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

 

my 'take' on Miss Ann Price's "Ghettoburger"......a Chiabatta roll, hollowed out, smeared with Lee Kum Kee Sriracha Mayo, then filled with a MR burger patty, covered with molten cheddar cheese; sliced mushrooms and garlic....cooked in butter and bacon grease;.....spicy, coarse-ground French dark mustard; spicy pickle relish; tabouli and salsa de tomate.... [and a nail to add another belt loop....... ] Like Comment Share

Lazy cooking......perhaps the last super-hardy soup of the winter......a gumbo with blueberries, field peas, yellow corn, green beans, okra, tomatoes, dried floured date bits, garlic, onions, celery and various peppers, thickened with coarse white grits and Nebraska white corn flour....seasoned with shredded chicken, prosciutto, garum, Creole seasoning mix and every dried herb in the larder.....

the 'upside' of avoiding the crowded grocers and farmer's markets......much of the larger of canned 'goods' is being turned into culinary delectations .......black strap molasses, hearts of palm, artichoke hearts, Saus Kacang Hitam, pickled mangos, 'canned' snails, sweet lime pickles are being 'can openered' and becoming agents of innovative cooking.....Khakhara wheat crisps, methigota mix, powdered gorgonzola and dried fenugreek leaves....'standard' Pantry Stuff.....like 'thread' vermicelli, bow-tie spinach noodles and Eagle Brand Milk.......A good time to 'clean out' the shelves.....for the new 'empty' look......I remember a time when my mother did not leave her home, answer the phone or door...or have any contact with the 'outside'...existing on the many shelves of food that had accumulated during the "Soviet Threat", when Americans were hoarding food in Fallout Shelters, add-on 'storage' r...

Clockwise from top: crickets, Manchurian scorpions, Japanese hornets, black ants, vespula flaviceps (Japanese wasps), silkworm pupae, palm weevils and locusts from the pantry of Joseph Yoon at Brooklyn Bugs. Credit...

so...instead.....some caramelized apples and pears in a buttery,  egg-cream-filled pastry.......