I KID YOU NOT. My local butcher is selling calves' brains (at first I thought it was ready-made microwaveable spaghetti bolognaise) two for five pounds or ten dollars US. I'm not sure why. Do people actually eat these things? (Maybe foreigners do~?) Ukk!It is dark and cold. Christmas is over, though the council's special lights are still up along the main road. They promised us a dip in temperature over the last two days. Dip? Siberian subzero they should have said!
My "Chinese" takeaway cookery is coming along wizzingly. Best method for egg fry rice is definitely hollow out a "well" in the middle of rice in the pan, crack an egg into this "well", vandalize the egg with a fork, allow to begin cooking, then, when about half done, rapidly stir into the rest of the rice. This gives lovely ricey clumps and makes the eggs integral to the dish, rather than the other method, which basically just treats scrambled egg as yet another ingredient in the stir-fry...
I've not a lot to say today as I'm tired and bleak. Well a bit. We had a miserable morning: all wanting drugs and our favoured dealers switched off. (Dunno what's wrong with them.) I'm plotting my escape from all this scene so it's no great loss if they do all retire on me. Eventually I accompanied French Pascal on a ten minute walk to a place where I used to live... he was funny. Not one but TWO drug deals went on pretty openly before our eyes and he missed both of them. And HE calls ME dopey!!
On an "alternative" note I'm reading Leap of Faith: Memoirs of Queen Noor of Jordan. A fascinating book, especially if you're into Israeli-Palestine or Middle Eastern politics...
I hope your day went better than mine everyone. Peace!
Video of the Day:
Queen Noor of Jordan: Life in Pictures
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Come here for some really entertaining pictures...
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"BAYING ALERT!" 100% TRUE! I heard a radio documentary this evening about the New Guinea singing dog which is a rare bordering on endangered breed and said to be the oldest breed of dog alive today ... (clickonit for the Radio 4 info page...)
I've got a video of New Guinea singing dogs on my pets blog which I shall post up here tomorrow...
Hey I've just found the New Guinea Singing Dogs Conservation Society link (http://www.canineworld.com/ngsdcs) ~ which has a silhouetted doggie baying soulfully as its trademark ... I am in my element ("LOL"!!!)
(Click here for a link with one of the furry bayers lying down...)
ack, i was trying to eat lunch here!!!!
ReplyDeleteas for the book, i have been wanting to read that for the longest time.
you mean queen noor's memoirs?
ReplyDeletethey're really good. not full of tacky "reconstituted" dialogue (ie that she cannot remember at all but it's only included to make it more novel-like) or any other tacky modern crapola. it's just memories told as memories and most fascinating
You have a butchers?!!
ReplyDeleteugh, those brains!! Some people eat anything.
ReplyDeleteNope, not a good day here either, as you know from my blog.
I like the pictures you posted...so cute.
Casdok: I have a butchers? What do you mean? I don't OWN a butchers... there IS ONE NEAR ME... what else was I sposed to mean... I'm confused now... boo-hoo ... please put me outta my misery and explain what on earth you're trying to say...
ReplyDeleteDebs: brains: yukky I totally agree...
hammies: very furry and entertaining otherwise I wouldn't BOTHER with the fat tubby swines!
I know you had a shit day and I'm v sorry... Debs I have to say that is shit bordering on SERIOUSLY bizarre...
Hi,
ReplyDeleteThanks for visiting my blog. Glad you liked the wacky photos. (I think your link to me isn't working.)
You have more blogs than Planters has peanuts!
Cheers,
Tena
i always love an unusual image...
ReplyDeletemy link to you... hang on...
blogs? you mean my OWN I only have about 6, come on!
or are you talking 'bout my blogROLL yeah there's a lot there but half of them never ever reply to my comments so really they're personae non gratae!
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I mean you have a butchers shop near you? I thought they had all gone since the big supermarkets! I havent seen a butchers for years!
ReplyDeleteHope you feel better now! :)
I've never eaten brains, nor seen them for sale. They look revolting, but I think I'd have to give 'em a go. I've cooked and eaten sweetbreads, which are a gland of some sort, and they were good.
ReplyDeleteCasdok, I live near a very small country town and there are three independent butcher's shops. No major supermarkets though, which is all to the good.
Thanks for visiting the Poodles and dogs. We enjoy your comments.
ReplyDeleteThe brains reminded me of a time when I was young and my best friend's brother married a girl from Europe--I can't remember which country. Anyway she fried up a bunch of brains for us one day. We never visited again while she was there. They may have tasted great, but we'll never know.
Casdok: o I see what you mean... o yeah we have quite a lot of independent butchers round here... the best ones are the halal butchers (no squealy swinefleisch!) (pork) (sorry :: attack of the German there...)
ReplyDeleteZ: no i wouldn't eat them... I'm v conservative about what I eat regarding meat. Just beef/lamb/chicken and only normal cuts. No offal, brains, udders or anything odd like that for me!
Lana: yes! I could hardly believe it either. I honestly thought they were pasta when I first caught sight...
Jan: yeah that's the odd sort of thing that happens in European countries, I'm afraid. They're not as squeamish as the Brits and far less squeamish than Americans... e.g. the French still eat horsemeat far as I know... have you ever heard of black pudding? it's a famous Northern English "delicacy" ... basically dried cows' blood. (can't even think about it...) I still remember being given a crab sandwich as a kid. Honestly I could not believe people would actually EAT that thing with clackery pincers and eyes on stalks I saw darting about rockpools on the beach...
ReplyDeleteZen Wiz: mmmm pigs trotters. hmmm. the Chinese still sell dogs at market so I hear... as fresh (live) MEAT. ukk!!
Yellowdog Gran: I don't like offal at all!
Hi, Gleds. Love the hammy pics! Bless! Been rather depressed myself last few days so sorry not been over. Hate Queen Noor - but then I hate any woman with long legs!
ReplyDeleteLots of love from Sicily, Gleds - Simi and me xx
i will post up the singing dogs of new guinea vid tomorrow. i bet you will like that!
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Take care
Mostly vegie myself these days. But the Chinese can make anything look and taste delicious. Actually my mother, who grew up in Germany, cooked brain sometimes. That and kidneys were the two I couldn't handle. The smell of it cooking drove me out of the house. She stopped cooking it when I was around.
ReplyDeleteBut I was gonna ask, what happens when you can't get your drugs? To you physically I mean. How long can you go without? How's your plot to escape going? we're al here to help if we can. We want to read that book of yours, not Queen Noor's.
Deep fried crumbed brains are delish!
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i got ill!
gingivitis strickes me the whole time in britain :S
damn it!
Hi Gleds .... I remember seeing black pudding and tripe in a shop window when I was little and wanting to know what they where. Can't believe anyone would eat brain in light of getting ma∂ cow syndrome!
ReplyDeleteI should have said my niece with the Hammie is in the UK. Your new sign off stars - is it just my tired eyes? but they sort of look like hammie faces eyes, nose and full pouch cheeks ... might help if you squint *!*
Hope today is a brighter one for you.
Hi Gleds ~~ Your photos are great of the robos. Thanks for posting them.
ReplyDeleteHope you are doing well my friend.
Take care. Regards, Merle.
Hi Gleds
ReplyDeleteIn answer to your question on my blog...I load all my photos onto Picasa and they have an option for making collages.
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disgusting and horrible, but I watched a movie many many years ago... faces of death, I think, and there is a ritual where they eat a live monkeys brain... or something like that. I hadn't thought of that in a long time but when I saw those brains that's what popped into mine.
ReplyDelete'siberian subzero' .... i wish it were cold here, like it's supposed to be in winter, but no, today it's about 50 now with a high of 74
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ReplyDeleteSteve: The book is plodding along I am still with it but slowly. I am trying to stick to a methadone course I am on so I'm not using heroin all day every day any more... when I used not to get it (and obviously I made every effort not to let this happen) I started to feel very run down and miserable and cold and bellyachey and uncomfortable and maybe a bit sweaty... this passed into a fever with retching, a feeling of having a hair stuck in the throat you can never get out, muscle cramps etc... really severe withdrawals make the body twitch allover like you're on insecticide but in reality most people never get that ill because they score before then and if they want to stop they go on a rapid medication reduction in a clinic (dihydrocodeine, methadone or buprenorphine most typically or buprenorphine/naloxone mixture) But basically you do all you can NOT to let this happen. Methadone is a bit like a nicotine patch though. It takes away most of the physical cravings but not the urge to light up and smoke!
ViVi: Have you actually tried them? OOook!!
Edyta: Bleeding gums? Try Corsodyl mouthwash it seems to be the strongest over the counter thing for that. Also gargling salty water or myrrh essential oil in water. But Corsodyl probably works best
Bimbimbie: TRIPE is one of the worst. What ON EARTH is it except white fatty stuff? And why do middle aged male beer-stinking men seem to love it fried for breakfast? I'll never know... O I see what you mean about your neice being in the UK because hamsters are considered a verminous plague by the Australian govt. Hmmm! :-]
ReplyDeleteMerle: They're not my own pictures (I wish!) that's why I carefully phrased it "looks like"... Having said that all Robos DO look the same, markings-wise, and Pandable WAS a naturally coated golden hamster just like the one pictured...
Ruth: I've never heard of picasa but I bet they're at www.picasa.com and will answer all my queries... you are dead advanced with this picture bizz!
Crystalchick: Did you know "bushmeat" ie eating monkeys is meant to have caused the Ebola plague in Africa - as well as being the root cause of HIV... seriously. And monkey brains are meant to be a delicacy. Ukk! Not really "Siberian" it was maybe hovering around zero degrees C... what do you mean 70... in New Jersey~?!?
gledwood
ReplyDeleteif you send you email address to me
I will send you an invite to my private blog
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I couldn't see your email here
OK!
ReplyDeleteI tried that before but...
... yeah ok
i get paranoid about posting my email up bc iv been told it's sposed to be bad but then again half the world knows it but not the half that NE£EDS it at the time seemingly haha
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Well, after an Englishman says he won't eat something, we don't really need to bother THE RABBI about the issue, now, do we?
ReplyDeleteI say this in light of:
1) Blood Pudding
2) Jellied Eels
3) Toad in the Hole
4) Bangers and Mash (not really that bad, just hard to get around THE NAME...)
5) Spotted Dick (Really--can't we PLEASE start calling it, "Dermatologically-Challenged Richard"???)
...ad infinitum...
yikes, I keep forgetting the differences here. I mean 70 as in 70 degrees fahrenheit, not celsius.
ReplyDeleteIt's warmer than it's supposed to be this time of year but certainly not tropical. LOL
O c'mon Zen Wizz! Get real! Fair enough the first two are DISGUSTING but the last three it's just the names. Spotted dick is traditional English steamed sponge pudding with little currants (that's the "spots" I really don't know where "dick" comes from... but then again, talking about hilarious uproarious laughing at hmmmm.... at least twice when riding the Picadilly line I've witnessed American tourists almost cacking themselves with amusement over the terminus' name "Cockfosters" woo! haha!
ReplyDeleteAnyway toad in the hole is sausages in "batter" (not what I'd call batter: more like Yorkshire pudding, if you know what that is...)... toad in the hole is really nice... what was that other one? Bangers and mash. No not fireworks but sausages again. Nice. Mashed potato is just about THEEE most superior format of the potato "thang". Don't be put off by names!
Crystalchick: hang on but 70F is still late spring or a mediocre summer day, surely..? And it's JANUARY and you're in NEW JERSEY! C'mon that is SEVERE global warming!
Those brains look revolting - I couldn't be persuaded - no way!
ReplyDeleteHow's your escape plan faring?
hmmmm I gotta get my multimillion pound "baying gwendolina"/memoirs advance first i'm 'fraid
ReplyDelete:-\
You can fill in your email in the blogspot profile template. Then it won't actually show on the web, but if someone clicks on it, it will open their email program and it will show there.
ReplyDeleteThus some program can't scan your blog for your email, but people can still email you.
In My Profile,
click edit profile, then under identity, the second option is email address. Fill that in. It won't show on your profile. But "Email" under Contact in your profile will be an active link.
o! ok i will try that
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