Cooking And Eating....“Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es”

sugar and fat so satisfy the cover for the needs inside rip back the cover see what it hides. but, don't rock the boat you'll make me spill my MacShake. go bed with the chickens 'n wake up at four. or stay up late n' they'll show you the door. what's that choking sound? it's Santa stuck in the chimney.  the way out is the way in. so many doors, so few destinations.    xmas has mixed the 7th seal, ted and bill's bogus journey, what a wonderful life, and quasi at the Trockadero,   dumped this goop  into a potato sack, formed it to the shape of a Jane Austin heroine, painted and decorated it and  placed it at  Martha Stewart's  xmas table, lit by tall red tapers. um, um!   that eggnog looks so rich and creamy..... no, wait!   here's another xmas box of MacNuggets. rewax your wings and keep flying.    

I just attempted a re-creation of my Grandmother's spicy crowder peas, topped with a potato pancake, laden with grated parmesan cheese, sour cream and scallions......of course, she would never have used dried potato flakes!.....I confess!.....and, I'm sure, she'd never heard of coriander or dried sunflower seeds......and she would have fried the 'cakes' in lard, of course....not olive oil!

  The natural diet of chicken, America's most popular animal protein 'product', consists of flies, larvae, worms, decaying corpses and ants, and wild-caught trout gets its protein from insects".. That's often why fish leap out of the water.....In the not too future, our burgeoning human populations, having devoured 90% of the World's 'classier' animals, will have to resort to eating lower forms of life.....much, much lower.......like processed fleas, worms, maggots and larvae.....you get the picture........As much as I like 'gourmet' cooking and 'fine' dining....I have no problem that this scenario........After all.....it seems more humane to spare baby goats and beef 'veal' from our industrial carnivorousness.......make way for companies like Protix Biosystems and Agriprotein to supplant Industrial Muscle Meat Production......Anyone for fried tofu with insect larvae?

best yet.....Gourmand's cold collards, black truffles, Kunzler roasted, then marinated in prune, vidalia onion and vinegar reduction, bacon....with grape must and jet black balsamic vinegar reduction/glaze..( or...Delallo Modenacrem Balsamic Glaze)....now, where are those roasted pine nuts? Definitely a 'step up' from 'Lucy's home-style collard greens with Heinz' white apple cider vinegar'

quicko hors d'oeuvre for afternoon teatime with a sudden and unexpected guest........a Ritz cracker and tuna salad with dill, chopped parsley, celery seeds, cilantro, marjoram, sliced scallion, a touch of mayo and spicy stone-ground mustard, atop a dandelion leaf from the rainy front yard.......i could snarf down a dozen of these were it not for the company of my politely reticent guest, who was 'just stuffed' after a couple of these....and a 3" mini pumpkin tart with 3 oz of expresso........

blazin' hot luncheon of thick bean soup, with diced tomatoes, potatoes, speckled butterbeans, crowder peas, Italian flat beans, fire-roasted red peppers, raisins and apricots....seasoned with coriander seeds, cumin, coriander paste, ginger, cloves and powdered bay leaves......