SO many things that I love. One simple, everyday task that I just love is food…and eating, eating and food. All things food, eating it, cooking it, buying it already cooked, buying it not eaten yet, which is the way I prefer it. Eating satisfies and satiates. Cooking does the same things. Something seems right in the universe when you successfully prepare some sort of food item and then put it in your body. There is also something very special about cooking food for loved ones and enjoying it with them and watching them enjoy it just the same…

I go through food phases when I just can’t get enough of.(fill in the blank) These love affairs last anywhere from a week to a month to a year and beyond. Some food items that I have been obsessed with briefly are pumpkin seeds (which wreck havoc on your digestive system..I don’t know that this is a scientific fact, but scratchy going down, scratchy coming out is a general rule..) Smoked almonds (taste like ham) and Flamin' Hot Cheetos with limon (same rule applies to spicy food as scratchy food…same, same.)

Some foods I will eat all the time cause they are easy and good and make me happy, for example, chips and salsa, microwave popcorn (butter or kettle corn) eggs in any form, hard boiled, soft boiled, scrambled or fried, or popeye..I could write an entire blog of the perfect food item, the Popeye Egg….perfect combination of every stimulating experience of eating and tasting your food, crunchy, salty, buttery, yolky, and if you really know what you’re doing, sweet, cause you put maple syrup on it.



Some foods stand the test of time and are delicious in any capacity. I’m going to talk with you about some of these foods now.

First on the list is Hollandaise Sauce. Have you had this amazing stuff?? How can anything be wrong when egg yolks are involved? The answer is no. Or maybe the answer is, it can’t! Especially when you add butter and lemon juice to the egg yolks and whip the hell out of them until they have made the perfect, silky, creamy velvet scarf of a topping that they were made to be. The only other slightly more perfect emulsification of three ingredients is mayo..but that’s another blog. I made Hollandaise sauce this week and I almost ate it all by the spoon-full…I exercised self control and saved some for the asparagus that I roasted in the oven. What a treat. The only thing that can make Hollandaise sauce better than it is, is when you put it on Eggs Benedict. Can you maybe guess why? Yes, that’s right, more yolk from the poached egg.

**warning!! Two f-words in the clip:)

Another thing I love is egg yolks best friend, Sausage. Any kind..breakfast, Italian, mild, hot, apple, smoked, with sage, with maple, on a pizza, in stuffing..as long as the sausage will eventually make it to my mouth and in my belly I will be fine with it. One thing John forgot to mention that typically comes form a pig is sausage. I’ve never met a sausage I didn’t like. When I was a little girl I loved making breakfast on the weekends. Weekend breakfast is always so much better than school day breakfast. The best part about weekend breakfast is the sausage on the end of my fork, mopping up the egg yolk and maple syrup on my plate and then getting it in my mouth. The same rule applies to bacon, bacon is also good. If there is somehow a pancake involved in the sitiuation, even better. Or a waffle. Or French Toast...all good things.


Gelato. Gelato is Italian for Ice Cream, but it’s not the same as American Ice Cream. Gelato is Ice Cream's better-looking Italian cousin. The presentation is even Italian. Think Versace compared to the Gap. It looks so pretty sitting there in the case, you almost don't want to eat in, but you do. It is made differently, so therefore it's different. Gelato is amazing because it is so creamy and delicious and robust and full of flavor. Gelato is mixed slower than ice cream, so there is less air, lending a smooth, dense texture that seems creamier than ice cream. Another fun fact about gelato, it has less fat than ice cream, so there is less fat to coat your mouth, resulting in a more intense flavor experience. My favorite flavor of gelato I've had so far is Salted Carmel; bittersweet, smooth, creamy and luxuriously delicious.  One last thing that is really special about gelato are those cute little plastic spoons they give you. Down to the last detail, gelato is good.

I find it funny that I chose to write about delicious foods this week.  I find this funny because on Monday I start a week-long juice fast. I started a draft of this blog on Tuesday and it's now Saturday evening. I decided to do a juice fast yesterday. Starting out on any endeavor where indulging the senses, particularly the emotional eater sense, will be harnessed in an attempt to cleanse the system of toxins, gives one anxiety. I fear especially, failure. One must remind oneself that one week in the course of a life is an extremely short amount of time. One also must remind oneself that food will be consumed again, and that denying oneself of food will only heighten the other less-used senses. All in all I am looking forward to this week, I feel that I am on the verge of some great awareness only brought to light by drinking beet juice...
I'll keep you posted.