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6 Weird Food Facts About Me!

16 January 2007 1,806 views 68 Comments
Ever since I started trolling food blogs I would notice writers responding to ‘being tagged’ and ‘tagging others’. It seemed so fun and cute, grade school and cliquey. As someone who was always picked last in P.E. (gym class) and was never much of a social butterfly, I would often sigh and think, “gee it sure must be fun to be ‘tagged’”. So you can imagine the size of the grin that I flashed when I was tagged last night by Rachel of Rachel’s Bite for the ‘6 Weird Things About Me’ meme :D *cue Sally Field ‘You like me, you really like me!* :)

Like her, I am answering this question from the food angle, so here goes…

1. The quickest way to make me gag is to prepare any egg dish where the white is clearly visible. The only way I can tolerate egg white is hardboiled or as a meringue. I consider any other method vile and unpalatable. When making omelettes I beat and beat and beat to destroy all those yucky streaks. If i discern them in the final product I will not eat it.

2. As a child I could not stand any semblance of meat fat, skin, cartilage, or gristle. They made me retch and I called them ‘googoo’. I am now 30 and I still think of them as ‘googoo’ and am not a huge meat eater as a result unless it is filleted, minced, or boneless.

3. Tabasco sauce is the Koolaid of pepper sauces. I could drink it straight from the bottle and sometimes did in college. (They used to put these mini bottles of it on the tables sometimes).

4. Cheese and sweet pickle sandwiches were the best school lunches my mom would pack for me. Love is a cheese and sweet pickle sandwich.

5. The sweet pickles seem to have vanished from the supermarket shelves so we have transferred our love of the green and yellow (subliminal Jamaican propaganda? :P ) to cheese and bhagi sandwiches. Love is a Cheese and Bhagi sandwich.

Bhagi (also spelled bhaji) for those not in the know is what we in Trinidad call the amaranth plant. It is used extensively in cooking here, usually as an accompaniment to curried dishes or in callaloo.

From Wikipedia:
Amaranth greens, also called Chinese spinach, hinn choy or yin tsoi (Simplified Chinese: ?®‚Ä?‚Ä??®¬è?ì; pinyin: xi?ɬ†nc?ɬ†i), callaloo, tampala, or quelite, are a common leaf vegetable throughout the tropics and in many warm temperate regions. They are a very good source of vitamins including vitamin A, vitamin B6, vitamin C, riboflavin, and folate, and dietary minerals including calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, zinc, copper, and manganese. Because of its valuable nutrition, some farmers grow amaranth today. However their moderately high content of oxalic acid inhibits the absorption of calcium, and also means that they should be avoided or eaten in moderation by people with kidney disorders, gout, or rheumatoid arthritis.[citation needed] Reheating cooked amaranth greens is often discouraged, particularly for consumption by small children, as the nitrates in the leaves can be converted to nitrites, similarly to spinach.

Bhagi

[Pic of mom and me picking bhagi brought home from the market. Picking is essential cos of bugs, worms, and leaves that have clearly gone to meet their maker :lol: ]

On a totally random note at the end of the school year here in Trinidad the last week of school was usually a free for all. Teachers are busy grading end-of-term exams and students are allowed to read magazines and play games ‘quietly’ in the classroom to facilitate grading. One of my happier memories was the end-of-term informal UNO ‘tournaments’. I heart UNO! :) Anyway, whenever a player only had green and yellow cards it was referred to as ‘curry and bodi’ as in

Person 1: “Ay yuh have any red?”
Person 2: “Nah dread, is only curry and bodi”

*** Bodi is what we call Yard Long Beans by the way :)

6. I am scared of compote. I think it is th3 evil. My best friend Lynn of RedSheepCrafts.com believes that she convince me otherwise, I shall wait and see.

So there you have it. Six odd food facts about moi :) I hope you are not too alarmed :lol:

Now it is my turn to tag 6 people in term :) Well it only makes sense that the first 5 ‘tagees’ would be my top 5 commenters

1. Lilandra of Where’s my DSLR? (‘d’ title always changin’ :P )
2. Marsha of So Epicurious it Hurts
3. Chennette of Lifespan of a Chennette
4. Burekaboy of Is that my Bur?ɬ©ka?
5. Boo (feel free to reply here or in your blog)

For my 6th tag I have decided on a very intriguing and ?ɬºber-serious young man. I am really curious to see if he has an ‘oddball’ side at all :) I always thought ‘oddball’ was a key component of chefology! I hope I am not wrong… :lol:

So Aidan of Aidan Brooks: Trainee Chef … TAG! You’re it ;)

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68 Comments »

  • burekaboy said:

    wow sarina, you ARE odd! (HEHE). seriously though, i think everyone has some weirdness when it comes to food things.

    you guys have such interesting names for things down there ;P “bodi” for longbeans? i thought baji was also called callaloo – or is that just the name of the dish itself?

    # 16 January 2007 at 1:23 pm | link
  • burekaboy said:

    googoo?!! i love googoo! LOL. specially the chicken googoo (triangular gristly gelatinous part of it). googoolicious, if you ask me. i think you need to contact oxford and have this word added. LOL :)

    # 16 January 2007 at 1:26 pm | link
  • Sarina said:

    Burekaboy – Bodi is longbeans yes, which reminds me I have to write up my saim post in your honour :) … Bhaji the plant is also callaloo the plant.. i said so above :) There is no dish called bhaji but there is a dish called callaloo … hehehe

    googoo = :cry:

    # 16 January 2007 at 1:42 pm | link
  • Hassan Voyeau said:

    Curried bhagi? Never heard of that before?¢‚Ǩ¬¶

    # 16 January 2007 at 1:53 pm | link
  • Sarina said:

    Hassan – for real? you never had bhagi, rice and dhal? I have that way too many times a month… I’ve had it in vegetarian roti more than a few times too… Which part of Trini you hiding? :)

    # 16 January 2007 at 2:12 pm | link
  • Hassan Voyeau said:

    I eat bhagi but not with curry in it. Think about it, bhagi is not cooked with curry. It may be eaten with something else curried but it does not contain curry.

    # 16 January 2007 at 2:24 pm | link
  • Sarina said:

    Hassan – True. I’ll edit to clarify :)

    # 16 January 2007 at 2:34 pm | link
  • burekaboy said:

    no, here i was referring to word callaloo and not bhaji; my bad, i wasn’t clear.(but there are quite a few indian dishes called bhajis which are different kinds of vegetables prepared in a specific manner as well as fritter type things commonly known as onion bhaji — amongst other kinds that can be substituted).

    # 16 January 2007 at 3:35 pm | link
  • Sarina said:

    Burekaboy – uh ok :) nice to know :)

    # 16 January 2007 at 4:11 pm | link
  • Marsha said:

    Thanks for the tag Nikki…I will do the weird things list…
    Even though I am comfortable with meat and preparing it. I really have to NOT think about it too closely when I am touching raw meat, or I gross myself out hahah

    # 16 January 2007 at 4:39 pm | link
  • Sarina said:

    Marsha – me too!!! :) And I don’t know how you cooked that fish with it watching yuh the whole time :lol:

    # 16 January 2007 at 5:06 pm | link
  • Marsha said:

    Girl I aint tell yuh I love fish head!
    I was the only one who used to eat it at home but like they find it looking good when I eat it so they start too. It does taste so good! Believe me yuh missin out!

    # 16 January 2007 at 5:18 pm | link
  • Marsha said:

    Oh yeh..I’m doing the Nigella (my version) fried chicken

    # 16 January 2007 at 5:23 pm | link
  • Sarina said:

    Marsha – ARRRRGGGGHHHH *runs screaming out the room* …. *pops head back in and sees the word Nigella* *runs off again* :eek:

    # 16 January 2007 at 5:29 pm | link
  • Marsha said:

    Yu don’t like Nigella???
    But what de…?!!!!!

    # 16 January 2007 at 5:54 pm | link
  • Sarina said:

    Marsha – she’s an evil jammette

    # 16 January 2007 at 5:59 pm | link
  • Helen said:

    Hi Sarina,

    I remember picking bhagi from the backyard for my mom to cook. It grew wild like a weed. It had sort off a purplish/pinkish tinge to its leaves.

    # 16 January 2007 at 5:59 pm | link
  • Sarina said:

    Helen – HI! :) Did you have fun stripping the stems? That is my favorite part :) It used to grow HUGE and wild in the ravines near where I grew up too :)

    # 16 January 2007 at 6:02 pm | link
  • Helen said:

    Ours weren’t huge. Now, only after you mentioned it, I remember having to peel the skin off the stems. Ahhh, fond memories of being a kid. Sooo, long ago. I have never seen bhagi here in Canada but then again I have never really searched it out.

    # 16 January 2007 at 6:12 pm | link
  • Marsha said:

    Nah Nah You have to tell me what she do and when…is because she marrid that Satchi and Satchi fella?

    # 16 January 2007 at 6:16 pm | link
  • Sarina said:

    Marsha – lolziez… look how you in this bacchanal thing :) Horning her dying husband is so not cool. Plus she don’t season her meat and wiggling her boobies and lashes at me is a major turnoff. Cook some damn food. And put salt. But I guess if that’s what’s been working for her why stop now.

    # 16 January 2007 at 6:19 pm | link
  • Sarina said:

    Marsha – and her accent… gord… ex lax anyone

    Not that I feel strongly or anything :lol:

    # 16 January 2007 at 6:20 pm | link
  • Marsha said:

    Yuh have meh rollin’!!! well ah did find dat the marriage come fast after de death, but ah didn’t know about de hornin!

    She dont season, is true, but she does give meh ideas and I does season it up.
    What ah want yuh to notice is that she does mainly wear black (she lose weight recently so she start with some colors) But the camera does be hazy on she to hide she lower body….

    She chirren does look like the dead husband

    # 16 January 2007 at 6:30 pm | link
  • boo said:

    i will have to think about that to do it! i can not think of anything weird off hand but maybe that is just cause i am used to me :)

    # 16 January 2007 at 6:48 pm | link
  • Trig said:

    You’ll have to be patient – I’ll respond as soon as I can. Got to go to sleep now and get up early for college tomorrow.

    # 16 January 2007 at 7:48 pm | link
  • Sarina said:

    Marsha – yes gyul. De first man alive. De first man on he deathbed and she datin’ de next ‘moneyed papi’… and yuh know them situations done already doh happen overnight… so who knows how long that pipeline was fillin :P then she have the nerve to say ‘oh he gave his blessing’ .. the man dyin’ what he supposed to feel and say? yuh clearly showed your priorities aight? dat just get me vex!!!! nah nah i can’t forget that!

    Yuh know I notice is mostly boobz and eyez they focus on. I feel she have some middle aged hips there. So the camera pullin’ out the Barbara Walters filter? TOO FUNNY!!!

    Yuh see when chirren look like yuh dead husband.. dat is KARMA!!!>.. look at Courtney Love child… don’t get me started on COURTNEY LOVE!!!! she and Nigella should start a book club :twisted:

    # 16 January 2007 at 7:49 pm | link
  • Sarina said:

    Boo – Well let’s not use weird :D How about things that are ‘totally boo’ :D I went with things that seemed to be ‘very me’ :D

    Trig – in the words of Louis Armstrong, we have alllll the tiiiiime in the world :D I thought college was Brit for high school? :)

    # 16 January 2007 at 7:51 pm | link
  • Lilandra said:

    EW
    I hate…what
    27 comments
    so long to scroll/read
    I forget what
    Now must scroll up and hope I find it…and remember when I scroll back down.

    Life is hard.
    Almost got distracted because I hate bhaji but I knew that wasn’t it.

    I HATE TABASCO.
    It’s yucky :-p
    I want real pepper sauces.
    I hate that those American style places come down here and all they have is Tabasco. They should have some real pepper sauce bottles in the back. This Tabasco really bugs me.
    Especially when you ask if they have pepper sauce and they say yes and bring out Tabasco.

    missed me? :)

    # 16 January 2007 at 10:28 pm | link
  • Sarina said:

    Lilandra! – :) wondered where you were :) Figured you were filling up people’s children’s heads with ideaz an ting :D Tabasco is a joke. They bring out Tabasco when you ask them for PEPPER SAUCE? Lawd help me :lol:

    You hate bhaji? :) you ain’t easy lolz :D Is easy to overcook… it’s not nice overcooked… but it’s heaven with CHEESE :)

    # 16 January 2007 at 10:36 pm | link
  • Rachel said:

    you are hysterical! cheese and pickles? what kind of cheese did your mom use? it sounds like the cravings of a pregnant woman!

    # 16 January 2007 at 11:45 pm | link
  • Sarina said:

    Rachel – Cheddar cheese!! :D Oh it’s sooooo good :D Salty, sweet, chewy and creamy :) You can’t lose :lol:

    # 17 January 2007 at 12:10 am | link
  • Lilandra said:

    I eat spinach and feta…:-p

    I ate Tabasco “willingly” once in a Friendly’s. I was in school and had this craving for fries smothered in ketchup, mustard and pepper. They brought out the Tabasco (I expected this) and went searching for mustard. Needless to say roommate and friend were amused.

    I noticed the tag…will get around to it.

    # 17 January 2007 at 12:18 am | link
  • Lilandra said:

    Oh, I told my students they are deserving of respect too.

    # 17 January 2007 at 12:20 am | link
  • Sarina said:

    Lilandra – yeah! Iz a ‘po man’s spinach and feta :D Which is funny cos I figure spinach and feta was po’ man food at some point too :lol: OMG! FRIENDLY’S!!! I forgot about Friendly’s :D Oh the flashback :D

    # 17 January 2007 at 12:29 am | link
  • Lilandra said:

    And it was a Friendly’s in Hadley. I don’t think I ever went to the one in Northampton. But I did go to the bookstore across the road. I like that bookstore.

    *sniffle*

    # 17 January 2007 at 12:42 am | link
  • Chennette said:

    lord…work :-) I eh get round to answering your 5 questions yet, but I home again after days of long 12-14 hour meetings, so there is hope! And of course for the weird food things – I have many weird food things…

    and YAY I have been tagged!

    # 17 January 2007 at 12:48 am | link
  • Sarina said:

    Lilandra – I miss that town :cry: did you ever go to Herrells… the root beer floats were INSANE@!! :D

    # 17 January 2007 at 12:49 am | link
  • Sarina said:

    Chennette – Tagz r luv :D

    # 17 January 2007 at 12:55 am | link
  • Lilandra said:

    I don’t like root beer! :-p
    But, I think I took mom to Herrells.
    I had their mint chocolate fudge sauce once…awesome awesome awesome.
    But I did like Bart’s in Amherst (much closer than Herrells) and I bought…um breakfast…etc alot there.

    I miss Amherst too. I miss Northampton too because I know there were so much things I hadn’t found yet. A new chocolate shop opened before I left. It sold solid thick chocolate drinks.

    eep

    # 17 January 2007 at 1:46 am | link
  • burekaboy said:

    grrrrr

    # 20 January 2007 at 11:12 am | link
  • Sarina said:

    lolziez :D

    # 20 January 2007 at 11:43 am | link
  • Honey said:

    I didn’t know that you knew NoHo Sarina. I don’t get there as often as I like, but it’s only an hour or so away from here. My friend was going to school at UMass, and we’d go visit her and hang out in Northampton. There’s a really great Mexican place there that I can’t remember the name of just now.

    # 20 January 2007 at 1:40 pm | link
  • Sarina said:

    I went to Smith Honey :) I used to love Cha Cha Cha but i heard they deteriorated and eventually closed… damn shame… loved taipai tokyo too :D

    # 20 January 2007 at 2:11 pm | link
  • Lilandra said:

    Cha Cha Cha closed?
    I wonder if I knew that.
    I had awesome fish tacos there once!!!

    # 21 January 2007 at 1:08 am | link
  • Lilandra said:

    she HORN her dying husband???

    # 21 January 2007 at 1:10 am | link
  • Lilandra said:

    i went umass
    i don’t think i ever went to a single-sex school!

    # 21 January 2007 at 1:12 am | link
  • Sarina said:

    and their quesadillas! and that kinda mango chutney salsa thing they had in the little bowl… DEEVINE!!

    # 21 January 2007 at 1:39 am | link
  • Sarina said:

    except for prep school is only single sex i know :D

    # 21 January 2007 at 1:40 am | link
  • Sarina said:

    YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigella_Lawson#Personal_life

    # 21 January 2007 at 1:46 am | link
  • Lilandra said:

    oh lord

    see
    i wish people would just not publicize celebrities’ lives
    such a waste of space and time…(i don’t mean you…because i remember details like this too and it annoys me)
    i’m happy to know she don’t cook good
    gah!
    gag!

    # 21 January 2007 at 1:51 am | link
  • Lilandra said:

    tsk tsk tsk

    # 21 January 2007 at 1:52 am | link
  • Lilandra said:

    i went once
    *sniffle*

    # 21 January 2007 at 1:52 am | link
  • Sarina said:

    me eh care. me glad to know. i am an E-holic :D

    # 21 January 2007 at 2:26 am | link
  • Sarina said:

    :)

    # 21 January 2007 at 2:27 am | link
  • Sarina said:

    AWW :cry:

    # 21 January 2007 at 2:27 am | link
  • Lilandra said:

    oh well

    # 21 January 2007 at 3:05 am | link
  • Lilandra said:

    why does it keep saying comments won’t nest below this level yet i see nesting!

    # 21 January 2007 at 3:05 am | link
  • Lilandra said:

    E-holic as in E!??
    You and Chennette!!!

    # 21 January 2007 at 3:06 am | link
  • Lilandra said:

    oh i see it now

    yikes my hand is cramping
    *worried*

    # 21 January 2007 at 3:07 am | link
  • Sarina said:

    daz meh gyul :D

    # 21 January 2007 at 3:26 am | link
  • Sarina said:

    it teachin yuh not to challenge the nestin :)

    # 21 January 2007 at 3:37 am | link
  • Chennette said:

    Voila! My Weird Food Facts, although I only tagged 3 people…
    http://chennette.wordpress.com/2007/01/21/6-weird-food-facts-about-me/

    # 21 January 2007 at 9:02 am | link
  • Sarina said:

    WHEE :D

    # 21 January 2007 at 9:11 am | link
  • Lilandra said:

    o lord!
    addicts!
    she say oh i only watch the red carpet
    HA!
    loads of people get married and divorced and married and divorced and if a forum i visit don’t post it i don’t know
    but she..!

    # 21 January 2007 at 9:35 am | link
  • Lilandra said:

    haha
    i think we talk too much for the nesting

    # 21 January 2007 at 9:36 am | link
  • Lilandra said:

    mine:
    http://lilandra.com/blog/archives/2007/01/21/6-weird-food-facts-about-me/

    # 21 January 2007 at 9:36 am | link
  • Marsha said:

    AHHH Yes..De Passion of Nigella!

    # 21 January 2007 at 12:36 pm | link
  • Sarina said:

    :lol:

    # 21 January 2007 at 1:29 pm | link

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