More Gustatory Perambulations

[gnommi]

So, last night I made Thai Style Trout a la Gnom for two. Two whole trout (massive creatures that sadly got a beheading to fit in the baking dish, and then stared lugubriously up at me from the bin), coconut milk, 2 limes, shallot, garlic, lemon grass and about half a red chilli (my experiments on capsaicin receptor response attenuation continue). Fry the oniony things a bit, add the chilli then coconut milk and the juice of a lime (aside: coconut milk may look solid in the tin but IT'S AN ILLUSION, it will burst everywhere when you prod it and cover your hob in what looks like baby sick). Season and throw over the fishies in the dishy and bake until they look done. Serve with jasmine rice (the cretin version that you microwave) and green beans. AWESOME, if I do say so myself. It also made me think that you could probably do a wicked rice pudding with sticky rice, coconut milk and lime juice.

During all of this culinary endeavour, I took to reading packets and labels and what-not, as I am a nosey f***er. It turns out that my "simple meal" was a bit more sophisticated than I gave it credit for:

Salmo trutta morpho fario (I think, but don't quote me). Came from New Forest, Hampshire. Not too exotic, just down the road in fact. Farmed, but organic. One had bizarre, knobby pectoral fins, the other, rather suspiciously, had lost them on the way to Waitrose. MUTANT ZOMBIE FISH?
Cocos nucifera: milk. Came from Indonesia, to suffer the ignominious fate of being packed in Bracknell.
Cymbopogon citratus from Israel. I don't know why either. I think you can grow it here, though it's not hardy.
Capsicum annuum from Zambia. Probably grown quite profitably on a small farm somewhere, where, according to reports male farmers will spend the proceeds on farm equipment and female farmers on clothes and kitchen equipment. Apparently, chilis are good to grow in Zimbabwe too, as the local fauna are wusses like me.
Phaseolus vulgaris from Kenya. Who knew that the mature seeds were poisonous!?!

My dinner had been to countries that I will probably never go to.

On a more recent note: I am not a natural parallel parker. Not entirely dyspraxic behind the wheel though, which is a relief to all.

Comments

[kotenok.livejournal.com]

Ttasty sounding dinner, apart from the trout - I am convinced that it was in fact a small fish bone stuck in my throat that made it sore last week, as it went away after a day and a bit!


This is why I pathologically loathe fish that have BONES. Evil, nasty, small little BONES that mean you can't take big mouthfuls of your food, and have to approach it with the caution with which one feeds a baby in case of choking.

Bah humbug!

[gnommi.livejournal.com]

what you need is an ex-pathologist like me on hand to fillet it!
i had to do my ace dissector/crap surgeon's turn for dave to make the fish look as if it had never been connected to anything fish-shaped before he'd eat it too.

glad your throat is better! disappearing fishbone > raging tonsilitis for sure.

if i was a fish, i think i'd have my bony revenge from beyond the grave too tho! but with my luck, i'd be a fish finger >_

[kotenok.livejournal.com]

Ahh, next time I shall get you to make the fish :D

Fishy revenge is just mean. Nothing else I eat has it's way with me in retribution like that!

[littlelightbulb.livejournal.com]

Sounds realllly nice, too. I demand you cook for me some time!!

[gnommi.livejournal.com]

the fish heads they will stare at YOOOOOOOOOOOOU

XD

[silver-daisy.livejournal.com]

I barely learnt to parallel park to pas my test over 5 years ago, I don't think I have done it at all since. I just drive into a space forwards and spend 10 minutes swearing and driving backwards and forwards.

[gnommi.livejournal.com]

i did not excel and that's putting it mildly!

[squidflakes.livejournal.com]

Gnomers, you cook too well. You can't POSSIBLY be British.

[gnommi.livejournal.com]

well my mother always told me I was a foundling...
could be Martian!