For LegendFolk, this is Huginn I'm chatting with. Years ago, he bought his daughter a miniature chocolate dipper machine... Behold, the monster he created!
Saw loads of stuff! Mountains of gold, goooooold, gooooooold!!!1!11!1!1 at ze temples and palace. Stuffed self with so much Thai food that I now have a bit of a sore throat. Rooftop bars and shopping in da Chatuchat market! Pole-dancing bars and ladyboys!
But most importantleeeeeee... after 5ish years, I was REUNITED WITH MY BELOVED BAMBOO WORMIEEEEEES!
:( Sad part is they are much more expensive and harder to find than they used to be.
*plot* There has to be a way to get a regular supply. *plot moar* *PLOT!*
Oh yes, and in a related bug-feasty way, this site rawks! Insects are Food.
via agentbauer.com
I was ranting to someone recently how it's very odd that while we have alchemy, and all kinds of magicses, there's no FOOD MAGICSES!
O.o
Not sure if this counts as food magicses, but it sure does count as food art.
Right, the initial fruits of the 'bake' function on my nice new cooking consort.
Manual said 50 minutes, but the cooker beeped at 30. Suicide Granny informs me that I should at least double the cooking time (the poor thing is so flat!). *Sniffle* when I steamed it in my old cooker it poofed out nicely!
Next time, I shall ignore the slackerly squeals of this new rice cooking consort and double the time, at least! *shakefist*
It's still quite edible though. It isn't hardening into ice-pick stage anyway. Kinda chewy. Nom.
via gutsense.org
Actually, I have no idea if it really is the truth, but it does sorta explain why I am a happy bouncy nugget on a minimal amount of fibre - CARNIVORE NUGGET - GWARRR!
Same guy's written / spoken a lot about constipation, and I've never had problems with that since I was a very little kid being fed a ton of fibre...
...after years of staring enviously at Japanese models, reading blog posts rhapsodising about their advanced features, then being confronted with the Single Button, it's finally happened!
I've found the rice cooker of my dreams. (Alas, the Interwebs have no pictures, but nonetheless, this is my promised one!)
It has the faithful single button.
But it also has a bake function. Yes. BAKE!
Verily, the nugget shall sally forth on the morrow to woo it, win its hand (or is that its pot), and thereafter to whisk it lovingly over the threshold of the nuggetty abode.
And there shall be eternal bliss.
Or well - at least 5 years of bliss. I swear, rice cookers are some of the hardiest appliances around.
It's troo! An icecream that doesn't melt! And in the case of maraş dondurması, a specialty of the Kahramanmaraş region, it's so tough and sticky that they eat it with a knife and fork! In fact, you can apparently play jump-rope with it. O.o
Lies you say? Nu! Nu lies! The resin from an orchid, which is a main ingredient, is responsible for the gooey taffy stickiness of doom!
Nice article on Salon.com with lots of details (but sadly no peektures), including - importantly! - how it tastes.
Interesting video about how it's made, but it's all in Turkish, without subtitles. :( Towards the end bit (10:00 and 13:00) you get to see the sticky gooey goodness in action though.
Someday I will be able to plan my hollydays far enuff in advance to go try this stuff...
^_^