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

                      and are less costly than the junk food that Americans, increasingly, procure at drive-through windows of Fast Food Joints, across our Country......    

                                      My response to Gordon Ramsay's  30 minutes to  'Use Your Noodle' challenge on Next Level Chef ....

  Sliced sirloin with grilled corn.....avocados, cherry tomatoes and cilantro creme sauce over a bed of mixed greens.....

Last minute pre-symphony 'light dinner' a tasty slaw with vegan 'meat'balls, dried fruits, nuts and seeds and avocado ......'dressed' with a hoisin/red curry paste and plum sauce mix.....to alert the senses for Giancarlo Guerrero's animated conducting of the ASO's performance of fandangos, tangos and blaring trumpets.....

      A 'FULLY EQUIPPED' HAMBURGER........MEDIUM-RARE AND JUICY......       Another 'don't get any on you' challenge......the Pita Gyro Wrap, with a 'napkin in one's lap'....

  TO WHICH I ADDED A GLOB OF FANCY, PIQUANT SAUCE AND SOME SALTY CAPERS, AFTER PLACING THE 'CAKE' UPON A DECORATIVE PLATE.......

after 12 hours of cooling down.......a pot of pinto beans, cooked for a couple of hours, with green chilis, chopped oil-cured tomatoes..as well as diced, varying-colored, cherry tomatoes, Mole sauce with powdered, unsweetened Ghirardelli cocoa, salsa verde, crushed garlic, and vegetable stock......served over long grain basmati rice, cooked in chicken stock with a copious amount of powdered tumeric, spoonfuls of yellow curry powder, harissa and red chili powders, grated scallion bulbs, chopped cilantro & parsley, and thin-sliced scallion greens, then 'topped' with old-fashioned pickle relish.......Still, perhaps, one of my favorite 'dishes' since boyhood........best, served with a crunchy iron-skillet cornbread stick that's light and airy....and fresh from the oven....

 

               THAT MY GRANDMOTHER HAD MADE 'SAUSAGE GRAVY ON CRUNCHY-BOTTOM BISCUIT HALVES', SPRINKLED WITH COARSE-GROUND BLACK PEPPER.....A 'COUNTRY-COOKING FAVORITE OF BOTH HER CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN.......WHICH WAS A 'KID'S FAVORITE'....BEFORE WE'D EVER HEARD OF PIZZA .   

                   AN OPPORTUNITY TO DINE WITH THE BLACK/WHITE BOWLS AND PLATES!  

  THIS POTENTIAL SATISFACTION MUST WAIT, HOWEVER.....SINCE I'M NOT INCLINED...TODAY...TO MAKE AN 'OUTING' TO SHOP FOR FOOD SUPPLIES.... I RETURNED THE MUFFIN TIN TO THE WALL HOOK AND 'SETTLED' FOR SOME PBJ'S  ON RITZ CRACKERS... and.......just now......a couple of  samosas, drizzled with tamarind/ginger chutney and a small 'side bowl' of Thai red curry paste.......

             mixed vegetables (sugar & snap peas, carrots, broccoli, kale, scallion greens, bok choy and Brussels sprouts), cooked in a medieval ginger/garlic  broth of bone marrow and stock,  then drizzled with a thick teriyaki sauce....

AS THE LEGEND GOES,  'JESUS FEEDING HIS TWELVE DEVOTEES WITH A DOUBLE CAN OF TINNED TUNA, SERVED ON A TOASTED BUN.....WAY BEFORE THE CREATION OF CHOCOLATE BUNNIES.'    LATER IN THE DAY.....'TAKE TWO'   ...THIS TIME, ON TOASTED SOURDOUGH BREAD, WITH SLICED CHERRY TOMATOES, RATHER THAN SLICED HEIRLOOMS.              And....What did the sceptics, standing at the back of the Crowd of Devotees get???                                 A 'half a slice', perhaps.....and, not likely to have been served from a porcelain plate...or with  sprigs of cilantro.....This is a crowd-pleaser,  'bait and switch' photo, of course.....