Food, glorious food
Feb. 16th, 2007 09:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eruthrosI shall coin a new saying: my eyes are bigger than my biceps.
Then I shall chant it to myself when I'm shopping on foot.
There's the trick where you only take a basket, but that doesn't really work; then you undershoot, because you can carry more on your back than dangling from one hand by two wire handles. And I was taking the bus, so I only had to walk two blocks at time on either end, so I could carry a lot more than if I was walking.
And yet! And yet. I nearly collapsed when I picked up my canvas bags after checkout.
It wasn't all my fault! I was shopping for heavy things to start with, like soy milk and chicken broth, and then the shop only had huge sizes of many things. Like, I only wanted a few carrots, but it was five pounds or nothing. Pah.
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Today, on Grossest Food Stuff Ever: this menu item from Google's cafeteria.
An awesome recipe for next fall: pumpkin pickles. From the excellent Syllabub: Words on Food blog.
Also, Chockylit's moved her cupcake blog and did a cupcake round up of about sixty cupcake recipes from readers.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
m_shell and I made some of her cupcakes with lemon curd once and got nothing but compliments; I doubt that all of the submitted recipes are quite that good, but down along the left-hand side of the page are links to her cupcakes by category. She's got a pomegranate grapefruit cupcake, and a thai iced tea cupcake, and a chocolate bread pudding cupcake with toasted walnuts, toffee, and cream: I'm gonna have to make some of those for a potluck soon. Mmmm.
Then I shall chant it to myself when I'm shopping on foot.
There's the trick where you only take a basket, but that doesn't really work; then you undershoot, because you can carry more on your back than dangling from one hand by two wire handles. And I was taking the bus, so I only had to walk two blocks at time on either end, so I could carry a lot more than if I was walking.
And yet! And yet. I nearly collapsed when I picked up my canvas bags after checkout.
It wasn't all my fault! I was shopping for heavy things to start with, like soy milk and chicken broth, and then the shop only had huge sizes of many things. Like, I only wanted a few carrots, but it was five pounds or nothing. Pah.
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Today, on Grossest Food Stuff Ever: this menu item from Google's cafeteria.
An awesome recipe for next fall: pumpkin pickles. From the excellent Syllabub: Words on Food blog.
Also, Chockylit's moved her cupcake blog and did a cupcake round up of about sixty cupcake recipes from readers.
m_shell and I made some of her cupcakes with lemon curd once and got nothing but compliments; I doubt that all of the submitted recipes are quite that good, but down along the left-hand side of the page are links to her cupcakes by category. She's got a pomegranate grapefruit cupcake, and a thai iced tea cupcake, and a chocolate bread pudding cupcake with toasted walnuts, toffee, and cream: I'm gonna have to make some of those for a potluck soon. Mmmm.
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Date: 2007-02-17 03:25 am (UTC)Though I'm strangely tempted to try this batter dipped burger at the local fish and chips place...
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Date: 2007-02-17 07:06 pm (UTC)Also, I don't eat beef, so. But I respect your desire to try strange new things :)