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31 Day Meme
Oct. 5th, 2013 03:04 pmTen of My Favorite Foods (not my ten favorite foods; who could choose? LOL)
1. The pickled items of every culture. From kimchee to daikon to cucumber to okra, asparagus and green beans, if you can pickle it, I will eat the hell out of it. I will even eat pickled hot dogs. Yes, these are a thing. No, you should not eat them. I cannot help myself, however.
2. The noodles of every culture. Give me pho. Give me jabchae. Give me buccatini. Give me linguini dressed with a soft boiled egg, parmesan cheese and fistfuls of fresh parsley.
3. Sushi. Specifically salmon roe, tuna, and white fish.
4. The dobin mushi at Little Tokyo 2 in Jackson. It's the best soup I've ever had (well, besides that shrimp soup I had at La Frontera Grill in Chicago ages ago). It has this fantastic lemony flavor. It's served in a little tea pot and you pour the liquid into the lid to sip it. (It actually took me a couple of times ordering it to figure out how to eat it LOL)
5. Cured meats. Salami, prosciutto, sausages of all kinds. When I studied in France (before I ran out of money and lived on stolen breakfast foods from the hostel), the cheapest lunch I could find was a sandwich of dry sausage on a baguette. And it was glorious.
6. Fresh veggies from the garden. My dad has maintained a huge garden all my life; it's shrunk over the years as he's gotten older, but I ate so well as a kid. I never had to buy a tomato until I was in college, and my reaction to my first store-bought tomato went something like, "What the hell is this mealy, tasteless, juiceless piece of crap?" LOL In the summer, sometimes for dinner, I'd eat four ears of beautiful sweet corn, a tomato or two sliced up, some cucumbers, and roasted squash. So damn good.
7. Fresh fish. We had fresh fish probably four times a week when I was growing up. Pretty much everything we ate was something my dad grew or killed. Sometimes he'd go down to the coast and we'd have saltwater fish, but more frequently, he fished locally, so I love bream and perch and trout and all the little pan fish (as in fry 'em up whole in the pan) that hang out in the shallow waters. My daddy is the best fisherman I have ever encountered; I think he could give Jeremy Wade a run for his money.
8. Gumbo. I grew up in MS, and the MS Gulf Coast is just as steeped in Cajun cuisine as Louisiana is. My MeeMaw's gumbo is fantastic. Shrimp and sausage and chicken and crab bodies and bologna cut up into bits (yeah, IDK, about that last ingredient; I think it stems from poor days and trying to stretch the gumbo further). Yum yum. Josh makes a gumbo that is actually better than MeeMaw's (probably because he boils up a whole chicken and veggies to make the stock from scratch) but he has yet to do a version with the crab bodies in it; once he does, he'll be the gumbo champion.
9. Raw oysters. I love them. They taste like the sea and some indefinable sweetness. I could eat a ton of raw oysters at a time. My PawPaw got hepatitis one time from eating raw oysters, but I've never gotten sick.
10. Cheese. I've met very few cheeses I don't like. I adore Brie and Camembert. I love blue cheese. I love goat cheese. I love cheddar and mozzarella. I eat cheese every day. I will spend more money on a hunk of cheese than just about anyone I know. LOL
1. The pickled items of every culture. From kimchee to daikon to cucumber to okra, asparagus and green beans, if you can pickle it, I will eat the hell out of it. I will even eat pickled hot dogs. Yes, these are a thing. No, you should not eat them. I cannot help myself, however.
2. The noodles of every culture. Give me pho. Give me jabchae. Give me buccatini. Give me linguini dressed with a soft boiled egg, parmesan cheese and fistfuls of fresh parsley.
3. Sushi. Specifically salmon roe, tuna, and white fish.
4. The dobin mushi at Little Tokyo 2 in Jackson. It's the best soup I've ever had (well, besides that shrimp soup I had at La Frontera Grill in Chicago ages ago). It has this fantastic lemony flavor. It's served in a little tea pot and you pour the liquid into the lid to sip it. (It actually took me a couple of times ordering it to figure out how to eat it LOL)
5. Cured meats. Salami, prosciutto, sausages of all kinds. When I studied in France (before I ran out of money and lived on stolen breakfast foods from the hostel), the cheapest lunch I could find was a sandwich of dry sausage on a baguette. And it was glorious.
6. Fresh veggies from the garden. My dad has maintained a huge garden all my life; it's shrunk over the years as he's gotten older, but I ate so well as a kid. I never had to buy a tomato until I was in college, and my reaction to my first store-bought tomato went something like, "What the hell is this mealy, tasteless, juiceless piece of crap?" LOL In the summer, sometimes for dinner, I'd eat four ears of beautiful sweet corn, a tomato or two sliced up, some cucumbers, and roasted squash. So damn good.
7. Fresh fish. We had fresh fish probably four times a week when I was growing up. Pretty much everything we ate was something my dad grew or killed. Sometimes he'd go down to the coast and we'd have saltwater fish, but more frequently, he fished locally, so I love bream and perch and trout and all the little pan fish (as in fry 'em up whole in the pan) that hang out in the shallow waters. My daddy is the best fisherman I have ever encountered; I think he could give Jeremy Wade a run for his money.
8. Gumbo. I grew up in MS, and the MS Gulf Coast is just as steeped in Cajun cuisine as Louisiana is. My MeeMaw's gumbo is fantastic. Shrimp and sausage and chicken and crab bodies and bologna cut up into bits (yeah, IDK, about that last ingredient; I think it stems from poor days and trying to stretch the gumbo further). Yum yum. Josh makes a gumbo that is actually better than MeeMaw's (probably because he boils up a whole chicken and veggies to make the stock from scratch) but he has yet to do a version with the crab bodies in it; once he does, he'll be the gumbo champion.
9. Raw oysters. I love them. They taste like the sea and some indefinable sweetness. I could eat a ton of raw oysters at a time. My PawPaw got hepatitis one time from eating raw oysters, but I've never gotten sick.
10. Cheese. I've met very few cheeses I don't like. I adore Brie and Camembert. I love blue cheese. I love goat cheese. I love cheddar and mozzarella. I eat cheese every day. I will spend more money on a hunk of cheese than just about anyone I know. LOL
