fearless
Tonight, I ate sardines. Even as I took a bite, the mashed-up fish taunted me with its gelatinous, edible backbone and positively animated pectoral fins. For someone who happily eats pretty much everything, from frog and snail to snake, tinned sardines have long bordered on the stuff of phobia. And now, I have prevailed.
They were pretty good. And I'll probably never buy them again. They really don't compare to freshly caught and grilled sardines anyhow; those, as I learned in Casablanca last September, are an entirely different class of food entirely. Better than se Almost as delicious as calamari.
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I turned 21 today. :) Just thought to tell you... why? I'm not sure. Probably cuz I'm high on friends, life (and booze) at the moment. Okay, the day is at an end for me, time to curl up with a good book and fall into gentle sleep. I wish your own pleasant dreams to come.
Terima kasih, ksquare, dan selamat hari jadi; some of the best years in life have yet to come, but I think you know that better than many. Glad to hear that you're in a happy place; be sure to enjoy.
Why not just remove the backbone and the fins if they're so offensive? There's another gross slimy bit inside them that I also get rid of, before mashing them up, spreading the resulting "gunk" on toast, and then putting the whole lot under the grill for a while. Sometimes to be eaten with malt vinegar sprinkled on top.
Food in its natural form? Oh yuck!
What really struck me is that they're not, at least in the tinned form, all that different from tuna, which I love, and that is why I don't think I'll bother unless fresh ones are available. Good advice, of course, though there was a certain pleasure to be had in chewing up bits of spine and limb that, if absent, might have made the experience entirely orthodox. And such wastage, it just won't do; the government knows all about you and your lateral-thinking, sardine-innard-tossing brigade; watch your back.
Must be my natural instinct to toss.
Forgot to mention that they can also be great in a tomato sauce (as can tuna, of course), especially if there's a high density of olive and caper involvement. Mmmmmmm.....
Mmm, I'm with you on that one; the kitchen is one of my favourite places to be (when at home - the college house has a kitchen rats would avoid), and Italian is the cuisine I have the most fun with. My amazon wishlist is all recipe books!
Incidentally, I tried to respond to one of your posts, but my comment wasn't accepted. The point you make about IP may be explicable if you are using dialup. If that is the case, then your IP is not likely to be static. If that is the case, then it could simply be that someone using the same ISP happened to browse your site - this isn't so unusual if you have a UK readership, which you do. Sound plausible?
Not sure. My statistics usually write "host213-..." or "host216-..." before my IP (which changes from 213 to 216, it seems). But I saw "host80-..." for a couple of times when I wasn't on the Internet. I wondered if it might have something to do with the Blogger changes. Or perhaps I've been hacked. As you can see, I'm clueless about these things. I might find out one day, but at the moment I'm too busy. I've downloaded the Microsoft security patch, though.
Something else funny just happened, too - I went to my blog, and first some bizarre picture came up. I clicked "Refresh", and then everything was OK. ("OK" for now, that is...)
Enetation can be funny about comments, by the way. (When it's there, that is.) Maybe it'll accept them another time!
Backbones and fins are the best! They're crunchy, and give that sense that you're a bit more primeval than you really are. Food good. Fire good. Good fish. Well, it does to me anyway, but I'm a bit of a caveman at times. I blame my country. The best are the dried preserved sardines with black beans, just heat em up and eat em. People will probably avoid your company for awhile later though... if you catch my drift.
The Blogger changes have been miffling a lot of people lately, more than a few of my friends have been complaining about missing posts/titles/entire commentary pages. Hopefully things will settle down in a bit.
Parties are nice, but I have yet to find a good cure for a whiskey hangover. Ouch.
Ah...you're a much braver than me! One of my regrets is that I'm not as adventurous an eater as most people. I think it has a lot to do with my keen sense of smell. If I find something even remotely foul in smell, it'll probably never pass my lips. What a terrible excuse for not enjoying the *finer foods* in life.
Sardines are delicious indeed. But you can't just eat them out of the tin can, or they'll taste just like tinned fish.
In the south of Italy there's a special kind of sardines marinated in red hot chilli that they call "Sardella" - and it's wonderful with olive oil, on pasta. Super spicy and tasty.
Also, try them on a thick slice of garlic bread, add a bit of oil, and some squashed cherry tomatoes. Mmm. Italian summer in a bite :)
Now I'm hungry.