I very much like food. So I decided to do this for fun.
The Omnivore’s Hundred
1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
The Omnivore’s Hundred
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake <- All of these delicious things.
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini – Separately, not together.
73. Louche absinthe – Just not Louche.
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu – SO overpowering.
77. Hostess Fruit Pie – I hate these things.
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant – I want to. 
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor – Strangely.
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake
Thinking about it, there’s not much on here that I wouldn’t eat. Pepper aside. It’d probably just tear up my stomach. I’m not keen on the idea of roadkill, but sometimes people hit deer and some of the meat is save-able and oh who knows. What this list does tell me, however, is that I eat a lot. Whee!
Speaking of food, last night’s dinner was a delicious (and huge) amount of oyakodon. It’s one of my favorite dishes – highly recommended. It made the house smell delicious. So delicious. I just need to go buy green onions because chives just aren’t the same on that dish, tasty as they may be growing in the little pot on my deck. I probably should have taken pictures but we just ate it all instead while we finished up the final season of Battlestar Galactica – which, by the way, is awesome. It really could just be called The Bill Adama Show and I’d be perfectly content and happy. You’re the best, Bill.
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So yeah. I was saying that I finished playing Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box (DS) and honestly, if you own one and you like puzzles at all it’s absolutely worth picking up. It’s just as good, if not better, than the first one (and involves less move-the-block puzzles, thank you, I hate those stupid things). I won’t say much about the story because really, that’d ruin the whole thing, but I enjoyed the climax very much.
Since that’s been done and Dragon Age : Origins was on sale on Steam I picked that up due to all of my friends playing it constantly and you know what, it’s really fun. I never got into the whole Mass Effect thing from Bioware, awesome as it may be according to reviews and friends, because sci-fi in games doesn’t grab me quite as much as the good ol’ fantasy kill-the-dragon type deals. I’m sure Mass Effect is great but I’m really enjoying Dragon Age. Very fun. Lots and lots of talking, some ridiculous mini-bosses (stupid Revenants) but it really has been worth the purchase for me. I’m also trying my hardest to hilariously make everyone fall in love with me because it amuses me (in the game, of course). City Elf Warrior and man does their origin story stink (not that it’s bad, but man they had it the worst as far as I can tell). Also I think I was doing it kind of out-of-order so man were the Elven Ruins / Werewolf Lair HARD. Whoops.
Soon I’ll have to go kill dragons in Warcraft since a friend of mine voiced Halion in the new patch, Ruby Sanctum. Heck yeah to virtually destroying your drake-friend.
And after that I have no idea what I’ll play, whee!
I like video games.
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24.Jun.2010 ARGH
I just wrote up this huge post that Noscript, Firefox and WordPress conspired against me to delete.
I’ll write more about the details later, but the long and short of it (ugh) is that I finished knitting a shrug, I started knitting another, I got a drop spindle so I can learn how to hand spin yarn, I cooked a huge meal for Father’s Day, GO HAWKS, Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box was fantastic and everyone should play it, I like bread.
I really will flesh it out later but that was about 40 minutes of writing gone. YAY!
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I’m 27 now. Hooray.
I also very much want to purchase a bike, I just have to find a cheap one. I am not as active as I should be and I very much would like to be (at least a little) more active. I’ll probably end up at Wal-Mart since they seem to have cheap bikes… Sports Authority doesn’t have a single one for under $250 that isn’t a child’s bike. Kind of unfortunate but I don’t really have a choice – not that I can say I’m a fan of Wal-Mart. Oh well. Freecycle is kind of spotty in my area too, which is kind of sad. Too bad Costco doesn’t sell them since I got a membership for my birthday – hooray! I’m more excited than I really should be about that, but it seems awesome to me.
And… I started playing World of Warcraft again. This is my main. The downside is when I did the transfer I had to give her a new name, which I am not terribly thrilled about – but I don’t have much of a choice in the matter. As far as I can tell my normal name was taken by someone with an inactive account since they never showed up in the Armory – jerks. But I’m playing with a lot of people from work so it’s pretty fun again – instead of just grinding and sitting around doing nothing because my guild is too busy and too full to take me anywhere with them (thanks, Silver Hand). The big upside is that when we’re in ICC10 I’m the main melee DPS that can get Shadowmourne, which would be too awesome for words.
Still playing Miles Edgeworth : Ace Attorney. I’m really digging it so far – it’s pretty fun and the new searching system is pretty nice instead of repeatedly clicking on everything ever on a static page.
Also I’m knitting my first “hard” project – the Inamorata tank top in the last issue of Knitty. I’m knitting it in a cotton/acrylic DK blend instead of the double stranded expensive fingering weight yarn they used in the pattern. Total cost about $35-$40 with shipping and I already had the needles. It’ll take a while though! Not fast. Not fast at all.
23.Mar.2010 Ugh.
Sour milk is not to be trifled with.
That’s what I get for making cookies and assuming I can drink the last drops of my lactose free milk (yes, I’m getting old) to go with those delicious morsels. I made Dan go get milk at the gas station but now I can’t have lactose free. BOO HOO!
On the other hand, at least I’m enjoying my first watch through of Battlestar Galactica (the new Sci Fi veriso… oh my bad, SYFY version). We’re a little past the halfway mark of Season 2 and I’m digging it quite a bit.
I want my tax return so I can get a haircut. Argh.
Also I need to play through more of Miles Edgeworth : Ace Attorney. I’m maybe 15 or 20 minutes into it and it’s awesome, I just keep getting distracted.
My yarn FINALLY got here from Israel so I knit up a super fast, super soft and pretty gorgeous cowl for my cousin that I totally owe a gift to – now I just need to wash it, block it and find suitably gorgeous buttons for it. At least I can check most of that off of my list! Oh right, and a little battery powered de-lint-er-thing, too.
Because you care!
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Tried to syndicate this blog to Livejournal since I’ll feel less like a schlub about it if I update there as well, and who wants to make two separate sets of posts?
In the meantime, I’ll just wind my yarn. Boo.
FEED ME.
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Trying to get into the habit of updating something more frequently. I’ve probably done something like 10 posts on the Livejournal I had set up in the last year, so even if they’re short I’m going to try to force myself to do this a little more frequently. Sometimes it’s good to form a habit, anyway.
The weather is getting increasingly nicer in the Midwest – it’s finally starting to rain and not get cold enough to freeze. I’m not forced to bundle up every time I walk outside. That said, I full expect it to snow on my upcoming birthday because the Midwest is an unforgiving mistress like that.
The next plan is to make Burek and if you’re lucky I’ll end up photographing it. Dan picked up the ingredients for me tonight but I didn’t quite feel up to it and he already seemed set on eating some of the frozen food we already have, which is fine.
We recently had our one year anniversary, for which we did not do much. I got to go out to a yarn shop in Downers Grove called Knitche that serves as a small-ish yarn store with a very nice selection and a coffee house that serves Intelligentsia coffee – we didn’t get much time there since we got up late, but it was still a nice little trip. We later ended up having dinner at Biaggi’s Italian Restaurant, which, for the price, was quite nice and I had a butternut squash ravioli while he had ziti al forno. I also had a delicious drink made with soda water, muddled basil and maraschino cherries and a splash of lime. Really tasty and I can see myself trying to make a fair amount of that in the summer.
Just started watching Battlestar Galactica since I’m way out of the loop on that. I probably watched the first half of the first season and the pilot, but we’re re-watching the whole series (pilot aside) since I could probably use the refresher at this point.
Mostly I’m waiting to be able to play Final Fantasy XIII. I haven’t been interested in the series since I finished VIII – IX was lackluster, X was boring and X-2 was simply atrocious. XI barely counts and I guess they’ve finally made it playable a few years after the release once most of the player base has dropped out of the running. Meh. The director of the game, however, did the last Final Fantasy games I DID have more than a passing interest in – VI, VII and VIII. So maybe it’ll be good, though I hear it’s somewhat linear again and that kind of turns me off.
This Sunday I get to go to my aunt’s house for her annual St. Patrick’s Day party… really I’m just excited for the soda bread and corned beef since I have a family of amazing cooks. Pretty nice though!
The only other thing taking up time currently is a smidge of World of Warcraft with a heaping helping of the Starcraft II Beta – for which I owe my friend Fryda and her husband Phill a debt of gratitude. It’s pretty awesome… even considering that I never really played the first one so I’m simply terrible at this one. RTS was never my strong point. I look forward to Civilization V more than any other game, though – Sid Meier destroys me. Here’s hoping it’s as good as IV was to me – even though that took me an adjustment period as well.
I figured I should probably write something here and do something with my space instead. It’s kind of nice to have this set up again. It’s just a WordPress site so I obviously haven’t delved much into the coding side of things again, but it’s not so bad. It’s a pretty sleek interface and there’s a good reason that it’s so widespread at this point.
I’m not sure that I have much of interest for anyone else to read anymore, but if you do I’m glad to have you here again. I’m still the same video game playing nerd I was before, just older.
And my cat is still here too. Obviously.
I live in Illinois with my boyfriend-recently-of-one-year, Dan. I cook for fun. I recently learned how to knit and am currently obsessed with it completely. I learned to love beer at some point in the downtime. My console collection hasn’t shrunk – it merely grows larger. I work in technical support and fix broken tech-bits over the phone. I like photography but am not terribly good at it. I still love zombies.
And that pretty much brings us up to speed.
Howdy, website. I missed you.