Happiness and Despair through Food
I have had some wonderful highs and lows in the land of food as of late. As was mentioned in the last post, I recently went home for about a week and a half or so. Right before that trip home I bought some sliced mushrooms in the store. It was an unwise move as I hadn't even unwrapped the container before it was time for me to fly off. However, not wanting to lose out on what would undoubtedly be taste-a-licious mushrooms, I decided to make the freezer their new home while I was away. If any of you have attempted this before you know that that was a foolish mistake on my part. Very foolish =-(.
I returned from the scorching heat of the Central Valley with my head full of an assortment of thoughts. "Thank God the weddings over!;" "Damn I have a lot of crap to unpack.;" " Dude - I sooooo need to get a job!;" "I hope my precious mushrooms are okay." So I opened up the freezer and saw that what had once been strong, white mushrooms had turned into shrivelly-dark something-or-rathers =-(. I figured if I returned them to their former residence (the refrigerator) things would look up once they had time to defrost. That thought proved to be nothing more than misguided wishful thinking on my part. The next day I tried to sample one, and it looked dreadful (perhaps like a squishy brown slug), but the taste was that of a waterlogged mushroom (faint mushroom flavor anyways) that had seen better days. I did not give up on my squishy brown something-or-rathers! I had bought lettuce and other salad makings and decided to attempt to place some of the beasts onto my salad. Sadly I had to admit that there was just no way. They were slimey and disgusting to touch and I kept thinking of slugs, and the small smattering of flavor that still clung to the something-or-rather just wasn't enough. It was then that I made the painful (but wise) decision to dispose of the remaining 95% of the once beautiful mushrooms =-(. So I have learned a sad lesson, and hopefully by reading this you can avoid ever making the same error.
But what about the Happiness you spoke of Shababbler? You said it was both happiness and despair! Yes, it's true.....there have been some very happy food moments since I have returned. Perhaps the Food Gods are telling me that even when mushroom errors go too far, other tastebud miracles can dance around you and lift your gastronomic spirits =-).
On Friday I strolled into a supermarket in an effort to get just one thing. Whatever that one thing was I forget, but of course it turned into several things finding their way into my basket. I went to the salad dressing isle and I debated buying another dressing. I had one I had bought cheaply somewhere that just didn't float my boat. As I eyed the Newman's Own I debated splurging and buying another dressing. But when you have no job and you already have dressing at home, forking out that $3.50 for something that sounds good, but that may, in reality, suck, is something you have to debate. What if I didn't like the taste? It's such a risk on dressings (new ones anyways) - you take a leap of faith when you buy one, hoping that the flavor will be all you had hoped for. So I boldy took the risk and picked up the Light Sesame Ginger dressing with Paul Newman's animated face sporting a rice-paddy hat and a foo-man-choo mustache.
Before I left the store I saw an insanely reasonable - if not downright cheap - price on blueberry's. I love blueberry's!!! Love them, love them, love them!!!! And getting this larger container was actually cheaper than the smaller one with my club card =-). So I bought the hefty container of yummy blueberry's. Yay blueberry's!!! However, the disturbing thing about the blueberry's is that in less than 24 hours I almost ate the whole container. Nearly more than a pound of blueberry's!!!! Seriously. I just showed Gwen how many I had eaten and she was shocked. I really should be blue at this point.
But what about the Newman's Own Sesame Ginger dressing Shababbler? How was it? In a word......amazing! It was/is spectacular and delicious and everything my tastebuds had hoped for and more!!!!!!!!! Woohoo!!!!! And it's fat free!
So there you have my highs and lows in the land of food over the last week. Depressing and delicious, but lessons have been learned and tastebuds have rejoiced in happiness =-).
I returned from the scorching heat of the Central Valley with my head full of an assortment of thoughts. "Thank God the weddings over!;" "Damn I have a lot of crap to unpack.;" " Dude - I sooooo need to get a job!;" "I hope my precious mushrooms are okay." So I opened up the freezer and saw that what had once been strong, white mushrooms had turned into shrivelly-dark something-or-rathers =-(. I figured if I returned them to their former residence (the refrigerator) things would look up once they had time to defrost. That thought proved to be nothing more than misguided wishful thinking on my part. The next day I tried to sample one, and it looked dreadful (perhaps like a squishy brown slug), but the taste was that of a waterlogged mushroom (faint mushroom flavor anyways) that had seen better days. I did not give up on my squishy brown something-or-rathers! I had bought lettuce and other salad makings and decided to attempt to place some of the beasts onto my salad. Sadly I had to admit that there was just no way. They were slimey and disgusting to touch and I kept thinking of slugs, and the small smattering of flavor that still clung to the something-or-rather just wasn't enough. It was then that I made the painful (but wise) decision to dispose of the remaining 95% of the once beautiful mushrooms =-(. So I have learned a sad lesson, and hopefully by reading this you can avoid ever making the same error.
But what about the Happiness you spoke of Shababbler? You said it was both happiness and despair! Yes, it's true.....there have been some very happy food moments since I have returned. Perhaps the Food Gods are telling me that even when mushroom errors go too far, other tastebud miracles can dance around you and lift your gastronomic spirits =-).
On Friday I strolled into a supermarket in an effort to get just one thing. Whatever that one thing was I forget, but of course it turned into several things finding their way into my basket. I went to the salad dressing isle and I debated buying another dressing. I had one I had bought cheaply somewhere that just didn't float my boat. As I eyed the Newman's Own I debated splurging and buying another dressing. But when you have no job and you already have dressing at home, forking out that $3.50 for something that sounds good, but that may, in reality, suck, is something you have to debate. What if I didn't like the taste? It's such a risk on dressings (new ones anyways) - you take a leap of faith when you buy one, hoping that the flavor will be all you had hoped for. So I boldy took the risk and picked up the Light Sesame Ginger dressing with Paul Newman's animated face sporting a rice-paddy hat and a foo-man-choo mustache.
Before I left the store I saw an insanely reasonable - if not downright cheap - price on blueberry's. I love blueberry's!!! Love them, love them, love them!!!! And getting this larger container was actually cheaper than the smaller one with my club card =-). So I bought the hefty container of yummy blueberry's. Yay blueberry's!!! However, the disturbing thing about the blueberry's is that in less than 24 hours I almost ate the whole container. Nearly more than a pound of blueberry's!!!! Seriously. I just showed Gwen how many I had eaten and she was shocked. I really should be blue at this point.
But what about the Newman's Own Sesame Ginger dressing Shababbler? How was it? In a word......amazing! It was/is spectacular and delicious and everything my tastebuds had hoped for and more!!!!!!!!! Woohoo!!!!! And it's fat free!
So there you have my highs and lows in the land of food over the last week. Depressing and delicious, but lessons have been learned and tastebuds have rejoiced in happiness =-).
posted by The Shababbler at 1:49 PM
1 Comments:
". I love blueberry's!!! And getting this larger container was actually cheaper than the smaller one with my club card "
I love most berries, I like going to CostCo and getting the flats of Strawberries and Raspberries! I have to be careful or I'll eat all 4+ lbs of them in one day. :-o
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