American Celebrity Chef Gets Diabetes
American celebrity city, Paula Deen, has just announced she has diabetes, like 26,000,000 other Americans. Apparently, her signature dish is a hamburger in between a doughnut. Enough said! And very gluten-rich too!
But she has got a deal to endorse a diabetes drug.
The United States is eating itself to being a has-been power. And helped by her recipes! She should be kept away from the media for ever, as she is probably doing as much damage to the population of the United States as your average terrorist.
In a few years time, they won’t be able to find enough fit people to play any serious sport or join the army.
Who Drank All the Beer?
Police in North London have arrested several fellons in possession of about 1,000 beer kegs according to this report.
The report doesn’t say whether the kegs were empty or not, but the police are looking for a several overweight men, who are very drunk.
An Insult In My Recycling Bin
Thursday is recycyling day and I didn’t bother to get my recycling bin in. So someone put a present in it.
An Insult In My Recycling Bin
It was a half-eaten steak pie. Is this a deliberate insult as obviously the junk food isn’t gluten-free? They could have put it in my wheelie bin for general rubbish, as that was actually next to the other bin. But they would have had to lift the lid!
If we assume it wasn’t a deliberate insult, it just goes to show that those eating junk food have few manners and feel it is their right to throw the remains anywhere.
It’s a pity that the pie didn’t have a name on it, as I would have someone to sue, if I felt the effort worthwhile.
Never Buy A House That’s Had Tenants In it!
When I bought my house about eighteen months ago, I liked it. I also got a good discount as it needed some work, as the tenants who’d occupied it on behalf of the previous owner hadn’t looked after it.
I still like it, but the faults in the various systems are a complete pain in the neck.
The cooker put in by the previous owner is totally unsuitable.
An Unsuitable Cooker
In common with every other appliance, there are no instruction manuals, but the biggest problem is that it is too big and stops the doors of the kitchen cupboards opening properly. It’s also a gas cooker, which I hate and the sooner, I can get rid of it and fit a proper electric cooker the better. To be fair to Baumatic, they did at least send me a manual, but that doesn’t help with its unsuitability.
The dishwasher has been wrecked and although it is a good make and I have the knowledge to make it work, I have decided that the best option is to get a new one, as all the baskets and shelves are broken and to get everything clean, you need to wash half the glasses and plates by hand afterwards.
But my biggest moan with the house is the underfloor heating system. When nPower fitted the new meter, they advised me to service the boiler which I did. It also needed a new control system, as the previous owner or the tenants had rewired things themselves.
It now works very intermittently, with the result the house is either stone cold or frighteningly hot. In cold weather, I have to ratchet up the controls and switch the boiler off and on to get any heat.
At least I’ve got hot water, although for the last few days the showers haven’t worked. I thought today, I’d have a bath, and I did, but then the water didn’t run out. Although to be fair it did eventually.
I can’t wait to sell my house in Suffolk, so I can get someone in to fix it all here properly.
I lost count of the number of times, I’ve phoned plumbers and they’ve said they’ll come and haven’t. But then there isn’t much work about!
I do have one worry about the heating and that is the problem might be that the house wasn’t very well insulated by Gerry the builder. So is heating the house, is a bit like pushing water uphill?
Roll on the spring, when I can switch it off.
Eating Healthily On The Cheap
The Government has got together with Ainsley Harriott to promote healthy eating on the cheap.
Where I live in Hackney my letter box is stuffed full of money off vouchers for kebab and burger houses.
This campaign will fail, unless the problem of junk food is addressed.
Perhaps the rates on all unhealthy eating places should be increased.
The Carluccio Soft Food Diet
My after-care instruction sheet after the tooth extraction, said I should only eat soft food for a few days.
At home it’s been soup, yoghurt and honey, but the staple has been Carluccio’s.
By choosing wisely from their menu, I’ve ate well and haven’t had any problems. I think there should be some measure of praise here to the dentists, who seemed to have got the tooth out without collateral damage. They said they might have created some, but I don’t think they did.
In general in Carluccio’s I’ve stuck to eggs and mushrooms and gluten free pasta carbonara. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
They’ve also given me warm water, so I can rinse my mouth with salted water, after eating.
Will I Look Like This If I Eat Beautiful?
I took this picture at the Angel in Islington.
Eat Beautiful
So if when the restaurant opens and I eat there, will I get to look like one of these lovelies?
Checking the web site of the company, itsu, it would appear they are being honest about allergies.
Reading the menu though, I doubt it will increase my 30 inch waist much. It’s been that ever since I left University and the doctor in Hong Kong, thought that my core strength helped me survive the stroke. I’m beginning to doubt that, as I think the stroke wasn’t as bad as it was painted at the time and they gave me the super-duper clot-busting drip in time.
Starbucks Stop Gluten-Free Sandwiches I Like
Starbucks are my reserve, if I get hungry. They had a very acceptable chicken sandwich.
But they’ve now replaced it with one of cheese and coleslaw.
I hate coleslaw, so when I was offered it, it went down badly with me and I left the shop hungry.
I also like meat and fish and the number of cheese sandwiches I’ve eaten in sixty-four years is probably less than half a dozen.
The Non-Availability of M&S Sandwiches
Travelling if you are a coeliac has always been difficult and now, if you are leaving London it is a lot easier, as you can get very good sandwiches at the M&S Simply Food stores in the capital.
But despite what it says on the M & S website, sandwiches are not available in any station outside the South East. The only station, where I’ve found them is Cambridge, but as the city doesn’t feature on my itinerary, that isn’t much help, especially, as I know the city well and can get proper meals in several places there.
I also got the impression from a couple of stores, like Swansea and Exeter, that there isn’t much demand for the sandwiches outside London. Incidentally, I’ve only found sandwiches at three stores outside London and the South East. Manchester and Liverpool had two and Meadowhall had one.
I only ask one thing of M&S. Let’s have the web site in-line with the stores. For instance, I was told in one place, by the manager of a station store, which was a franchise, that he would not be stocking the sandwiches. But the website says otherwise.
Cough Sweets
AS a child, I used to have the occasional bag of cough candy twists? Are the still available? And are they still made with proper sugar? It just seems that since the takeover of Cadbury by Kraft, a lot of their brands seem to be disappearing. I haven’t seen any mint imperials in months for a start. Or Halls menthlyptus either!
Let’s face it, Kraft’s most famous product, Cheese Slices, is something, that no-one with any sense of quality about food would ever eat.
On the subject of sweets though, I don’t even eat much chocolate these days. Things like small Green and Blacks bars don’t seem to be around anymore!
The Anonymous Widower 