Jessica’s Neighborhood

Nicked from minimania.

alcohol: Gin and tonics. Guinness. Strongbow cider. Single malt Scotch. (Recent addition) - Misterio Malbec (cheap AND good!)
believe in god?: Believe in something. Perhaps not exactly "God", in the Judeo-Christian sense.
chocolate: Dark and bitter, the bitterer the better... but I have a soft spot for white chocolate as well, even though as it was put in a short play in this spring's Asphalt Jungle, "White chocolate is like -- cheese slices!"
d&d character: I used to play mostly Rangers.
eggs: Perfect in so many ways.
food: Spicy. Complicated. Exploring cultures through food.
gemstone: Amethyst.
hairdresser: I have no hairdresser loyalty; I speed-date hairdressers.
icecream: Currently PC "Cream First" vanilla with chocolate splinters.
jeans: Questionable and torturing item of clothing. Usually Silvers, after lots of tedious failed dressing-room shimmies.
karaoke choice: The only time I ever sang at karaoke, I chose (from a List of Lame) Red Hot Chili Peppers' Under the Bridge. It was in totally the wrong key for me.
i want 100Mb Internet access to my home: I have high-speed at present; it is sufficient.
left or right handed: Right. Except when throwing things; my aim is marginally better (although not good) with my left hand.
music: Lots of everything. I've recently been listening to Sweatshop Union, Ute Lemper and Satie.
nationality: Canadian and British.
operating system: Windows, with aspirations to move to Mac. I'm saving.
perfume: Jo Malone's Wild Fig & Cassis.
my mp3 player is a: Creative Zen 8GB Microphoto. I've also got a Creative Stone for running. The Stone is tetchy.
quest: Creativity and freedom.
rant: Bad spelling, and people who take Twilight seriously.
seafood: Is awesome. I haven't been able to form a real relationship with octopi and squids as food, though.
twitter: Tweetdeck at home. Usually just web.
uncontrollable urge to: Blow everything and go into the wilds.
vice: Laziness.
what i wear to work: Clothing that is far too trendy and peculiar.
x-men character: Storm.
yesterday i: Got up, took pictures of our Civic Square for an ad I'm doing, went to work, went to a piano lesson, came home, had supper, transferred the photos off my camera to a memory stick, lay down "for a minute" and went to sleep. And slept for twelve hours, interrupted only by the Creative Genius coming to bed with a migraine, moaning about it until I sleepily convinced him to take an Advil, going and taking an Advil, doing a Pain Dance around the bed, coming to bed, and begging me to rub his head. Then I fell asleep again.
zodiac sign: A lot of Pisces.

Oh, my word, poor neglected Voxblog, how lonely you have been. I've been... well, unmotivated best describes it. Ah, let's not get into it. Instead, a Meme. This is the Omnivore's Hundred. "Bold what you've eaten, and strike through what you'd never eat." I like food.

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea - I have Women's Issues, and a nice tea of nettles and raspberry leaf, perhaps with some catnip, can be just the thing, if you want to try it.
3. Huevos rancheros - Oh hell yes. There used to be a breakfast place across from the bus station, called Southside Johnny's, run by Mexican immigrants, who served the most awesome all-day huevos ever. Handmade tortillas and their own salsa, people. I still remember it, eighteen years after it closed.
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding - at my grandparents' house in Ireland. I was twelve. I don't remember much about it.
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht - I adore a good borscht, hot or cold. I make a nice one, too.
10. Baba ghanoush - Is there anyone who hasn't had this staple of the appetiser table, these days?
11. Calamari - several times, and I still don't like it.
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart - ha! Was eating these nightly last week, at the Magnetic North bar in the SAW club. After a show... there with a drink... there was this hot dog vendor... it's midnight...
16. Epoisses "Epoisses what? Oh, cheese." And yes, I have. I remember it being a feature of at least one Cheese Tray from the Fancy Deli, a couple years back.
17. Black truffle - and white, yes.
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes - although the first time was hardly a gourmet experience. They sell this blueberry wine in the dépanneurs in Québec. For about two dollars, or at least it was, back in the day of my underage growing up just across the river from le 'Ull. You do not drink said blueberry wine for its fine flavours of cough syrup and grain alcohol.
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper - no. I've had a few other raw hot peppers, but think I will pass on the Scotch Bonnet dare.
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters - colour me disimpressed
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat - I have a dear friend who grew up in Jamaica. He used to make a beautiful curried goat for festive occasions. This makes me sad. He's had a disabling stroke, now.
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut - an exceedingly overrated item, even hot and fresh.
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer - I have made my own, too
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian - I liked it, too, while everyone else was reeling about making gagging noises.
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe - just last week at MagNorth indeedy.
74. Gjetost, or brunost - I LOVE GJETOST! LOVE!
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake