I’m still on my mission to try out as many different food products as possible, and this time, I snatched up some albacore tuna to cook up. Unfortunately, I couldn’t eat this entirely raw because there was no confirmation whether or not it was appropriately flash frozen, then kept at appropriate temperatures for safe raw consumption, so I seared the outside. But, I kept it borderline blue rare.

Unfortunately, I forgot to snap another photograph after I cut into it, but this was an interesting experience – my brain couldn’t figure out whether I was eating cooked fish or sushi the entire time.

When I was focusing in on the taste of the center of the meat, it distinctly tasted like sushi, but if I were to have cooked it through the whole way, I think this is pretty much the same as any other fish – a lot of the flavoring comes from the seasoning instead of the actual meat. (Or my taste buds just aren’t properly fine tuned yet to tell the difference.)

While I was out grocery shopping, I noticed that a new shipment of swordfish had randomly come in. I had never tried swordfish before (the closest thing I’ve had to it was shark’s fin, and I don’t even remember what that tasted like), so I wanted to get the experience. The filet was also unexpectedly expensive, at US$17 per pound.

I cooked it how I normally cook meat – I minimize seasoning to just the essentials, like salt and pepper, in order to get the most flavor out of the actual meat as possible. I also added a dash of lemon juice after it was done cooking.

Basically, my conclusion is that there is no other meat that is as not worth it than swordfish. Sure, it’s possible that I just cooked and seasoned it completely wrong, but there is barely any flavor, and it just tastes like a tougher and milder regular fish.

Am I glad that I tried it? Yes. But will I ever have it again? Not unless someone else cooks it for me for free.

Ever since I moved to California and tried lamb, I’ve really liked it. I had never had it before when I was still living in the Chicagoland suburbs, and I thought the flavor of the meat and fat was interesting. The lean meat itself wasn’t too noticeably distinctly different, but mixed in with a bit of lamb fat, it had a very unique flavor.

In an attempt to eat more lamb, I searched a bunch of different areas, and ended up getting lamb at a few different restaurants. But, lamb (possibly due to the fact that it isn’t often ordered) was noticeably more expensive than any other meat, and seeing as I cook pretty often at home, I wanted to find some raw lamb that I could just throw into a frying pan and prepare on my own.

I looked at a few grocery stores at which I often shop, and none of them had it … but then I realized I forgot one of the most obvious locations – Albertsons – and found it pretty quickly in their “unique meats” area. This is a small section in their regular meat area where they stock lamb, veal, grass-fed angus beef, and other meats that are a bit different than the normal beef, pork, chicken, and fish.

It actually wasn’t substantially more expensive either, so I guess that means I’ll be able to eat lamb a lot more often now.

The price of that thing? Apparently US$7. And just because it fills the whole photograph doesn’t mean it’s big … I just snapped it from very close to capture the detail and get a higher-quality photograph. It’s actually about the diameter equal to when I stretch out my thumb and middle finger as far as they can go.

I obviously didn’t want to eat in at Chuck E. Cheese’s because of all the children, so I placed an order to go. Unfortunately, I had to sit and wait inside Chuck E. Cheese’s for them to actually finish making the pizza anyway, so I got to suspiciously be an adult inside a children’s play place. … Or so I thought.

Luckily, I’m not the only one who has T-Mobile as a carrier, and I also wasn’t the only one who wanted to take advantage of their free pizza from T-Mobile Tuesdays. While I was waiting for my pizza, I managed to find a corner of the place where there were a ton of adults just sitting at tables enjoying their free pizza … lol