HEARTY BREAKFAST WEEK! 23rd September 2007 to 29th September 2007!

Sorry for the double post. In line with the whole 1 interesting food topic a week thing, THIS WEEK IS HEARTY BREAKFAST WEEK!


It should have been HEARTY BREAKFAST DAY! But I figured that by the time everyone gets around to reading this, you'd have had breakfast already. That would have rather defeated the purpose and made HEARTY BREAKFAST DAY! an automatic failure. But never fear! Because wang is a problem-solver. He is a trouble-shooter, a problem-hunter, a dilemma-predator! He has seen fit to extend this interesting topic for a whole week to accommodate those of you who don't wake up at 3 in the morning to read this blog. Which should be just about everyone. o.O

Alright. So this week, observers of Hearty Breakfast Week must do 4 things to complete the quest! This is a bronze quest, so it's not compulsory. Completing this quest gives you +100 renown and +1000 healthy points!

First, you must publicly extol the virtues of having a nice wholesome breakfast or evangelise this worthy cause in some other way. If you can get 3 other people to observe Hearty Breakfast Week, you get +100 renown bonus and +10 respect. If you can get more than 5 people to observe Hearty Breakfast Week, you'll receive a special prize¹!

Second, you must try at least 2 interesting types of breakfast from a continent other than your own. You may choose to incorporate it as part of your standard breakfast if it is inconvenient or difficult to change to a different cuisine entirely. The 2 must be different in style and content from what you are currently having already. Check the wikipedia article on breakfasts for a brief summary of what everyone else in the world is eating. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast#Typical_breakfasts_by_world_regions

Third, you must come up with 2 of your own breakfast sets. One of them should be as complete as possible and must be truly satisfying. This means no skimping on ingredients or prep work, even if it means waking up half an hour earlier to prepare ingredients! It has to be an absolutely delightful meal. The second should be an easy to prepare meal that you can enjoy and prepare every morning before you go to school but is still nutritious, sumptuous and most importantly HEARTY! This one should be inexpensive and really easy to do. Bonus points if you can make parts of it edible on the go. Once you have come up with these, don't be selfish! Share it with your friends who are malnourished and sickly in the mornings. Better yet, prepare parts of it for your friends and share the love!

Last but not least, no skimping on your own breakfasts! Make sure you take time to enjoy it and savour the wholesomeness and pleasure of a Hearty Breakfast.

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day so make the best of it.

Eat well and prosper,
Breakfast Meister Wang.

¹Terms and conditions apply.

SALAD DAYS: 16th September 2007 - 22nd September 2007

I DECLARE TODAY SALAD DAY!

Sam Peckinpah had his Salad Day, so why can't manlymen?

So for salad day, everyone is obliged to eat a leaf of healthy food! Preferably uncooked and with a generous splosh (a word I made up because it rolls off the tongue nicely) of dressing. I recommend Russian, but I'm weird that way.

To whet your appetite, I present to you images of nice and healthy salads shamelessly stolen off the wikimedia foundation!

Here's a nice and wholesome Cold Meat Salad. It gets 8 for featuring meat! God knows we can do with a nice cold sausage now. That and the olive oil drizzle to go with the raspberry.















How about a nice salad platter with cheese and broiled peppers? This one gets a 7 because it looks cute and because I can identify the cheese. Lol. Try guessing it yourself! Answer is at the bottom of the page. Don't peek! Even if I don't know, the great pink unicorn in the sky would and he frowns upon such deceit.



This next one is just an ordinary green salad. Not very impressive. Even the cutlery is quite plain. Plus, the image is titled "SaladShy.jpg" No one likes a coy salad. We want our salads proud and loud! If you have it flaunt it! What's the point of being firm and supple if you're just going to hide behind the celery? We want dressing that is provocative, definitive, strong, aggressive. Sexy but not necessarily raunchy. Coquettish but not too slutty. If you want to be demure, you should have considered being a soup or a bouillabaisse or something like that. I heard cabbage cucumber stews are doing well. Bugger off and take your diffident ways with you. This one gets a 2.5. Only saving grace is the pretty little orange flower.



That's all the pictures I could find on the wikipedia article on salads, unfortunately. So that's the end of my introduction to salad days.

I feel obliged to deal with the fact that yes, indeed, the term salad days does refer to a period of youthful innocence blah blah and all that crap. Bollocks. Food is food. Food should not mix with sex. Except if you're experimenting with *censored*. But that's another story for another time.

For those of you who tried the little guessing game, good for you! The answer is of course, Greek feta. It doesn't have veins, so it's not a blue. It has a nice white solid structure, so it's probably a curd cheese. The slightly grainy texture suggests maybe brynzda, but in the context of the salad and the serving manner (small cubes), feta is a better answer.

Be healthy and prosper!
Salad Meister Wang.