Food

[Barinthus]

Originally posted by Ted Striker

If you know how to make smoothies, you can even throw oatmeal into them. Yes, that's right, oatmeal. If that taste is too chunky for you, you can cook the oatmeal first and it will make it smooth, you won't even know that it was oatmeal in the smoothie if you blend it well.

got a recipe?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Since I'm eating lunch right now while I'm reading this, it's a good time to note that Asian food (Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese) makes me less sleepy in the afternoon that the traditional American lunch.

[Urban Ranger]

Japanese food is expensive here but quite reasonable in Vancouver.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

My problem with Japanese food is that I don't like fish. But I can get a yummy Teppan box lunch with Australian beef for about $5.25 at a place around the corner from the embassy. Not cheap, but certainly reasonable.

[chequita guevara]

I bought so much meat today. I got two sirlon steaks; they were on sale, buy 1, get 1 free. I got 16 pork chops, same deal, and two round roasts, again, same deal. I also got a Botson butt (pork shoulder) at $1.69 a pound.

Right now the butt is sitting in a plastic baggie, soaking up some liquid smoke. Tomorrow I'll put a rub on it and let it sit for a day, then toss it in the slow cooker for some pulled pork.

Eight of the pork chops are marinating in buttermilk. Tomorrow I'm gonna dredge them in flour and pan fry those suckers. Four of the others will get stuffed and broiled, and I think I'll just roast the other four.

The roasts will get rolled in herbs and garlic and roasted, eventually.

I made a marinade from scratch and stuck the sirlons in that. That was dinner. I spent about $50 on meat today. I saved $50 on meat today too.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
My problem with Japanese food is that I don't like fish. But I can get a yummy Teppan box lunch with Australian beef for about $5.25 at a place around the corner from the embassy. Not cheap, but certainly reasonable.

Isn't USD5.25 a truckload of $ in the Philippines?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Isn't USD5.25 a truckload of $ in the Philippines?

It's a lot; for example, it's about half a day's wages for either our driver or our maid -- and we're told that we're overpaying them.

The thing is, there's not much of a middle class here, so prices in restaurants tend to jump from very cheap (generally for Filipino food, which I find inedible) straight to US prices (for restaurants catering to the Filipino elite and to expats).

[Barinthus]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
Since I'm eating lunch right now while I'm reading this, it's a good time to note that Asian food (Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese) makes me less sleepy in the afternoon that the traditional American lunch.

really? its the other way for me - rice put me to sleep.

if i eat asian food for lunch, i often skip the rice part.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by Barinthus


really? its the other way for me - rice put me to sleep.

if i eat asian food for lunch, i often skip the rice part.

Interesting. Bread and potatoes do me in far more quickly than rice. Go figure.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly


(generally for Filipino food, which I find inedible)

Even Chicken Adobo ? And I love Crab Manila...

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by molly bloom



Even Chicken Adobo ? And I love Crab Manila...

Chicken adobo can be okay, but I've had better outside the Phils than in. And, honestly, I've never seen Crab Manila on a menu in Manila.

Filipino tastes run to the greasy and fatty, and use every part of the animal (pork here is often sold in packages with a sticker reading "skin still on!"as an enticement to buy). It's a peasant diet, I suppose, and not one that I've acquired a taste for.

[chequita guevara]

"PORK FAT!" -- Emeril

[Ecthy]

I see the intellectual level of this thread has climbed new heights.

[dudemanjack]

Originally posted by Spiffor

Indeed. Gym is contra-productive for those who want to lose weight (fat).

This is 100% false. Heavy lifting combined with cardio is the BEST way to get your body into shape. Maybe you'll gain "weight", but you'll look leaner - which is all that matters.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by dudemanjack
This is 100% false. Heavy lifting combined with cardio is the BEST way to get your body into shape.

Lifting weights don't burn fat, it burns sugar. You need a sustained period of aerobic exercise of at least 30 minutes to start burning fat. Lifting isn't going to give you that.

Some lifting is good because it builds muscles, which will help burning fat. However heavy lifting is just going to tire you out quickly.