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

  one last 'production' before kitch en clean up time.....iron skillet chicken cooked in walnut oil with scallions, ginger, tomatillo paste, garlic, orange bell and habanero peppers, corn chile, blackberries, red jalapenos, garlic and sourwood honey with a matching mound of nutty brown rice with cilantro, lemon juice, paprika and powdered chipotle.... .......the taste pinnacle of this week's 'kitchen stadium' experimentation.....to balance hot, sweet, sour, bitter, nutty, fruity and meaty......the scale's 'needle' is exactly on Zero....This little piggy had chicken thighs.....then, already home, had a big mess to clean up!

I am so adverse to the mass usage of 'disposable' plasticware, that...for years....I carried my own personal silver, in a fitted leather box.........I recently gave this set to a good friend, who had been enamored for decades with it......Now, he is the one that gets teased by his friends for this 'seeming' affectation......which is really not only practical and aesthetic, but enables the partial avoidance of disposable plastics........For a while, Trader Joe's gave a 'discount' to those who brought their own grocery bags......but due to their clients' expressing disapproval......has become like other 'grocers'.......encouraging the wasting of paper products.......the 'tipping point' for this practice of wasting paper and plastic was reached some time ago....and this ecologically unsound practice has become a part of our, and much of the rest of the 'civilized' world's Cultural Mindset........I am currently making every effort...

...a concoction of pan-roasted potatoes, corn, red peppers, speckled butterbeans, fava beans, asparagus, broccolini, mushrooms, and yellow tomatoes...with a 'harissa' of red peppers, ancho chili, jalapeno peppers, tumeric, ground scallions, and garlic.......Spicy enough to wake the dead...which is me...at mid-afternoon.......and a 'palate-cooler' of black cherry jello with bananas, walnuts, ginger, Galliano and Absinthe.......

during this morning's delving into forgottenness, a clear memory, stored in a little memory module.....just a few chemical strands of 'memory' were enough........of being kidnapped, at 5, and taken to the Greyhound Bus Station, where I was fed spicy yellow cornbread with beans, in their pot liquor....and a shake or two of tabasco sauce.......So....I made some spicy buttermilk cornbread with jalapeno peppers....topped with some really hot, spicy peach and peppers salsa, over vegan re-fried pinto beans.....more to my current tastes.......I'm certain that today's concoction is far tastier than the navy beans and cornbread at the bus station.......There was no 'weirdness' or 'perversion'...no 'child-molestation'....just a 'free lunch'....then a ride to my Grandparent's house, where my Grandmother had made some 'candy' bacon for her grandchildren.......which, as a calorie-burning 5 year-old....was just in time to satisfy my gru...

  After watching a 'Flatbread' challenge on The Great British Baking Show......I awakened and made this delicious b'fast of sliced, rare roast beef, mixed leaf salad greens, crushed tomatoes, Frisco sauce (mayonnaise, soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, brown sugar and ground pepper), smashed roquefort crumbles......with a touch of 'dragon' sauce to earn the plate it was devoured from......rolled up in garlic naan, pan caramelized in walnut oil, for more 'nuttiness'. then heated in an iron skillet....followed by Matcha aisu kurīmu, a creamy green tea-flavored iced cream and a cup of expresso made from the remaining 'civet' coffee beans that had fallen behind the Barista machine......