Friday Five 15 May
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elusivekOK, it's Saturday night, but consider this my Friday Post :-P
1. What was your favorite childhood meal?
The joke is on. When I was a kid, my Mom used to stir fry pork liver for the dogs. I remember the pork liver she cooked for the dogs were delicious. Lightly seasoned, dried bayleaf, then stir-fried. Thoroughly cooked, but the inside still moist. I used to ask her why she made such a delicious dish for the dogs and not for us. So one day, she cooked pork liver again, and then served it at our dinner table. I remember we were all laughing off saying we were eating dog food.
Then there was a time we had no dogs (they all died off - of old age). And since then, Mom never cooked that delicious pork liver anymore. I tried to bring it up one time, and she made it again, but it was just not up to par... it was too dry... Proof that practice makes perfect and that the dogs eat better than I do.
2. What is the best holiday for eating in your family?
With a Chef for a Dad and a Mom that despite not being interested in cooking but sometimes tries to outwit her husband in the kitchen, any holiday and basically every single day is great for eating in the family. We usually only host one grand Christmas dinner on Christmas Day for the extended family. Sometimes (really rarely), friends come over and my Dad would try to impress. I once in a while dabber in cooking to try out some interesting recipes... I must say, we are really blessed in the good food everyday department.
3. If someone could fix you a meal, and you didn't have to worry about cost or calorie count, what would you ask them to make?
It's a tie between the Açorda or the Bacalhau à Brás. Or maybe a really good Goulash (be it German, Austrian, wherever). Any Curry that's not too spicy with a lot of coconut milk would be nice too... ah... I don't know!
4. What food(s) do you truly dislike/hate/have allergies to?
I don't think I have allergies, but I try to cut down consumption of beef. I dislike Bitter Squash and will not eat it in whatever form. I also dislike Celery but I can still tolerate it. And I will not eat Gingko nuts (a chinese thing) because the Chinese name sounds the same as "no result" or "0 result" (meaning, failure).
5. Could you give up eating meat if you wanted/needed to?
I probably could. What I need here is more restaurants that serve more veggies and salads and stuff. I tried and I actually could go a week eating only a "mixed veggies noodles in soup" at work. But the fact is, that's about the one and only dish that is meatless; it's not that I want to eat meat, it's just that I want to eat something else apart from "mixed veggies noodles in soup", "stir fried mixed veggies in fried noodles", "mixed veggies in deep fried noodles"... There is a veggie curry but it will depend on the chef that day... if it's on fire, then I really can't eat it. But I try to minimize eating meat nowadays.
1. What was your favorite childhood meal?
The joke is on. When I was a kid, my Mom used to stir fry pork liver for the dogs. I remember the pork liver she cooked for the dogs were delicious. Lightly seasoned, dried bayleaf, then stir-fried. Thoroughly cooked, but the inside still moist. I used to ask her why she made such a delicious dish for the dogs and not for us. So one day, she cooked pork liver again, and then served it at our dinner table. I remember we were all laughing off saying we were eating dog food.
Then there was a time we had no dogs (they all died off - of old age). And since then, Mom never cooked that delicious pork liver anymore. I tried to bring it up one time, and she made it again, but it was just not up to par... it was too dry... Proof that practice makes perfect and that the dogs eat better than I do.
2. What is the best holiday for eating in your family?
With a Chef for a Dad and a Mom that despite not being interested in cooking but sometimes tries to outwit her husband in the kitchen, any holiday and basically every single day is great for eating in the family. We usually only host one grand Christmas dinner on Christmas Day for the extended family. Sometimes (really rarely), friends come over and my Dad would try to impress. I once in a while dabber in cooking to try out some interesting recipes... I must say, we are really blessed in the good food everyday department.
3. If someone could fix you a meal, and you didn't have to worry about cost or calorie count, what would you ask them to make?
It's a tie between the Açorda or the Bacalhau à Brás. Or maybe a really good Goulash (be it German, Austrian, wherever). Any Curry that's not too spicy with a lot of coconut milk would be nice too... ah... I don't know!
4. What food(s) do you truly dislike/hate/have allergies to?
I don't think I have allergies, but I try to cut down consumption of beef. I dislike Bitter Squash and will not eat it in whatever form. I also dislike Celery but I can still tolerate it. And I will not eat Gingko nuts (a chinese thing) because the Chinese name sounds the same as "no result" or "0 result" (meaning, failure).
5. Could you give up eating meat if you wanted/needed to?
I probably could. What I need here is more restaurants that serve more veggies and salads and stuff. I tried and I actually could go a week eating only a "mixed veggies noodles in soup" at work. But the fact is, that's about the one and only dish that is meatless; it's not that I want to eat meat, it's just that I want to eat something else apart from "mixed veggies noodles in soup", "stir fried mixed veggies in fried noodles", "mixed veggies in deep fried noodles"... There is a veggie curry but it will depend on the chef that day... if it's on fire, then I really can't eat it. But I try to minimize eating meat nowadays.
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Date: 2015-05-24 04:17 (UTC)but it's not something we eat commonly anymore. I'm trying to cut down on meat foods - the hard part is convincing my dad....