I’ve kind of been left to my own devices, whilst my family has gone on holiday. Which basically means, ‘cook whatever you like.’ And this is where it gets fun. Sure, I could make normal food… that’s easy. Like for lunch I had dumplings. BUT it’s when you start to get creative, not knowing what the fuck you are doing, when cooking becomes interesting (and subsequently eating). When it came to dinner I ransacked the kitchen for ingredients and picked out a few which sounded fun.
Thus I made a PORK SALAD. I was pleased with myself, it tasted rather delicious. I eagerly let Sophy know of my wonderful achievement, exclaiming that I’d made a great salad. This is how it went.
Sophy: WHAT’S IN IT
Rin: pork
Sophy: PORK
Sophy:
Sophy: A PORK SALAD
Rin: avocado
Sophy: OKAY RIN.
Rin: corn
Rin: and an egg.
Sophy:
Sophy: that’s
Sophy: not a salad.
Rin: IT IS
Rin: omg
Sophy: stop deluding yourself.
And then I showed her a picture of my salad, and she concluded that I essentially made bacon and eggs.
I’m still convinced it’s a Pork Salad.
What do you guys think?
I’ll leave you with this as well:
Sophy
/ May 3, 2010POTATO SALAD IS DIFFERENT FROM SALAD SALAD THAT’S WHY YOU CALL IT POTATO SALAD NOT A SALAD THAT HAS POTATO IN IT.
And as for definition one… I don’t see any lettuce, tomato or cucumber anywhere or anything of a similar variety. YOUR “SALAD” FAILS AT SALAD, RIN. FACE IT. MOVE ON.
Helen
/ May 3, 2010*points bread*… this is NOT a salad.
However, such an imaginative creation should earn you top marks in the Aussie Masterchef invention test. I shall forward the image to Gary and George immediately.
Julie Goodwin must be shitting herself.
New poll: ‘Who should have won Australia’s First Masterchef?’
- Julie
- Justine, the fit one
- Po, the other fit one
- That loser with the hat
- Rin and her Pork Salad
You’ll walk it Rin ;o) x x x x
Sophy
/ May 4, 2010Helen, I think your bread-pointing will make up for your disloyalty about the salad issue in Rin’s eyes.
That and your suggestion that she should be on Masterchef. We actually have big plans for Rin’s Eats. It’s a project that’s very dear to our hearts.
Penbot
/ May 3, 2010WHERE ARE THE LEAVES, RIN? YOU CAN’T HAVE A SALAD WITHOUT LEAVES!
Also pretty sure “sometimes containing seafood, meat or eggs” doesn’t mean 50% of said dish should be meat or eggs.
Sorry Rin, but that’s no salad! That’s… I don’t even know what that is.
Sophy
/ May 4, 2010Absolutely. As I tried in vain to explain to Rin, what she has there is not a salad, but four awesome things that sometimes top off a salad.
Penbot
/ May 5, 2010If I went to a restaurant and ordered a “pork salad” and got pork, egg, avocado and sweetcorn, I’d send that hot waitress back to get me some lettuce.
Sophy
/ May 6, 2010If I were there with you, I’d write a stiff letter to the management on my napkin.
lolkat
/ May 3, 2010I’m holding out for the writers, artists and musicians salad. That sounds delicious.
Sophy
/ May 4, 2010On nom nom Rilo Kiley nom nom.
Carmen
/ May 3, 2010Enough vegetables to make me think its a salad. Pork = WIN.
Sophy
/ May 4, 2010She cut up an avocado and emptied a tin of corn onto bacon and eggs.
buttercup
/ May 3, 2010i call bullshit on the salad theory…lol…good try though rin…you were close… i feel the corn gives it away…take out the corn, throw in some cos lettuce and you’ve got yourself some kind of…pork caesar SALAD…and PRESENTATION COUNTS RIN…you should have cleaned the plate, lol…it could have swayed my vote…probably not…
Sophy
/ May 4, 2010IA. Rin could stand to work on her culinary presentation.
angelica
/ May 3, 2010it’s got an avocado! it counts, i’d certainly eat it.( although one leafy green couldn’t hurt your case) i’ll eat just about anything with pork and/or avocado.
Sophy
/ May 4, 2010Avocado is the food of the gods.
Frankie
/ May 3, 2010I vote PORK SALAD! Anything you invent yourself, you can choose the name yourself!
Where can I find the recipe? Cuz it sure does look delicious to me!
Sophy
/ May 4, 2010Oh right. So I just roasted some capsicums in goose fat and paprika. It’s called an Icecream Sandwich.
Frankie
/ May 4, 2010I’m pro!
You guys should get your own cookingbook then!
“Home alone by Rophy”
Sophy
/ May 6, 2010*adds it to the Rophy World Domination agenda*
Amanda
/ May 4, 2010Needs a garnish, then and ONLY THEN! Will it be a salad
Sophy
/ May 4, 2010I don’t know if a garnish is all it needs to gain Salad status, but a radish fleurette certainly couldn’t hurt.
Kirsten
/ May 4, 2010It totally is a salad! Just like Frankie said, you invented it so you get to name it! Also, it looks delicious. I’m gonna have to try and make that.
Sophy
/ May 4, 2010Rin, did you post this comment? “Kirsten.”
Jillian
/ May 4, 2010Lmao.
I would wager there’s some fancypants name for whatever that is. It looks damn fine.
Sophy
/ May 4, 2010It does. As vehemently as I must insist that that is no salad, it looks fucking tasty.
Feña
/ May 4, 2010LOL!
it’s pork AND salad, not a PORK SALAD.
i’ve never eaten pork
Sophy
/ May 4, 2010aw
You’re missing out!
Feña
/ May 5, 2010Well, I eaten once but i felt very guilty then. I’m a very good Jewish girl (excluding the fact that i’m gay)
Sophy
/ May 6, 2010aw, I think gay girls are still good Jewish girls. In fact I’m sure of it.
Alas, the pork is off limits
Rachel
/ May 4, 2010The hell… Rin. What the fuck. That’s just pork tossed on random vegetables with an egg LOL.
Rin
/ May 4, 2010Whatever Rachel. Your face is homeschooled.
Sophy
/ May 4, 2010I was homeschooled for a year.
I think you should think about people’s feelings before you comment, Rin.
Rin
/ May 4, 2010Holy crap, you were?! Oh my god. Pieces of the Ophy puzzle…falling delicately into place.
Sophy
/ May 4, 2010Like tender snowdrops on a mountaintop of lame.
Rachel
/ May 4, 2010LOLOL. My life is complete.
Sophy
/ May 6, 2010Shush you.
Sophy
/ May 4, 2010It’s bacon and eggs with misc.
Penbot
/ May 5, 2010a perfect observation Sophy.
Sophy
/ May 6, 2010Why thank you
buttercup
/ May 5, 2010true story:
i posed this salad question to my mum to get a slightly older perspective…although at this point i can’t be sure she’s older than you sophy, lol.
anyhoodle, it turned into her bitching me out because i didn’t cook enough…that she didn’t care what i cooked and called a fraking salad as long as i pitched in around the house more…so thanks for that rin… (>_<)
Rin
/ May 5, 2010DYING AT THE ‘i can’t be sure she’s older than you sophy, lol.’ HAHAHAHA. Nice one.
Also, it’s not my fault you don’t cook enough. You should make my scrumptious pork salad for your mum and see what happens.
Sophy
/ May 6, 2010Oh buttercup. You made an age joke about me. A woman after my own heart!
And rofl, your mum sounds like my mum. You have to be careful what you say because it snowballs into EVERYTHING YOU’VE EVER DONE WRONG in a second.
blondie
/ May 7, 2010Whoa…and I thought I was bad at cooking. Even with my severe lack of culinary skills (in fact just recently I put some oil leftover from a fry up down the sink without thinking. STUPID STUPID STUPID) that is NO salad. although I don’t like salad of the leaf variety, so I’d happily eat that Rin. Except maybe without the avocado…avocado and pork?? Never heard of that.
Rin
/ May 7, 2010Excuse me?! I’m NOT bad at cooking. Pffffffffffffffffft. It was delicious.
Mils
/ November 5, 2010Umm, although i’m sure the argument has been resolved by now….I think we ALL know that a salad must contain one vital ingredient.
You’re missing the essence of the salad.
Oilsss.
*Takes a bow, accepts flowers*
x x
Rin
/ November 8, 2010IT’S NEVER OVER.
Unless everyone agrees it was a salad.
Everyone
/ February 11, 2011It was a salad.