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

The 'Vegan' version features toasted almond slivers, Tuscan cabbage, seared in walnut oil...then, rolled in Indonesian sweet curried date/raisin chutney and peach salsa....served on a crushed, deep-fried poori  with basil leaves..... The 'Ham' version.....with wasabe-coated dried English peas, pine nuts and Tuscan cabbage, cooked with sunflower seeds, crushed mint leaves and Indonesian barbecue sauce.........  Trial #3.......{sans 'plating decor'}.......with ginger/garlic paste, tomato chutney,  and desiccated, honey-salted okra....   to be served on a thin multi-layered paratha, sprinkled with smoked paprika and smeared with a chili-date-honey-garlic paste..... 

 the necessaire.....dessert! key lime cheesecake with a hazelnut crust......enhanced with strips of prunes, marinated in orange liquor and a thin slice of tangerine, preserved in vodka, infused with bitter orange laraha.... accompanied with Earl Gray tea with twisted orange peel..........

Not often, but today......a 'possible epic fail.....A pie, of 'sorts'......an example of 'not giving up', even when success is highly unlikely.. begin with a too-bitter dark chocolate pie crust, left too long in the oven, then fill it with sliced bamboo shoots from the yard...marinated in sour rice vinegar and sourwood honey....then, cooked in agave syrup & orange liquor, and 'flat' ginger ale, left on the kitchen counter a couple of days ago, thickened with cornstarch.....over a 'bed' of crushed, stale pan puri semolina puffs, then sprinkled with over-dissicated coconut shavings......I'll eat just about anything, rather than waste it to the trash can.......don't know about this one, however....I haven't the will/courage to taste it....yet! Should I risk wasting some really good whipped heavy cream.......to save this concoction? POSTSCRIPT:    The Final Rendition..........I'm somewhat elated that this weird pie was '...

A 'Mickey Mouse After The Car Crash' breakfast, after finishing a writing project on "Mouseketeer Survivors"........crispy butter-fried spinach, leftover cheeses, red bell peppers, in scrambled eggs... with blueberry preserves on English cinnamon raisin muffins.....the much-favored chow was better than the 'waste of time' plethora of words of little importance....soon to hit the curb on 'trash day'......It's good, I think, to write.....just to 'keep in shape' for hope of Poetry to emerge.....May 28 is the 'day' to have finished my current project.....to coincide with Micky Mouse's 'official' birthday......Why not?....that's another motivation, isn't it?

Thai noodles, soaked in hot water, drained, then pan sautéed in toasted sesame oil with lemon grass, plum sauce, chopped parsley, Georgia peach chutney and minced garlic.....rolled into a paratha flatbread disk, cooked in walnut oil, then spread with lime jalapeno guacamole, hoisin jam and tabouli........then laid across a shallow lake of sweet 'n' hot mango habanera sauce with powdered Romano and Parmesan cheeses, honey and Inferno callente pepper sauce........