tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post1260885831657105743..comments2024-02-11T19:28:27.997+11:00Comments on Personal Reflections: Monday Forum - on diets and dietingJim Belshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-38501830633259072012015-11-27T19:24:54.963+11:002015-11-27T19:24:54.963+11:00Brave man, kvd. Brave man, kvd. Jim Belshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-57083689182371325132015-11-27T14:43:43.904+11:002015-11-27T14:43:43.904+11:00Diets, food, eating - with no comments from your f...Diets, food, eating - with no comments from your female commenters? Maybe this will assist - http://www.library.ucsb.edu/OBJID/Cylinder7876<br /><br /><i>"a nice rice pudding reminds him of the day that he was wed"</i><br /><br />kvd<br />- and yes I know, I know - and that's exactly why I posted it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-82669858346196314472015-11-27T08:54:49.606+11:002015-11-27T08:54:49.606+11:00kvd,
That ice dish sounds wonderful, and if I can...kvd,<br /><br />That ice dish sounds wonderful, and if I can find a source of wasabi here I'm going to try and recreate that. One of the best summer drinks up here is ice water with lots of shaved cucumber - easy and really cooling.<br /><br />My diet is so good because on 5 days of the week, I could eat your meal, but I'll never see the meat up here that's tender enough to serve like that. The only tender meat is served <i>sous vide</i>. Time for a home trip, roast pork, glorious beef and good wine at a decent price.2 tannersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-13441627399666677802015-11-26T18:46:56.030+11:002015-11-26T18:46:56.030+11:00All good tanners - I drooled as I ate :) All this...All good tanners - I drooled as I ate :) All this talk of diets, and in fact any time I read same, always brings to mind the old advice to never eat anything bigger than your head. I swear by that.<br /><br />But, because it was so good, and because I'd never struck it before, allow me to expand upon one small part of my first course: the menu simply denotes, in part, "cucumber, wasabi" - but what was involved was an icecream scoop-sized serving of ice (made of pureed cucumber) struck through with 2 or 3 dashings of wasabi. I cannot adequately describe the shock of the sweet ice, offset by the heat of the wasabi hit.<br /><br />Checking the menu, I see the place is called "Border Wine Room" - so if you really want to stuff up your 5:2 diet, you can check the menu on Google.<br /><br />kvd Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-37423215061352309452015-11-26T17:06:15.783+11:002015-11-26T17:06:15.783+11:00Caipirinha is a Brazilian dish. The beef fillet so...Caipirinha is a Brazilian dish. The beef fillet sounds gorgeous - I'm drooling as I type. 2 tannersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-82229463388467667322015-11-26T05:05:08.830+11:002015-11-26T05:05:08.830+11:00Good morning, kvd. That sounds a good trip and the...Good morning, kvd. That sounds a good trip and the time with your daughter would have been great anyway. However, the menu was one of those that makes me realise how little I know! From what I can work out, the first sounds Mexican, the second a variant of Japanese, while the third also sounds Japanese influenced. But all sort of a blend! I'm glad that you enjoyed it. <br /><br />The expressways are convenient, but they do turn the country into a series of road linked cities with everything else increasingly unknown. Jim Belshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-24248568766893928862015-11-25T18:42:44.523+11:002015-11-25T18:42:44.523+11:00All this talk of food, and a “Monday go-anywhere t...All this talk of food, and a “Monday go-anywhere topic”, made me both hungry and restless – so early Tuesday I drove the couple of hours from home to Canberra and grabbed my daughter (by prior arrangement) and we headed off on a ‘road trip’ down to a horse stud, about 2 hours south of Albury to look at some horsies – my second favourite secret pleasure.<br /><br />An hour and a half with the hooves, then a couple of hours back to Albury for the night and there comes the ‘diet link’. Stumbled upon a small eatery and sampled the following:<br /><br />Daughter started with (typing from the menu which I swiped) “Scallop Caipirinha: Scallop Cevice, black beans, cachaca, lime, chorizo oil and coriander” whilst I made do with “Mosaic of ponzu tuna: cucumber, wasabi, garlic chips and avocado”<br /><br />After she’d eaten her Pirahnas, daughter decided to join me with each having an extremely rare “Beef eye fillet, mushroom velvet, tempura shallots, smoked daikon, horseradish & nori gnocchi”. <br /><br />Food great – and bugger your PC diets – and also there were no hooves as far as I could tell in the radish – despite the lovely ones seen earlier in the day.<br /><br />I must say regarding this spur of the moment trip that I was very much saddened by the journey Canberra-Albury which I have enjoyed several times over the years. Yass, Gunagai, Jugiong, Holbrook, even Albury itself: all bypassed by freeway travel; and I wonder how these small communities (some not so small) survive with the passing of the ‘passing traffic’ economic injection? Maybe nobody these days stops to read the inscription on the Holbrook submarine, or has time to think about the virtual flood plain spread out before Gundagai – and just how much water that involved, or travel too fast over the mighty Murray to admire just how vibrant, and fertile and productive this stretch of Australia is.<br /><br />And I continue to marvel at the early explorers, opening up this country by foot and horseback – just so that these days I can get from Canberra to Albury with a minimum of contact with that which I bypass.<br /><br />kvdAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-52575575425729771752015-11-25T10:12:19.795+11:002015-11-25T10:12:19.795+11:00Turning the conversation across several threads, w...Turning the conversation across several threads, was the original artist starving in a garret a talented painter who was rubbish as a hunter trying to bring more game into the area?2 tannersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-6303442988056008722015-11-25T08:15:16.892+11:002015-11-25T08:15:16.892+11:00Loved the paleo diet cartoon, 2t. Very funny. On t...Loved the paleo diet cartoon, 2t. Very funny. On the first link, body perceptions do change. I've talked about this before in the context of women's shapes. Norman Lindsay's paintings are an example. Lots of curves. I had heard of the 5:2 diet, but didn't know much about it. Humans are not designed for a sedentary life style! Jim Belshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-62617171853679110222015-11-25T07:55:38.784+11:002015-11-25T07:55:38.784+11:00I have the book, Evan. I found it very useful in l...I have the book, Evan. I found it very useful in looking at the history of food in Australia and especially the industrialization process. Jim Belshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-32818482472778991042015-11-25T07:51:50.675+11:002015-11-25T07:51:50.675+11:00I had the same reaction, kvd. It was sort of who w...I had the same reaction, kvd. It was sort of who would eat worms! But, in fact, it appears that there is such a thing as edible worms - https://edibug.wordpress.com/list-of-edible-insects/!Jim Belshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-91533613098792783282015-11-24T10:41:33.602+11:002015-11-24T10:41:33.602+11:00I am a little overweight, and a little more rotund...I am a little overweight, and a little more rotund than is actually recommended. I am using the 5:2 diet (eat very minimally or fast two days a week, Rafferty's rules for the rest). It is supposed to have beneficial effects aside from weight control. For anyone interested, Dr Michael Mosley did a fairly entertaining TV series on this for the BBC.<br /><br />Patent medicines in the early 1900s essentially promoted weight gain, picturing children who we would now view as unhealthily fat, probably obese. Here in Timor, to call someone fat is complimentary, slender is OK and thin is an insult (equates with poverty). I can't easily find a good example, but this rather illustrates the <a href="http://elizabethpatch.com/makes-children-and-adults-as-fat-as-pigs/" rel="nofollow"> point</a>.<br /><br />Here is the best comment I've seen on the <a href="http://www.thecomicstrips.com/store/add.php?iid=111012" rel="nofollow">Paleo diet</a>.2 tannersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-75695348241097635492015-11-24T10:07:06.424+11:002015-11-24T10:07:06.424+11:00One Continuous Picnic is a history of food (for th...One Continuous Picnic is a history of food (for the Europeans) since 1788. Really worth reading.Evanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13355215688351759230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-75541491495198134422015-11-23T19:01:39.961+11:002015-11-23T19:01:39.961+11:00As a kid, I always liked the Diet of Worms. Dunno ...As a kid, I always liked the Diet of Worms. Dunno why, just appealed somehow. And I bet I'm not the only one who can roll that phrase off the tongue, almost like a Pavlov dog.<br /><br />Here endeth my thoughtful contribution.<br /><br />kvdAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com