Food, glorious food ...
Apr. 18th, 2008 09:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I made gnocchi from scratch on Wednesday, with a simple cabonara sauce. I think they could do with some work; maybe a touch of garlic, or cheese, or herbs in the gnocchi - but I can always make them again.
I've been thinking a lot about food, and about different dietary restrictions, and how to make food awesome. Steve's lactose intolerant, and needs lots of carbs. I need a minimum of carbs (or at least, a controlled amount). Mum (who I'd like to have over for food more often) is gluten intolerant, and Dad hates 'fancy' food. My brother can be fairly adventurous, but needs to be talked into it, and occasionally needs to be dairy-free, depending on his health. Another friend is allergic to sesame.
Cooking for the range of tastes and requirements can be a challenge. One-pot meals, like the risotto I made the other night, are sometimes chancy affairs, since each individual serve can't really be tweaked all that much.
It's all good fun.
This weekend, I want to make bread. Not sure what, yet - we'll see.
I've been thinking a lot about food, and about different dietary restrictions, and how to make food awesome. Steve's lactose intolerant, and needs lots of carbs. I need a minimum of carbs (or at least, a controlled amount). Mum (who I'd like to have over for food more often) is gluten intolerant, and Dad hates 'fancy' food. My brother can be fairly adventurous, but needs to be talked into it, and occasionally needs to be dairy-free, depending on his health. Another friend is allergic to sesame.
Cooking for the range of tastes and requirements can be a challenge. One-pot meals, like the risotto I made the other night, are sometimes chancy affairs, since each individual serve can't really be tweaked all that much.
It's all good fun.
This weekend, I want to make bread. Not sure what, yet - we'll see.
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Date: 2008-04-18 12:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-18 05:52 am (UTC)I grew out of that eventually, and now a bunch of other things - age related, and finally diagnosed - have cropped up. C'est la vie. On the bright side, everyone likes steak and howevermany veg.
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Date: 2008-04-18 06:02 am (UTC)PS. Steak and 3veg. Country food. Yuk. At the observatory lodge when I'm on night shift, it's about 1 meal in 7. And I swear it's usually been cooking since 2pm. Can't buy roo in town though, because everyone seems to prefer that horrible cow leather product.
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Date: 2008-04-18 06:08 am (UTC)Although, I do like some goat's milk cheeses. Don't know if my palate has shifted as an adult, or I got lucky with the cheese.
On steak and veg: it *can* be awesome food. Really good steak, cooked just right, with fresh produce that's been treated right, can be lovely. But. It's also remarkably easy to screw up for such a simple meal, sigh.
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Date: 2008-04-19 12:38 pm (UTC)[1] All local pubs, in my experience. Especially after a long day's ride.
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Date: 2008-04-18 11:19 pm (UTC)My brother has a cow's milk allergy, and he can't have goat's or sheep's milk either but tolerates soy quite well.
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Date: 2008-04-18 12:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-18 05:51 am (UTC):)
I'm sure I could think of something, in any case.
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Date: 2008-04-18 05:57 am (UTC)Which means of course that now that I am staying at a hotel in Melbourne with no kitchen, and will be for the next month, and am only allowed into the wide blue yonda for an hour a day (otherwise I won't finish my thesis), I've been making liberal use of the Vietnamese and Thai places around Glenferrie Rd, Hawthorn. Nyum nyum.
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Date: 2008-04-18 01:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-18 05:53 am (UTC)