"The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced" ... Aart Van Der Leeuw
The Omnivore’s Hundred
2 November 2008, 12:25
- Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
- Bold all the items you.ve eaten.
- Cross out any items that you would never consider eating (or eating again)
- Optional extra: Post a comment http://www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.
To make the filling out of this form and generating the HTML for it a bit easier, ![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
reddywhp has played around with some PHP. Go to http://reddywhip.org/lj/foods/ and fill it out there. After filling it out, you will be given the code to copy and paste into your blog.
Livejournal users, remember to use your LJ-Cuts!
- Venison
- Nettle tea
- Huevos rancheros
- Steak tartare
- Crocodile
- Black pudding
- Cheese fondue
- Carp
- Borscht
- Baba ghanoush
- Calamari
- Pho
- PB&J sandwich
- Aloo gobi
- Hot dog from a street cart
- Epoisses
- Black truffle
- Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
- Steamed pork buns
- Pistachio ice cream
- Heirloom tomatoes
- Fresh wild berries
- Foie gras
- Rice and beans
- Brawn, or head cheese
- Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
- Dulce de leche
- Oysters
- Baklava
- Bagna cauda
- Wasabi peas
- Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
- Salted lassi
- Sauerkraut
Root beer floatCognac with a fat cigar- Clotted cream tea
- Vodka jelly
- Gumbo
- Oxtail
- Curried goat
- Whole insects
- Phaal
- Goat’s milk
- Malt whisky from a bottle worth $120 or more
- Fugu
- Chicken tikka masala
- Eel
Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut- Sea urchin
- Prickly pear
- Umeboshi
- Abalone
- Paneer
McDonald’s Big Mac Meal- Spaetzle
- Dirty gin martini
- Beer above 8% ABV
- Poutine
- Carob chips
S’mores- Sweetbreads
- Kaolin
- Currywurst
- Durian
- Frog’s Legs
- Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
- Haggis
- Fried plantain
- Chitterlings or andouillette
- Gazpacho
- Caviar and blini
- Louche absinthe
- Gjetost or brunost
Roadkill- Baijiu
Hostess Fruit Pie- Snail
- Lapsang souchong
- Bellini
- Tom yum
Eggs Benedict- Pocky
- Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant
- Kobe beef
- Hare
- Goulash
- Flowers
- Horse
- Criollo chocolate
Spam- Soft shell crab
- Rose harissa
- Catfish
- Mole poblano
- Bagel and lox
- Lobster Thermidor
- Polenta
- Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
- Snake
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Textpattern - again
8 October 2008, 06:08
So, I have been doing some design work lately. I just got asked to design a new site that is using Wordpress. It has been a while since I had to look at other CMS’s or Blogging packages.
Having done a few, four to be exact, sites with Textpattern … I really do like it and as someone said, “it is what we feel comfortable using” … Here, here.
To the carver of letters in stone
A few links to Textpattern resources; Utter Plush, Wilshire One, Threshold State, Iaian7, and The Bombsite. These sites all have links to more resources, so give Textpattern a test drive if you need this sort of software to run your website.
And not to forget, though not much about Textpattern, the inventor of Textpattern himself … Dean Allen, writing it like it is.
Tag … You’re it!
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OH Canada Day ... Eh!!!
1 July 2008, 20:41
1st July 2008 and Canada is 141 years old and our $ is better than the Greenback. So here is to the best place in the world to live, even if we have to deal with provincial bickering. The sun is setting and soon the fireworks begin.
Emily & me … showing our patriotism
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Emily's tooth & Change
16 November 2007, 07:51
Going back a few days, to tell about a few things that Emily has been doing, or things that have happened to her.
Monday the 12th was a school holiday and since we had had a snow storm the day before and that I promised to make cookies with her, well I did. All my cookbooks are packed, so I phoned my mother and got a recipe for basic sugar cookies.
After baking 3 trays of cookies, the time for the icing came. I mixed one batch of basic vanilla icing. Emily got out the food-colouring and went to work. I was impressed, every colour and the ability to finally reach her black icing, not some mud colour. Way to go Emily.
Last night, after weeks of the wobbly tooth, the moment finally came. It came out. Emily came rushing with excitement, speaking with such speed I had to see what this little thing she was hold up for me to see was.
So all I have to do now is go wake her up and see what the tooth-fairy left her. and know for something completely different.
Life repeats itself mindlessly – unless you become mindful, it will go on repeating like a wheel. That’s why Buddhists call it the wheel of life and death, the wheel of time. It moves like a wheel: birth is followed by death, death is followed by birth; love is followed by hate, hate is followed by love; success is followed by failure, failure is followed by success.
Just see! If you can watch just for a few days, you will see a pattern emerging, a wheel pattern. One day, a fine morning, you are feeling so good and so happy, and another day you are so dull, so dead that you start thinking of committing suicide. And just the other day you were so full of life, so blissful that you were feeling thankful to God, that you were in a mood of deep gratefulness, and today there is great complaint and you don’t see the point why one should go on living…. And it goes on and on, but you don’t see the pattern. Once you see the pattern, you can get out of it.
Osho Take it Easy, Volume 1 Chapter 7
The symbol in this card is an enormous wheel representing time, fate, karma. Galaxies spin around this constantly moving circle, and the twelve signs of the zodiac appear on its circumference. Just inside the circumference are the eight trigrams of the I Ching, and even closer to the center are the four directions, each illuminated by the energy of lightning. The spinning triangle is at this moment pointed upward, toward the divine, and the Chinese symbol of yin and yang, male and female, creative and receptive, lies at the center.
It has often been said that the only unchanging thing in the world is change itself. Life is continuously changing, evolving, dying and being reborn. All opposites play a part in this vast circular pattern. If you cling to the edge of the wheel you can get dizzy! Move toward the center of the cyclone and relax, knowing that this too will pass.
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The Perfect European
12 November 2007, 20:39
Should be …
- Patient … as an Austrian
- Cooking … like a Brit
- Available … as a Belgian
- Discreet … as a Dane
- Generous … as a Dutchman
- Talkative … as a Finn
- Driving … like the French
- Humorous … as a German
- Organised … as a Greek
- Sober … as the Irish
- Controlled … as an Italian
- Famous … as a Luxembourger
- Technical … as a Portuguese
- Humble … as a Spaniard
- Flexible … as a Swede
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Rememberance Day 2007
12 November 2007, 09:40
Well now, how things change here in Canada … weather-wise speaking. First a congratulations to my daughter Emily and her first place win for the Remembrance Day drawing she did at school.
Emily with her kindergarten class and her 1st place medal
They phoned me from the school this past Thursday to tell me that Emily had won a medal (not which one) for her Remembrance Day drawing and it would be presented to her on Friday. So I went to the school for the ceremony Friday afternoon and was greatly surprised when they called her name for the 1st place winner. Way to go Emily!
First snow … winter 2007-2008
Now on to the ‘Welcome to Canada’ part. I woke up Sunday morning to realise the power was out. I got up and went downstairs, observed the snow-storm, light a few candles and phoned NB Power to tell them my power was out. The man on the phone said they knew, a crew was in the area and the power should be restored shortly. So back to bed. I woke again and while laying there, the power came back on. Emily awoke a short time later and was very excited, “winter is here, can I go outside?” So we had a great day, she played outdoors most of the day and I actually got a lot of packing done. I am moving soon … yeah!
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