Sunday, September 6, 2009

Thoughts on a Sunday night

Now back to our regularly scheduled musings on life in London! Here's a few.

-I did a roast tonight, and finally made the chicken I've always wanted to make. Seems marinating it all day in olive oil, white wine, garlic, and rosemary and then sticking it in the oven for nearly two hours does the trick!

-The British seem to be obsessed with sweetcorn. They put it in everything, from salads to sandwiches. Tuna with sweetcorn? Seen it. Pizza with sweetcorn? Seen it. Ice cream with sweet corn? I'm sure that's next. But the thing is, I've never had any good corn here, or at least it's nothing compared to what you can get at a farmer's market in the States. To be fair, I haven't had farmer's market corn here, but the consistency of the British corn I've had is different. It's somehow much tougher than American corn, even bad off-season supermarket corn. I've gotten some British corn in the past and tried boiling it, with fairly unappetizing results, but tonight I tried roasting it, and it turned out rather well actually. So I got to thinking that perhaps the difference between British vs. American corn is like the difference between a horse and a hamster. You can lightly boil American corn (fresh, at least) and it tastes wonderful, just like you can lightly touch a hamster and it'll respond to you. If you lightly touch a horse, it does absolutely nothing for either of you, you have to smack the heck out of it for it to even feel anything. Hence, roasting the British corn: smack some serious heat on it and then it responds.

-I'm knitting legwarmers for myself, and I've already made two, but I don't like the first one I made because I think it's ugly. So I'm in the frustrating position of having made two and still having to make one more. And then what to do with the ugly one... suggestions anybody?

3 comments:

Bobbie said...

Hmm...is it wide and long enough to be a slide-in cover for a rolled-up yoga mat?

Tomato Insurgent said...

@Bobbie that would be a beefy foreleg!

Joanna said...

If I only had a yoga mat...