Just Call Me Neelix, And Get Me The Hell Out Of The Kitchen

So perhaps I should explain the recent culinary theme on this here blog. Ok, so maybe two entries does not a 'theme' make, but it felt like an orientation for a time.

I am not a kitchen person. I cooked myself two meals today, and skipped a third because I couldn't be bothered.

The first was a combination of toasted wholemeal muffin, egg á la microwave, and baked beans. I forgot to turn the microwave from off the defrost setting, and I burnt the baked beans.

The second was a bag of microwave popcorn.

There had to be a pretty special reason for me to experiment so heavily with edible items. This reason was the Sci-Fi society, and the food and drink night that got suggested the last time we went on a cocktail crawl and dismally failed to rename the drinks within the genre. So the idea of the party was that you had to bring a Sci-Fi themed food item, and that we would spend the night creating strange and exotic cocktails from colourful yet obscure liquors. That we might discover our true talents as potion masters, and eventually get into Slytherin.

In order of appearance, we have:

• eggs from Alien (approached carefully with flamethrower.)
• cookies from The Matrix (cookies need love.)
• gagh from Star Trek (pronounced "gak" and I'm not providing a link, because if you haven't heard of Star Trek, then, well, I really have nothing to say to you.)
• oook from Discworld (the easy option)
• a PanGalactic GargleBlaster from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Glass should definitely have come with a "Do Panic" sign on. Really. I saw what went into this thing. Incidentally, they start filming on the movie adaptation on 19th april.)
• pizza from Futurama.
• soylent green from, errr, Soylent Green (I'm vegetarian, I didn't eat any.)
• stupidly hot curry from Red Dwarf
(I didn't eat any of this either. But there may have been jalapenos involved.)
• sunflower seeds from The X Files

And then the last picture is of the whole thing. I think you can just see the haribo rings set out with different colours allocated to men, dwarves and elves. I think I was Ringwraith #5, and slightly disconcertingly I can't remember who got the One Ring. If you're wondering, on the same plate are staked haribo hearts, and there were also some marzipan food cubes floating around as Buffy and Farscape representation, respectively.

I'm really hungry now. Wish I had some orange juice.