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| Pickled herring with oat sourdough |
Breakfast: Missed
Lunch: Rolled oats with coconut, raisin, sunflower seeds and flax seeds
Dinner: Pickled herring with oat sourdough, pickled carrots, rolled oats with coconut and raisin, peanut butter sandwich
Baking/sweets:
I went to bed after 5 in the morning and by the time I woke up it was lunch time. So breakfast shifted to lunch and lunch became dinner. And it was a pickled herring fest for dinner. The herring with the lighter colored sauce had fish roe/caviar. It was excellent, the caviar giving a nice fishy boost to the already fishy herring.
Today's Favourite Photo
Chong Qing Deep-fried Chicken – just looking at the chillies is making me salivate
Today’s Favourite Blog
An interesting article discussing the impact food has on the environment. Some interesting facts:
- Pollution caused by meat production is greater than the pollution caused from cars, planes and all other forms of transport put together.
- Raising cattle requires lot of water. The more efficient systems use 1,500 gallons of water to produce a single pound of beef while inefficient systems use up to 12,000 gallons
- About one fifth of pastures and ranges have turned to desert because of overgrazing
- A meat-eating dog has the same carbon footprint as a gas guzzling SUV
- The greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution from producing one kilogram of beef is the same as three hours of driving
- Twenty vegetarians could live on the same amount of land as one meat-eater
- 220 Billion gallons of hormone-, antibiotic- and bacteria-laden animal waste is dumped onto farmland and into waterways from meat factory farms.
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What amazing facts from Care2! Your lunch looks good and that deep fried chicken is such a wonderful color.
ReplyDeletei also salivate when look at that tempting plate of fried chicken ^^
ReplyDeleteYou had me at Deep Fried Chicken - sounds delish.
ReplyDeleteOOooohhhhh, i love the deep fried chicken! I ate lots of these when i was working in Shanghai quite a while back. Very Interesting facts you've shared too and the figures are quite astounding!
ReplyDeleteThat chicken is just: wooow!
ReplyDeleteEven though it looks luscious, this time I don't suffer looking at your herrings: I have a jar of pickled herrings in the fridge ;-)
ReplyDeleteI have recently bought a jar of herring roe and think of putting it into maki rolls..
I like this one: "A meat-eating dog has the same carbon footprint as a gas guzzling SUV". Even though most people will say reading all this points: "we should eat less beef", I would say "let's eat better quality and more expensive beef", the amounts will fall drastically. (And this applies especially to the last point: good quality cow doesn't receive hormones or antibiotics and doesn't develop strange illness or bacteria).
I am not a big fan of beef. Apart from steak tartare, beef dishes could practically disappear for me (I would easily substitute my meat dishes with pork, chicken or lamb). Does it mean I have and ecological palate ? ;-)
That chongqing chicken looks spicy and tasty!
ReplyDeleteThe chicken looks delicious. I'm interested in your facts re : meat - although I have just posted a steak recipe - I am in constant conflict with myself over eating meat!
ReplyDeleteMary
Boy, you're not kidding! That chicken is totally droolable :)
ReplyDeletehahaha my friends always get the jalapeno chicken! chilis are even hotter and spicier!
ReplyDeleteElaine: it does look very delicious, it really made me salivate!
ReplyDeleteSonia: great taste buds react alike!
Gourmet Chick: deep fried chicken – always an attraction I suppose
Sylvia: unfortunately I haven’t eaten it in a very long while. Need to satisfy myself by looking at the photo and imagining!
Marina: it is!
Sissi: I am happy for you! I have never heard of herring roe, maybe I have but didn’t realize it came from herring. Now I am curious. I agree, trying to encourage people to eat less beef is perhaps not a sustainable solution. I think slowly with growing awareness of ecological etc more and more people might be consuming higher priced beef and other meats. Yes you have a very ecological palate because other animals don’t produce any pollution:)
Angie: it does
Mary: the facts were for information and I am sure it will influence us in some way at some point
Parsley Sage: exactly, totally!
Junia: and even more addictive, even if we struggle with the heat we still continue eating
Me too just the chillies alone make me salivate
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