Thought for food
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dolorosa_12Day 29 – Your favorite foods/drinks
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This topic is both easy and difficult. I love food and drinks...but I love many kinds of food and drinks, and am surprisingly non-specific when it comes to my favourites. Whenever my mother used to ask my sister and me what we wanted for dinner, I would always say 'Something with a sauce' in a typically vague manner.
The sauce thing is important. I have kind of a weak sense of taste (probably due to having a poor sense of smell, which affects your sense of taste) and so I like things with very strong flavours. You will never see me eating fish, meat (even deli meats) or potatoes on their own because I find them too bland. I typically eat steak with both tomato sauce and some kind of chilli sauce, for example. Whenever my mother cooks stir-fry, I always add extra soy sauce and whatever other sauce she's used in order to give it more flavour.
Aside from that specification, though, I like almost all kinds of food, provided they're cooked with very high-quality ingredients. I can put up with poor-quality vegetables better than I can poor-quality meat or eggs, and so if I can't get hold of good-quality meat, I'll tend to eat vegetarian food.
I love Japanese food, Thai food, Indian food (both the kind made for Westerners and more genuine South Indian stuff), Indonesian/Malaysian food, Italian food, Lebanese food, Turkish food, good quality Chinese food, Mexican food, Spanish food, Eastern European food, French patisserie food (although I'm not as keen on French savoury food, apart from the simple cheese and bread-type stuff), good-quality pub food, most vegetarian food, modern Australian food and what I guess you could call 'Australian cafe food'. I adore fruit (apart from bananas), ice-cream and good-quality chocolate, although I'm not a huge fan of cakes and biscuits (I find them a little dry).
A couple of weird food-related quirks: I detest all commercial brands of cereal, although I quite like muesli and porridge (I can't eat them every day, and tend to go through phases of about a month where I'll eat them with fruit and yoghurt or fruit and honey). I only like sandwiches if they're freshly-made in a cafe, and preferably if they're toasted. You'll NEVER see me eating sandwiches at home, but rather slices of bread, slices of cheese/tomato/chorizo/spoonfulls of hummus all separated. I don't know why, that's just how I like to eat.
In terms of drinks, I think I've already established I'm a coffee snob and also quite fond of most kinds of alcoholic beverages. I only drink coffee that's been made on an espresso machine by competent baristas. If I can't get that, I'd rather drink tea. I'll drink cheap tea-bag tea, but I prefer loose-leaf. When it comes to alcohol, I'll drink most spirits (although these days I need mixers too, unlike when I was younger), any kind of wine, no matter how cheap, and pretty much any cocktail. I don't like beer or cider at all. I can't afford expensive wine, and I was brought up drinking middle-of-the-range wine at home. My favourite white wines are Brokenwood semillon and Brokenwood Cricket Pitch (a semillon/sauvignon blanc blend) and my favourite red wine is Torres Sangre de Toro. I suspect if we'd been able to afford extremely expensive wines I'd have others I preferred more, but within my experience and price-range, these are my favourite wines.
To be honest, apart from alcohol and coffee, I mostly just drink tap water. I like freshly-squeezed juice from time to time, but really the only other drinks I actually adore are regular Coca Cola and various types of expensive sparkling mineral water (I highly recommend San Pellegrino). Coke is my great weakness, although I've pretty much given up drinking it because it's so bad for me.
I think I'm probably a bit of a food snob. This doesn't really bother me, particularly.
Day 30 – Your aspirations
Just two days left of this meme!
This topic is both easy and difficult. I love food and drinks...but I love many kinds of food and drinks, and am surprisingly non-specific when it comes to my favourites. Whenever my mother used to ask my sister and me what we wanted for dinner, I would always say 'Something with a sauce' in a typically vague manner.
The sauce thing is important. I have kind of a weak sense of taste (probably due to having a poor sense of smell, which affects your sense of taste) and so I like things with very strong flavours. You will never see me eating fish, meat (even deli meats) or potatoes on their own because I find them too bland. I typically eat steak with both tomato sauce and some kind of chilli sauce, for example. Whenever my mother cooks stir-fry, I always add extra soy sauce and whatever other sauce she's used in order to give it more flavour.
Aside from that specification, though, I like almost all kinds of food, provided they're cooked with very high-quality ingredients. I can put up with poor-quality vegetables better than I can poor-quality meat or eggs, and so if I can't get hold of good-quality meat, I'll tend to eat vegetarian food.
I love Japanese food, Thai food, Indian food (both the kind made for Westerners and more genuine South Indian stuff), Indonesian/Malaysian food, Italian food, Lebanese food, Turkish food, good quality Chinese food, Mexican food, Spanish food, Eastern European food, French patisserie food (although I'm not as keen on French savoury food, apart from the simple cheese and bread-type stuff), good-quality pub food, most vegetarian food, modern Australian food and what I guess you could call 'Australian cafe food'. I adore fruit (apart from bananas), ice-cream and good-quality chocolate, although I'm not a huge fan of cakes and biscuits (I find them a little dry).
A couple of weird food-related quirks: I detest all commercial brands of cereal, although I quite like muesli and porridge (I can't eat them every day, and tend to go through phases of about a month where I'll eat them with fruit and yoghurt or fruit and honey). I only like sandwiches if they're freshly-made in a cafe, and preferably if they're toasted. You'll NEVER see me eating sandwiches at home, but rather slices of bread, slices of cheese/tomato/chorizo/spoonfulls of hummus all separated. I don't know why, that's just how I like to eat.
In terms of drinks, I think I've already established I'm a coffee snob and also quite fond of most kinds of alcoholic beverages. I only drink coffee that's been made on an espresso machine by competent baristas. If I can't get that, I'd rather drink tea. I'll drink cheap tea-bag tea, but I prefer loose-leaf. When it comes to alcohol, I'll drink most spirits (although these days I need mixers too, unlike when I was younger), any kind of wine, no matter how cheap, and pretty much any cocktail. I don't like beer or cider at all. I can't afford expensive wine, and I was brought up drinking middle-of-the-range wine at home. My favourite white wines are Brokenwood semillon and Brokenwood Cricket Pitch (a semillon/sauvignon blanc blend) and my favourite red wine is Torres Sangre de Toro. I suspect if we'd been able to afford extremely expensive wines I'd have others I preferred more, but within my experience and price-range, these are my favourite wines.
To be honest, apart from alcohol and coffee, I mostly just drink tap water. I like freshly-squeezed juice from time to time, but really the only other drinks I actually adore are regular Coca Cola and various types of expensive sparkling mineral water (I highly recommend San Pellegrino). Coke is my great weakness, although I've pretty much given up drinking it because it's so bad for me.
I think I'm probably a bit of a food snob. This doesn't really bother me, particularly.
Day 30 – Your aspirations
