Friday Five Time

[waitingman]

These questions were written by mesotablar on dreamwidth.

1. What are your top 5 favourite foods?
Fish - most of them, grilled, or sashimi... Eye fillet steak, when I can afford it!... Southern-style fried chicken... Indian curries... Thai stir-fry, Shanghai dumplings... whoops, that's 6, but I could keep going!!

2. Is there something similar between them?
The first 3 are things my Mother & Grandmother couldn't cook well & I've spent my teen/adult life discovering how they should be done, the last 3 are my go-to takeaway choices... when I really shouldn't have another pizza

3. Can you cook them yourself?
Not too good on the Shanghai dumplings, but I can do the others reasonably well. My Long-Suffering Partner does the best home-fried chicken though!

4. Pick one, and tell us why it is so special?
Indian curries - the depth of flavours, the exotic taste, the different styles & that no 2 places do them the same way. I've never had 2 Chicken Kormas that were alike!!

5. Have you eaten your recommended servings of 2 fruit and 5 vegetables today?
I haven't even had breakfast yet, just a coffee... so coffee beans & sugar cane - do they count?!?

Comments

[paserbyp]

1. All kind of deserts, but diabetes scary me a lot…

2. Sugar…

3. Nope, but my wife can…

4. With glass of Porto it’s paradise!

5. Nope. Never…

[sallymn]

Coffee beans and sugar cane are definitely plants-based so count as vegetables (and so does chocolate). Fact. :)

[waitingman]

Chocolate also has your daily dose of dairy/calcium. Okay, so I occasionally get about a fortnight's worth in one go, but that's a good thing, right?!

[sallymn]

Right! :) I remember years ago having an article I copied from a magazine, about a scientific (and not at all biased, nooooooo) study that came up with '7 reasons why chocolate is healthy". One of them was because it contains antioxidants, and for some years the whole family called chocolate antioxidants when we wanted to sound cirtuous...