Sometimes, I feel the need to back off when it comes to food. I tend to want to do things a bit high falutin'. Not five star or anything, but not Hamburger Helper. I think that's been pretty well documented.
An example of this insanity can be seen in this tidbit of an email I wrote to Scarlet Lily yesterday:
Sometimes, my yuppie moments just make me laugh. M and T both have colds, so I'm doing NOTHING unnecessary in an attempt to keep myself well. Thus, I am having a grand old' time perusing food blogs and one of my Alice Waters books.
Upon reading the following sentence, I rolled my eyes at the absurdity of my life:
An individual pizza with a baked egg makes a great main course for an autumnal weekend lunch.
Who actually writes sentences like that?
And what kind of yuppie jerk wad buys the nonsense and reads it multiple times?
Despite that exchange yesterday...despite the fact that I patted out some goat cheese rounds and started marinating them in fresh herbs for tonight's Baked Goat Cheese salad...I knew M wasn't feeling well, and I wanted something simple for supper, and I had planned on having blueberry pancakes, but T had eaten all the blueberries, so I made Baked Cinnamon Roll Pancakes.
Fancy they were not. Not in the least. Delicious they were. Yes indeed. Cinnamon and butter and brown sugar all baked into gooey fabulousness in a pancake then coated in maple glaze. The family happily gave their stamps of approval. And they were probably silently grateful that I didn't try to feed them the Shaved Asparagus and Parmesan salad I was eyeing in that Alice Waters book.
2 comments:
I'm thoroughly enjoying the fact that you can can go from "patting out goat cheese rounds" one night to essentially serving cake for dinner another night.
FYI - "Patting out goat cheese rounds" is as yuppie a culinary sentence as "autumnal weekend lunch." :)
I think that rather than "yuppie" you are just an "epicurean"...don't you think?
Cooked the fish tacos tonight. So tasty! Especially with a nice sharp poblano pepper. Thanks for the recommendation. Quick, tasty and healthy are all aokay in my book.
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