Prawns on the Barbie

little green blobs

I like food in general but I'm not a big fan of vegetables, sure I eat few like cucumbers or lettuce with the right salsa fresh tomatoes, carrots and a few others, if prepared in a certain manner but in general I don't like it but there are few that stands disgustingly above the rest. Like most vegetables it's green and like most vegetables I don't like it, not as a side dish or on it's own, I'm talking about peas, yes little green peas that destroys the flavor of a perfectly good food, they destroy the flavor in mashed potatoes, fried rice, steak and just about any food I can think of. 

Peas has an extremely overpowering smell and flavor which causes any food too loose it's distinct taste, it doesn't enhance the flavor it kills it, like what chlorine does to people in confined spaces. In fact any food that requires peas in its recipe probably has no taste or it was too awful to begin with.

Yes I hate peas, I hate peas like I hate ultra right-wing conservatives in fact I think they're somehow related.

I once ate a fish this big!

Despite having eaten most types of meat commonly available (though I always wonder what elephant taste like) I still find the size range in seafood amazing, I mean with chicken and beef the sizes varies but not by much wheras seafood....well, you get cocktail shrimps.....then you have the whale, which is probably the largest animal known in current existance....unless they found a whalasaurus which I imagine anything with "saurus" suffix would be at least huge and probably really really old.

Watering hole

Ah yes if there are 2 things I've learnt from living in Melbourne, Australia was that there will never be enough food joints, bars and pubs, the second was quaint sophistication doesn't need to be expensive. Though I no longer live in Melbourne I still check for new venues from one of the most authorative website about food and drinks in Melbourne, apparently it is easier to look for a good place to eat onine than physically hunting them down yourself, then again it's less fun.

Today I found what seem to be a place that I'd go later (after work) with some friends if I was in the city, the place is called Ume Nomiya as the name suggests it's not a place to go if you're looking for an "Australian experience", the words edamame and sake in one sentence alone caught my eye (though those two are pretty much a staple in any Japanese watering hole) however I can't give an honest review about it because I haven't been there yet but it's definitely on the top of my things-to-do list once I have a chance to visit Melbourne again

Food for thought

for some reason this just popped into my head:

Salmon wrapped fried chicken (serves 1-3)

4-6 pieces of medium sized chicken breast
4-6 thinly sliced salmon
2 eggs
50g flour
3-4 cloves of garlic

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-Heat water until half boiled
-Peel and crush garlic
-Add crushed garlic to boiling water
-Boil chicken until cooked
-Beat egg in a bowl
-Wrap each chicken pieces with salmon
-Dip salmon wrapped chicken to the egg
-cover with flour
-Deep fry until brown
-Serve with lemon slices and tartar sauce or melted garlic butter and mashed potatoes