Armpit deep in stupid
Side giggage yesterday, and long day today.
I’m in the process of trying to determine which things go well with Marmite. As half of the planet already doesn’t care, and the other half retches at the mere whiff of the yeasty delight, I suspect I’m one of the first people to take this very seriously, at least from a scientific standpoint.
I have been looking hard at the types of food I eat, and trying to see how I can adapt them to Marmite, and these are the results so far.
Toast, of course, and butter or margarine, excellent. I like to put on the butter and let it soak in completely, retoast the toast and then apply the marmite. A pea sized gob about does a slice of toast.
English muffins, not so much. The nooks and crannies lend themselves to jam, but you have to use a lot of marmite, and that is too much of a good thing.
Pizza: There are a couple things at work here. I have added a teaspoon full of marmite diluted in water to the dough, and I’ve been told this is the very best pizza ever; but put on the finished product, no way.
Twinkies. Just because I could. No. I mean, I was prepared for this to be the next “peanut butter/chocolate” thing, and well, just No.
Chocolate: Actually, a tiny dab of marmite in a glass of chocolate milk is extremely interesting. Interesting in a “I think I’m going to hurl, get me a bucket NOW” kind of way.
Cheese and marmite go extremely well together, and the sharper the cheese the better it tastes. A slice or even shreds of cheddar on a sammich with a bit of marmite and a piece of romaine is most excellent. breads, by the way, have to be strong flavored to stand up to the marmite. Vegemite, alternately, has a less strong flavor but the consistency is off.
A little marmite on a cheeseburger, also, is good.
oatmeal: Not so much
Corned beef: Don’t try this at home. Or anywhere, for that matter.
No cereal is improved by Marmite.
Marmite mixed with water is a good broth to cook almost anything in, if it’s meat. I’m gonna try to make some marmite-crusted deer steaks this spring when I can fire up the weber.
marmite is agreat seasoning in chinese or imitation chinese type dishes.
Marmite is a very interesting skin rub for pountry. Not for everyone.
Research proceeds apace, but I have to sneak in the test foods lest I get lynched by the family.
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OK, gout warning: if you are prone to gout, Marmite, being a yeasty product, is the worst thing you can do to yourself. 300mg/day of Allopurinol, plus two or three tablets of Colchicine, will not save you from the yeasty beastie, and pain beyond your tolerance.
Don’t do Marmite, or anything involving Brewer’s Yeast either, if you are afflicted with gout.
I get Marmite in the 600 gram tub. (I like it.) Marmite goes well on soda crackers, buttered toast,(but you knew that) and Pilot Bread. It also fits with very sharp English cheeses, cheddar, cheshire and the like. it’s good eaten off the tip of a table knife, too. Apparently there are at least five of us in N. America who actually eat the stuff.
Gerry N.
Y’all enjoy.
What Dick said.
I think Joe Huffman oughta concoct a trianary ‘xplosive, by means of adding a bit of Marmite.
Would lend new meaning to “gaseous explosions”, eh?
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Marmite? What’s marmite???
Some of those combinations sound like something you would do on a dare. Marmite and chocolate chip waffles, anyone?
Ooh, now that I gotta see.
Did you ever sample any? I know Tam has some.
Heh heh heh heh heh no.
I’m not up for new foods while I’m recuperating from other injuries. I can only take so much potential pain and suffering at once. :-P
Try it with some cream of wheat
Marmite Martini?
I used to only find it at World Market now I’ve actually seen it in the grocery store.
Avoid the South African stuff, it tastes weird. Vegemite always sounded to me like some sort of capital offense. It too, tastes weird, but in the good way. It isn’t Marmite, but will do in a pinch.
Six, describing Marmite is roughly analogous to describing sex. Saying it’s good kinda skips over some important details. Best advice I can come up with is to Google it. Wiki has a good description and some history. However Marmite really has to be experienced and approached with an open mind. I was afraid I wouldn’t like it, then I was ashamed that I did. Now, as long as I can get it, I don’t give a rat’s ass what anyone else thinks about it. I’ve heard that if you don’t develop a taste for it by age 2, you probably won’t. I was 58 when I first experienced it. It was one of those things like nuoc mam or sriricha sauce in that after the second or third bottle, I still had a little ambivalence. Developed tastes are funny things. Take single malt scotch. It took an entire sip of Glen Garioch to develop the taste for it. Champagne, on the other hand always tastes like carbonated vinegar. Poor quality carbonated vinegar at that.
Gerry N.
Gerry N.
Jim,
There are four ingredients in Boomerite (only three are mentioned on the website). One of them is a food. But it’s much cheaper than Marmite and probably works better. Moisture is a very, very bad thing for Boomerite.
More back on topic… I haven’t tried Marmite but I thought Vegemite was good on crackers when my Aussie friend brought some in for me to try.