Crusty dishes

Further evidence that living on my own is doing strange, strange things to my ability to discern what is socially acceptable in the kitchen:

• If eating cereal with plain yoghurt and grape-fruit juice instead of milk is wrong, I don’t want to be right.

• Adding Guatemalan green-chilli sauce and a generous shake of MSG to dahl turns it into a taste explosion that’s still remarkably healthy. Your mouth will love you. Actually, I had no idea just how easy it is to make decent dahl. My new most favourite bachelor chow.

• Add Hoisin sauce to scrambled eggs. Rejoice!

• I still have a punnet (?) of beer jelly from the Sapporo Beer Museum in Ebisu. The very idea scares me and so it sits on my desk, taunting me with its evil ways. I think this week is the week I overcome my fears.

• Drinking three packets of Swiss Miss hot chocolate in a single cup and then adding extra marshmallows for good luck will leave you twitching and unable to sleep. Not since I ate 24 mini butterfingers in a single sitting have I ingested so much sugar at one time.

Posted in Gastros on Monday January 16, 2006.