Showing posts with label I love to eat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label I love to eat. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Trifecta: The Burn of Impatience



My tongue touched it registering its first flavor.

The taste sensation sent me into a state of ecstasy. A knowing anticipation of what was to come. Eyes glazed over.

Next my teeth perforated a taut exterior anxiously chasing the soft, velvety, lusciousness of its heart. A lover full of lust. As if it had been far too long.

First

Butter

Then

Crispness

Then

Cheese

An errant drop of core hit my bottom lip as I pulled away. My entire mouth began to scald. Fanning provided no relief; the roof of my mouth already burned by a film of hot Velveeta.

My tongue swept across its delicate surface today, recalling the perfect first bite of a grilled cheese sandwich; a reminder of the pleasure/pain sensation of my passionate impatience.

It’s always the one you take before it hits the plate. 

The first half didn't even make the paper plate!

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33-333 words for the third definition of:
1
a : a state of being beyond reason and self-control

b archaic : swoon
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: a state of overwhelming emotion; especially : rapturous delight
3

Monday, December 10, 2012

10 Things I Wouldn't Put In My Mouth



Today’s agenda at Stasha’s place is LIST 10 FOODS. Topic courtesy of Bridget at Twinisms.

I could assemble a list of my 10 favorite foods but I talk about food a lot anyway, so that bores even me.

I could put together a list of things I’ll eat. As indicated by the reaction of my scale this morning after a weekend out of town celebrating the holidays, that list is way too long and would be arduous to narrow down to just 10.

I could challenge myself (why would I do that on a Monday during the holidays?) and think of 10 foods I do not like, generally boycott, or would refuse to choke down. There’s so few of those that this should prove burdensome.

10 FOODS I HATE 
OR WOULDN’T PUT IN MY MOUTH
OR ONLY IF I WAS FORCED 
OR PAID

1.    Peas- It’s a known fact I hate them. Would I eat them on a dare or if someone forced me? Yes, but I wouldn’t be happy about or like it.

2.    Raw mushrooms- I wouldn’t just pick one up and eat it. I have a difficult enough time with cooked ones (other than portabellas) because of their slimy consistency but like peas, I’d eat them if I would get some benefit like money out of it.

3.    Raisons- Never liked them as a kid and hated when people gave them out as treats for Halloween. Still don’t care for them and not even in cookies. Put in chocolate or butterscotch chips instead.

4.    Goat cheese in sweets- I tried a goat cheese brownie yesterday. If I weren’t at a restaurant, I would have spit it in my napkin. Actually, I should have. It gave me the willies and I almost refused to swallow it. Don’t do that to brownies, please.

5.    Frog legs- I don’t even think I need to explain this. Who thought eating them was a good idea? I have a brother in law who, every time he orders them, picks them up and performs a little dance with them before he sinks his teeth in. Wrong!

6.    Lamb- Anything and I’ve given a good effort here. I really have. Sometimes, I’ll take a bite of someone’s lamb chop and think, “That’s not so bad.” But then, why would I eat a whole plate of it if it were not so bad? AND if you cook it in your house, which I mistakenly have for one of my kids, your house smell like funk for days.

7.    Wild game- I’ll group Buffalo, Venison, wild birds, and any other four legged mammal, bird or amphibian that’s not a cow, pig or chicken.

8.    I Don’t Do Organs

9.    Blue Cheese- If you want to see me vomit which I guarantee no one does, don’t make me eat a hunk of Blue Cheese. And don’t try to pass it off in a salad or dish. I can taste it from the moment it touches my tongue. You know that’s its mold, right?

10.                  Sardines (any way they come), Anchovies (unless you chop them up so small and don’t tell me (but I’ll know and not make a huge deal about it)), Herring- When I was in college, gold fish eating contests were big. Nothing alive and squirmy and slippery will ever end up swimming around in my stomach.

I thought this was going to be harder than it was. As I said, there’s not much I won’t eat.

I’m not getting on the scale for a few days until I can get this S$%T (me) under control around here!

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Eat This!


Yep! It’s Sunday again. Truly can’t believe it. Yet one of the best things about blogging on a Sunday is knowing a place, Jana's Thinking Place, where I can throw my random or prompted stream of consciousness writing.

Fortunately for me, but maybe not so for you, I’m going rando!

Five minutes with my phone’s stopwatch set and then I will post without editing. Oh, lucky you!

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I will start by saying that I love food. My tastes run the mill of just about anything except Cheetos. Not a fan. Also, I don’t care for anchovies unless they are chopped up itty bitty. Everything else pretty much goes down the hatch. Oh, but I wouldn’t even think of eating sweetbreads. I will add those.

AND I'm a card carrying member of the clean plate club, just so ya know!

So I had the great fortune to dine at a favorite spot for brunch today. It’s a rather newish restaurant in Chicago’s Little Italy (one year maybe?). It’s called Davanti Enoteca. If you are ever in our fair city, hit it up. Lunch, Dinner, whatever. It is outstanding. Italian tapas. I digress...

On the weekends, in the morning, they open up their street front giant doors and sell fresh homemade donuts. They are on display for anyone walking by.

Okay, this may indeed gross some of you out but I just HAD to have the donut of the day. Today’s donut!

It was a soft and plush yeast raised long john (so moist that you thought there might be some custard inside at first), glazed generously with maple frosting and lastly, and most importantly….

A way thick strip of applesmoked bacon.

It was just about one of the most delicious sensations I have ever eaten. Not kidding.

If you ever run across something that looks like this (arrow pointing down)….EAT IT! You will not be disappointed.