The VGT Omnivore's Hundred

1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating. (I can't figure out how to cross out...so they're in italics)
4) Optional extra: Post a comment here at http://www.verygoodtaste.co.uk/ linking to your results.

The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred:
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borsch
t10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet Pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O (Jello shots!)
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a 3-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

Vanilla Yoghurt - recipe 1

Success with this recipe, so here it is:

1L UHT skim milk (fresh milk then it has to be heated before using in a yoghurt machine)
1 cup skim milk powder
1/2 cup sugar (or sweetner)
4g ground vanilla bean powder - probably a bit too much, especially when you see the brown! you could get away with just 1g sachet
1 tub yoghurt for the active ingredients

1. Mix all ingredients
2. Fill yoghurt pots in incubator and set for 12 hours

Result: creamy but not stiff yoghurt.

Success

Well, the vanilla yoghurt worked! Creamy yoghurt after 12 hours incubating time. I used skim milk so next time we'll try trim milk and we might get a more solid yoghurt like le Niortais likes. Oh, and yes, the vanilla bean powder simply mixed in to the yoghurt itself and tasted just fine in the end, despite that weird brown covering ;)

Homemade Yoghurt

This is my latest toy - a yoghurt maker I bought in the new year sales online from 3 suisses. This is the very first batch of yoghurt that should be ready about 7am tomorrow. It was pretty easy to make, so I'm just hoping that it turns out ok!The only slightly worrying thing is that brown on the top of the yoghurt. But don't worry, it's actually powdered vanilla bean...which I thought had been mixed in. Obviously not. I will have to try vanilla extract in the future, but the thought of vanilla bean yoghurt was just too tempting!! I have written down my recipe so that I can tweak it in the future as I know that plain natural yoghurt is definitely too boring for me!

Snow Falling!

Seeing snow fall for the first time ever!

Yes, I had seen snow before (only twice) but this is the first time I've seen it falling!

Je deviens Catherinette

Well, here I am on the eve of my 25th birthday and have just found out about a lovely old French tradition where unmarried 25+ year olds have a special type of hat - une Catherinette or coiffer Sainte-Catherine to wear and a special fête in order to 'speed up' their likelihood of marrying soon. Apparently if I'm still unmarried on the 25th of November this year then I get to wear a ridiculous hat too. Unfortunately the PACS doesn't date back to the middle ages where this tradition comes from, so are Pacs-ed women included in the married or unmarried bunch? I'm guessing it's like the no change of surnames and we rest in the unmarried bunch.

I feel old.