If there is food involved, I’m generally there. If it’s good food, I want to be all over it. When we go to potluck kinds of events, I like to know who prepared what just to check out their creative cooking skills.
On the other hand, Â it’s pretty clear that I’ve not missed many meals in my lifetime. I often use a favorite joke:
I’m in shape! Round IS a shape, ya know…
Or, another favorite:
I have the shape of a god: Buddha!
I also put food into a few generic categories:
- Food that’s good for you (and generally has that “taste” to it)
- Breakfast foods
- Foods eaten at mealtimes
- Desserts and snacks
I haven’t found much that I would put into the “favorite” category that also fits in the “good for you” category. Usually, if something is good for you, they’ve taken out the stuff that makes it satisfying, such as fat and sugar. There’s a Roland Smith Minimum Daily Requirement that the “good for you” foods seldom meet.
I really like breakfast foods and quite often when Nina and I are fending for ourselves for dinner, I’ll make something requiring syrup or something requiring milk and sugar.
I’m not so fond of lunch foods. Most sandwiches aren’t interesting to me at all.
I enjoy eating out for either breakfast or dinner (and will occasionally have breakfast for dinner if the restaurant offers that option). Usually I’ll have either a steak or will have pasta of some sort.
Two of my daughters make absolutely fabulous caramels and those rank very high on my favorite list. Nina is also an excellent cook and my favorite restaurant is at our dining table. I’m pretty much a meat and potatoes person, but my favorite Nina-prepared food includes salmon, chicken casserole, and spaghetti. Nina likes to have a wide variety of foods. I’m quite content to eat pretty much the same things over and over again.
But, in the end, I will have to confess that Nina’s chocolate chip cookies are by far my favorite. They must be food … they have all the important food groups represented: flour, eggs, milk, chocolate…. And my favorite batch of cookies will be the next batch that comes out of the oven. Umm, good!
Ta ta for now!