Tag: ek Humor
May 31 2011
Cartnoon
May 29 2011
Fiddleheads!
Score! I have some Fiddleheads I picked up at the store yesterday!
Fiddleheads |
Fiddleheads are a very ephemeral thing. For 2 or 3 weeks in the spring the emerging shoots of several types of ferns are available for eating.
Now to me they resemble nothing so much as Asparagus in taste, but perhaps that’s because of my preferred method of preparation about which more shortly. Others notice a hint of Almond, but you couldn’t prove it by me. They’re extremely high in Vitamin A, less so in C, and otherwise have all the good nutritional characteristics you expect from a vegetable.
Personally I don’t recommend picking them wild. I’m not Euell Gibbons and I stay away from toadstools and amateur fugu too. Fortunately they’re available from some grocery stores in season (my local Stop & Shop carries them), you can get them over the internet (www.fiddle-heads.com), and also frozen and canned.
May 27 2011
Spam
Crossposted from The Stars Hollow Gazette
Never let it be said I’m above poking a little fun at my Viking relatives.
It seems that in addition to producing racist anti-Muslim cartoons, Denmark has decided to ban Marmite.
What you have to understand about this is that Marmite and it’s Australian cousin Vegamite are basically expended Brewer’s Yeast and they taste… well… let’s just say you have to acquire one.
Some will point out that it has high levels of umami and there are other foods that require a ‘willing suspension of disbelief‘ like natto and garum.
The reason they’re banning it is because it’s fortified with extra vitamins which, as with riding your dog like a small pony, IS FROWNED ON IN THIS ESTABLISHMENT! Thank goodness I was able to hide this computer under my blanket so I can keep track of my blog accounts.
The advertising says you either love it or hate it, fans are up in arms ready to smuggle it in like Reservation cigarettes from Germany and Sweden and are calling for retaliatory bacon boycotts.
You’re wondering about the hat. It’s what Vikings wear to keep the CIA mind control microwaves out.
Now, if it were Spam-