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This is not my post. This is a post to say that I'm going to post on Saturday. I have my Inspirazzi ready in my head, but won't get time to implement until Saturday. This is so anyone who does post doesn't feel too lonely.

... Ahh... but I never said Which Saturday did I... Well I did intend it for last Saturday, but ... I didn't do. Then pressed for time, I thought I'd just try something on a weekday. Epic Fail. No matter I'm posting it anyway.

My idea was to try and cook a dish (well the original plan was a whole meal entree, main, dessert.. yeah that didn't happen) that would be entirely green. I was planning on using vegetable juice to colour whatever wasn't green, and to try to co-ordinate other ingredients. Didn't work though.. and not only did it not work, but having used Chinese Mustard Greens, the green Mash tasted weird. But. I did manage to repair the Mash in a later dish by adding some onion, garlic, the chopped roasted green chili and frying it.. I think it just needed some settling time.

So here is a picture of the Green mash with lamb and zuccini.. Yeah not really inspired, but I was trying to get it all done in half an hour to feed the ravenous family..

Of course Bern suggested that I should have done Green Eggs and Ham, which I did think of, but somehow got confused and couldn't work out how to make the Ham green.
Other ideas were;

Green Creme Brulee - Dyed with Pandan leaf
Green Jelly - thought the rules (yeah I made up the rules) stated that there were to be no artificial colours, so I got stumped on this, as the only green fruit I could think of was Kiwi, and him (yeah Kiwi is a him.. do you ladies really want to claim a fruit that look like a ... well you know what he looks like) and Gelatine don't like each other. Of course I could have used Agar.. that's what I should have done.
Green Lip mussels with Coriander white wine sauce.. I debated with the judge about this one, as the Green Lip mussels aren't actually green.
Gai Yang, Thai grilled chicken, with basil and green chili to make it green.
I was also thinking of a Vegetarian dish, like a green Quiche in honor of our topic chooser, but didn't get very far there either..

Well the thought is supposed to count, but doesn't really when it comes to food. Unless I could start the thought diet, were you think about what you'd like to cook, and then you eat a salad.. or cardboard.