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BULLETPROOF COFFEE.........

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gazing into these fat globules, I likened them, imaginarily, to clusters of Universes as 'seen' by the next generation of Space Telescopes.....a relatively long-distance view through a hair-thin 'straw' of a trillion trillionth of the 'Big Picture'  at celestial manifestations of Matter that have ceased to exist...billions of years before we 'see' them....... .....made with the heavy cream 'plug' at the top of non-homogenized high-fat milk......to oil some creaking joints ....or.......to 'up' waist size? The portable Sharper Image 'Step-master' should insure the first.....sitting in a chair on a foam 'ass pillow' would insure the second......after 'jolting' up on the java, I spent ten minutes on the cardio-stepmaster device.....listening to some strict-time Nickyi Minaj pop-junk...that I wanted to 'hurry up and get THAT over with'........and burn off enough fat calories to, guilt-free, wolf down the choco...

THE MISMARKED LOIN IN ITS THREE CULINARY TRANSFORMATIONS

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fresh from the oven.....a French-Style roasted Pork Tenderloin that was mismarked @ Kroger, for $2.97.... cooked in cognac, a couple of dozen herbs and spices and the last of the Worchester Sauce, A-1 Sauce and Peppery Indonesian Sambal Badjak, Satay sauce, garlic and onion powders and Babi Kecap.....final culinary destinations....yet under consideration....W hile this 'rested'......I poured some cognac into the 'drippings', added some dried sliced portabella mushrooms, some pomegranate liquor and 'squeezed' vidalia onion juice, a little corn starch and ground green peppercorns to make a sauce...to be combined , later, in the blender.......and used the last half cup of 'drippings' to pan fry some small purple potatoes.....now, to 'break up' all that 'brownness'.....something, as yet undecided....Green to surround the completed project......chopped scallion greens and ?? ....the mushrooms were a bit saltier than I like....even after burnin...

GOAT'S HEAD STEW ON SPICY CHOPPED CABBAGE AND CARROT SLAW

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summer luncheon with a production expense of $2.......

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yellow corn grit-encrusted chicken thigh with herbed fingerlings, fried garlic, rosemary & basil leaves... and Indonesian spicy Cole slaw.........

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                                                              More basil is even Better 

HOT FOOD IN THE SUMMERTIME.......SERVED, AT ROOM TEMPERATURE....OR COLD......

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  As though it were not hot enough, today........how about some Hannibal Chili with fava beans, chopped tomatoes, minced garlic, every chopped herb in the kitchen, rasam powder, sweet chili sauce, pad Thai sauce, oyster sauce, ground peppercorns, Cajun seasoning, dehydrated chopped onions, golden raisins, Scotch bonnet peppers and, of course, chili powder....lots of it ....and 'topped' with molten Mexican cheeses..... consumed from/with crunchy sweet yam tortilla chips........a 'side' of cole slaw mollifies the 'heat'....... breakfast variation on 'leftovers'.......halved thin-skin yellow potato, microwaved, smashed, then pan 'browned' in avocado oil, then sprinkled with herbs and ground pepper, piled high with Hannibal chili and crowned with a puree of tomatoes, sweet  mango salsa, garlic and hot peppers...

Fini! ....some sweet plum sauce mollifiying the sprouts' natural bitterness, and some grated parmesan cheese and diced, aged pancetta adds enough, but not 'too much', salt...... chopped grape tomatoes adding some acidity and color...

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                                  Project "Make a Dish that resembles a 17thC Flemish painting"