Sunday, August 17, 2008

Have you eaten....?

I've bolded the one's I've eaten but then I got to wondering about what all the things are that I didn't know so I Wikipedia'd them....

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea

3. Huevos rancheros - basically....poached eggs on tortilla chips.
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht

10. Baba ghanoush - It is made primarily of aubergine, previously chargrilled as a whole vegetable, then peeled, mashed, and mixed with various seasonings, such as tahini, olive oil and lemon juice. It's pretty much like a type of Hummus
11. Calamari

12. Pho - served as a bowl of white rice noodles in clear beef broth, with thin cuts of beef
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi - usually a "dry" Indian curry, i.e. it often does not have a liquid sauce.
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses - a pungent unpasteurized cows-milk cheese
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes

19. Steamed pork buns - the same as dimsum
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes - tomatoes where the seed has been passed from generation to generation....I mean REALLY now!!!
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese

26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper - a SEEEEEERIOUSLY hot hot hot hot chilli. the hottest you can get!!!
27. Dulce de leche - I had it in Brazil....it's basically caramelised milk
28. Oysters - yuck yuck yuck (will never have them again !!!)
29. Baklava

30. Bagna cauda - The dish, which is served and consumed in a manner similar to fondue, is made with garlic, anchovies, walnut or olive oil, butter, and sometimes cream. The dish is eaten by dipping raw, boiled or roasted vegetables
31. Wasabi peas - Legumes (or peas) may be roasted or fried, then coated with a wasabi-like mixture (usually an imitation); these are then eaten as an eye-watering "in the hand" snack
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl - sounds revolting!!! Why would anyone want to ear SOUR dough?
33. Salted lassi - yoghurt mixed with salt, cumin seeds and mint. *shudder*!!
34. Sauerkraut

35. Root beer float - I've never even had root beer!!
36. Cognac with a fat cigar - ok, not with a cigar but does a cigarette count?
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly -
39. Gumbo

40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat - in Uganda this is not unusual....
42. Whole insects - wellllll...would a worm be ok?
43. Phaal - It is one of the hottest forms of curry regularly available, even hotter than the Vindaloo,[2] using a large number of ground standard chillies, or a hotter type of chilli such as scotch bonnet
44. Goat’s milk in cheese form
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more - at my wedding my Dad opened a bottle of Royal Salute that he'd had for about 20 years! It was sooooo smooth

46. Fugu - Pufferfish that is potentially poisonous unless prepared correctly by trained Japanese chefs
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel

49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut - obviously the list was drawn up by an American.
50. Sea urchin - surely it would be a bit crunchy?
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi - pickled ume fruits. Ume is a species of fruit-bearing tree in the genus Prunus, which is often called a plum but is actually more closely related to the apricot. Umeboshi are usually round, and vary from unwrinkled to very wrinkled. They taste salty, and are extremely sour due to high citric acid content – they have been known to corrode their way through aluminium lunch boxes if kept in the same spot every day (hoooooly moley!!!)53. Abalone - aka perlemoen
54. Paneer - an unaged, acid-set, non-melting farmer cheese made by curdling heated milk with lemon juice or other food acid.

55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle - Spätzle are a type of egg noodle or dumpling found in cuisine from southern Germany and regions of neighboring Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, France (Alsace), and Italy (Bolzano-Bozen). They are known also in China.
57. Dirty gin martini - basically (from what I can gather) it's a martini but with Olive juice in (what a waste of a martini!!)
58. Beer above 8% ABV - maybe....I don't remember!! ;-)
59. Poutine - a Canadian dish consisting of French fries topped with fresh cheese curds, covered with brown gravy and sometimes other additional ingredients
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores - never eaten them but thanks to MANY MANY MANY viewings of Barney I know that you take a Graham cracker and you break it in half, take a chunk a chocolate and put it in between and then you squish a marshmallow, squish them all together and whadya have? mmmmm, smores, so good to eat!!
62. Sweetbreads - Sweetbreads are the thymus glands of lamb, beef, or pork. aaaaaaarg will NEVER eat them!!
63. Kaolin - why on earth would ANYONE eat this? It's a clay mineral with the chemical composition Al2Si2O5(OH)4
64. Currywurst - curried sausage
65. Durian - a fruit from Asia whose odor is best described as pig-shit, turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock. It can be smelled from yards away. Despite its great local popularity, the raw fruit is forbidden from some establishments such as hotels, subways and airports, including public transportation in Southeast Asia - lmao at this one!!!
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake - a French doughnut being a pastry made from deep-fried dough and sprinkled with confectioner's sugar. They are also sometimes filled with fruit or vegetable fillings
68. Haggis - sheep's 'pluck' (heart, liver and lungs), minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, mixed with stock, and traditionally boiled in the animal's stomach for approximately three hours
69. Fried plantain - green banana's. never eaten them fried but have eaten them mashed. Matooke is a staple dish here.
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette - basically....offal
71. Gazpacho - a cold spanish soup
72. Caviar and blini - had them both but not together...
73. Louche absinthe - a distilled, highly alcoholic (45%-75% ABV) beverage. It has similar effects to anise-flavored spirit derived from herbs, including the flowers and leaves of the herb Artemisia absinthium, also called wormwood brought TEARS to my eyes!!!
74. Gjetost, or brunost - brown Norwegian whey cheese
75. Roadkill - that is DISGUSTING!!!
76. Baijiu - a Chinese distilled alcoholic beverage generally about 80% to 120% proof!!!!!!!!!!77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail - in garlic butter with cheese melted on top...yummmmmm!!
79. Lapsang souchong - a black tea originating in China. Lapsang is distinctive from all other types of tea because lapsang leaves are traditionally smoke-dried
80. Bellini - a mixture of sparkling wine and peach puree
81. Tom yum - Tom yum is characterized by its distinct hot and sour flavors, with fragrant herbs generously used. The basic broth is made of stock and fresh ingredients such as lemon grass, kaffir lime leaves, galangal, shallots, lime juice, fish sauce, tamarind, and crushed chili peppers.
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky - a biscuit stick coated with chocolate ie chocolate coated pretzel sticks!
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant - ummmmmm, words fail me.
85. Kobe beef - refers to beef from the black Tajima-ushi breed of Wagyu cattle, raised according to strict tradition in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. Kobe beef is renowned for its flavour, tenderness, and fatty well-marbled texture
86. Hare - does rabbit count?
87. Goulash - who HASN'T had goulash?
88. Flowers - nasturtium flowers are quite nice actually!
89. Horse - I probably have, even though I thought it was beef! ;-)
90. Criollo chocolate - chocolate made with the criollo cocoa bean. Representing only five percent of all cocoa beans grown,[33] criollo is the rarest and most expensive cocoa on the market and is native to Central America, the Caribbean islands and the northern tier of South American states.
91. Spam - polony
92. Soft shell crab

93. Rose harissa - Harissa is a North African hot red sauce or paste made from chili peppers (often smoked or dried) and garlic, often with coriander and caraway or cumin and served with olive oil. It may also contain tomatoes. It somewhat resembles sambal and chili sauce. One well-known and expensive variety, "rose harissa," also includes rose petals.
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano - Mole poblano is prepared with dried chile peppers (commonly ancho, pasilla, mulato and chipotle), ground nuts and/or seeds (almonds, indigenous peanuts, and/or sesame seeds), spices, Mexican chocolate (cacao ground with sugar and cinnamon and occasionally nuts), salt, and a variety of other ingredients including charred avocado leaves, onions, garlic. Dried seasonings such as ground oregano are also used. In order to provide a rich thickness to the sauce, bread crumbs or crackers are added to the mix.
96. Bagel and lox - brined salmon fillet on a bagel
97. Lobster Thermidor - a French dish consisting of a creamy, cheesy mixture of cooked lobster meat, egg yolks, and brandy or sherry, stuffed into a lobster shell, and optionally served with an oven-browned cheese crust. The sauce must contain mustard (typically powdered mustard) in order to be true to the original recipe and to have the distinctive Thermidor taste.
98. Polenta - ground cornmeal
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake - no thanks!!!

1 comments:

Ordinarylife said...

Thanks for the descriptions. There were a lot there that I did not know.