Luncheon, the day after emptying the contents of several bottles of 'stuff' from the fridge.......

 Watching Bobby Flay's "in the mood for a French Countryside-style brunch picnic", I was motivated, not having eaten in 17 hours, to recreate his delicious "fast and easy food" picnic items...... First up a bottle of Premiere Cru, a Tomato Tart drizzled with fresh herbaceous oil, Home Fries cooked in duck fat (Sarladaise Home Fries), Hard Boiled Eggs With Olive Tapenade and Orange French Yogurt Cake With a Marmalade Glaze, And to cleanse the palate, a pitcher of homemade Citronnade a la Menthe, a light mint lemonade. My motives, as usual, were more complex than just either being hungry or being hungry for some Provence Fare.........Doing an accounting of time and materials cost, I went to Whole Foods, gathered up the ingredients and returned to my kitchen.......3 hours later, a replication of Bobby's super high calorie mini-feast was on the table......My kitchen is a mess.....another hour of cleaning up.......and my wallet is out 100 bucks.....The Ugly American equivalent would be a bottle of grocery store wine, frozen pizza, McDonalds' fries, grocery plastic pack of deviled eggs, Sara Lee pound cake with Smuckers marmalade and a pitcher of Minute Maid lemonade........not so much clean up.....lots of paper and plastic garbage for the landfills.....and the increased likelihood of obesity, heart disease and cancer........but with a savings of 60 bucks......