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NOW is when I need to know how to shorten posts.

IN process. I need to look up some items to see if, in fact, I have eaten them or if I definitely will not.

1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating. (I can't figure out how to do that, so I'll just have to italicize.)
4) Optional extra: Post a comment here at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.

The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred:

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese

26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

Consumerism

Hate it. BUT.... WANT!!

Oh Deer!

Have you seen this cute little premature deer?

Yes, I'm trying to catch up on blogs. I'm not sure how to email posts, sooooo I don't. I'm sure all of my zero readers have been anxious.

Sam's Song

You'd have to know him to appreciate this.

What not to put on your blog

This is a good article about how putting too much information about yourself out on the web can have serious effects.

Scallops en papillote, and I'm back for now

http://theketchupkid.blogspot.com/2008/01/scallops-en-papillote.html

So that sounds like a healthy meal!

I can't get to the blog from work again, and since that's where I'm usually bored there hasn't been much posting. I'll do what I can when I can for my eventual readership.

Cincy Green Foods

I am back to being able to post from work. Yay! Well, I realize that this is just for my own benefit, but it is working well for me! For instance, I found a bunch of Cincy local food sites, via CinciLocavores yahoo group, via livegreencincinnati.com. Now I shall post them all for no one but me.

http://www.cloughvalleysweets.com/
http://www.andersonfarmersmarket.org/
Mud Foot Farm 2698 Boggs Rd Amelia OH 45102
http://organicfarmatbearcreek.com/index.html
http://www.redsunfarm.com/index.php
http://vistagrandranch.com/outletsa.html

Hiatus

Employment imposed hiatus: specifically, my current contractee company has blocked Blogger. So I will update as I can. Believe me, I am still surfing and still finding things to share, but less since about half of my blogging pattern has been interupted. Oh well! One day this past week I was actually busy for 80% of the day! If that continues I won't care, but on days when I work an hour and sit bored for 7, not being able to access my former blog haunts is a pain. I can still get to email, though, so email me! If there's anyone there, because I'm not seeing any comments so I'm thinking I have no readers.

Going hippie

No-poo: This means shampoo-free shampoo made from one tablespoon of baking soda per one cup of warm or hot water. Conditioner: one to two tablespoons of Apple Cider Vinegar (ACV) per cup of water. (Found Linked to from this post on making your own deodorant.) I'm not sure I can go quite that green, but I'll update if I try it.

Update 7/9/08: Well, I think I used too much baking soda so my hair is a little bit dry, but I still HIGHLY recommend trying this! Shampoo and conditioner usually make my hair feel greasy and dry at the same time. With the baking soda / ACV method, the hair at my scalp looks much, much healthier and shiny instead of dull. I'm going to cut back on baking soda, increase ACV, and keep this up. The links from the shampoo site were very helpful in figuring this all out. (Still haven't tried the deodorant; way more work for that.)

Update 7/18/08: Experiment FAILED. My hair just kept getting oilier and oilier. Baking soda did not remove the natural oils; ACV did not remove the natural oils; tea did not remove the natural oils. I was beginning to look like an unwashed hippie, which is not cool. I am going to a wedding tonight, and looking like an unwashed hippie at a black-tie wedding is not cool. So, back to regular shampoo. I so wanted this to work out!! I think for someone with dry hair this would work very well, but that is not me. I have dry ends, but this didn't change that. Of course I didn't get the boar bristle brush which should evenly distribute the oils to the ends, but I think for me that would have made things worse. :-(

Furoshiki

Heard of this? How odd and cool is it that the Ministry of the Environment for Japan published this guide to wrapping things with cloth? I think it's way cool!

Not sure if anyone is reading since I haven't gotten any comments, but anyone not reading is really missing out on cool stuff, huh? :-)

What to do with my herbs

I planted basil, rosemary, curry, and cilantro this year in a rail-top box on the back deck. They are all doing well (the cilantro is getting a bit crowded out), but I realized that I am on my way to repeating last year's mistake: herbs grew well, but I let them go to seed and never used them. So I went hunting for a basil pesto recipe. This one sounds really good, but I might have to use the food processor. Not sure I can chop for 20-30 minutes straight!

(Photo from post on 101 Cookbooks)

Kitty bath?

Way funny!!! Poor kitty. I'm glad I know about Photoshop.

Weightloss pt. II

I had that other post in draft for a week to see if I wanted to actually post it. I had to today so that I could say this: I forgot to eat my banana with my eggs for breakfast this morning and therefore was compelled to eat a giant "rice krispy treat" from Starbucks instead. Never skip the banana!

I might be a bad person...

but this post cracked me up. I, too, have a hard time eating lamb if I even think about it for a moment.

Watch and Weight

Thoughts on weight loss:



It occured to me as I pondered whether I would be able to lose 10 pounds by the end of June and what I'd have to do that my approach to dieting is all wrong. I was considering jumping on another bandwagon - one that had worked for me in the past, such as the purification diet, Weight Watchers, carb addicts - while I munched on one of the 3 pack of Reese's peanut butter cups from the work vending machine. The thought of starving myself just seemed horrible. That's what these diets are: starvation of one sort or the other. I'm miserable and fixated on food until I reach my goal or the event for which I am starving myself arives. Then I start eating the way I was and gain the weight back.



Obviously, this doesn't work. And obviously that is pointed out in many magazines. What I realized, though, is that even if I can't lose the weight by the end of June I still want to lose the weight. (Oh, and by the way June was the new goal after the April Hawaii trip goal was missed.)



What I have now determined is that I need to make some small, permanent changes that will likely not allow me to lose the weight by the end of June, but should make it possible for me to lose the weight and not gain it again.



So, to start with, I've made two changes. Sam and I are now going to the gym. Hopefully I'll still go when he is out of town. I have found that I love walking on the treadmill at an incline. I can't run; it hurts my knees. I can't use the eliptical machines because they make my feet hurt after 10 minutes. But walking "uphill" on the treadmill gets my blood pumping and doesn't hurt anything.



The other change is planning for the afternoon munchies. At the new job, I am bored. I am often bored, and therefore often eat. The only thing that I can eat from these vending machines are unflavored potato chips and some candy bars due to my gluten intolerance. So I was eating a candy bar almost every day, within an hour after lunch. I wasn't hungry, but I needed to eat. I brought carrots, but I didn't want them. I discovered that kombucha tea kills that craving. So now I have carrots, an apple, and kombucha tea to keep me from the vending machine (at least on a regular basis). I have found that if I drink the tea when I start feeling the cravings (usually around 2:00) I am not hungry before 5:00. However, at 5:00 I am starving and will make bad decisions on eating before dinner. Therefore I make myself eat the apple and carrots around 4:00 so that I can make better decisions later.



My next challenge is going to be after dinner. Usually an hour after dinner I am bored and too tired to do anything constructive. Why don't I go to bed? Because it's still light out until 9:30! So I end up drinking, and drinking makes me eat, so I start eating. This is what I need to resolve next.



We'll see what happens. I am determined to make and keep these changes. When my mom was my age, she was probably about my size, and concerned about her weight. But with the amount of stress she was dealing with at that time and thereafter, she never did get her eating habits under control, or maintain an exercise program. I'm not worried about dying young like she did; that's genetic, and there is really very little one can do about that. But I'm worried about gaining the weight that she did and feeling as depressed as she did. I wish I could have helped her, but at least I can learn from her.

More "wants"

I want this Clarisonic face scrubber, but at the price, it just ain't gonna happen. Unless someone buys it for me, which also ain't gonna happen. Made by the same people who make the Sonicare (Sonicare <-> Clarisonic? They need some original product naming), another product that I really want but refuse to pay for.

Oxymoron?

Maybe that describes me, but I want both this and this.

Flea prevention

This post recommends an eco-friendly, non-toxic flea control. Hm. I'm fully in favor, but wary of the efficacy. Who wants to be the guinea pig?

THIS! IS! MY! JOB!!!

5PM Outsource This!
Guy: Today, from 1:30 to 4:30 I played tic-tac-toe and hangman, and then at 4:30 I played board games and drank booze. I love my job.

Westport, Connecticut
via Overheard in the Office, May 8, 2008