The Red Queen's Race

[bobquasit]

I'd hoped to do several posts today, but I just haven't had time. So this is a reminder to myself for the next few things I wanted to write about:

• The D&D game


• Sebastian's birthday disaster


• The Glaxo avian flu vaccine

...and while I'm at it, I'll record that today for the first time in my life I cooked broccoli. It came out pretty well, but was a little overdone; seven minutes of steaming was a minute or two too much for the double-handful I cooked.

(I've lost another two pounds in the last two days, despite being in the "keep trim" phase and having diary and more carbs. The diet is going great.)

Comments

[klyfix.livejournal.com]

Broccoli may be incredibly healthy but the only way I find it palatable is in Chinese cooking. Most anything can be palatable in Chinese cooking. :)

[akicif.livejournal.com]

Or there's broccoli and stilton soup: chop your broccoli with some onion and fry it with a lid on to keep the steam in for a few minutes. Put it aside, then make a cheese sauce (butter + flour to make roux, then add in milk and grated cheese with choice of seasoning), combine the lot and dilute with milk or stock.

Yes, it's basically a livelier, but diluted, cauliflower cheese. On the other hands, while delicious, it is basically calories in a dish....

[bobquasit.livejournal.com]

For some reason that reminds me of a poem by Thomas Rockwell called "Stilton Cheese and Silence", but I'm not sure why. :D

I don't eat cheese, but I find steamed broccoli an absolutely delicious tool for eating soy sauce. Put a well-cooked hamburger and a plate of broccoli in front of me along with a bowl of soy sauce, and I'm a happy man - as happy as I used to be in the old days with a big plate of french fries and ketchup.

Either way, the hamburger is de rigeur of course. :)