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NIGIRI, ANYONE?

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           Most...well, just about all Americans, find 'eating bugs' repellent and disgusting.....We are the only flesh-eaters that have this distaste........Bugs are plentiful and are a cheap source for protein and minerals.... May I, at least, offer you some chocolate-covered ants or grasshoppers?  Crickets? How about some crunchy termites, then?   

6 AM......awakened by a growling stomach, denied food for 12 hours......hunger, abated......yes...corn AND potato AND pasta AND toast.......fueling up for an active Tuesday.....

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having passed out from my earlier carb-fix........a return to 'Balance' for a 1PM switch-up.....green leafs and Ga. fruit......atop a skillet-fried German potato pancake...a Kartoffelpuffer.....hold the applesauce....since I'd have to make that from red delicious apples.....not!

Slender Asian Sesame Asparagus, lightly seared in a light, strained soy sauce, with chili peppers, crushed garlic and grated ginger.....

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MY MY FIRST SLICE OF WATERMELON THIS YEAR! AFTER ALMOST LOSING MY APPETITE FOR IT, WHILE VIEWING COLE ESCOLA'S HOT PINK GETUP "THE TONY AWARDS", LAST NIGHT....

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It's a 'good thing' that I'm not addicted to having foods prepared 'just one way' or by unvaryingly specific Recipes....

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This afternoon, I awakened from a brief nap...and a dream...in which a crew of gardeners was clearing the Wilderness that I call "my yard" to plant a fig tree.....  I was feeling a bit disoriented, but hungry, nonetheless.....and lumbered to the kitchen to 'make something to eat'.    I must have been 'cooking in my sleep', because I awakened, again , in the middle of this cook to discover that I had placed the powdered tumeric into a coffee mug, awaiting the stream of fresh java from the expresso machine,  and had dumped the old, used coffee grounds from their 'pod' into the egg mixture.....I spooned most of the coffee grounds from the eggs and most of the tumeric from the mug into the eggs.....The resulting coffee was drinkable..... if not Turkish Street Coffeehouseworthy....and the Omelet, amended by a squiggle of ketchup, was better than the omelets served at The Pit Stop Gas Station , up the street...... .

Nah!.....edible, if not the best alliance of flavors......Tuna Salad and Avocado on Multi-grain Toast......A 'one time (only) event'.....

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SUBSTITUTION COOKING......'HOW IT LOOKS' IS ALMOST AS IMPORTANT AS "WHAT IT IS"......

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Other than feeling the 'heat prostration' from a trip to The Carter Center Famer's Mkt., The DeKalb Farmer's Mkt. and the Patel Indian Grocery..........I'm 'stocked' up for a week of relative seclusion and quiet.........Alas, after lugging all these new foodstuffs around, I'm too exhausted to cook anything.........Since I'd never cooked Alosinae, I got a pound of shad roe, but left it at the Market, because it had been mislabeled, and was being 'scanned' as filet mignon......another week perhaps......So,,,,polenta/coriander cakes, it is! And that's all right with me....