As well as the blog map challenge, I've been thinking about what to do for this month's food related Star Trek Art Challenge, and a couple of ideas* have sprung to mind, but I've been too busy and hot to do anything about them. As I don't have any plans this weekend, and the traditional Great British Summertime is due to reestablish itself with a vengeance (temperatures in the bearable low 20s, with lots of rain and storms), I'm hoping to ensconce myself in the kitchen and work on them.
In the meantime, I've discovered that that diabolical cow Delilah Smythe (who had been uncharacteristically quiet of late), has emerged from her cryogenic freezer and reinvented herself as a 23rd century Andorian for an ill-advised comeback...
Delilah - or, should I say, Delila - based this whole book on the infamous blue food from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (featured here [sixth paragraph], with sperm whales mentioned here [in the fourth paragraph down]), which she claims to have created in her seventh autobiography, TV Dinners.
* Cup-and-Saucer-section cakes, TOS Food Cubes (bleeurgh!), and the aforementioned blue food.
How the bejeezlehoop do you find time for your garden and beach rambles?!
ReplyDeleteI do NOT eat blue food. Nope. Never.
I don't! Which is why so may things I start end up rushed and incomplete.
DeleteUnless its dyed, I don't think any food is actually blue. Even blueberries are purple. Blue food is weird, intiguing, and at the same time, strangely repellant.
Open a "pop-up" in achingly-trendy-hipster Shoreditch, and you could sell this Klingon "street food" for astronomical prices to the benighted yoof drawn to the area... Jx
ReplyDeletePS Apparently it was blue-died squid, and only Shatner could eat it (with bribery from the director) - even he threw up.
He did make $240, though! I'd expect to make 100 times that if I opend that pop-up.
DeleteIn this age and day, I find we dont talk enough about baby sperm whales.
ReplyDeleteOr sperm in general. Unless you're MJ, of course. Jx
Delete"Sperm" - so clinical. I prefer SPUME!
DeleteI think the heat has gotten to everyone.
ReplyDeleteBaby blue Royal icing. This is all I'm saying. I am not sure why I am saying it, but there you go.
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We are on the same wave-length, Ms Scarlet, as today, I brought home some fondant icing and blue food colouring!
DeleteDid you not use the fondant icing for your Star Trek masterpiece? Were you going to use it for a dessert??? Questions, questions....????
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I was going to use it to model a small whale if Count Podgkinson didn't have a suitable bath toy, but I may yet use it if I find the time (and inclination) to make cup & saucer-section cakes...
DeleteI had a phase of dying food blue to annoy my mother. Then I started dying the water she was drinking, and dying anything if she made the mistake of leaving it alone.
ReplyDeleteEventually she screamed at me to stop it.
So I dyed a whole bottle of the cider vinegar she drank because I hated it, red.
Actually I think I might be more like my mother than I claim to be.
When your mother screamed at you to stop, was her tongue blue?
DeleteNo, just forked.
DeleteHah ha haa!
DeleteIt must be a primeval instinct we have that repels us from eating blue food, my maid of all work Carmen once served oven chips made from purple potatoes. I struggled.
ReplyDeleteCarmen didn't serve purple carrots too, did she?
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