Tag: Protein
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Which chicken to buy if you have a choice?
Just a quick post in response to an episode of River Cottage recently repeated on TV. The protein-to-fat content in three types of chicken was compared. The three types of chicken were: the bog-standard cheapo that takes up most of the supermaket shelves, corn-fed RSPCA-approved that gets a bit of space, and free-range organic that only gets a…
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Travelling with hope and a thermos
There is a rhythm to travelling. The new and the unknown, often the reasons for leaving the safe and familiar, merely punctuate that rhythm. The train wheels along the rails. The white lines alongside the car. Even the unevenly spaced stops and stations generate their own routine. Against this, the body’s routines are sometimes out of…
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Protein – Baked Ricotta
Have you ever eaten something that tasted like dead ants? Well, that’s not quite the way to describe it. Dead ants have a particular smell and sometimes food tastes like that smell. This was the hallmark of my first encounter with baked ricotta. It was very disconcerting for the hostess to have her food associated…
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Fish from the farmers’ market
. We waited up at night for the men to come home from their camping trip. They often didn’t get back until quite late and those of us in the next generation old enough to stay awake did so. There was the excitement of that “Dad’s home” moment plus our fascination with the damp hessian…
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Protein – Got to eat more of it
The two wafer-thin slices supposedly contained essential tissue building and repairing goodness. However, the sliced roast beef looked like it couldn’t build or repair anything. Was it a waste of money putting such minimal slices of protein on my sandwich? In this year’s search for efficient eating, I started with questioning how well I was…
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Protein – Fish
The portable black and white television, purchased by my Mum from Kmart for $99 in 1982, will soon no longer work. The regional switch over to digital is but a few months away. This delightful styling that sits on my fridge, creating a portal to two of the five non-digital channels, will soon fall silent.…
Cherrie Zell 