Oh Glory
Guess what I did today?
You know the old saying, If the Plume won’t come to the stegt flęsk then the stegt flęsk must come to the Plume? Or something like that. Anyway I went shopping today and bought pork and potatoes.
No parsley sauce, though. You know what bugs me? 99,9% of every sauce, soup or ready-made dinner contains either onion powder or garlic powder. What is that anyway? Onion crushed into a powder? Why can’t Danish companies make anything without onion powder? It’s crazy. You should have seen me in the supermarket. A huge shelf full of stuff and I’d pull out a package and check the ingredients and put the package back and check the next and on and on and on. There’s virtually nothing without onion or garlic powder. And I know I should say to myself I should say “you can’t actually taste the onion, just buy it and try”. But I also know that just the fact that the word “onion” appears in that tiny little list of ingredients, it will make me throw it out because I can’t stands it.
Anyway. My pork was okay. Nowhere near as good as in the café. But at least it was a semi-normal dinner cooked by me. That’s not too bad.
Good for me.
Tomorrow is my brother’s birthday. So I will get cake. Hooray for cake. And hopefully I’ll get some good sleep tonight, my sleeping pattern has been way outta whack the last couple of days. Last night I got up around 6 am because I couldn’t sleep any more. Because I had slept all day. Whackaplume.
Also, I think I might be going blind.
January 20th, 2008 at 23:29
It didn’t taste like the restaurant’s meal because you left out two ingredients: ONION & GARLIC powder!
We like the powder better than the salt, since it has less salt. (Well, that was pretty obvious). You can get your own onion and garlic powder (like you do cinnamon or pepper) and then you can add only a tiny, tiny bit.
I don’t like sage in my dressing/stuffing. But I have had a tiny little bit of sage in dressing and I did like it. I just don’t like “SAGE DRESSING” that is heavy on the sage.
Maybe you are like that with onion and garlic? A little is okay, you just might have to experiment and see how much you can use.
Also, here in the US, the further down the list of ingredients a certain flavor or spice is, usually means there is less of it in the product.
Like cereal for instance. If you want to avoid really sugary/salty cereals, make sure those two things are way, way down on the list in the ingredients. Not the first two ingredients anyway. I don’t know how things are listed in Denmark, but would think it might be the same way?
Anyway, congrats to “Chef Plume”. It’s fun to try new recipes and food.
January 21st, 2008 at 22:14
Debster – Haha! Interesting theory. But no, the very reason I chose that dish at the restaurant was that it was one of the few where I knew there’d be no onions in it. I even asked me parents to be sure. So fraid not. Actually the pork I made was pretty good, It were the potatoes that didn’t turn out too good. And the lack of sauce didn’t help.
I’m afraid the onion thing is just too ingrained in me, it’s psychological by now. I just can’t.. if I know there has been onions even NEAR something then I can’t eat it. So there will be no experimenting I’m afraid. I will just have to live with not being able to eat 95% of what they sell in the supermarkets.
January 22nd, 2008 at 1:14
I’ve never heard of an “onion” phobia. You could be famous and go on tv talk shows. And since they would pay you, you’d be rich. Not that I’m saying you would exploit your “onion” phobia. (Rich, rich, rich I say!)
Were you bitten by an onion as a child??
January 23rd, 2008 at 23:06
Debster – I was chased by gangs of wild onions when I was a kid. They roamed the neighbourhoods at night and always picked un os goats.
No, actually it’s more to do with that thing I mentioned about my mother being a big fan of onions. And me growing up feeling unloved and less important than onions. It’s silly, but tell that to my stupid mind. Plus they also make me vomit, so that’s not nice.
January 24th, 2008 at 0:42
Why did you feel unloved and unimportant?
You seem to be a very lovable person now. And I’m not just saying that because you like goats! And sheeps!
And you are important to us and the playground, to Bodil, to the visitator (who wouldn’t have a job if not for you), and the soon-to-be volunteer place.
When you say your mom is a big fan of onions, I’m seeing a picture of a giant onion on your parents’ living room wall. Or “I Luv Onions” bumper stickers. My team is “The Onions”.
(I’m beginning to think your mom has a bigger problem with onions than you do.)
January 24th, 2008 at 23:33
Debster – It’s the long and complicated story of my life. Some of those issues I still have with parents and brother and.. onions. It’s better these days though, no doubt.
Trust me, no one has bigger problems with onions than I do!