Posts Tagged ‘food’
Filed under: Hmmm
Back to the overseas real estate thoughts, and yes I am a bit closer to actually doing it than I was a couple of days ago. Not by a lot, but still. I was thinking about taking a look at sites in the Philippines, mainly because I have some friends from there and they have told me that some areas are very nice, and cheap. I also came across some site or other that was talking about something to do with the country and all together it made me think about looking for property for sale Philippines. I haven’t found much that appeals to me there, but figured I would look as I was pretty sure it would be somewhat cheap. Of course, most places are either cheap now or getting cheaper.
Even considering real estate again, it is not all properties I am looking at when I browse the different sites on properties overseas. I tend to wander off into various sites. I find myself in everything from a travel blog to National Geographic. Yes, as you probably already figured out, I do tend to wander a bit sometimes. Especially when surfing the internet.
There really are a lot of places I would still like to visit, towns I haven’t seen and people I haven’t met. Most importantly, though, there are a lot of local foods in different localities that I have yet to try. It is sometimes tough on my stomach but it is often worth it, just to try different things. After tasting a couple of foods that make you wish you didn’t have to eat, that one new delicious delicacy tastes all the better for the bad that you tried before. I think food is an important part of the cultural experience when you travel and should also be a big consideration if you are going to buy a place overseas.
Tags: cuisine, food, international, property
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Talking about food again, cause I and many others I know like it. I made my version of a recipe I found a while ago while looking for something good to cook for dinner. You need chicken, breast or thigh, but boneless. You also need some red wine, red or black vinegar, flour, garlic powder and dried basil. Oh, and butter or olive oil for cooking it all. Trust me it turns out very good, and it’s fairly quick.
I start out by thawing the chicken then I cut it into strips for easy and quicker cooking. In a small to medium bag (I use a ziplock bag) dump in two or three tablespoons of flour and about a tablespoon of the dried basil. Drop the chicken strips in the bag, seal, and shake well until coated. Set that aside and then, for say four or so pieces of chicken, mix in a small bowl 3 tablespoons red wine and two tablespoons red or black vinegar. Sprinkle in just a couple of touches of garlic powder and an even lighter amount of the dried basil and stir again. Set that aside and warm up a pan on medium to medium high until your butter or olive oil looks like things might be getting fairly hot. Use a fork or chop stick to pull the chicken slices out of the bag and put them in the heated pan. Turn frequently to avoid any burning. Cook for about five to six minutes then use a spoon to spread the wine and vinegar mix you created earlier evenly over your chicken pieces. Then I normally sprinkle some more dried basil on the chicken and a bit more garlic powder. You can add other spices and stuff as you wish. Cook on medium heat for another five or six minutes until you think it’s done then turn it down to low and let it sit for another two minutes, turning as needed. Afterwards you just sit back and enjoy! I did, even had a bit of red wine after dinner. Yes I know chicken goes with white, but I like red. Hope you enjoyed your dinner as well!
Tags: basil, chicken, dinner, food, red wine
Filed under: Hmmm
Ouch. Food poisoning is not fun. And no it wasn’t my cooking. I know better than to eat at a chain store, because for some reason it always kills me in the end. Some fast food is pretty good, though. I have no idea why their food affects me that way but it has done it every time so far. I can honestly say that this will be the last time because it is really unpleasant to sit on the porcelain throne for an hour or so in the evening. It tends to mess up your evening.
Hopefully I won’t have to go back tonight, I have other things I want to be doing other than sitting there while my insides come out. I can feel the stomach gurgling a bit at the moment. I am going to think happy thoughts and hope for the best. I really don’t want to take medicine at the moment, I much prefer to do without medicine if at all possible. Most medicine really only treats the symptoms and not the real cause. It also will give you other symptoms that you have to then take a different medicine to treat. It’s a vicious cycle once you get trapped into it. Ouch. Deep breath, sit back relax a bit.
You really never know what will bite you back, but you would think that with the FDA attempting to say that our food is safe, that it wouldn’t happen as often as it does. Food bites back a lot, which is just not good. If you think about it the FDA doesn’t really seem to have much power and they were just recently saying that the majority of plants don’t get inspected unless there is a complaint. It doesn’t work as well as I would like it to, but then I am biased at the moment.
I think I may hold my words for just a bit and go get rid of some other stuff. Not pleasant, sorry, but then not pleasant for me either.
Tags: fast food, food, food poisoning, pain, stomach
