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| Tuna pasta with blue cheese sauce |
Food Diary (February 07, 2012)
Breakfast: Rolled oats with pear and flax seeds
Lunch: Tuna pasta with blue cheese sauce
Dinner: Steamed veges, sandwiches
Baking/sweets:
This is the first time I tried canned tuna with blue cheese sauce. It went surprisingly well together. It was a cold day here today, which is a good thing because the oil soaked tuna, generously doused with cheese sauce, certainly kept me warm.
On a separate note, I had been facing minor problems uploading photos. Its a blogger issue. I managed to find an excellent solution. In case you are also facing problems, here's what I did. Instead of uploading photos through the compose window, I click on 'Edit HTML', locate where the photo should go and upload. This way is much faster and convenient.
On a separate note, I had been facing minor problems uploading photos. Its a blogger issue. I managed to find an excellent solution. In case you are also facing problems, here's what I did. Instead of uploading photos through the compose window, I click on 'Edit HTML', locate where the photo should go and upload. This way is much faster and convenient.
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Jake's Special Burger: I’ve never seen a bun with so much poppy seeds
Today’s Favourite Blog
Have you heard of North Korean style BBQ, in particular gasoline-baked clams? Its simple, lay a bed of clams on a gravel pit, douse them with gasoline from a bottle and light them on fire. The clams are roasted for 5 minutes. More gasoline is added during the cooking process, if needed.
According to a Japanese tourist who tried this, the clams carry no trace of gasoline and are rather tasty. It was a little undercooked though. Eating undercooked shellfish does carry the risk of bacterial poisoning. The North Koreans always make sure to have a bottle of soju (distilled rice liquor) on hand. According to a North Korean guide, there are some people who become poisoned from eating gas-baked clams and its claimed that it’s the people who didn’t drink soju with their clams who get sick.
I am certainly not advising that you try gasoline BBQ at home. If you try and the results are far from desirable, I would be interested in hearing about it but not accepting any blame or liability. Don't forget the soju, or other high alcohol content liquor.
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I like that all poppyseed bun!
ReplyDeleteIt is certainly attractive looking
DeleteWhoa, gasoline clams. I would stuff that awesome burger in my mouth though!
ReplyDeleteTake care..
Baht looks like a really interesting bun (and a juicy patty too!).
ReplyDeleteIt does for sure
DeleteA hamburger with measles!! How cute!
ReplyDeleteI'd think the people eating gasoline pickled shellfish would be getting poisoned both ways ... from the shellfish and residual gasoline. Besides, don't they have a shortage of gasoline?
A measles burger is cute???:)
DeleteThey say there is no gasoline smell but I guess that does not mean there is no residual gasoline. And its undercooked shellfish, washed down with soju. Talk about triple whammy:)
It seems they don't have shortage of gasoline for BBQ, only shortage for other uses.
Wow thats something new to me, gasoline clams. Looks a bit dodgy to me and I think you will still taste the gasoline from it
ReplyDeleteIt sounds extremely dodgy, and expensive too
DeleteTuna with blue cheese...now THAT is a combo I've never heard of. I wonder if it goes just as well with other fish?
ReplyDeleteIt should, I guess, with most fish anyway
Deletelove the idea of tuna in my pasta. I don't think i have ever done that although i realize it is nothing to new!
ReplyDeleteI don'think its new either but never tried it myself before either
DeleteI love this idea! For me canned tuna is a kind of wonder food: it keeps for ages and is good both warm and cold. I must try your pasta one day. It sounds delicious.
ReplyDeleteAs soon as I saw the words "North Korean" I knew something dodgy would follow... I suppose they drink the alcohol trying to follow the rule saying that a small amount of strong alcohol before the meal kills all the known bacteria and viruses, while a double amount kills even the uknown ones ;-)
Canned tuna is wonderful, far better than canned mussels:) As you say, great warm or cold, cooked or straight from the can
DeleteThats a good rule. I actually asked a friend who is a biochemist and that was his view too - so I try to follow this when travelling in countries with suspect food quality
wow its crazy how creative people can get when cooking food! i am not a big fan of blue cheese, but i am glad that you found the two a tasty combo. thanks for the tip on how to upload on blogger. i haven't had an issue uploading on blogger lately - only on facebook!
ReplyDeleteCreative alright!
DeleteIt was a very tasty combo
Funny I went to a Korean BBQ restaurant this pas Friday, we cooked our mussels on the regular burner...no gasoline in sight. Soju is just great, period.
ReplyDeleteBoring, just a regular burner. Next time ask for gasoline BBQ, but outside:)
DeleteI haven't made pasta with tuna for a long time. Thanks for sharing - I just got some inspiration from your delicious pasta~~! Hmmm gasoline BBQ. Some people are creative about how to prepare food. =)
ReplyDeleteI also heard the other day that the most fire-related injuries come from people adding gasoline to start bon fires. Perhaps they are trying to make those clams!
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