3. I spent my summer ...

... preserving food. Canning, freezing, squinting at the fetal sauerkraut in my big crock. Chopping, slicing, blanching. There was vegetable carnage happening in my kitchen. Well, anyway, it looked that way on my cutting board after I sliced the beets!

So, in honor of that, and not, of course, because I haven't got anything better to write (yeah, that's it!), here is the Ominovore's 100 meme. Just for you.

How the Omnivore's 100 works:

1) Copy this list into your blog, including these instructions.

2) Bold all the items you've eaten.

3) Cross out any items you would never consider eating.

My Ominivore's 100 (where you can see for yourself that I need to be way more adventurous than I am now!):

1. Venison

2. Nettle tea (eew...)

3. Huevos rancheros

4. Steak tartare (if I sampled a small bit of raw hamburger, would that count?)

5. Crocodile (right, I'll catch that on my next trip to Africa)

6. Black pudding

7. Cheese fondue

8. Carp (omigod, have you seen what they eat??)

9. Borscht (got beets, just need to make some)

10. Baba ghanoush

11. Calamari

12. Pho

13. PB&J sandwich (hello I was an American kid in the 1950s; there was no escape)

14. Aloo gobi

15. Hot dog from a street cart (probably toxic, but I'm totally up for it!)

16. Epoisses

17. Black truffle (unless you count dark chocolate ...)

18. Fruit wine from something other than grapes (plum wine, mmmm ...)

19. Steamed pork buns

20. Pistachio ice cream

21. Heirloom tomatoes (to die for)

22. Fresh wild berries (hand picked by moi)

23. Foie gras

24. Rice and beans

25. Brawn or head cheese

26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper (first I'd have to figure out what that is ...)

27. Dulce de leche

28. Oysters (not raw, though, so maybe it shouldn't count)

29. Baklava (homemade by my aunt and mother)

30. Bagna cauda

31. Wasabi peas

32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl (mooshy bread, ugh ...)

33. Salted lassi

34. Sauerkraut (babied along and scum skimmed by yours truly)

35. Root beer float (yeah, the 50's thing again)

36. Cognac with a fat cigar (cognac maybe; fat cigar - holy god, no!)

37. Clotted cream tea

38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O (I'm not sure why, but whatever)

39. Gumbo

40. Oxtail

41. Curried goat

42. Whole insects (insects evolved off-planet and are an alien conspiracy to gross us out)

43. Phaal

44. Goats milk (only had it, so far, disguised as cheese)

45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth $120 or more (I would only spend that much money on gourmet ice cream)

46. Fugu (I love fish, all right, but no fish is worth dying for)

47. Chicken tikka masala

48. Eel

49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut (and many, many other Krispy Kreme varieties)

50. Sea urchin

51. Prickly pear

52. Umeboshi (huh?)

53. Abalone (pounded to tender happiness)

54. Paneer

55. McDonald's Big Mac Meal (I am so ashamed)

56. Spaetzle

57. Dirty gin martini (too trendy)

58. Beer above 8% ABV (don't know what that means, but, beer, yuchh)

59. Poutine

60. Carob chips (now, I can't remember why, but I've had 'em)

61. S'mores (Camp Fire Girls forever!)

62. Sweetbreads

63. Kaolin (huh?? I've made pottery with it, though)

64. Currywurst (sounds like an odd marriage of Indian and German food. weird.)

65. Durian

66. Frog's legs (and they do twitch when you cook them; good, but macabre)

67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake

68. Haggis

69. Fried plantain

70. Chitterlings or andouillette

71. Gazpacho

72. Caviar and blini (just caviar, but after that, who needs anything else?)

73. Louche absinthe

74. Roadkill (I would have to be very, very, very desperate. Unimaginably desparate)

75. Gjetost or brunost

76. Baijiu

77. Hostess fruit pie (in the same lunch bag as the PBJ)

78. Snail (but I'll take the garlic butter)

79. Lapsang Souchong (well, once, but not my favorite)

80. Bellini

81. Tom Yum

82. Eggs Benedict

83. Pocky (next time I'm at New Sagaya, for sure)

84. 3 Michelin Star Tasting Menu

85. Kobe beef

86. Hare (snowshoe hare, actually)

87. Goulash (by my gramma)

88. Flowers

89. Horse (geez, that'd be like eating Black Beauty or Flicka ...)

90. Criollo chocolate

91. Spam (and I lived to tell about it)

92. Soft shell crab

93. Rose harissa

94. Catfish

95. Mole poblano

96. Bagel and lox

97. Lobster Thermidor (I was a kid; I thought rich people ate it; it was disappointing)

98. Polenta

99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee

100. Snake

Alrighty, I'm off to be more bold, bold more food, and go boldly figure out what some of this stuff is. See ya!