Appearance Matters

[poliphilo]

I cooked pork chops, mushrooms, applesauce , mashed potato.  Ailz thought it was nice, so it wasn't entirely a mistake, but it looked quite awful- like an undifferentiated greyish gloop,  like porridge.  I ate it (I'm almost religious these days about not wasting food) but I didn't enjoy eating it- even though it tasted fine.  I don't normally think about the way food looks, but obviously I should.  A small pile of bright green peas would have made all the difference.

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[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

One of the things we used to do when we ran the youth hostel and had to cater for lots of people was to invent monochrome menus. (Having a similar texture gained extra points.)

I must hasten to say that we never actually cooked any of them, but we amused each other by suggesting meals like: chicken soup for starter with white bread then steamed cod with white sauce, cauliflower and mashed potatoes followed by rice pudding.

It seems like you inadvertently produced one of our flights of fancy. :)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

An all black menu would be a test of ingenuity....

[serennos.livejournal.com]

Easily done by accident - especially by me (I refer you to my pork suggestion below)...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I should have added "edible" to the proposal. :)

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

blood sausage and black jellybeans?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

i think the jelly beans might be a little sickly. How about a blackcurrant compote?

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

mmm. And Black plum pudding.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

That'll do nicely!

[wyrmwwd.livejournal.com]

I LOVE blood sausage! I know, most Americans are totally grossed out.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We Brits call it black pudding. It's a big speciality up here in the North West.

[wyrmwwd.livejournal.com]

Yes! I learned about it the last time I was there, and there is an Irish Pub in Syracuse that serves it. I have it whenever I can afford to have breakfast there.

I don't care for your normal, everyday sausage there. It is too bland. But I could have black pudding every day.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Apparently the finest black puddings in the world are to be purchased at the open air market just up the road from here in Bury. To my shame I've never been to find out.