rock, food, continued rock
My Diesel Sweeties t-shirts arrived. Now I just have to get some party in the back and I will on the road to true metal. Sweet!
Actually I’m not all that impressed by the printing quality, but this is still the coolest t-shirt ever.
Also, lately, I’ve been having some Food Frustration. It’s not that I don’t have enough tasty stuff to eat, but it’s more that I don’t think it’s very impressive. I mean, I mostly have frozen stuff for dinner and am not all that into the frying and the chopping. Those chicken fillets with spicy seasoning that you get in the freezer section? Those are my favourite thing at the moment, and I’d rather have frozen veg with them if only because it lasts longer in the fridge. But I don’t know. It’s not only Ross taunting me about his superior stir-fry skills, you see, but this cook book that my mum sent me. It has ingredients in it that I’ve never even heard of, like ‘pinched saffron threads’ (is it OK if I buy them rather than pinch them?) and ‘capers’ (I’ve had escapades and adventures, but I haven’t yet attempted a caper). Not to mention the need for grated lime rind, green onions and fresh basil. I have never bought these things, and probably never will until I need to impress a member of the opposite sex. So, it’s got me wondering whether I ought to be doing more. Frying things. Dealing in steak. Attending the butcher. And so on. Honestly, I don’t think it will be tastier that way, or cheaper, and it certainly won’t be quicker, but it would definitely be an ego boost. Status food, you know? I could go into a supermarket and pretend to give a crap about the different cuts of meat and the price of lettuce, rather than just grabbing microwave fish fillets and a bag of prepack salad.
Or, you know, not.
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Stir-fry skills? You need skills for that?
Comment by nailpolishblues — Thursday July 12 2007 @ 10:02 pm
I’m a pretty decent cook, but it’s been hot which makes me lazy. So there’s been a lot of freezer food round these parts. Everytime I get fresh stuff like mushrooms or peppers, etc. they go bad before I ever get around to using them.
Stir fry is great, but there is way too much cutting up of things involved. Luckily I have a man slave (i.e. eddie) to do that for me. In return he gets tasty eats, so I think it works out.
I’m totally with you on the crazy ingredients. I got a cook book for christmas, and I haven’t used it yet because I don’t want to spend tons of money for ingredients or on herbs I’ll probably never use again.
Comment by Julia — Thursday July 12 2007 @ 10:18 pm
Awesome shirts, btw.
Comment by Julia — Thursday July 12 2007 @ 10:20 pm
Nails - Well, I never knew you were supposed to take the meat out and put it back in later. And I didn’t know what snake beans were.
Julia - I’m glad I’m not the only one who likes to keep things simple. Yay!
Comment by Mark — Thursday July 12 2007 @ 11:01 pm
Sounds like an affectation to me.
Comment by nailpolishblues — Thursday July 12 2007 @ 11:06 pm
As far as the printing goes, you must be talking about the small letters on the boom box. You’d be shocked how hard it is to keep those tiny pixel letters from blurring! Hope it’s ok.
Comment by rstevens — Thursday July 12 2007 @ 11:45 pm
Shelley - See, your skillz are as lame as mine. Plus, Ross and I are MEN, which means we don’t ‘do’ affectation. Flair is for pansies.
Copy of the email reply I sent to Richard:
Hi Richard,
Love your work! :D Yeah, I can understand the difficulty involved in getting the fine writing onto a shirt, and I’m definitely ok with the result. Maybe, though, you could think about making the design ~50% bigger? It might be a bit easier to read that way too.
Cheers
Mark
Comment by Mark — Friday July 13 2007 @ 12:01 pm
I love to make stir-fry. However, people who really ‘know’ how to make it would probably be abhorred by my methods. I’m most likely breaking all the ‘rules’.
Slice meat, marinade, chop veg, cook, eat
(I started going into more detail about my haphazard cooking methods, but it was getting waaay too long for a comment. So maybe I’ll do a stir-fry post. Mmmm…delicious)
But who cares how it’s made as long as it’s tasty?
I like the new shirts by the way! :)
Comment by Becky — Friday July 13 2007 @ 2:55 pm
I love to cook, so I must admit I know all of those ingredients you listed. But I am lazy and only cook on weekends when I have the time.
Which is a shame because I’m also lazy and I love to eat. Hence a lot of pasta because it’s quick and tastes awesome, in fact Sundays have been decreed Pasta Sunday at my apartment.
Easy and quick.
(People who are food snobs are complete douchebags, and you don’t want to be that)
Comment by Lucy — Friday July 13 2007 @ 3:17 pm
Also love the t-shirt.
Comment by Lucy — Friday July 13 2007 @ 3:18 pm
Becky - Give us a cooking post then eh? Good idea.
Lucy -Thanks, doubly. Xxx!
Comment by Mark — Friday July 13 2007 @ 8:30 pm
I’m with Becky. Anything tricky is a waste of time and effort. Also, like it makes it taste different.
Comment by nailpolishblues — Friday July 13 2007 @ 9:28 pm
I had to deal with a foody once, and I just wanted to smack her in her smug ass mouth.
She was going on and on about how the colors of the food on the plate should complement each other. I just said “hey, it all comes out the same way.”
I have never gotten such a dirty look from someone in all my life.
Comment by Julia — Friday July 13 2007 @ 10:24 pm