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Thursday, 15 January 2009

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Nasi Goreng is a dish native to Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. In Malay and Indonesian, nasi means cooked rice and goreng means fried. This is similar to the classic chinese "fried rice". It has Pre-Cooked Rice, Soy Sauce, garlic, shallot and spring onions. It is usually served with eggs, chicken, prawns, satay, vegetables and even beef. It is especially popular with eggs.

This is eaten for breakfast by the native people. It is cooked from the leftover rice of the previous day's dinner. It is spiced with tamarind, chilli and coriander and doubled with eggs and prawns to make it special.

Tuesday, 6 January 2009

KotBullar-Swedish Meat Balls

KotBullar is swedish meat balls. Meat balls are ground meat added with spices and condiments. It is served with mashed or fried potatoes and some onion rings with it. There is a creamy-brown sauce in the midst of all these.
Some salad dressings along with these also helps. It is also served with lingonberry jam and pickled cucumber. What I liked most about this dish is its wholesomeness and dexterity. It is wholesome enough to fill you for a lunch maybe with a fruit or a salad. And, also good enough for a evening brunch.

Sunday, 4 January 2009

Great White Shark: Food & Feeding

The white shark is a macropredator, and is active during the daytime. Its most important prey are marine mammals(including, seals, sea lions, elephant seals, dolphins) and fish (including other sharks and rays).
Marine birds and sea otters are commonly found having suffered injuries from encounters with white sharks, but are rarely eaten by them. Great white sharks assess the energy value of prey in the first bite. If the prey doesn't have enough energy value to justify the energy needed for a full-scale attack, the shark releases it. If however the great white perceives the prey to be energy rich, it will give a devastating, powerful bite and wait for the prey to bleed to death. White sharks swallow creatures without chewing them, and can swallow objects half their size.

Eating Rotten Shark Meat

In Reykjavik, Iceland, locals mark the Thorrablot midwinter festival with traditional—and often stomach- turning—delicacies. Watch as modern chefs prepare the signature dish of this ancient Viking celebration: rotten Greenland shark meat.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/11/1117_051117_sharkmeat_video.html

Monkey Brains

Monkey Brains are eaten as a food in China. Live monkey brain is considered a delicacy.
A live monkey is strapped beneath a special table with a hole in the center. The monkey is strapped with its head poking up through a hole. It is hit on the head. The brain is scooped and served. The diners hit the monkey on the head themselves with hammers. The skull is sawed off by the waiting attendents and the brain is scooped out with spoons.
Such barbarism tells us more about the demented monkeys dining on the table, rather than those feeding. Shows how evolution with education can be such a failure.

Saturday, 3 January 2009

Hunting for Food or Hunting For Fun

Hunting for food is one thing and I do not have an issue with that, hey, catch a fish for tea, shoot a duck if you want to eat it but why on earth people need to catch big game fish so they can get their photo taken with the carcass or mount it on the wall is beyond me.
I have also heard 'duckshooters' boast that they have killed over 80 ducks in two days as if they are expecting everyone to bow at there feet and acknowledge their prowess as the great providers. For goodness sakes they have shotguns...and ducks are flesh and blood. Shoot them and they fall out of the sky.