This week on Masterchef Australia one of the challenges was called Meet the Brief with the idea that each of the challengers could choose a well known food phrase and come up with a dish that represents the saying.
The three sayings in the show were
As cool as a cucumber
Bringing home the bacon
The proof is in the pudding
Surprisingly most people chose cool as a cucumber as the saying, and a lot of the contestants chose to make cucumber granita, which I am pretty sure is not something that I imagine I would ever make or even eat!
In our house, it did get us brainstorming about other food sayings. It turns out that there are a lot. Here are some that we thought of or have found
Bun in the oven
Cherry on top
Icing on the cake
Plenty of fish in the sea
The apple of my eye
If life gives you lemons make lemonade
something being a lemon (for example bought a dodgy car)
The cream of the crop
The cat that got the cream
As different as chalk and cheese
Putting all your eggs in one basket
Crying over spilt milk
Easy as pie
Going bananas or going nuts
Being in a pickle
Being as keen as mustard
Piece of cake
Thats the way the cookie crumble
Take it with a grain of salt
Spiill the beans
Two peas in a pod
I am sure that there are many, many more. Do you have some other examples?
I think if I was going to have to make a recipe related to one of these sayings, it would of course be related to cake! I definitely wouln't want to have to clean up after the cookie crumbled or spilling the beans!
Weekly Menu
Sunday: Takeawy
Monday: Lamb chops with Meditteranean vegies
Wednesday: Mexican chicken and rice
Friday: Pineapple chicken curry with rice
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Great list! My mouth is watering over your weekly menu, especially the pineapple chicken curry.
ReplyDeleteIn case I have trouble with the linkup (Again) here is mine:
http://tinaculbertson.blogspot.com/2021/05/in-my-kitchen-for-month-of-may.html
It was fun to put together Tina! And Mr Linky appears to have worked.
DeleteI thought that episode was not one of their best. It seemed to me that they were picky about how they interpreted the dish, and all a contestant had to do if they chose bacon was to look misty-eyed and talk about home, and they were ok even if the dish was mostly pork not bacon. And all they had to do for pudding was to cook one...
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't the best episode, especially seeing as everyone cooked cucumber granita, but we did hae fun with the sayings!
DeleteYour list is very amusing. Who doesn't want to be the Big Cheese? Who doesn't want to have the Whole Enchilada? Life is just a bowl of cherries and man does not live by bread alone (as Woody Allen adds, he also needs a beverage).
ReplyDeletebest... mae at maefood.blogspot.com
Life is like a box of chocolates!
DeleteI couldn't understand the number that made cucumber granita either. I would have made tzatziki to cool down something spicy.
ReplyDeleteI have a MC Australia comment on my post this week as well.
P.S. most North Americans would not understand keen as mustard!!
DeleteI have no idea what I would have made for cucumber Jackie!
DeleteFood saying are fun, plus who cannot relate!? I agree with Tina the Chicken Pineapple Curry sounds wonderful, I am new to eating curry but the combo of curry and pineapple sounds delicious!
ReplyDeleteIt was a Sri Lankan style curry Melynda!
DeleteI found a list of 81 food idioms with explanations, but I somehow don't think most people need them! It's funny though - the section with sayings including "beans" is entitled "Cool Beans" but they don't explain that one! https://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-food-idioms.html
ReplyDeleteI think that there are some that I would need an explanation for!
DeleteGreat list of food phrases. Oddly, I know and use most of these.
ReplyDeleteI use a few but not all Deb!
Deleteyou're so right. there are so many food sayings. well related to food. just shows how much food means to humans:-)
ReplyDeleteIt's essential right Sherry!
DeleteHow fun! I was thinking of "cool beans" -- but Jill beat me to it!
ReplyDeleteI say cool bananas, not cool beans!
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