I've been reading Slashfood for awhile now, and they recently mentioned they have a Flickr Group and would be choosing a "Photo of the Day" from it. So I submitted my weekend dinner photo, and lo and behold it was chosen! Ela pointed out to me later that they linked my name to Junkheap, so I thought I'd mention it :)
Recently I've had a food related ideas that would result in content for this blog, but I don't want to commit to anything because I'm inherently lazy and might not get around to it for awhile! Still, if you're here from Slashfood, add me to your RSS reader! I can sit there idling until I get around to doing some food content!
Posted by Marcin on
15/01/2008 @ 18:57 +1100
Tags: food, food porn
I watched Minority Report again after recently re-reading the original short story. The movie isn't that great anyway, but my major problem with it is that after he is on the run John Anderton (Tom Cruise's character) uses his eyes to get back into Precrime, and even near the end when he is incarcerated his wife uses his eyes to get into the containment facility.
Heck, at my old job when I applied for a new security card, because my existing one was physically damaged and I couldn't attach it to my retractable card thingie, the one I had was disabled before they gave me my new one. You're telling me a law enforcement agency wouldn't revoke someone's access to everything as soon as they were wanted?
Posted by Marcin on
06/01/2008 @ 18:13 +1100
Tags: movies
Before I get into it, I'd never bothered to check until now but it appears that calamari is Italian for squid, but defined as the "culinary name when squid is prepared as food". It gets used on menus because it sounds "nicer".
Something that's always gotten my goat has been the fact that calamari in restaurants is treated the same as prawns when it comes to pricing. You pay $15 (or something) for a "salt and pepper calamari" dish and end up with 6 pieces of calamari - WTF Mate?
Here's the skinny - I live near the Sydney Fish Market so eat a reasonable amount of seafood. Calamari costs about $7/kg in "squid tubes", with about 3 or 4 squid tubes (about $5-6 worth) you can make a big bowl of salt and pepper calamari. In my recipe for Salt and Pepper Squid I used (from distant memory) 1 or 2 squid tubes and ended up with way more than you'd get in a restaurant. So the average serving of Salt and Pepper Calamari in a restaurant probably has 50c to a dollar worth of squid in it.
Now to compare, green (ie. uncooked) prawns run to about $20/kg for medium sized ones, so it's slightly more understandable that restaurants are a bit more stingy with them. Even so, you sometimes get 6 prawns for $15 with a few veggies and a sauce, which is probably about $3 worth of prawn.
.. and all this is with retail prices, restaurants are probably getting it a whole lot cheaper wholesale.
I don't mind paying $15 for Salt & Pepper Calamari - just give me a decent amount of squid in it!!
Posted by Marcin on
04/01/2008 @ 13:18 +1100
Tags: food, seafood