Bifferwine
I am a girl
I really didn't feel like working today. I've got a really bad case of the "I DON'T GIVE A SH!T" grad student blues lately. So instead I decided to make my own fish/coral food.
First, a trip to two different grocery stores. Because fresh seafood is hard to find in Arizona, yo! In the end, the only uncooked seafood I could find were oysters, shrimp and scallops. Okay, well I did find LIVE clams and LIVE mussels. But being a vegetarian and all, I was already totally creeped out shopping in the DEAD ANIMAL aisle. No way was I going to be able to handle dealing with LIVE SOON TO BE DEAD animals. Sorry fish. I even bought the EXPENSIVE tail-off shrimp so I wouldn't have to handle that gross stuff.
Here's what the fish shelf in my freezer looked like:
Here are the ingredients to my recipe:
Mmmmm mix it all up and let it thaw!
For reference, this is what I used in my recipe:
- bloodworms
- brine shrimp
- squid
- spinach
- romaine lettuce
- seaweed
- cyclopeeze
- plankton
- krill
- tubifex worms
- daphnia
- mysis shrimp
- scallops
- shrimp
- oysters
DAMN this stinks!!!
Now to add the *healthy* stuff. Selcon and garlic:
Blend it up, NWKRC!!!!
OH MY GOD THAT LOOKS GOOD! I JUST WANNA LICK THAT BLENDER CLEAN!
Eggcrate. Wax paper. Pan:
Pour it in:
Freeze it:
Okay. By this time, the house STINKS. That's why we have Oust:
The cubes are all frozen and ready to come out:
Unfortunately, Neal's bright idea of the eggcrate didn't work. The cubes were completely stuck and I couldn't get any of them out :(. I'll just have to feed the fish by sticking the block in the tank and melting off a bit, then putting it back in the freezer. Lame!
No worries though! To be sure I make them right next time, I hit Ebay up. And I bought these:
2 MINI ICE CUBE TRAYS MARTHA STEWART NIP!! - (eBay item 320162104069 end time Sep-30-07 18:33:26 PDT)
Thank god for Martha Stewart. My fish will forever be in her debt.
Let's top off the night with a piece of carrot cake. Now THAT smells good!
First, a trip to two different grocery stores. Because fresh seafood is hard to find in Arizona, yo! In the end, the only uncooked seafood I could find were oysters, shrimp and scallops. Okay, well I did find LIVE clams and LIVE mussels. But being a vegetarian and all, I was already totally creeped out shopping in the DEAD ANIMAL aisle. No way was I going to be able to handle dealing with LIVE SOON TO BE DEAD animals. Sorry fish. I even bought the EXPENSIVE tail-off shrimp so I wouldn't have to handle that gross stuff.
Here's what the fish shelf in my freezer looked like:
![092607001.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi185.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fx179%2FBifferwine%2F092607001.jpg&hash=5910abcc1a48f1ac8e9de1fbe069f06e)
Here are the ingredients to my recipe:
![092607002.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi185.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fx179%2FBifferwine%2F092607002.jpg&hash=5a95c9d3e1aa7c7132aa01a395fb3152)
Mmmmm mix it all up and let it thaw!
![092607005.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi185.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fx179%2FBifferwine%2F092607005.jpg&hash=7b42f9ee57221cd672390841f5f7e85b)
For reference, this is what I used in my recipe:
- bloodworms
- brine shrimp
- squid
- spinach
- romaine lettuce
- seaweed
- cyclopeeze
- plankton
- krill
- tubifex worms
- daphnia
- mysis shrimp
- scallops
- shrimp
- oysters
DAMN this stinks!!!
![092607008.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi185.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fx179%2FBifferwine%2F092607008.jpg&hash=f8aa85d40fc0a7d7e68189df07c2d7eb)
Now to add the *healthy* stuff. Selcon and garlic:
![092607018.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi185.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fx179%2FBifferwine%2F092607018.jpg&hash=c42c331abdc6f5afd992d11867a7eeed)
Blend it up, NWKRC!!!!
![092607022.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi185.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fx179%2FBifferwine%2F092607022.jpg&hash=ee7784638afcfec5ce5319265f05f02d)
OH MY GOD THAT LOOKS GOOD! I JUST WANNA LICK THAT BLENDER CLEAN!
![092607023.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi185.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fx179%2FBifferwine%2F092607023.jpg&hash=421b0a445fd6c4c6420d268cf863a76f)
Eggcrate. Wax paper. Pan:
![092607024.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi185.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fx179%2FBifferwine%2F092607024.jpg&hash=25fefc62f41f8809e7d92754c4a8827d)
Pour it in:
![092607025.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi185.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fx179%2FBifferwine%2F092607025.jpg&hash=7ed26a36f75c21566c4f0c539a316d19)
Freeze it:
![092607026.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi185.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fx179%2FBifferwine%2F092607026.jpg&hash=827b1f936036b255602b489cc448fe30)
Okay. By this time, the house STINKS. That's why we have Oust:
![092607028.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi185.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fx179%2FBifferwine%2F092607028.jpg&hash=1f61c187a0d750b1a6fc8e429a029cab)
![092607030.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi185.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fx179%2FBifferwine%2F092607030.jpg&hash=69852b0f319fdea1ec1cc96bd1ceea58)
The cubes are all frozen and ready to come out:
![092607032.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi185.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fx179%2FBifferwine%2F092607032.jpg&hash=4ccff6d88e9b606f5335515bf6c956b3)
Unfortunately, Neal's bright idea of the eggcrate didn't work. The cubes were completely stuck and I couldn't get any of them out :(. I'll just have to feed the fish by sticking the block in the tank and melting off a bit, then putting it back in the freezer. Lame!
No worries though! To be sure I make them right next time, I hit Ebay up. And I bought these:
2 MINI ICE CUBE TRAYS MARTHA STEWART NIP!! - (eBay item 320162104069 end time Sep-30-07 18:33:26 PDT)
Thank god for Martha Stewart. My fish will forever be in her debt.
Let's top off the night with a piece of carrot cake. Now THAT smells good!
![092607034.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi185.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fx179%2FBifferwine%2F092607034.jpg&hash=cd19da893fab4fa6e2cc9155a0993da1)
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