Lately, I’ve noticed that I might be gaining some weight.
That’s all I had for an intro… I didn’t really think this thing through… so let me continue on with something completely unrelated while entirely related at the same time: food.
I like it. You like it. My bowels especially love breaking it down… it’s wonderful. It’s hard to not like food. It’s just a wonderful entity you can do so much with.
Why some people even fuck their food. [url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmwwn/is_200312/ai_kepm332342]Seriously.[/url] Okay… maybe not seriously, as that’s from the World Weekly News and they’re obviously such a reputable publication (insert sarcasm here)…
Anyway, I thought I’d take the time to make a blog entry on food… because… well… I can.
Lately, I’ve been eating a fair amount of toast. I love the stuff. Just plain white bread. I’ll take it any which way I can get it… plain toast, buttered toast, jam toast, cream cheese on toast. Provided it’s not Vegemite on toast (THE DEVIL IS HERE! THE DEVIL IS HERE!), I’m fine with it.
In fact, to me lightly toasted white bread with butter soaked into it is simply delightful. Better than chocolate. Not sure if it’s better for you than chocolate. Probably isn’t, and it’s less likely to aide in orgasms for women, unless you roll the bread up to form some sort of butter-greased doughy dildo… but I’m not sure if I’d be game for that. I don’t have a vagina. I’d be difficult. And the opposite end of me would be worse than Vegemite. I know that doesn’t sound at all possible, but the thought of it makes me want to… BLECCH!!!
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Anyway… toast. There’s something about the toast that bugs me, however.
Every type of bread you buy seems to have its own sort of setting it likes to get the toast [i]just right[/i] before it starts getting all burnt and black. This isn’t very good, in my opinion.
I know, I know… every loaf of bread is technically different… but it’d be nice if they came up with a standard of heat settings and then if they printed the optimum setting you should set your toast too for nice and perfect toast.
Or, if there was an Internet Toaster that quickly analysed your bread, connected to the web, and downloaded the appropriate settings for the optimum slice of toast… that would be cool… if not expensive.
Hey, there’s already an [url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/03/30/java_toaster_prints_weather_forecast/]Internet toaster that singes the weather[/url] onto your toast. I’m just taking it a step further, baby.
Moving on… I have good news.
[b]Someone has finally come out with something in Australia that I’ve been asked for for ages.[/b]
The Americans have had sweeter cream cheese flavours for years now, what with strawberry cream cheese being a hit at bagel shops for a little bit of niceness to put on your morning bagel. It’s great stuff.
Well… the time has come… it is finally here…
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I don’t know if it’s “gourmet”, but it’s more gourmet than butter or jam. In fact, it’s more like half cream cheese, half synthetic something-a-rather… but it does taste good. And it isn’t ridiculously bad for you at around 260 kilojoules per 15 grams or 1730 kilojoules per 100 grams.
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You don’t eat this like pudding. You smear it on bread or toast and it comes in the Passionfruit & Mango flavour seen here, Raspberry, or (I think) Double Chocolate… which quite frankly, I’m not game enough to try…
Anyway, this isn’t a shameless plug (unless the company is listening and wants to give me some freebies…) and is rather just an informative little thingy to tell you that it’s not bad and it’s probably worth wasting the $2.69 that Coles is charging for it at the moment, especially if it interests you and / or you love your toast.
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Grapes. No, Ruiz don’t make a grape flavour (not that I’ve seen anyway) but I am eating a lot of grapes at the moment.
Frozen grapes, in particular. I don’t know whether it’s me trying to stay cool in the heat and humidity that has attacked Sydney of late or if it’s better for me health-wise to eat… maybe I just like them. Whatever it is, I’m eating a lot of frozen grapes at the moment.
Hell, I’m eating them as I type this.
And finally, this is bad news… :(
My ice cream machine has broke.
‘Twas a Chanukaristmas present from my brother so it’s only been in use for a month and a half or so, so Mistal’s life expectancy seems to be not very long. I’ll probably call up Mistral or go in to Target next week, whichever is easier.
Regardless, if you’ve got one of these Mistral ice-cream makers, be aware of a few things:
1. The thing is poorly designed and manufactured so you’re unlikely to get the motor part sitting on the pink ice-cream folding mechanism without somehow getting really agitated and irate.
2. It’s got that liquid inside of it that keeps it cold. I’ve never seen the liquid do anything once it hits air, but well… now I have.
I didn’t expect this. Dad had washed the unit out and left it to dry… and when I went to pick it up to put it back in the freezer, I noticed some yellow gelatinous goo.
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Or it was gelatinous when I first saw it last week. It’s seems to be drying up slightly, I imagine as the air exposes it to dehydration.
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[i]A close-up of the above image.[/i]
However, it’s turning into a powder of some sort and you can see that it’s not just in one place where the seal has broken as the “liquid” is seeping through in various parts around the rim of the unit.
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[i]More views of what look like are broken seals.[/i]
I imagine that using it in this state certainly wouldn’t be good for my health or anyone else’s. I actually expected that the pink stirring mechanism would break first. Alas, it was actually some of that cheap plastic cover in trying to get the damn motor drive to mount properly. I did work out a solution for that… provided I keep onside in and the other off on a slant, it works with no problems, even if the design of this unit should have been better in that the design actually WORKED.
Still… that was before this unit’s seals broke. Now… it’s just pointless… I’m going to have to actually [i]buy[/i] ice-cream again… and making it was so much fun… :(