IS IT STILL ONLY THURSDAY? GOD THIS WEEK IS DRAGGING!!!
don't talk about food...I was up all night with a gippy tummy...was it the pate? or the pork?
My Worcestershire Sauce experimentation will, however, continue.
I tried it on smashed potatoes once. I think that's the only time I ever didn't eat my smashed potatoes.
The only time I didn't eat my smased potatoes was when I'd had so many they were coming out of my nose and I expected an explosion any second.
Good times.
UPDATE: IT'S STILL ONLY FUCKING THURSDAY.
Oh yeah, right it's only Thur- . . . shoot.
Never mix your smashed potatoes with one of those handheld supermixer thingies that have blades like the bottom of a blender. Unless you like glue.
Do mix your smashed tatoes with garlic, though!
minced garlic cloves briefly sauteed in butter and mixed into smashers, plus a little salt, maybe some black pepper, is a joyous thing.
I agree with RtD. You philistines will probably never know the joy that is a whitebait fritter on fresh white bread with Worcestershire Sauce. You poor bastards.
bait??
ewwww. I like the fritter part tho.
kit, I mix my scrambled eggies with a splash of milk and a dash each of worcestershire and tabasco sauces. Quite good. Not at all lame or bland, though, so probably not to your taste.
And I was just in Massachusetts. It's woostah-sheeah.
Tame and bland. Tame and bland. Gotta get it right.
No. I have waivered and now I am back on the one true path for scrambled eggs - a bit of milk, a twist of pepper then serve with brown sauce.
Although Worcestershire sauce in your gravy for your roast is good, I discovered on Sunday.
I'm afraid I say wuster.
It is 'woostah sheer', I was being silly. Pronouncing things wrong is a cornerstone of my Temple of Wit. E.g. "ban-dan-AH!"
On cheddar cheese on toast, it is divine.
Yes. That is now in my roster of teas. Mature cheddar, w sauce. That is one meal where the Branston Fruity has been usurped.
Speak English ya danged Frenchies!
*curmudges*
Yeah, once your Branston Fruity has been usurped, there's no getting it back.
Wuster sauce is also good in spag bol / lasagne.
now yer talkin'! despite this nonsense about Marmite.
Worster sauce is good in ANYTHING. Even porridge.
(I had porridge this morning. With dried apple and sultanas. Yum. No worster sauce, though.)
So what exactly is porridge? I mean, I could go look it up, but I'd rather ask you porridge-eaters.
Hot oatmeal.
Hmm...not half so exciting as I thought it'd be.
It always looks like vanilla pudding in the fairy tale books.
OMFG a mess of completely perfectly wonderfully ripe heirloom tomatoes (which looked like beautifully marbled steaks when cut open) (delivered by my buddy who's been volunteering on an organic farm in the Sierra foothills), mixed with a dash of olive oil, 6 or 7 heads of garlic (chopped), three chopped red onions, a pinch each of kosher salt and fresh-ground black pepper, and some cut-up purple basil, baked in a Dutch oven for 2 hours at 400 degrees, then poured generously over a steaming heap of pasta. Heaven.
Hmmmm, such restraint.
I've been harvesting off my vines for a couple weeks now, and I still barely have the self-control to get the meaty, sweety, luscious wonders into the house to add a bit of salt and pepper, let alone wait TWO HOURS for them to cook.
Damn, I'm going to hate winter and no 'matoes!
The corn's been poor this year. I still haven't had my fill of that.
Of course, I don't think that's possible.
*pouts, misses Adana, where the Turks raise wonderful tomatoes all year long
What is porridge????
I have home made (English) flapjacks for elevenses today. No wuster sorce.
mmm flapjacks. honey or golden syrup*?
porridge (or is that porage?) and banana for brekker again today wizz! No wuster sorce.
*another delicious byproduct
Honey.
Plus choc chips and chopped nuts.
Oof!
ooh, get it on there!
It always looks like vanilla pudding in the fairy tale books.
Surely you mean custard.
Creme Anglais, pur-lease!
Peasants.
I'm toying with making myself a nice egg custard tart. Anyone got any good recipes?
Ooh, a Tarte Creme Anglais Oeuf.
May wee, monsi-ewer!
Looks scrummy! Our family had a joke about Lemon Curd Tart, we called it Lemon Turd Fart! Oh the hilarity in our classy home.
Whereas we had a running argument via the power of poetry over what to call French bread:
It's a loaf, you oaf
It's a stick, you pr...
So like the home life of our own dear Queen.
Now my mouth is watering for my Mom's custard pie.
I'll mail you a slice of this one when I make it.
I'm pretty sure I'll be buying a ready made case though.
Where do you buy them eggs with the lion on them?
By "case", you mean shell, right?
I am eating Thai Sweet Chili Pringles.
Surprisingly good.
They are good. The bit of processed-Heaven that were Ketchup Pringles seem to have been reformulated, however. Teh suck.
Tesco only did sweet pastry cases for ages, most annoying if you fancied quiche.
Most of the pastry shells/cases/crusts that I find pre-made around here are made with lard. Bastards.
I think it's because fall is coming, but I'm in a cooking mood lately. Too bad I'm too busy and lazy to act on it.
The bit of processed-Heaven that were Ketchup Pringles
So... "ketchips?"
YOU HAVE TO MAKE YOUR PIE SHELL WITH LARD. Otherwise it won't be flaky and at the same time tender.
DO NOT try the Pringles cinnamon sweet potato chips. They are tame and bland.
The Lay's Curry-flavour are also quite addictive.
oh yeah, i need breakfast. thanks guys.
I'm a vegetarian, so I can't use lard. But my mom makes lovely shells with Crisco.
We don't have Lay's Curry flavor. I did just have a really spicy vegetable curry for lunch, though.
Herr's makes a Steak and Worchestershire chip that I've been wanting to try. Have to check the ingredients.
Herr's, while not the most premiumestest chip, gets my award for innovative flavors, such as Old Bay Crab Seasoning, Philly Cheese Steak, Ketchup, and Honey Cheese Curls.
Crisco works. 'Cept it'll kill ya with all the trans fats.
Speaking of Crisco, once when I took home a fat trans I met in a bar, he/she climbed on top of me and I had such a hard time breathing that I almost suffo -- oh, now I understand. Never mind.
YOU HAVE TO MAKE YOUR PIE SHELL WITH LARD
Fail. I make smack-your-momma-good pie crusts with butter.
Pigfat-sucker.
Sure, if you want a hard greasy pie crust for hitting your mom and leaving a greasy spot on her poor suffering face. MURDERER.
Crisco's also great for fisting. So I've heard!
UK snacks reviewed. Lays don't feature, but Walkers do, natch.
Two words.
Rice. Pudding.
Whatever happened to tapioca?
Tapioca's only one word.
But tasty. Very tasty.
Especially if you make it at home.
Remember Frog Eye salad? Sometimes called Ambrosia salad? You either like it or you don't. Rates number three on my rice/tap/frog eyes list
Fish eyes and glue, as Grandad used to say.
Oh, and on the garlic smashed potatoes - I love mashed spuds and I love garlic but can't abide them mixed together, for some reason.
They used to serve this pudding called "Glorified Rice" in my school lunchroom. Didn't taste particularly glorified to me.
My rice has seen the glory of the custard getting poured...
Pringles are an abomination.
But quit hogging them!
Whatever happened to tapioca?
It's a big bowl of sugared pus blobs. Why do you ask?
Sugared, you say?
And pussed!
*plays with tapioca bowl, stomps with both hands on it, flings it to the kitchen walls, all over head and hair, laughs beatifically while applauding with soiled hands*
More tapioca, Gramma!
I want semolina now!
/hands Kit a stack of signal flags
/hands kit raw chicken
/hands Kit Lance Armstrong's tumor
/hands kit Florida State football jersey
/hands kit ticket to Mogadishu
/ hands kit
/washes hand
*hands kit a bucket and mop
Get with it, pus boy!
The flags were for the semolina. You know, that thingy where you send signals with flags?
I'm sure he got semolina from the chicken.
Go Semolinas!!!
Out of the entire animal kingdom, only monkeys are mighty enough to defeat Captain Marvel.
Via the power of scat, by the looks of it.
Kinky.
FLING that poo!
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