Land of Leymoo

Thor’s Cabbage Rolls.

This is odd enough to reblog.

11 months ago · 7,629 notes · Source · Reblogged from e-myself-and-pi

Online Food Shopping… just wtf do we do it?

The gearbox died on the mister’s car in Denmark. Hilarity ensues, especially when the gearbox of the *tow truck* also died when taking the car away…

We’re back home and safe and holidayed out for a bit, but we do need to eat. I’ve done a stop-gap shop at the mini-Tesco outside our flat but we do really need a proper food shop. So I’m trying to shop for food without seeing it. This is baffling me.

What on *earth* do we eat? I can pin down the basics (milk, bread, eggs) and a few meals we tend to make (beef/chicken stir fry, nombanara, pie and gravy) but I’m just stumped. I’m sitting with half my cookbooks round me wondering why this is so easy when you can actually see the food.
Rolphus has a dairy allergy. Apart from waitrose.com there is *no* easy way of selecting “no cow juice yo” for sections of the food store. Surely we should be taking advantage of the magic database and allow the user to automatically eliminate certain items?
How on earth do you know everything isn’t going to turn up with a use-by date of tomorrow? In the supermarket itself we’re usually fairly canny with this and go to the back to pick the items to make sure we can get 7 days out of the shop… there’s no way of doing this online. And most of these vendors have a “minimum order amount”, so ordering every few days isn’t possible for a couple.
Why do most of sites require my email address *to* *see* *the* *prices*? Tesco already have this signed up as uselessbastards@leymoo.com in some petty attempt to make myself feel better. I figured I’d have a look, trying to be fair and all. Not bothering with Asda though. Surely people only shop there when they have no choice? It’s not as if it’s cheaper, and the food is awful, and their idea of making something “premium” is adding a ton of sugar and cream and not bothering the check the taste.
I still feel nervous ordering something such as a beef shoulder, steak or lamb without knowing the quality of the batch. Maybe that’s the scabby housing-estate part of me, or something.

Has anyone managed to get over this? Or does everyone just order and hope?

1 year ago · 0 notes

#nom
#food

Acquisition Win

Reading has an old fashioned sweet shop (admittedly, part of a chain). We now have:

cola cubes
honey liquorice (wow)
white chocolate fudge
cinder toffee
brazil nut toffee

All in paper bags too! Would provide pictures but eating…

1 year ago · 0 notes

Recipe: Israeli Cous Cous, Beetroot Shards, Fresh Buffalo Cheese & Pea Shoots by eatlikeagirl.com.

Would really like to make this!

2 years ago · 2 notes

I really do wish I could reblog non-tumblr stuff. Here is a really tasty sounding recipe for carrot and olive salad with cumin and coriander - just click on the image to be taken there.

2 years ago · 0 notes

gamefreaksnz:

Diamonds for Dessert: Controller Cookies

and now I’m hungry..

2 years ago · 177 notes · Source · Reblogged from gamefreaksnz

#silly
#food

dunnowhattotype:

:F

“Red Velvet Nikon” sounds rather seedy, doesn’t it?

2 years ago · 10 notes · Source · Reblogged from dunnowhattotype

#food

ALL FOOD CONTAINS NUTRIENTS. NUTRIENTS ARE GOOD FOR YOU. NO, REALLY. I’M SERIOUS.

—

http://www.fatnutritionist.com/index.php/worthless-foods/

I’d exempt kaolin and sugar free chewing gum, but yeah. Have a happy message for this Monday.

2 years ago · 0 notes

raspberrytart:

Rainbow Cupcakes - Easy cupcake decorating ideas - Photos - AllYou.com

2 years ago · 2,444 notes · Source · Reblogged from raspberrytart

Roastin’ to Rush

pluseyes:

And I’m making sweet potatoes ‘cause I forgot to buy normal ones. I guess that makes the meal about as traditionally English as I am.

Also I have no idea how to stuff a chicken, I felt like a gynaecologist who was about to be arrested.

If you want to do this again (and you don’t already know), sweet potatoes + thyme + bit of carrot = om nom om. I also recommend using olive spread rather than butter when serving as the olive taste complements sweet potatoes - no idea why.

I can very easily roast a load of carrots, add some thyme and a little bit of orange and just eat a massive bowl of it. I resist because well, the same reason why I resist eating tins of tomatoes with garlic/olive oil from the container - it still feels “odd” to snack in a non-society defined way.

Let us know how the chicken came out: my first attempt at this was a little poussin a good 6 years ago and it came out wonderfully, so I’m sure yours will too.

nb: I just was asked what I was doing by the other half

“Writing about stuffing a chicken.”

“Sex with chicken?”

“No, putting food in a chicken.”

“Not stuffing chickens with massive cocks then?”

“No.”

/o\

2 years ago · Notes

thisiswhyyourefat:

Bacon Bouquet

(submitted by Rusty Shackleford)

2 years ago · 1,862 notes · Source · Reblogged from thisiswhyyourefat

F1 weekend with CantFitMyN is over.

The first race of the F1 season is now over.

The members of CantFitMyN that were here have now left.

We were:

8 people

We watched:

1 race

We slept:

2 nights

We played:

5 different games

We had rolphus play a non-saboteur:

0 times

We heard Markb burst into giggles:

At least 7 times

We ate:

32 rashers of bacon
16 sausages
4 loaves of bread
24 eggs
2 blocks of cheese
2.5 kilos of steak
10 carrots
800g of lamb
400g chicken
300g pork
2kg onions
500g mushrooms
1/4 bottle tequila
500ml Porter
3 cheesecakes
and one battenberg.

We drank:

Enough to not remember how much we drank.

We will:

Watch the Melbourne race in 2 weeks… Here’s to more fun!

2 years ago · 0 notes

CantFitMyN require army levels of feeding

rolphus:

Supplies for the @cantfitmyn #gp2010 weekend! http://yfrog.com/7gms1ej http://yfrog.com/1x75hj

2 years ago · 1 note · Source · Reblogged from rolphus

jilllian:

So when Ree Drummond gives a specific command in her recipes, she absolutely means it. No shenanigans. Or you’ll end up like me and this raspberry cobbler mess.

Yeah, even down to the type of cream… I’ve made the potato bundles many times now and decided to use single cream instead of double cream/heavy cream when making them for my mother - alas, everything comes out curdled. Fail. I unfortunately have a boyfriend with a dairy allergy/intolerance (it acts like an intolerance but he reacts to the skin test as well, so it’s an allergy I think) so I really need to be careful when I use butter/cream in cooking.

2 years ago · 2 notes · Reblogged from jilllian-deactivated20111206

An Easy Salad

This was originally posted on Monday, 30th July 2007 at 17:15 on whatever blog software I was using then (Wordpress I think).

This recipe is for real beginners, and is also tailored to those with motor control difficulties.

I’ve included it here unedited as you may like it. My knowledge and writing style has got better since then so a rewrite will probably happen soon:

No, not a shampoo. I posted a variant of this this on the dyspraxic adults forum, and it was fairly well received. This is real beginner food - more assembly of ingredients, I would say. (don’t worry people, I will post some more intermediate type things later!)

Summer Dinner Salad.

Cooked meat: chicken and/or sausages work well, so does bacon. What meat you use depends on your skill with a knife: if you want to avoid knives altogether, use chicken and pull it apart with your hands. Use two sausages per person, or one chicken breast per person, but this is not strict.

Green things: Cos lettuce is traditional, as this is a variant of “chef’s salad”. It’s also pretty good in that you do one cut along the bottom and then tear it apart with your hands. Baby spinach is also excellent for this, as it requires no cutting at all! About half of those giant bags you get in supermarkets - the rest is great for sandwiches, or eggs.

Tomatoes: these are better cut, but if you can’t, cherry tomatoes are excellent. Don’t worry about cutting into small pieces unless you can. Add as much as you like!

About 30-40g of cheese per person, ready grated, or cut into cubes if you like.

Tomato and Basil salad dressing.

Black Pepper, if desired.

1. Prepare the cooked meat, the green things and the tomatoes, when you finish each one place in a big bowl all together as you go along. Weigh the cheese and add it.

2. Add some dressing. Stir a little. Keep adding dressing and mixing a little with your hands until everything looks like it has lots of dressing (if you add too much it’s not a huge problem here!).

3. Add some black pepper if you like a bit of punch. Tips:- Taste the dressing before you add it to get an idea what it will taste like.

• Use cherry tomatoes and sausages and take away the dressing and add a small amount of mustard instead. Add some new potatoes. This makes a nice warm meal..

2 years ago · 0 notes