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Post by silverdragon on Apr 11, 2017 9:33:34 GMT
One thing I have learnt, "Experiment". Certain things like the ratio of ingredients in a cake, fat flour eggs and sugar, cant change much, but chucking small parts of orange juice, cocoa, coffee powder etc can change the taste. Its the same with stews soups roasts or many other ingredients. I always make my own fresh egg pasta, so chucking something like a little Onion powder, celery salt, pepper, or other diced small fresh herb in the pasta can either change the blank white canvas or make it less of a slime-ball texture. Fresh pasta and a pot of boiling water is the key, because pasta cooks extremely quickly, make a small change, roll off a thin leaf, and cook it off quick to check the taste before you resign the whole batch to unknown?. And I just love fresh pasta. I tend to make it a bit on the dry side, this I know, because I want it to soak up some of the flavours of the sauce. if you're ever sick to the point of puking like clockwork, eat cooked plain pasta between bouts of puking. it gives you something that is neutral to puke up at your next scheduled upchuck, doesn't hurt as bad as the dry heaves, and you at least get some carbohydrates while it is inside you. Good Idea, I try toast, Porridge, soft fruit, anything with a sort of sweet neutral taste to get something inside. But thats on the days I am sick enough to not have any wish to eat..... I have to be really beyond sick to start puking, I have a cast iron stomach, it doesnt give up its contents for any random bug that easily. I have found sucking Chocolate slowly works as well. And ant-acid tablets. Rennies.. Or a hot chocolate drink. But mostly Tea, no sugar or milk, barely warm, with a splash of not too strong lemon, and maybe a drip of honey, works well to keep you hydrated at those times. Or Minted tea, which helps take that slightly sour taste away. Doesn't matter what everyone else says, you do what works, and water alone can make you feel a bit sick anyway. As for food, you can last a week without food if you have fluids, and I need to drop a few pounds anyway, I have been rather inactive recently and I am starting to show extra weight?.. When Ill, I keep a bottle of drink at the side of my bed, take regular brews when the wife is feeling kind, have a supply of Lucozade handy, and try to keep up on the honey and lemon in a hot-cup that can stay warm for hours?.. But eating, yeah, "bland" foods like pasta are good restarts to the digestive system, it gives it something to chew on without being too complex. But make sure you have a good sauce with it?.. dunno why, but dry cooked no sauce pasta dehydrates me quicker than salted nuts. |
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Post by the light works on Apr 11, 2017 13:50:51 GMT
if you're ever sick to the point of puking like clockwork, eat cooked plain pasta between bouts of puking. it gives you something that is neutral to puke up at your next scheduled upchuck, doesn't hurt as bad as the dry heaves, and you at least get some carbohydrates while it is inside you. Good Idea, I try toast, Porridge, soft fruit, anything with a sort of sweet neutral taste to get something inside. But thats on the days I am sick enough to not have any wish to eat..... I have to be really beyond sick to start puking, I have a cast iron stomach, it doesnt give up its contents for any random bug that easily. I have found sucking Chocolate slowly works as well. And ant-acid tablets. Rennies.. Or a hot chocolate drink. But mostly Tea, no sugar or milk, barely warm, with a splash of not too strong lemon, and maybe a drip of honey, works well to keep you hydrated at those times. Or Minted tea, which helps take that slightly sour taste away. Doesn't matter what everyone else says, you do what works, and water alone can make you feel a bit sick anyway. As for food, you can last a week without food if you have fluids, and I need to drop a few pounds anyway, I have been rather inactive recently and I am starting to show extra weight?.. When Ill, I keep a bottle of drink at the side of my bed, take regular brews when the wife is feeling kind, have a supply of Lucozade handy, and try to keep up on the honey and lemon in a hot-cup that can stay warm for hours?.. But eating, yeah, "bland" foods like pasta are good restarts to the digestive system, it gives it something to chew on without being too complex. But make sure you have a good sauce with it?.. dunno why, but dry cooked no sauce pasta dehydrates me quicker than salted nuts. the american standard sick kid food is cheerios (crushed oat cereal, just in case you don't have that brand over there) and clear soda, like 7-up or sprite. and I said no sauce on the pasta if you know you're going to throw it up again. even if the sauce is good going own, it will be nasty coming up. |
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Post by silverdragon on Apr 12, 2017 7:59:48 GMT
Yeah we get cherio's over here, are they supposed to taste that way then?.. never did get why they tastes like something exactly unlike tea.
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Post by the light works on Apr 12, 2017 14:34:23 GMT
Yeah we get cherio's over here, are they supposed to taste that way then?.. never did get why they tastes like something exactly unlike tea. like they are made out of the grindings from a pencil sharpener? |
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Post by mrfatso on Apr 12, 2017 19:23:52 GMT
I remember when Cheerios first came out in the UK, and they were doing taste tests in the Arndale centre here.
My younger brother refused to try them as they looked too much like the Go-Cat hoops that we feed to Smudge our cat.
When I was sick back then it was Semolina that was food of choice.
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Post by silverdragon on Apr 13, 2017 8:13:37 GMT
Yeah we get cherio's over here, are they supposed to taste that way then?.. never did get why they tastes like something exactly unlike tea. like they are made out of the grindings from a pencil sharpener? Sorry for the loud exclamation there, but that almost exactly the taste I remember... |
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