I'm far from reliable, but I like the reliable things in life. I hate it, for example, when one of my teachers skivs off and we get some substitute who hasn't the faintest idea what they're doing. It's a waste of my time.
And I'm a food girl. I like good, hot, comforting, reliable food.
If I had as good a relationship with a man as I had with, I don't know, my favourite pasta or dim sum, I would be a very happy woman indeed. There's something comforting about the fact that no matter how bad school (and school lunches) get, there'll be a dinner that isn't disgusting/expensive/served in a foil bowl with plastic sporks/designed to kill waiting for me at home.
There's something really delish about home-cooked food. I'm still a ramen girl, but I'm not really a huge fan of junk food, with the exception of my early teen ice cream binges. I don't really like lollies or chocolate, and I'll only eat doughnuts if they're really good, which they're not, here in medieval Perth. Really, my only junk food weakness is ramen.
I am strongly against people, especially children, eating junk food on a regular basis as a substitute for proper meals. The occasional after-school french fry fix isn't so bad, but junk food for dinner five nights a week is appalling. Dinner, at the very least, should be home-cooked or from a decent restaurant. Take out, fast food and food stalls are often unhygienic and unhealthy.
It's really not that hard to produce decent grub on a daily basis. Proof: sorted food. This is the brit hub for good, fast, healthy food. I don't actually cook myself, with the exceptions of the standard pathetic schoolgirl's cooking knowledge (instant noodles, porridge, tea, coffee, french toast, normal toast and jaffles) although I do bake occasionally during the holidays, but seriously, this stuff (and the chef) got my mouth watering. Good food garnished with hot chef, sorted.
There are only so many ways you can treat a slice of bread, especially where schoolgirl staples are concerned.
ReplyDeleteMy own favourite cooking website/series of videos is Nicko's Kitchen, which I've been looking at for the past year and so.
I especially love "What you want Wednesday".
Sorted seems like a good website. Very Web 2 in its style.
And isn't it great to feel sorted and reliable or relied upon?
The one thing which might be worse than a foil bowl is a polystyrene bowl. Noisy and bad for the environment.
And the doughnuts are often not that much better on the east coast, with the rare exception of a doughnut van (in the style of an icecream van).
Thanks for the point about food stalls. I often find the smell overwhelming. And it will be festival season, so an important thing to keep in mind.
(You are BYOing at a festival. What quick and sensible snack/meal do you prepare and bring?)
And what do you think of nuts as a snack? They are only sometimes hot, as in roasted. A few people close to me quite like them, in Christmas jars, and randomly throughout the year.