Cereal Offences

[highlyeccentric]

Kate: This pie is rather good. Except for the crunchy bits, which i hope aren't meat.
Me: No, it's Weet-Bix
Kate: what????
Me: You put it on shepherd's pie. And tuna mornay. Pretty much any casserole. Weet-Bix and cheese on top of a shepherds pie- makes a lovely crust.
Kate: You know, i don't think that sentence has ever been uttered before.
Me: yes it has, my mother said so!
Kate: People think I'm weird, because i eat them dry with vegemite and butter... I don't put them in a bloody casserole! *huffs off to get desert*

*Amy sidles up next to Tess*

Me: Tess, you put Weet-Bix in casseroles, don't you?
Tess: NO!!! Why would i EVER do that?
Me: *downcast* because it makes them crunchy?
Reena: What EVIL GREMLIN inspired THAT thought?
Me: my mother?

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I had no idea weet-bix was such a touchy subject...

ed: apparently Reena said INTERNAL GREMLIN. but my version sounds better

Comments

[niamh-sage.livejournal.com]

Well, it's certainly unusual 0_0 I've never heard of it either!

How exactly do you do it? Sounds quite yummy.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

It started with mum using them instead of breadcrumbs... and then we discovered that crumbled weet bix gives a lovely crust :) try it sometime!

[niamh-sage.livejournal.com]

I will! How exactly do you do it? Just crumble it over the top of the potato? And where does the cheese come in?

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

You don't put cheese on top of a shepherd's pie? hmm. I haven't actually cooked shepherd's pie myself, but i think mum sprinkles grated cheese and crumbled weetbix over the top of it a few minutes before taking it out of the oven.

I crumble weetbix over my pastabake just after i pour the white sauce onto it.

[niamh-sage.livejournal.com]

No, my shepherd's pie has potato mashed with milk, and a bit of salt and pepper, and that's about it. I've never heard of putting cheese on it either! Sounds eeeefil :D

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

i put cheese on everything ;)

[niamh-sage.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, cheesy ice-cream melt, sounds yummy! Or chocolates stuffed with grated cheese :D

Seriously though, I know what you mean. I like to have cheese with pretty much everything too!

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

mmm cheese.

[niamh-sage.livejournal.com]

Yesssss, cheeeeese...

And here I am, living practically in the Land of Cheese :D

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

eeefil cheese hog!

[rayneshadow.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of Weet-Bix, we don't have it here.
But some people use crushed corn-flakes (http://www.stephaniegladden.com/images/cool/CScerealCornMask01.jpg)instead of breadcrumbs - I've never used or tasted it, but I think its not considered unusual.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

your cornflakes are distressingly brown. ours are bright yellow.

you do have a weetbix equivalent, i believe. weetabix or weeeties or something.

[phrasemuffin.livejournal.com]

You know that shephard's pie is supposed to potato on top, right? :P

Personally, I don't think it's that weird. And neither is Kate's dry Weet-Bix with butter and veg (that's actually quite nice, and you can swap the veg for other things, too, like tomato sauce :P). After seeing my brother eat Ham + Peanut Butter Sandwiches, nothing seems that strange anymore. Nothing seems quite real, either...

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

Weetbix on *top* of the potato, nit

[phrasemuffin.livejournal.com]

lol. I know, I know.

Oh, and I meant to ask, with the casseroles, does it still go on top? Because you seem to have asked Tess about Weetbix in casseroles, which is a whole other kettle of fish.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

depends how good i am at cooking on the day :p