Ailbhe's really great!

She got the cover of the Irish Independent! 

Go HERE to read her interview with grime puppy Chipmunk.

Peanut Butter and Tomato Sandwiches.

Ah the taste of my youth! I love PB&T and until recently i thought that only the small few of us that grew up with hippie parents, the small few whose sources of protein had to be non meat - at least for a time, the small few who knew what it was to have to stir up the peanut butter to get the oil and solids to combine (ah Meridian whole foods). 

But apparently there are many of us! Peanut Butter Boy  recognises the glory,  as does The Natural Health Circus, more tellingly the huge chains of comments on these blogs attesting to the wonder of that nutty salad goodness, and the persecution we PB&T fans have suffered over the years. One commenter for example:

Sorry, but as a PROFESSIONAL CHEF, and the SENIOR ADVISER at the SeriousEats website, I think that your PB & tomato on toast is disgusting. 

Louise,

Clearwater Beach, FL 33767

Aggressively anti PB&T, aggression born of fear of the new? hmm? don't want to upset the status quo? hmm? why so angry louise? threatened? I know there's plenty like me who love the combo and are delighted to find like minds,

I can't believe I'm seeing this--someone else who eats peanut butter and tomato sandwiches! 

And some have been converted:

 I mean I love peanut butter and tomato both, but together..that just sounded disgusting. But once I took the leap and tried it...I was hooked. 

So why the resistance? Why do so many find it so odd, or weird, or downright disgusting? it's not like peanuts are inherently sweet, why should jam have the prerogative of accompaniment in chief? you wouldn't insist that a packet of salted peanuts come with a dipping tub of jam, would you? WOULD YOU? no. i didn't think so. besides, tomatoes, if they're good ones, are kinda sweet, (which is why i like to add a sprinkle of salt to my PB&Ts). I would urge everyone in the strongest possible terms to try the combo at least once.

So here's what's in my perfect PB&T:

1 thick slice of whole meal bread - the dense homemade kind is best

Crunchy peanut butter

1 good ripe red tomato sliced thickly

a big pinch of salt.

YUM.

Best Indian food I've had outside India.

Jai Krishna on Stroud Green Road. holy fahk it was good. I nearly cried! We had bhelpuri, Samosa, Bhajis, Chutney, Chilli Paneer, Sweet Lassi, Spice Aloo, Brinjal Curry, Chappati, and Puri, oh my oh my my my it was good. Everything was perfect and we had plenty to take home for lunch. 

Jai Krishna is a properly proper little place, pure veg, no alcohol (byob) family run, idiosyncratic portioning, a thali for one for 6.50? yes please. 

Will. Be. Back.

Snicker cake.

junk foods nom nom

Are you insane Microsoft?

Or just willfully stupid? You cannot magic love for your product by cobbling together a rag-tag group of individuals in some cosy kitchen, throwing in some pie and forced banter, and inviting the general public to follow suit. This video is so awful that I had trouble believing it could possibly be real, it must be some clever viral campaign I thought, a delightfully ironic satire on your reputation for being desperately, laceratingly. uncool. But no. apparently this is, in fact, serious. you do, in fact, expect people to follow suit, with pie and forced banter. In return for a free copy of your hasty replacement for an operating system that has been roundly abhorred.

And WHO did you pay to do this to your few tiny little tattered shreds of credibility? This is poorly cast, lit, scripted, edited, and mixed. Do they not understand the concept of continuity?

I would be disappointed if i thought you could do any better.

Saturday in the park.

Go to Green Lanes!

It's amazing, and there's a food festival on this Sunday 20th from 11-5, the street will be closed off between the railway bridge at Williamson Road to the junction with Warham Road. Food stalls, music, dancing, yum!

It is going to be epic.

I'm Over THERE

Blogging on fill-ums

GO!

My new Blog

I'm starting a blog that's actually about something. Films to be precise. so yet another self indulgent ex-film student will shortly be cluttering up the interwebs with her silly nonsense.

That said... you should go read it...