Ended up in the citadel of the meat-eater today, the home of the colonel and his recipe of 11 herbs and spices; Kentucky Fried Chicken. The plan was to see what vegetarian choices I could have. It turned out I was limited to chips and corn-on-the-cob. As the huge queue moved at a snail pace towards the counter I began to get the hunger. The chemical memories of a thousand meals of greasy chicken began to take hold. Questions raced through my mind. What if I was to have some popcorn chicken, there must be next to no real meat in that? I was close to breaking when fortunately I had to leave to get a lift home. Thankfully the terrible, slow service saved me from a possible lapse. Never again will I complain that fast food doesn’t live up to its name!
How can such a kindly old man be responsible for the devil's chicken?
Vegetarian Dish of the Day:
Quorn Burgers
Box Blurb: Delicious tender quorn burgers perfectly blended with onions.
All the food so far I have had to cook in the oven, under the grill or in pan. The once abused microwave sits silently in the corner. It appeared that the ways of the vegetarian had no place for speedy cooking. Then along came the Quorn burger. Now you can cook them other ways, and with most foods I’m sure they taste better when not blasted with electromagnetic waves, but I felt they had to be zapped in the interest of science (and time constraints).
So into the microwave the patty went and 2 minutes later out came the Quorn Burger. It was at this stage microwaving seemed like a bad idea. Although edible in its own right the consistency of the burger was very poor; with scattered patches overcooked or undercooked. It was too dry. A burger needs to be juicy.
I will give the Quorn burger another try and use another cooking method to see if the microwave was responsible for the poor showing but it doesn’t look good. So far Quorn is letting the side down. More Linda McCartney is needed!
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