Your favorite foods/drinks

[jedusor]

Day 01 - Introduce yourself
Day 02 – Your first love
Day 03 – Your parents
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Day 05 – Your definition of love
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Day 07 – Your best friend
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Day 15 – Something you love about yourself
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Day 22 – Something that upsets you
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Day 24 – Something that makes you cry
Day 25 – Your sleeping habits
Day 26 – Your fears
Day 27 – Your favorite place
Day 28 – Something that you miss
Day 29 – Your favorite foods/drinks
Day 30 – Your aspirations

I love fresh produce, just short of ripe; tomatoes, avocados, oranges, peaches, artichokes. I love garlic and red onions. I love almost all South Asian and Middle Eastern cuisine, and Italian, and sushi (it's still sushi if it doesn't have fish in it, despite what a surprising number of people have tried to tell me). I love olive oil and spicy mustard and Marukan seasoned rice vinegar. I love starchy foods, but only when they're flavored well. I love basil and cumin and lemon pepper and kosher salt.

As far as drinks go, I have a long-lasting and deep-rooted love affair with Newman's Own pink lemonade. I also like Silk's flavored soy milks, especially chocolate and Silk Nog. I usually order cranberry juice at restaurants and on airplanes, because it's basically the only fruit juice I can trust not to be artificially sweetened. (Minute Maid is disgusting.) Sometimes I'll do tomato juice or V8. I also love coconut juice, although I don't drink it all that often because it usually comes in single-serving cans.

My alcoholic drink of choice is Malibu coconut rum. It was too strong for me at first, so I drank it mixed with orange juice until I was eighteen or so, but now I prefer it straight. I like mojitos and other rum-based cocktails; I'm not big on vodka. I'm also fond of white wine and almost any kind of liqueur, particularly Kahlua. I've tasted really good scotch and brandy, and while I wouldn't drink them on a regular basis, they're good for a treat.

I like cooking, as anyone who reads this blog already knows. I'm slowly building up a good pantry here. I'm actually thinking of making banana bread tonight. Mmm...

Comments

[mh75.livejournal.com]

randomly, did you know that there is a PCC on the corner of Winona and 99? Should be about a mile or so walk from you. (natural food coop)

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

I did not! I'll have to check that out sometime.

[hahathor.livejournal.com]

FWIW, sushi comes from su, the Japanese word for vinegar (transliterated, obviously) and shi, the word for rice. The rice can be topped by anything, wrapped in or around anything, etc and it's still sushi. If there's no rice, it ain't sushi - if it's raw fish it's sashimi.

I don't normally bother correcting people, as there's a certain meaning shift that normally happens when words migrate into English (I don't write in my journal daily, and it's still a newspaper in my mind even if it's digital). But Christ, when people correct you for using the word properly. Feh!

[jeffurrynpl.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that! In Turkish, su means water.

[justme8800.livejournal.com]

Yes! (Well, if you really want to get technical, the word for rice it's derived from is meshi, but yeah, that's what sushi means.)

That said, you'd be surprised at how deeply the sushi=fish conflation runs, even in Japan. While I was there, when I'd mention that I didn't eat fish but liked sushi, people would look at me perplexed until I pointed out some common types of vegetarian sushi. Then they'd go "oh yeah, I guess sushi doesn't really have to have fish, huh" as if that were the first time it had occurred to them.

Although, you can hardly blame them. We've got plenty of our own less than obvious portmanteaus. Try these on for size:

Cyborg

Motel

Smog

Squiggle

Bit

Pixel

Sitcom

If you got all of those no problem, treat yourself to some sushi. :D

Answers:

Cybernetic organism, motor hotel, smoke fog, squirm wiggle, binary digit, picture element, situational comedy.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's what I tell them.

Now I want sushi. Mm.