Food!

[Simon]

----Original Message From: pengolodh_sc at ...:
In general I found that American cooking was VERY different from Norwegian
cooking.  In Norway, breakfast is some slices of bread (the type made with
whole wheat, among other things) with cheese, spreads or meats, and milk
and/or juice.  Norwegian home-made bread tends to contain more fiber per
mouthful than a whole loaf of bread from a US store.  My first breakfast in
Kentucky was waffles with powdered sugar and butter, with toast and
sausage, and grape-fruit juice.  My digestive system needed a week to
adjust ;-)

 In all, you had less than 5 minutes to eat, if you bought lunch at shchool
(which cost $1.40 (ca. 1.20) for main dish, two side-orders, soft-drink
and dessert (popsicle most oftenly) - all of dubious quality; only
university-food is worse).
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Ah breakfast, that first meal of the day. I have got into the bad habit of
not having any and then just having a larger lunch to compensate. I really
do not cope well with eating early in the mornings, or maybe I should write
that I just do not cope with mornings. The full fry up (bacon, sausages,
egg, tomato, mushroom and various other stuff - almost all of it fried!) is
a very good breakfast, but unhealthy. Hence I do like to have such stuff,
but do not eat it too often.


Some of my university food is ok. It is actually a shock to find someone
who actually can cook decent food in such an institution. Then again the
person I am talking about is only cooking for the residents of two small
accommodation blocks (about 125 people in total of which about 40 eat
dinner here) and so has an easier time of making the food edible and nice.
Having said he cooks decent food I then remember that I have only eaten one
meal he has cooked all year, preferring instead to cook my own food.


I seem to have volunteered to cook pizzas for about 15 people next
Wednesday. How do I manage it?


Have just been reading all the stuff ont eh foot and mouth outbreak. It
does not look good. I was not pleased when I noted that the major outbreak
of '67, I remember it so well being as I was 12 at the time, took 9 months
to be stopped. Going home will not be good if they are burning animals - I
live in a rural area.
Also I may have to become a vegetarian for a while. I am not sure I will
cope! Or at least I will have to expand my limited vegetarian recipes
collection.


Simon
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