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My poor, poor tummy
Apr. 16th, 2005 03:01 pmLast night was fantastic. Every one brought very yummy food, and every one loved my Biscotten Torte as well as the mini Bannoffee Tartlets. :-) Everything was so rich though! I had forgotten than Chesh and I don't eat much in the way of rich food anymore! We're more likely to eat a simple stirfry and rice, using skinless chicken breast or lean beef, with a LOT of vegetables, than anything else recently! And then last night, all the food was so yummy and RICH!
And I discovered something amazing - a friend of a friend breeds GEESE! I am in awe. And excited, since I may be able to buy a couple at culling, and perhaps if I *really* get enthused purchase a breeding pair! My goodness. I am amused, and enthused. There's no words for the "wishfulness but need to patience and reality" mood that comes with such news. Plus I want to grab this friend and sit down and ask her about *every aspect* of breeding geese. I'm fascinated! I can't do stuff all with veg, but I can keep cats and fish alive, so I expect I will be better with livestock than anything else!
So I have just spent the last three and a half hours reading about the care, feeding, and breeding of geese. Goose fat, confit, roasting, grilling, cooking in general, rendering, skin, pate foi gras (which is evil and cruel and should never have been invented/discovered/thought of), duck breeding care and cooking, chicken breeding and care (less of that though, since I spent a day or two on that last week) and fats. Soluble fats, mono-saturated fats, fat fat fat fat fat what's good for you what's not and what the fuck is going on? I'm amused that all my hits on fat webpages say the closer you can get to original unprocessed fats the better. And that goose fat is great for frying potatoes in. Oh, and did we mention confit??
Now I have the urge to go shopping and looking at vegetables. We're having a low energy day today; I think I may have over extended my energy levels yesterday, and Chesh has had a tiring week and needs some recovery time yet too. I'm not concinced that bannoffee tarts and coffee is a good breakfast, but I think we made up for that with Mynxii and Kaneda's mango and sundried tomato salad for lunch, which was chock full of yummy things like ..well.. mango and sundried tomatoes... and macadamia nuts... lettuce.... cheese... capsicum... stuff! Yum!
And I discovered something amazing - a friend of a friend breeds GEESE! I am in awe. And excited, since I may be able to buy a couple at culling, and perhaps if I *really* get enthused purchase a breeding pair! My goodness. I am amused, and enthused. There's no words for the "wishfulness but need to patience and reality" mood that comes with such news. Plus I want to grab this friend and sit down and ask her about *every aspect* of breeding geese. I'm fascinated! I can't do stuff all with veg, but I can keep cats and fish alive, so I expect I will be better with livestock than anything else!
So I have just spent the last three and a half hours reading about the care, feeding, and breeding of geese. Goose fat, confit, roasting, grilling, cooking in general, rendering, skin, pate foi gras (which is evil and cruel and should never have been invented/discovered/thought of), duck breeding care and cooking, chicken breeding and care (less of that though, since I spent a day or two on that last week) and fats. Soluble fats, mono-saturated fats, fat fat fat fat fat what's good for you what's not and what the fuck is going on? I'm amused that all my hits on fat webpages say the closer you can get to original unprocessed fats the better. And that goose fat is great for frying potatoes in. Oh, and did we mention confit??
Now I have the urge to go shopping and looking at vegetables. We're having a low energy day today; I think I may have over extended my energy levels yesterday, and Chesh has had a tiring week and needs some recovery time yet too. I'm not concinced that bannoffee tarts and coffee is a good breakfast, but I think we made up for that with Mynxii and Kaneda's mango and sundried tomato salad for lunch, which was chock full of yummy things like ..well.. mango and sundried tomatoes... and macadamia nuts... lettuce.... cheese... capsicum... stuff! Yum!
