Saturdays and food, in that order

[slipjig3]

I think I can best summarize my workday by repeating what I told my coworker just after I unplugged: "This must be Saturday. Usually, the little old ladies aren't the ones with porn playing in the background." C'est la guerre.

Meanwhile, my bid to eat something new every day has mostly been successful so far, with only a couple of missed days and no flagging interest. Some recent choices:

* Saya Snow Pea Crisps: There needs to be an adjective meaning "quaintly marginal" as applied to foodstuffs. The bag makes these things look like actual pea pods rendered snacky, perhaps an extension of the wasabi peas theory; sadly, although they do indeed contain peas, said peas have been processed, mushed, mixed, molded and baked into vaguely greasy little second cousins to puffed cheese doodles. That said, they're kind of addictive. Just not as, y'know, real food. Will probably buy again.

* Pepino melon: Also known as a "mellowfruit," a name I adore above measure. Unfortunately, I didn't much care for it. I have my suspicions that it may have been a tad underripe, even though all the guides I'd seen indicated that it should have been fine. Oh, well.

* Quizno's Baja Chicken Sub: It was a sandwich. It had chicken. It had Baja sauce. I ate it. I didn't laugh. I didn't cry. It was fine as far as it went. Whoopie. I want a do-over.

* Feta chees omelet: Cheating, since I've had both feta cheese and omelets, just not the two in combination. No surprises that I liked it.

* Green tea ice cream: Something I've been waiting to try for ten years. Could have easily waited another ten. Bleagh.

Comments

[malefica-v.livejournal.com]

Glad I'm not the only one who thinks green tea ice cream is overrated. It reminds me of creamed spinach without the nice bits.

[spoothbrush.livejournal.com]

Yes. On the other hand, ginger ice cream, which I used to get in the same place as the green tea ice cream, is fabulous.

[yendi]

We now get that in the supermarket, thanks to Haagen Daz.

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

my son LOVES those snow pea crisps things. (they're gluten free, at least the brand that we buy are, which is significant in his case, and because one of the main benefits of having children is the ability to experiment on them, i bought a bag to see if he liked them. they also come in caesar flavor, for whatever reason - i have no idea whether that would be good or not, just seems weird, in my opinion - at least to have as a single flavor option? plain or caesar. wtf. you're 'supposed' to put them on your salad. huh.)

[yendi]

I've generally found green tea ice cream less "bleagh" than "meh." Feta, on the other hand, is one of the few non-blue cheese that makes me go "bleagh."

I love the snow pea crisps. Anything that turns something healthy into junk food is a holy process.

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

I'm fond of those snow-pea crisps! Not healthy, but yum... though one has to watch for which flavors have anchovies if one is vegetarian.

[rubian77.livejournal.com]

I can't remember if I've tried Pepino melon. I think Ron's growing them this year...or trying? Dunno. The problem with exotic melons and other fruits is that they are picked so pathetically underripe (to survive shipping) and then artificially ripened. It's why "hothouse" tomatoes taste like flavorless cardboard but homegrown ones are full of delicious fruity tomatoey goodness. There are chemical processes that take place when a fruit ripens naturally that *don't* happen when it's plucked too long before its prime.

Green tea ice cream is highly variable. I've had some that's just meh (in green tea mochi) but the stuff in the tempura ice cream is actually pretty damned tasty. I know you're thinking that that might be the fried tempura shell talking, but the ice cream itself is dramatically different.

[domani.livejournal.com]

I also love the snow pea crisps, although I can't seem to find them anywhere anymore! I kindof OD'd on them when I was pregnant but, three years later, I'm ready to pick 'em back up. And although I love feta and omelets, that combo sounds downright yucky. Glad you posted more on this topic though - I love the idea!

[heatherosa.livejournal.com]

I've found I'm not so fond of green tea ice cream...unless it's deep fried, which makes it somewhat better. I wish they'd deep fry vanilla at my local sushi place though.

I could kick myself though because I was in Tokyo (the only place I know of where such a flavor exists) and never managed to try sea salt ice cream. Alas.

And while I'm on the topic of unique ice cream flavors, there's a town in northern California called Gilroy which is considered "the garlic capital of the world" where they apparently sell garlic flavored ice cream. I've heard it's good/interesting, but it sounds gross to me.