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Simply Sara Cooking....
Jan. 21st, 2010 10:50 pmEep....
Note to Self: Stay off the Red Wine
Dec. 25th, 2009 08:57 pmEgad. Had some of my ancestors over for Christmas lunch. I had a couple of (extremely good) glasses of red wine... Then needed a four hour nap!
Mind you the two days of eating, which started last night with a large family gathering and large amounts of pork crackling, probably didn't help.
And the last time I actually had a drink was a beer I had in Cambodia back in July. Cambodia has lots of beer weather....
Ah well, three more days of holidays, can't complain.
Mind you the two days of eating, which started last night with a large family gathering and large amounts of pork crackling, probably didn't help.
And the last time I actually had a drink was a beer I had in Cambodia back in July. Cambodia has lots of beer weather....
Ah well, three more days of holidays, can't complain.
Hmmmm... Not sure if I've talked about it here, but I've been on a number of wacky diets over the years. I was doing the Atkins thing for a few years there, until I decided it was quietly killing me. Having said that, it did work, for a bit there my weight bottomed out at its lowest level since I was about 24.
BTW, I don't have an obsession with my weight as such, I am actually under doctors orders to lose some. Carrying extra weight interferes with the effectiveness of the CPAP machine I use to treat my sleep apnoea. Also I have a cholesterol issue.
So, I decided a few months back to switch diets to a quasi-vegetarian (in fact a pescetarian diet, I still eat seafood.) And I can report that it's entirely possible to gain weight on a pescetarian diet. This is probably aided by the large number of things which are strictly speaking vegetarian: cake, yoghurt based smoothies, fried noodles, etc. Damn, I was looking for a simple formula for making eating related decisions.
It also probably doesn't help that I'm hardly ever home and eat out routinely.
And another counter-intuitive effect I've noticed... Since I got my bike back in May, I've actually been getting less exercise than I used to. I don't ride it every day, I take the train to work generally and take my car to things more than say ten kilometres away. Not to mention that I've hardly used my spin bike, which also sits in my tiny flat begging me to ride it.
*sigh*
And some fine examples of things I've eaten in the last few days...
Friday night, I popped into a sushi train restaurant in the city. You know the type of place - a little conveyor belt runs around the room with small plates with sushi on them, usually two pieces per plate. You pick off the ones you like as they go past, and in the end they tally up the number of plates you had and charge you accordingly. By the time I rolled out of there, there was a pile of eight plates in front of me.
Then Saturday night, I ended up at a Chocolate place in North Melbourne. I don't actually like chocolate, but I found they had a three cheese crepe on the menu. So I had to have that - damn, it was sooooooooooo rich.
So. Despite my frequent trips to the gym, I'm getting rounder. Damn. Oh and *burp*
BTW, I don't have an obsession with my weight as such, I am actually under doctors orders to lose some. Carrying extra weight interferes with the effectiveness of the CPAP machine I use to treat my sleep apnoea. Also I have a cholesterol issue.
So, I decided a few months back to switch diets to a quasi-vegetarian (in fact a pescetarian diet, I still eat seafood.) And I can report that it's entirely possible to gain weight on a pescetarian diet. This is probably aided by the large number of things which are strictly speaking vegetarian: cake, yoghurt based smoothies, fried noodles, etc. Damn, I was looking for a simple formula for making eating related decisions.
It also probably doesn't help that I'm hardly ever home and eat out routinely.
And another counter-intuitive effect I've noticed... Since I got my bike back in May, I've actually been getting less exercise than I used to. I don't ride it every day, I take the train to work generally and take my car to things more than say ten kilometres away. Not to mention that I've hardly used my spin bike, which also sits in my tiny flat begging me to ride it.
*sigh*
And some fine examples of things I've eaten in the last few days...
Friday night, I popped into a sushi train restaurant in the city. You know the type of place - a little conveyor belt runs around the room with small plates with sushi on them, usually two pieces per plate. You pick off the ones you like as they go past, and in the end they tally up the number of plates you had and charge you accordingly. By the time I rolled out of there, there was a pile of eight plates in front of me.
Then Saturday night, I ended up at a Chocolate place in North Melbourne. I don't actually like chocolate, but I found they had a three cheese crepe on the menu. So I had to have that - damn, it was sooooooooooo rich.
So. Despite my frequent trips to the gym, I'm getting rounder. Damn. Oh and *burp*
Of Kebab's and Yoghurt
Jan. 24th, 2008 11:34 pmPopped into my new favourite kebab joint on the way home from the gym. And, as usual, do you think I can tell you the name of it? No, my brain doesn't work like that. It's more like "the kebab place with the glass front just south of Northcote Central on High Street."
They're the real deal, Halal and everything.
Anyway, thought I'd get me a shish meal thingy, then read that they had a Yoghurt Drink - which I also can't remember the name of. I wanted some to take away, which confused them... So they popped out the back... and came back with a Mount Franklin bottle they'd decanted the stuff into! Excellent! Half a litre of slightly bitter dilute yoghurt stuff... I can't finish it... *burp*
They're the real deal, Halal and everything.
Anyway, thought I'd get me a shish meal thingy, then read that they had a Yoghurt Drink - which I also can't remember the name of. I wanted some to take away, which confused them... So they popped out the back... and came back with a Mount Franklin bottle they'd decanted the stuff into! Excellent! Half a litre of slightly bitter dilute yoghurt stuff... I can't finish it... *burp*
Fuse = Bang
Oct. 18th, 2007 07:35 pmFark. Stupid flat. I'm glad I'm planning to move Real Soon Now.
I was grillin' me some dinner, y'all. Er. When something in my oven/griller went "Pop!" and the electronic fuse switchy thing flipped over into the "Off" position. And is refusing to go back to On. So clearly I needs me an electrician.
Which is going to be fucked. I've been hassling my real estate agents for MONTHS about my kitchen tap - which has now become completely detached. I even took it in to their office and showed it to their bemused receptionist. Still no movement on that front - as a renter it's my right to call a plumber if repairs aren't carried out in a reasonable time! Which I think will be next Monday. Then one is allowed to deduct the cost from one's rent.
Darn it, I liked that grill. I'll have to get me one of those George Foreman things :-)
I was grillin' me some dinner, y'all. Er. When something in my oven/griller went "Pop!" and the electronic fuse switchy thing flipped over into the "Off" position. And is refusing to go back to On. So clearly I needs me an electrician.
Which is going to be fucked. I've been hassling my real estate agents for MONTHS about my kitchen tap - which has now become completely detached. I even took it in to their office and showed it to their bemused receptionist. Still no movement on that front - as a renter it's my right to call a plumber if repairs aren't carried out in a reasonable time! Which I think will be next Monday. Then one is allowed to deduct the cost from one's rent.
Darn it, I liked that grill. I'll have to get me one of those George Foreman things :-)
Where's My Fooking Salad.
Aug. 27th, 2007 09:57 pmAlmost from the moment I got my current job, which actually was two years ago last week, I've been doing the City Office Worker thing, and buying my lunch from the food court across the street. Anyway, very early on, I came across a place called Sumo Salad around the back of the AMP, across the road from my work.
Being a creature of habit, I went there almost every day, at least three times a week, sometimes more, for various salads of my own creation. Lamb, goats cheese, walnuts - yum! And... Healthy-ish. Getting a salad made fresh is damn nice.
A few months back they suddenly dropped out of the Sumo franchise. They changed their name, but kept on doing the same thing. Their new name, Optifresh, left something to be desired, but they kept me in sustenance. In fact, I grew to be notorious, they knew me by name, knew my custom Salad off by heart.
Then last week, my usual salad making dude, a big guy with tattoos on his arm - I suspect he is a rock pig in his spare time - started punching extra holes in my loyalty card. Then I heard mutterings about "our last week" and so on. They were closing down! I emailed my mate Shaun and dragged him along on Thursday last week. Which turned out to be their last day.
I talked to the guy who ran the place, thanked him for all the salads. In the entire two years he'd been there, they hadn't turned a profit. Despite my obsessive loyalty. I popped over there again today (Monday) to take a picture of the empty shop. The dude was still there, dismantling the place. Apparently the rent was too high, and not enough people came by, so he lost hundreds of thousands on the deal. Bugger!
And the first thing the staff said when the closure was first mentioned was "What is Paul going to do?" I'm famousish :-)
So now I have to find somewhere else to eat. Or perhaps it's time I started bringing my lunch. There is a lot of Curry in my freezer, for example...
Being a creature of habit, I went there almost every day, at least three times a week, sometimes more, for various salads of my own creation. Lamb, goats cheese, walnuts - yum! And... Healthy-ish. Getting a salad made fresh is damn nice.
A few months back they suddenly dropped out of the Sumo franchise. They changed their name, but kept on doing the same thing. Their new name, Optifresh, left something to be desired, but they kept me in sustenance. In fact, I grew to be notorious, they knew me by name, knew my custom Salad off by heart.
Then last week, my usual salad making dude, a big guy with tattoos on his arm - I suspect he is a rock pig in his spare time - started punching extra holes in my loyalty card. Then I heard mutterings about "our last week" and so on. They were closing down! I emailed my mate Shaun and dragged him along on Thursday last week. Which turned out to be their last day.
I talked to the guy who ran the place, thanked him for all the salads. In the entire two years he'd been there, they hadn't turned a profit. Despite my obsessive loyalty. I popped over there again today (Monday) to take a picture of the empty shop. The dude was still there, dismantling the place. Apparently the rent was too high, and not enough people came by, so he lost hundreds of thousands on the deal. Bugger!
And the first thing the staff said when the closure was first mentioned was "What is Paul going to do?" I'm famousish :-)
So now I have to find somewhere else to eat. Or perhaps it's time I started bringing my lunch. There is a lot of Curry in my freezer, for example...
Tax and Other Stuff
Jul. 31st, 2007 09:53 pmJust did my Tax Return online. Sorry, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
evildoom_bunny, I was going to put you down as my Spouse, but it just made things too complicated :-)
Hmmm... Should get $1,300 back.... Most of which will have to go on getting Fuji the wonder car looked at, darn it.
One of my cow-orkers was cleaning out his CD collection, and gave me a couple. Including something by Brian Eno from 1975, which has that "Sky Saw" track on it, from Dogs In Space. Not sure I'm going to enjoy the rest quite so much... Although this Sonic Youth album can't be all bad.
Made stirfry from the left over vegies in the fridge. It was actually rather good.
Gigs!!!!! Yo, all of you, get off your bottoms and come see Salmon (six guitars, two drummers, what more could you want?) at the East Brunswick on Thursday night, and Root (new band for Humphrey from TISM) at the Espy on Friday. Free in the front bar, I believe. Two gigs in two days... It's just like the old days :-)
evildoom_bunny, I was going to put you down as my Spouse, but it just made things too complicated :-)Hmmm... Should get $1,300 back.... Most of which will have to go on getting Fuji the wonder car looked at, darn it.
One of my cow-orkers was cleaning out his CD collection, and gave me a couple. Including something by Brian Eno from 1975, which has that "Sky Saw" track on it, from Dogs In Space. Not sure I'm going to enjoy the rest quite so much... Although this Sonic Youth album can't be all bad.
Made stirfry from the left over vegies in the fridge. It was actually rather good.
Gigs!!!!! Yo, all of you, get off your bottoms and come see Salmon (six guitars, two drummers, what more could you want?) at the East Brunswick on Thursday night, and Root (new band for Humphrey from TISM) at the Espy on Friday. Free in the front bar, I believe. Two gigs in two days... It's just like the old days :-)
Ah, you uncouth, ignorant, non-Dutch ljers, utterly lacking in pickled herring! This is a rollmop:
Doesn't that look tasty? This wikipedia entry will tell you all you'll need to know. Basically it's Herring pickled in vinegar! Yum. Now go to your local deli, buy some and eat them!
Doesn't that look tasty? This wikipedia entry will tell you all you'll need to know. Basically it's Herring pickled in vinegar! Yum. Now go to your local deli, buy some and eat them!
My trip to the Preston Market yesterday including picking up 700 grams of tiger prawns for cheap!
We fried 'em tonight in some garlic and chili powder. It turns out that 700 grams is a fuckload of prawns. I've had 17. Now I can't move.
Why 700 grams? Because I didn't want a whole kilo, but I didn't want half a kilo. Ah fuck, don't ask me how my brain works. Because it doesn't.
I also found a deli there that stocks Riga Sprats!vedmajulia put me onto them years ago, they're far nicer than Sardines or other tinned fish.
And in answer toevildoom_bunny's question, Riga is a place in Russia, on the coast of the Baltic Sea, and a Sprat is a kind of Fish!
We fried 'em tonight in some garlic and chili powder. It turns out that 700 grams is a fuckload of prawns. I've had 17. Now I can't move.
Why 700 grams? Because I didn't want a whole kilo, but I didn't want half a kilo. Ah fuck, don't ask me how my brain works. Because it doesn't.
I also found a deli there that stocks Riga Sprats!
vedmajulia put me onto them years ago, they're far nicer than Sardines or other tinned fish.And in answer to
evildoom_bunny's question, Riga is a place in Russia, on the coast of the Baltic Sea, and a Sprat is a kind of Fish!Preston Market
Jan. 27th, 2007 09:41 pmMade another of our now regular trips to Preston Market.
Amusing things which happened today:
Walking into the Organic food store, wearing jeans, my "I'm Blogging This" T-Shirt, and my rather nice long black jacket (come back, heat wave!). The guy behind the counter said "What are you doing here, you're far to well dressed!" I told him I was from Northcote - not sure if that was an explanation.
Spotted Martin Ferguson, the federal member for the seat of Batman, which covers Northcote and indeed Preston. He was wearing the daggiest pair of shorts and a stripy rugby top - so he fitted right in. I almost said hello, but he had that look of "someone's just recognizing me because I'm slightly famous" and so I left him alone :-)
evildoom_bunny and I had bubble tea, which is so not on my diet. In fact, I'm pretty sure it's not on anyone's diet.
Picked up a stack of tiger prawns. Hmmmm... Seafood.
Must go, off to a Gig.
Amusing things which happened today:
Walking into the Organic food store, wearing jeans, my "I'm Blogging This" T-Shirt, and my rather nice long black jacket (come back, heat wave!). The guy behind the counter said "What are you doing here, you're far to well dressed!" I told him I was from Northcote - not sure if that was an explanation.
Spotted Martin Ferguson, the federal member for the seat of Batman, which covers Northcote and indeed Preston. He was wearing the daggiest pair of shorts and a stripy rugby top - so he fitted right in. I almost said hello, but he had that look of "someone's just recognizing me because I'm slightly famous" and so I left him alone :-)
evildoom_bunny and I had bubble tea, which is so not on my diet. In fact, I'm pretty sure it's not on anyone's diet.Picked up a stack of tiger prawns. Hmmmm... Seafood.
Must go, off to a Gig.
