Are you a picker?

[island_sands]

As i was preparing a snack for dinner tonight.. my hands wandered.

My desire... to prepare something succulent for dinner has disappeared and replaced by the need for something simple and quick, like a can of beans and sausages..

while that's heating up in the microwave.. the hands reach out to the smooth handle of the refrigerator... pull it gently while the eyes rove up and down..

some long thin skin coloured objects protrude from a box.. ah... grissini (italian breadsticks..) what a snack in between snack find.. and extremely more delicious after being dipped into the jar of Hellman's mayonnaise..mmmmm

2 minutes more of slow heating required... so the eyes wander again... this time into the flip lip of the dairy tray.. there is something interesting wrapped in greaseproof paper.. ah yes... pate' de fois gras... oh my....

now we are talking... mmm chunks of pate de fois can be cut off and spread on too the end of the grissini... and savoured...

pull the beans out of the microwave and they are just a tad hot to eat.. leave to cool a while and what's that?

a semi-brown and green object in a bag.. oh a hass avocado just waiting to be eaten.. a bit of salt and vinegar and its' gone in seconds...

is picking an obession.. or is it a love of food in general.. or am i just obsessed with taste and aromas of food as it dances on the palate?

Are you a picker?

 

[Oldsarge]

Even when fridge-grazing I at least use the contents for a complete dish. Otherwise I'd nibble myself into a beach ball. I'm too close to that already.

 

[sinkweight]

I pick at my parent's house. For some reason, anything that gets put in my fridge for later consumption gets removed weeks later under the protection of rubber gloves and a P100 filtered respirator.

I can whip up some pretty handy scratch food. Night before last, conditions were just right for some rehehated chicken, I reduced a bit of butter, brown sugar, balsamic, and pomegranite juice in a pan and simmered it with a spare jar of artichoke hearts, and canned sliced green olives. I used my last bit of ground sumac to top it off (it pays to keep private stash of curry and other exotic spices at friends' or relatives' houses...in case you feel the need to scrounge for scraps in their fridge, ha ha)

 

[DeepThought]

Did you happen to smoke some suspicious smelling cigarettes just before? that could explain a lot...

 

[Merlin]

I have to be careful what I "pick" from my refrigerator. I have it subdivided into the 1 week old, 2 week old, and so on (you dont want to know how far it goes....). It's like playing russian roulette at every snack....ahhh college life

 

[crusty]

I used to be a picker but my wife got so pissed of with me emptying the contents of the Fridge 2 days after she shopped she stopped buying picking food, so now its food i have to cook to eat, lots of fruit or the kids Stuff.
Its not a bad idea the old guts get a bit fat after a few weeks of Grazing
Mind you if i look hard enough i can useually find her Chocolate stash and some things are worth taking a beating for.

Crusty

 

[Poida]

Experts on diet say that it is better to eat small snacks during the day, rather than 3 large meals a day.

The reason being is that your body cannot expend all of the calories from a large meal, the remainder that it can not burn straight away, goes into fat storage.

It is better so they say to eat small snacks during the day so your body can metabolise all of the calories as you go leaving no calories to store as fat.

So Sandi it is probably better if you pretend you are cooking. Put an empty baking dish in the oven, put the timer to 30 minutes. By the time the timer has gone off you will have had enough to eat.

That was a pile of trollop.

Anyway what I do is pick on the things I am making a meal with especially when I am making a salad. As I knock off before my wife I usually make dinner. When I am cutting up the salad, I may put some cheese on the plates and then cut a bit more off and eat it. Celery, there is always enough on the plate when there is half a stick left so I gobble that, the ends off the tomatoes, in fact just about every thing I cut up there is a bit left for the chef. Roast lamb, usually I pick after dinner, there's the bone, nibble on that, always a bit of extra crackling after a pork roast.

Yep I reckon picking tastes better than the main meal.

 

[naiad]

I have to be careful what I "pick" from my refrigerator. I have it subdivided into the 1 week old, 2 week old, and so on (you dont want to know how far it goes....). It's like playing russian roulette at every snack....ahhh college life

A few weeks ago I was working at an office where nobody ever thought of clearing out the fridge. There was some seriously old stuff, such as fermenting fizzy drinks under high pressure and mould-covered sandwiches from last year. I knew things were getting bad when I found myself automatically holding my breath before opening the fridge to get my lunch. After several weeks I decided that something had to be done, so I carefully decompressed the fizzy drinks and carried everything to the bin at arms length.

Look before you pick!

Lucia

 

[Adrian]

I knew things were getting bad when I found myself automatically holding my breath before opening the fridge to get my lunch.

You blew it Lucia! didn't you realize that that was a perfect opportunity to practice apnea?