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

Fortunately, I love granola with nuts and dried fruit!      Hold the 'double cheese' Pizza and 'deep-fried' Everything..........   Lunch, today, will be granola, apricots, coconut, raisins, ginger, walnuts, almonds, dates and figs..........  to 'balance' the excesses of Yesterday......It's all in the 'Numbers', says the Doctor!   

Shrimp cooked in toasted sesame oil and butter,  turmeric, French herbs,   ground peppers, sea salt,  and chopped garlic.....with a 'porridge' of brown rice and shredded coconut,   cooked in vegetable stock, seasoned with clarified butter, cilantro,  thyme, chopped parsley & cilantro.....then drizzled with pan drippings from the shrimp to which a spoonful of Peri-Peri sauce was added......   

  I can't keep away from the kitchen today........5 hours to make a few 'appetizers'......this is the 3rd 'course', of 6........Greek lemon eggdrop soup; seafood 'salad' of crab/lobster/shrimp/flounder on a bed of spicy mixed greens and super-thin sliced shitake mushrooms with shaved orange beets and roquefort cheese; 'mojo' panko encrusted marinated Cuban steak, pickled beets, asparagus in sesame oil and ground orange and red peppercorns, wild carrots cooked in rosemary, thyme and sourwood honey; vegetable 'plate' of assorted ugli tomatoes, see-through thin purple carrot slices on quinoa, Indonesian style, field green salad with chopped cilantro stems, pickled orange rinds, walnuts and toasted pine nuts and Gorgonzola cheese crumbles......and, of course, Dessert! Apricot and dark, bitter chocolate truffle with salty macadamia nuts and candied ginger along with homemade mango iced heavy cream, sweetened with orange and tangerine liquors

moulded steamed ,brown rice and quinoa with black currants, eggplant and bell pepper bits, topped with pear/mango chutney; Chicken tenderloins with green curry on one side and jalfrezi sauce, sambal mahda and shredded coconut on the other; dried english peas with hot chilis and mixed wild greens in white prelibato vinegar and pine nuts roasted with black walnut oil.....the China is an older Mikasa pattern, 'Royal Glimmer', after Gustav Klimt.......silver is "Cactus" by Georg Jensen......table is by Franz Ritter von Stuck......beverage, not pictured, was pink grapefruit juice with absinthe and angustoro bitters and a splash of black cherry vodka...with a twist of orange peel....

Endometrial Omelet.....many ingredients, including yam gnocchi Moroccan style and sweet roasted yellow corn and pimento chutney, dissicated spicy okra and Bhindi masala and 5 varieties of Asian peas, beans in green curry sauce, and peppers, upon a Malabari Paratha, enveloped by a translucent Vietnamese rice flour spring roll skin......

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screw the cheese omelet!.......having what 'I really want for breakfast' will alleviate my anxiety........Listening to NPR, as I was folding egg yolks into whipped egg whites, while coursing through a cheese omelet plan........the constant, obsessive radio chatter about the 'end of the world as we know it', by politicians ......expanding their bank accounts for some big time 'fattening'.....I thought: "have some damned fruit pie with a 'lard' crust.....".a reward for having been 'isolated', which hasn't been so challenging, actually.....but, more for not having left the house at all since the viral pandemic.....get out the insulin pump! ....Oh, coffee!.....that'll do!

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I needed a little forest honey....the dark, golden honeydew secretion of tree lice...... wooden-ladled from my silver wine-taster's bowl at teatime, today.....onto some crunchy, caramelized 'beaten' biscuits......