6 posts tagged “food”

I was making lunch today and noticed that I had about half of the ingredients for a shawarma and half the ingredients for a burrito, but not all the ingredients for either one or the other. Then the more I thought about it, the more I realized that a shawarma and a burrito weren't all that exclusively different. So today I created the shawrito, a shawarma and burrito hybrid.

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  Shawrito
  Potatoes
• Margarine
• Ground Beef
• Soy Sauce
• Cooking Wine
• Garlic
• Onions
• Frozen Green Peas (cook in microwave)
• BBQ sauce and tomato sauce
• Chili Powder
• Cumin
• Ground dried mangerine peel
• Oregano
• Ground Black Pepper
• Salt
• Hot Chili Sauce
• Shreded Lettuce
• Diced Tomato
• Grated Cheese (cheddar or mozzarella)
• Pita bread

1. Marinade ground beef with soy sauce and cooking wine.
2. Boil potatos, peel, mash, mix with margarine, black pepper and salt.
3. Stir fry garlic, onions, ground beef, green peas, BBQ and tomato sauce, all spices, chili sauce.
4. Cut pita bread in half, spread mashed potatos, add cheese, add ground beef mixture, add lettuce and tomato.
5. Enjoy.

My brother emailed me a link to this blog by someone who is living a dollar a day on food for a month. I'm sure he would develop scurvy or some other disease from malnutrition if he kept it going for longer than he did, but interesting to read from his experience. Something to think about, anyway. Food for thought?

Robot-connoisseur

So, they've built a cute little connoisseur robot that can distinguish between the taste of wines, cheeses and hors d'oeuvres. And having tasted human flesh, it seems to think we taste like bacon! I hope the programmers remembered to include a function for Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, otherwise I can only foresee an army of these little mechanical critters starting a holocaustic rampage against their tasty creators. When you have one gnawing at your leg, they don't seem so cute anymore, do they?

Also, a list of the 50 Best Robots Ever.

BTW, the infrared spectrometer in it's left hand looks frighteningly like a ray-gun. They like their bacon crispy.

What's your favorite restaurant?

Restoran Malay
815 Major Mackenzie Dr. E. (Bayview), Richmond Hill
905.508.1432

It's a bit of the way outside the centre of Toronto, but Restoran Malay is worth the drive. You can pretty much order anything and it will be guaranteed to taste great. I like their tea, which is brewed strong and bubbly aerated by juggling the liquid between pitchers at arms length. I always order their lemon-grass beef as well as an extra helping of everything to take home.

Oddly enough, some time after discovering the restaurant, I found out that my niece (my cousin's daughter) used to work there as a waitress. Some of her friends still do.

Reviewed on Toronto Life.