Mum asked me to settle my own dinner outside so I bought back McDonald’sHokkaido Salmon Feast (S$10.90). The set came with a Hokkaido Salmon Burger, medium Fries, Chocolate Pie and a regular Jasmine Green Tea drink.

If I had to choose between this seasonal Hokkaido Salmon Burger and the Filet-O-Fish, it will definitely be the former. The crispy panko-crusted patty made with Hokkaido salmon is topped with white cabbage, sliced onions and roasted sesame mayonnaise sandwiched between a black and white sesame seeds bun. This is an upgraded version of the classic Filet-O-Fish and a delish one.

For dessert, it is molten Chocolate Pie. The crispy warm pocket is filled with gooey lava of milk chocolate which is rich but not too sweet. When this item was first launched a few years ago in Singapore, it went out of stock in last than a couple of weeks.

Topmost picture from McDonald’s Singapore

C A B B A G E

Folklore Friday:

Cabbage should be planted on the seventeenth day of March, to insure its heading well.

Seed is one of Nature’s tiny miracles upon which the human race relies for its food and pleasure.

Cabbage seed

Each grain contains the genetic information for growth, development, flowering and fruiting for the preponderant plant life living on this planet. And when provided with adequate oxygen, moisture, warmth, light, physical support and nutrients germination will result in a new generation of a species. These vary from tiny short-lived alpines to the monumental redwood trees growing for centuries on the Pacific west coast of America.   

Humankind has tamed and selected a few plant species for food and decorative purposes. 

Seed head of beetroot, the seeds are in clusters.

Seed of these, especially food plants, is an internationally traded commodity. Strict criteria governed by legal treaties apply for the quality and health of agricultural and many horticultural seeds. This ensures that resultant crops are true to type and capable of producing high grade products as claimed by the companies who sell the seed. 

Companies involved in the seed industry place considerable emphasis on ensuring that their products are capable of growing into profitable crops for farmers and growers. Parental seed crops are grown in isolation from farm crops thereby avoiding the potential for genetic cross-contamination. With some very high value seed the parent plants may be grown under protection and pollinated by hand.

Samples of seed are tested under laboratory conditions by qualified seed analysts. Quality tests identify levels of physical contamination, damage which may have resulted in harvesting and cleaning the seed and the proportion of capable of satisfactory germination. There may also be molecular tests which can identify trueness to type. Identifying the healthiness of seed is especially important. The seed coat can carry fungal and bacterial spores which could result in diseased crops. Similarly, some pathogens, including viruses, may be carried internally within seed.

 Septoria apicola – seed borne pathogen causing late blight of celery 

Pests, especially insects, find seed attractive food sources and may be carried with it. Careful analytical testing will identify the presence of these problems in batches of seed. 

The capabilities of seed for producing vigorous plants is particularly important with very high value vegetable and salad crops. Vigour testing is a refined analytical process which tracks the uniformity and speed of germination supplemented with chemical tests determining the robustness of plant cells.  Producers rely on the quality, uniformity and maturity rates of crops such as lettuce, green broccoli or cauliflower so they meet the strict delivery schedules set by supermarkets. Financial penalties are imposed for failures in the supply chain. 

Biology’s seemingly inert tiny seed grains are essential ingredients of humankind’s existence!

Written by: Professor Geoff Dixon, author of Garden practices and their science (ISBN 978-1-138-20906-0) published by Routledge 2019. 

Humans: wow look at all these plants we can domesticate

Also humans, holding up cabbage: actually I’ll take 9 more of these little green bitches

sufficientlylargen:

dyllpiccle:

Adult life tip.

Do not buy a cabbage unless you have one of the following:

1. A recipe that uses a whole cabbage

2. 200 recipes that use some cabbage

3. A desire to waste an entire half cabbage

4. A desire to aid your local cabbage merchant who’s struggling financially because so much of their crop was destroyed in a series of bizarre incidents involving a twelve-year-old martial artist.

06.29.2020

I’m overjoyed with this meal. Kibinago, silver-striped round herring, is one of my favourite lunches. It’s one of the things where I had never expected I’d like whole fish. But it’s so good.

Then an egg soup, cucumber salad and rice.

06.28.2020

Pretty nice lunch overall. A slice of melon for dessert. A pumpkin and bacon soup with fried rice. Finally there was a wilted cabbage salad.

06.11.2020

Today was yummy. A tofu steak with a ground meat sauce. There was a ton of hijiki salad. A lot of it! Then barley rice. The other seaweed salad was not the greatest, just soggy.

06.10.2020

Lunch was okay today. Potato and bacon, a harusame salad, and finally a bean soboro don. Pour it over rice for a delicious meal.

I didn’t eat the Jelly dessert.

Ingredients / recipe / procedure spaghetti Spring cabbage 1 garlic clove octopus Olive oil Lemon peel. Parmigiano 2 liters of water, 20 grams of salt ・ Boil cabbage for 30 seconds to 1 minute. Don’t boil too much. This is spring spaghetti. Spring is the season for cabbage. You can get new soft and delicious cabbage. Simply match the octopus flavor and cabbage. I thought that the freshness of spring and the flavor of lemon would match. Seasonal taste, fragrance, beautiful color, delicious ♪ 

 春♪新キャベツの時期 柔らかくて美味しい新キャベツ♪ タコの旨味とシンプルにあわせてみる♪ 春の爽やかさののっかるようにレモン風味にしてみる 美味しい

In Japanese home cooking, many people add cabbage stir fry to hot dogs. The texture is good and the sweetness of the cabbage is delicious. You can also get vitamins. Spring is the season of cabbage, especially delicious. Hot dog with cabbage stir fry / recipe cabbage Salt and pepper sausage Bread Egg sandwich, hot dog style / recipe Boiled egg mayonnaise Bread option lettuce Ham parsley Mix the mayonnaise while breaking the boiled egg. This is very delicious when sandwiched in bread. The best when sandwiching lettuce and ham ♪ Delicious ♪ 

 ロールパンに玉子マヨネーズや ホットドッグにキャベツ炒めを挟んでしまう。 口にすると、ふと、子供の頃を思い出す。 クレイマークレイマーでダスティーホフマンがフレンチトーストに苦戦していたけど、あのシーン、日本ならキャベツ炒めホットドッグじゃないかと思うhaha