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

      Currently, the 'Mix' is one of Grape-Nuts, whole grain wheat flakes, yellow corn grits Honey Oak Crunch, sliced prunes...rolled in powdered and grated coconut, English walnuts, golden raisins....and, perhaps, sliced dried apricots and/or dates....swimming in a bowl of chocolate oak milk.......Such was the journey from Rice Krispies and whole milk, sprinkled with white cane sugar....as a child.....

A LAUGHING CROISSANT,  A SMILING STOUT PASTRY PIE WEARING A DICK TRACY HAT, AND A 3-HEADED PREHISTORIC FLYING SEAFOOD CREATURE.

                                  'COOKING BRUSSELS SPROUTS' WILL, USUALLY, DO THAT JOB......

                               I'll have this one, with blackberry preserves ...for the kajillion and oneth!   

Peanut Butter & Co. Spread , Kirkland Almond Butter , Sun Butter Sunflower Seed Butter and Nutella .....on slices of Kroger Bakery Blueberry/Chocolate Muffins . I devoured all four, of course, without declaring a 'winner'.

https://www.misfitsmarket.com/terms-of-service or....   do most of us just 'check the box', then...supply MISFITS with our personal data...insuring the plethora of advertising that will surely follow....?   

Chile Relleno Wontons with Jalapeño Soy Sauce showed up, an hour late, at lunch time, today, just as I had 'filled up' on stone-ground Oatmeal with Golden Raisins, chopped dried Apricots, grated cinnamon and crystallized ginger, dumped as an Island, surrounded by a lake of yellow sea salted Chocolate Almond Milk... these wide-eyed, and hungry mother and baby  Fruit Bats would have delighted in the sweet Island of Delights, wouldn't they, Yacine?  

....to have been eaten with unusual dining implements.....[none of which was served, however.....so, I downed it all.....today.....] 'further processing'....leftover liver, cut into cubes with the new knife,  then mounted atop some macaroni and white cheddar cheese......

                               TEA FOR THREE TIME.....WITHIN EACH OF THESE MINIATURE APPLE TURNOVERS IS ONE OF THREE  MINIATURE PLASTIC PLAYING CARDS.....A ' TEN OF DIAMONDS ', A ' KING OF SPADES ' AND A ' FIVE OF HEARTS '.....THREE TEATIME GUESTS ARE REQUESTED TO SELECT A PASTRY WITH A SILVER SPEAR, THEN REVEAL THE CARD THAT WAS WITHIN; AFTER WHICH, THE TRADITIONAL TAROT MEANINGS OF THEIR SELECTIONS ARE REVEALED....SOME HUMOROUS HOCUS-POCUS, OF COURSE..... IS THAT A 'RABBIT'S FOOT' ON YOUR KEYCHAIN, MR. 1?  DID YOU 'KNOCK ON WOOD' BEFORE MAKING YOUR SELECTION, MR. 2?  AND, MS. 3, DO YOU THINK YOU 'HAD NO CHOICE'?  UNSCREWUP YOUR FACE.... YOU DID GET ' THE KING OF HEARTS ', AFTER ALL,  AFTER SLIPPING IT FROM THE DECK, YOU SUBSTITUTIONAL   CHEATER!    

                          A PRECURSOR TO A 4 COURSE  SALADLESS MEAL,  TO BE SERVED AT 8......

I think it's 'restaurant' or 'take out' time, after dropping a huge crockery bottle of truffle oil, which ran under the stove....then slipping in the oil slick, dropping a bowl of biscuit dough onto the stove's hot burner, instinctively reaching to remove that mess, and pulling a stack of papers from the counter...into the oil........then, of course, having to clean all this up!     The Parmesan baked truffle fries with Charleston style beaten biscuits and apple butter are 'off' the table for this evening......and I had 'plans' for that gorgeous bottle, now in pieces on the kitchen floor.......I was tempted, [having watched a National Geographic program about 'Water'.....wherein women walked miles to a mud hole, soaked rags in the water, then...walked miles back 'home', where they wrung the water from the cloth into large gourds].....to soak up the oil with an old T-shirt, wring the oil out into a bowl and cook with it anyway........

A rolling wheel of Spicy Salmon Tartare with blackberries and avocado,  a crescent of Steak Tartare upon an herb oil with a black caviar  tuille,  &  a Pan-Roasted Beef Fillet, Dauphine Potato, Charred Asparagus & Red Wine Jus A beautifully cooked beef fillet, blushing pink and tender, paired with silky piped potato, smoky charred asparagus, earthy mushrooms, and a rich, glossy red wine jus.

.....WAS MORE INSTANTLY REWARDING THAN THE COMPLICATED BREAKFAST THAT I DESIGNED, WHILE SLEEPING & DREAMING,  STILL ABED, THIS MORNING...... AS I SWITCH UP SUNRISE DINING FOR AFTERNOON TEA.    

....My 'mess o' kale' , skillet-cooked in water, seasoned with red balsamic vinaigrette, hot chili oil, Mike's 'hot honey' and pomegranate dressing.....heated, until no longer 'soupy'....then, sliced scallions, chopped sweet pickled ginger, toasted sunflower seeds, crushed salted dry 'Harvest Snacks' green pea pods, a single strip of broken-up fried bacon, some previously-cooked basmanti rice with pineapple and sliced, boiled okra are added....the concoction is reduced, again, and a bit of yellow corn kernals, three or four chopped cherry tomatos, a dollop of coriander paste and a handful of roasted pumpkin seeds then added.....Did I get this 'right', Grandma?

                                                                 HAVING EVOLVED FROM ITS HUMBLE ORIGINS ON A HAMBURGER BUN, WITH A 'SIDE' OF COLE SLAW.......

                            Always....make Art, when you can.....and don't toss the peelings.....candy them!  

a modest portion of lemon cake with blueberry preserves supplanted the huge slice of leftover, overly-sugary 'white wedding cake' that I was eyeing, earlier this morning...but tossed to a neighbor's 'I'll gobble up anything' dog. The 'blue' beetle brooch, missing its pin back........now, serves its post as a cake decoration, as though it were arranging blueberries....