By Glorious Eating
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In
Simply food
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12:03 AM
Whenever people think or begin to speak about food we are immediately drawn to images of our favourite dishes and foods. But then there's the negative side where its not all sunshine and butterflies, the wacky foods that people eat which may seem completely normal to them yet disturbing to others.
Although I am a strong believer in tasting and trying before judging, I cant seem to grasp the thought of people eating whether they'd be cooked or still jumping around things such as bats, cockroaches, grasshoppers, bees, flies and the list goes on and on. With this said it is interesting and fascinating watching people eat and enjoy these so called delicacies and thinking to yourself "does that really taste like chicken?"
So I feel it is a duty upon myself to present to my fellow food lovers a special very small collection of the weird. wacky and just plain outrageous foods available.
Dinner is served, and yes as you might have noticed these are rats!
It is disturbing to know that rats are a suprisingly common food in some parts of the world.
And yes they have been described to taste like chicken.
Next on the menu we have a fresh, slimy serve of Casu Marzu (Maggots are not included, see in-stores for details). Well what is Casu Marzu? It is a cheese aged to about the point of decompostion. If you're already thinking of buying this cheese, well think again. It is actually illegal although that doesn't stop tons of this stuff being sold to locals on the black market. Why is it illegal you ask well because of the obvious health risks. The cheese can only be eaten when the maggots inside are still alive which prevents the cheese from being toxic as opposed to when the maggots are dead.
Now for the final nail in the coffin, a serve of exquisite century eggs.
Century egg is a Chinese cuisine ingredient made by preserving duck, chicken or quail eggs in a mixture of clay, ash, salt, lime and rice straw for several weeks to several months. After the wonderful process is complete the yolk becomes a dark green cream like substance with a strong odour of Sulphur and Ammonia, which might also be known as fart. Even more impressive is the fact that the originally egg whites become a dark brown transparent jelly. So the next time you're thinking of eating eggs why not try some century eggs either eaten raw, boiled or scrambled.
So there you have it my hopefully still food lovers a very very very small collection of the outrageous foods out there. So until next time go out there and enjoy a main course of rats with a Casu Marzu cheese sauce accompanied by a refreshing century egg salad with crumbled Casu Marzu.
Cheers.
By Glorious Eating
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In
Assignment
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8:46 PM
By Glorious Eating
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In
Snack
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8:28 PM
Here's a post that doesn't involve eating out :)
Quick and easy snack to make which does involve cheese, tomato sauce and bread. What? THREE ingredients only?
Spread the tomato sauce onto your slice of bread then top it off with some mozarella cheese. Chuck em under the grill for about 15-20 minutes? (Just keep an eye on it haha)
Easy snack :)
- Signing off, Nhi :)
By Glorious Eating
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In
Dessert
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Parramatta
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12:58 PM
Image source: http://www.eatlikeacow.blogspot.com"Chocolate by the bald man."
This is my favourite place for a good chocolate fix. I always order the Tutti-Fruitti waffle which comes with your choice of either one ($13) or two ($17.50) Belgian waffles with fresh strawberries, fresh bananas and vanilla ice cream. Perfect chocolate craving fix!
The waffle comes to you warm and has a nice bite to it and is drizzled in warm melted milk chocolate.
Located at:
Shop 2187/159-175 Church St Parramatta
City of Parramatta NSW 02150
(02) 9635 7566
http://www.maxbrenner.com.au/- Signing off, Nhi :)
By Glorious Eating
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In
Simply food
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11:45 PM
Well its interesting now that Masterchef has returned and everyone is all of a sudden that little bit more interested and enthusiastic towards food.
I mean we eat it everyday whether its day or night, hail or shine yet it takes something as simple as a tv show to encourage everyone to start making their own recipes or to have a go at a traditional family or cultural dish.
I know that Masterchef has driven me to try something new, to explore the dishes that surround us on a daily basis, dishes from around the world all delivered to our doorsteps, literally.
Its also great to see that the younger generations are getting into this, i know from experience my younger siblings create a stampede in trying to race to the tv to get the best seat when masterchef is about to start. Its great to see that they are so enthusiastic towards something so essential in our lifes and hopefully we can reach a time where the mothers can relax and the kids can take over dinner time and of course with adult supervision.
By Glorious Eating
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In
Asian
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Lunch
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Parramatta
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11:31 PM
Image source: http://www.disneymike.com/blog/
(02) 9633 9402
- Signing off, Nhi :)
By Glorious Eating
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In
Asian
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Cabramatta
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Lunch
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11:07 AM
By Glorious Eating
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In
Breakfast
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12:08 PM
Breakfast is an important meal of the day. It kickstarts your mornings and provide you with energy until lunchtime! With that said, I usually just grab an Up & Go on my way out the door during the week. However, with the "study break" upon us, I've found time to make me some breakfast!
One of the easiest breakfast food, in my opinion? French toast. Nothing French about it but whatever - it fills me up and tastes delicious! Eggs, milk, butter and bread. Too easy. Didn't have maple syrup so I substituted that with some strawberry jam. Delicious.
Classic favourite? Bacon and eggs! Yes, your cholestrol level has reason to be scared but indulge once in a while. You only live once :P
- Signing off, Nhi :)
By Glorious Eating
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In
About Us
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3:03 PM
What are we about? Well, before the bungle with Blogger and email accounts, we decided on 'Glorious Eating' as it was an ironic name for what we were going to blog about - food but the 'everyday' kind of food and not the spectacular fancy 5 star restaurant food.
But that didn't work out so I had to create an email account seperately for the group to login and blog and we couldn't use the 'Glorious Eating' URL anymore :( So 'Feeding Three' became the new blog URL and name. Why 'Feeding Three'? Well, there are only three of us in the group and we're all being fed everyday :P
By Glorious Eating
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12:21 PM
Some difficulties in the other members becoming co-authors on the other blog at http://www.gloriouseating.blogspot.com meant that I had to create an email which everyone could access thus the move and change in URLs!
Designing a blog is one of the hardest parts. I mean, you got to find a medium between expressing what your blog is about through the layout as well as maintaining its ease of use without cluttering your blog with all these images and flashing backgrounds etc.
The image header would have something that's related to food - you know, cutlery, different dishes etc
Down the left side we'll have a box for our profile so you get to know who we are. There'll also be a followers and links box.
On the right would be where all our entries go :)
Anyways, so here's the storyboard again. Plus the colour scheme.
