A PERFECT GOOEY DUCK EGG, MIXED CHEESES, CHOPPED HERBS, SLICED TOMATOES AND THE OBLIGATORY KETCHUP...SERVED OVER A BED OF HASHED BROWN POTATOES.......
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REDNECK HORS D'OOEUVRE .....PINKY 'UP' FOR SOME MASHED AND HIGHLY-SEASONED PINTO BEANS, SPRINKLED WITH SLICED SCALLION GREENS & SERVED UP ON A CRISP POTATO CHIP
OR....."GET FANCY"....utilizing 2 1/2" yellow cornmeal muffins, made with dissicated spicy okra, stone-ground cornmeal, egg, diced white onion, buttermilk and clarified butter......piled high with pinto bean paste, flavored with hot peppers and smoked paprika.....sprinkled with scallion slices........a bit 'hotter' and lighter than the plainer version that my Grandmother made......in her old Martin Stamping and Stove cast iron skillet, slathered with bacon drippings......
A TRIAD OF PUNGENT POTATO SAMOSA VARIATIONS......
ONE, WITH A DOLLOP OF A MIXTURE OF BASIL/PESTO SAUCE & CORIANDER/MINT CHUTNEY; A SECOND, WITH BOTH MAJOR GREYS & HOT PEPPER BACON JAM; AND A THIRD, WITH A MIX OF STRAWBERRY/FIG JAM & GEORGIA VIDALIA ONION JAM.....EATEN IN THAT ORDER TO MAXIMALIZE PALATE SATISFACTION
not one to waste 'potential' food...
Cleaning out the 'crisper' drawer of a fridge, today......I discovered an abandoned, dissicated orange half......hmmm.....wondering.....can I grate the hardened fruit....less the molded pith.....and add the powder that will result....to chocolate, perhaps? I'll 'run' a piece of it by the ants that are still carrying off the crumbs from my luncheon, earlier today.......If THEY ignore or back away from the orange......I'll suppose the lithicly dry orange has no value for me, either..... Maybe, I'll just crush the moistureless orange and leave the pieces as 'building supplies' for the massive ant colony.......currently, lugging some dead insects to their subterranean building complex.......
SPRING LUNCHEON.....
CRISPY FRIED ONIONS, TOMATOS AND FRESH CILANTRO...ATOP A MOROCCAN COUSCOUS WITH A NORTH ALABAMA BLACK-EYED PEA TABBOULEH HOPPIN' JOHN....
keeping the 'goo' in the silverware drawer..........
roasted pears with blueberries, raspberries, roquefort cheese, butter, honey, walnuts and pepper jam....and some sprigs of fresh, aromatic herbs.......
THE SIMPLEST OF FOODS....
....yellow corn grits, cooked in buttered water and grated parmesan cheese, then sprinkled with coarse ground black pepper... the Southern thickened Gruel .... and a not so simple dozen-ingredient crab'n'greens salad, with pickled artichoke hearts .......leftover grits will be crispy-pan-fried, tomorrow...for b'fast, and smeared with coriander chutney.....