Filed under: food | Tags: brownies, earthquake, fire & stone, food, japan, oneaday, pizza, potatoes, tsunami
The weekend just gone was great, most notably for the food consumed.
Friday night, I made the mustard chicken recipe fro Jamie Oliver’s 30 Minute Meals book (recipe HERE). The whole premise annoys me because all of the meals take longer than 30 minutes unless you have all of the equipment and a massive kitchen. It turned out great though, except I had to cut the chicken into pieces and cook them rather than whole breasts because it was taking too long. I also made garlic and rosemary roasted baby new potatoes which were insanely good.
Saturday I made peanut butter brownies (recipe HERE) which are amazing but pretty much death on a plate. In the afternoon, we went to Fire & Stone and I had the Acapulco pizza, like this:
ACAPULCO PIZZA
It was incredible. Slow cooked beef, jalapeños, red onion and then guacamole and sour cream in the middle. So good.
Sunday I made more garlic and rosemary roast baby new potatoes with some Aberdeen Angus beef and mustard sausages (from Asda).
Today I am suffering a food hangover and probably need to stop eating so much calorific food as my pot belly is ever expanding.
Also, today has been the first time I’ve had a chance to properly read and watch stuff to do with the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. It’s insane – watching the video HERE and it just doesn’t look real. I can’t actually process that that really happened, it just looks really odd. Also, the images HERE are staggering. All of those buildings just totally annihilated. I read that there is a tonne of weight in every cubic meter of water in the tsunami, which is a properly incomprehensible amount of power.
Filed under: travel | Tags: germany, italy, japan, oneaday, scandinavia, travel, usa
"G-G-G-G G HEDGES"
So I’ve made it to 50 posts! Not something I expected to do but I’m 50 posts down, meaning there are 315 posts to go.
I’ve got about 14 days of holiday left to use up before July so I’ve been planning (only in my head) where I could go or what I could do with that time. Semi-inspired by Dan’s post yesterday, I’ve decided to make a list of the top 5 places I want to go to. In no particular order:
1. Germany
This has been a relatively recent one but I really want to go to Germany, probably Berlin because there would be more to do there than anywhere else in Germany. Saying that, I want to visit Auschwitz (although I think it’s in Poland and have no idea how far it is from Berlin) quite a lot – I don’t think I’d enjoy it but it’d be an experience and nice to say I’ve been somewhere massively historical. Plus, I did German at school so it’d be pretty funny/depressing to realise how much of it I’ve forgotten.
2. USA
I don’t know whereabouts in America I want to go, there’s too many amazing places to narrow it down. I’d like to do a road trip like Dan, Jack and Rob did last year so I could see more than one place but I’m nowhere near organised enough to sort anything like that out or be able to find anyone that would want to do it. A lot of the places I want to go to is largely down to Man vs. Food so I can try loads of amazing massive meaty/spicy meals. I think Arizona would be awesome just for the scenery (Grand Canyon, obviously) but I’d be pretty happy to go anywhere in America really. The only place I don’t think I’d be that bothered about going to is New York because it seems a bit overrated. And Washington – mainly because of Dave Gorman.
3. Scandinavia (Sweden/Finland/Denmark)
I couldn’t narrow this down so opted for all three. I think I want to go to Sweden the most though. It just looks beautiful (not just the ladies, amirite guys?) and the only downside to Scandinavia is it looks really really expensive. I don’t really know much about these places I’ve just always wanted to go – probably because we only went to Spain / Canary Islands growing up so I’ve grown tired of going to places just for the weather.
4. Italy
There are loads of reasons I’d love to go to Italy – all of the famous landmarks, the weather, the food and the drink. I guess Rome would make sense so I could see the Colosseum and St. Peter’s Square and loads of other places I can’t think of or am too ignorant to know about. Either there or Sicily/somewhere rural. I’m probably not fashionable enough for Milan.
5. Japan
I think Japan, Tokyo preferably, would be an amazing place to visit just because of how different it is to England. All of the mental technology they use in day to day life would be brilliant to see for myself and trying to use it only to be judged like a techno spazz (politely, of course) would be fun. I’d probably struggle a bit with the food though because I’m quite fussy but I’m sure I could survive on some form of noodle.
Amsterdam would’ve been on the list but I’m going there in April which is going to be awesome. Narrowly missing out is most of Eastern Europe (Croatia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic) but I thought I’d add at least two places that weren’t in Europe considering I’ve never been anywhere but this continent.
Daily Hedges 