Thursday, September 22, 2011

What We've Been Missing 6: a digression

From time to time, on stumbling feet made careless by regret, we visit the culinary heights we have forsworn. (Our most recent installment of similar bounty, from nearly a year ago, is here.) What riches could our tongue be sampling! What delights for the eye and palate! Instead of these clever morsels, to content ourselves with such paltry, dirt-grown fare. When we could be tasting all of this!

Like these swollen joints, these bloated, bulbous, stuffed, and ruptured pipkes!








Or this Hawaiian... stuff. It's called kālua pork, meaning that it's cooked in an underground oven. Special wood is burned in a pit, stones are added for heat retention, and the pit is lined with banana leaves. Then the meat is added, covered with more leaves, burlap, and sand, and the whole thing cooks for hours and hours.


When the result is as scrumptious (?) as the image to the left, it's clearly worth all the trouble.






 Presentation is everything.




















The simplest things are sometimes the most tempting. Such as these slabs of canned meat fried atop a tough, rubbery skin of scrambled eggs and topped with viscous ketchup!

9 comments:

Bianca said...

Grody! Especially those joints or whatever they are! How can people eat that nastiness?

Anonymous said...

Isn't the third picture from the last one garnished with an oleander flower? Is that even safe?

한국야동 said...

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Anonymous said...

إذا كنت تبحث عن أرخص شركة لتسليك المجاري في الدمام، فمن المهم مراعاة عوامل متعددة إلى جانب السعر لضمان الحصول على خدمة جيدة. شركة صقور الجزيرة رائدة في هذا المجال

ارخص شركة تسليك مجاري بالدمام

Anonymous said...

مؤسسة الخير لخدمات العزل
شركة عزل مطابخ بالرياض

Anonymous said...

شركة امان لمكافحة جميع انواع الحشرت والتخلص منها نهائيا
شركة مكافحة الرمة

Anonymous said...

اذا كنت في احتياج شركة تنظيف خزانات فشركة كلين بيور هي الخيار الامثل شركة تنظيف خزانات