Dinner
Here is a picture of my first official dinner at the new apartment. Previously, I had been too lazy/busy to do any real grocery shopping, aside from bread, cheese and eggs, which I could live on quite happily, but don’t make much of a meal. This is a Filipino dish (I cannot pronounce the name, not even phonetically) with ground beef, eggs, tomatoes, shrimp, onions, garlic and bitter melon. I don’t know if you have ever had bitter melon (Briana once had a pleasant experience with a bitter melon, you should ask her about it) but it tastes exactly like it sounds. However, the bitterness wears off once you cook it down, and it adds a nice layer of flavor to cut the heaviness of the beef.
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So, I probably mentioned to you that a few weeks ago I contracted a nasty computer virus while looking up a recipe online. I don’t know if I mentioned what kind of recipe I was looking up, but it was a rainbow cake, and for future reference, if you are ever thinking of looking for a rainbow cake recipe, don’t try to link to the site that says “Nazi Rainbow Cake”, even if you’re like “what the heck is a Nazi Rainbow? I just have to check out this nonsense...” Anyways, there’s no need to hunt down a recipe for rainbow cake, all you need is two boxes of Betty Crocker yellow cake mix and an ungodly amount of food coloring. I know, you don’t have to tell me, yellow is not a flavor, and food coloring is not food. But this cake is not about the toxic sickly-sweet sponge that you end up with, it is about the gorgeous, amazing, never-before-seen-in-nature colors!
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This is a deep-fried chicken patty topped with swiss cheese, tucked inside a sliced Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut. In my opinoin, it’s not food, it’s a dare…although, honestly, I can’t help thinking it would be better if they threw in some bacon.
Carmen 7:12 pm on September 19, 2011 Permalink
Well that looks pretty delicious and I’m a big fan of Filipino food so I would probably like this. Although I can’t say I’ve had any experiences with bitter lemon. I did accidentally smell a durian once and I had an automatic gut reaction that I thought the building was going to blow up because to me it smelled like propane gas. I was urging everyone to leave the building and call PG&E. They were like “calm down whitey round eye, its just durian”.
Briana 9:44 am on September 20, 2011 Permalink
As I recall, you shoved it in mouth while I had a line full of customers and it was one of the worst experiences of my life! It instantly sapped all the liquid from my mouth and all it left behind was the inability to swallow and a horrifically bitter flavor. Definitely a story to remember and one I still tell to this day!