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My Inheritance

I have, Dear Reader, been somewhat lacking in the updates. Don’t think for a moment that it is because I am Not Doing Anything. No I am doing plenty, but mostly things that don’t really seem all that exciting to report on. Catching up with friends and family at the moment in my place of birth. That is to say I am away from my beloved computer so no updates on the gaming side of things anyway.  I will get to Horsez and Railway Tycoon eventually though, fear not.

In the meantime though, and in the spirit of the slightly family-centric turn this blog has taken lately, I thought I might share with you my recent Re- initiation into the wondrous alchemical mysteries of my mother’s lasagna recipe. It was,  I can only assume, the product of some ancient arcane rite. Souls were perhaps put on the line, bargains were struck – the details are not clear but the end product is several layers of tasty. I present to you the copy presently in my mothers keeping  that will presumably one day be passed on to me.

Needless to say this is not a complete version, just an excerpt. Any persons attempting to use information from this particular portion of the grimoire to summon their own cheesy, meaty, slab of heaven-type dish will invariably fail to capture its true essence.

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Can someone else save the day? I’m feeling sluggish.

So last year when I wrote by as-yet-unpublished fantasy masterpiece “The Gaff”, I did so mostly through the consumption of really unhealthy amounts of junk food. It would be 11pm, I would be stuck, I would walk down to the local 7/11 buy a Redbull, a Wagon Wheel and various other sugary treats, scoff them on the way back, crack open the energy drink and then get to writing. It worked pretty well in that I finished the book, but no so kind on my constitution or snack budget.

So this year I have been chewing (mostly) on carrot sticks, celery, cucumber and sunflower seeds. The cravings are there though, and they reminded me of some random purchases I made earlier this year. The “Super Hero Meal” you see up above. DC comic’s finest in carbohydrate and sugar form.

The Superman drink claims to “charge physical and mental performance throughout the day by providing extra energy power to your body!”

Energy power? That’s a new one on me. With 80mg’s of caffeine and 1000mg’s of Taurine it does the trick in giving caffeine-sensative non-coffee drinking individuals like me shaky hands and a feeling like their chest might explode. The taste though, was truly foul.

The “Batman Shaped Tempura Nuggets made with Chicken Breast” I didn’t actually get to eat. Lizbt did though. Her verdict? “The shape didn’t change the flavour. They tasted like chicken offcuts smooshed together in a factory with a really bland, carboardy “tempura” coating.”

So there you go.

I worked out that if you ate a whole packet of the Batman snacks and washed it down with a Superman drink for three meals a day you’d be consuming 2600 calories.  (And thats without snacks) I realise Bruce Wayne isn’t short on money but I imagine it would be expensive to let out that body armour, and that is what you’d be doing after a few months on the superhero diet. I guess foiling those meglomanical villian’s dastardly schemes would burn up the calories though, so maybe not.

Oh, Lizbt held on to a few of the nuggets  so I could photograph them. I forgot to do so.  The photo below is what Batman Snacks look like if you cook them up and then leave them in a plastic container in the fridge for a few months.

Eurgh.