best new food has to be the moroccan lunch i recently had at in mouseville. i am not an adventurous eater – my taste buds are old fuddy duddies, stuck in their ways. i have become a veritable magician at disguising pushing food around to look like devouring. but there i was, in epcot with the in-laws. what i’m trying to say is i was outnumbered . . . and the forced moroccan meal was nothing short of delicious. can’t remember what i had, but it was a delicious mingling of sweet and not-sweet. probably could’ve done without the skinny-as-a-rail belly dancer contorting around me as i gorged myself, but the food and the company, well, yes. best food 09 = feasting moroccan with the mouse and the in-law peeps.
but was there some epiphany? did the angels sing down a chorus of “see there” in perfect harmony? am i now forever transformed into a cookbookaholic and someone who orders the most exotic-sounding items on the menu, even if she has to point because she can’t pronounce it? no. oh no, no, no, no, no. culinary adventures are never gonna’ be my thing.
some things never change, and this is one: my favorite meal will always be mashed potatoes and cornbread, what my great-grandmother and i feasted on when i’d visit her in her adorable little termite-infested dollhouse. she would hold the bowl on her left hip, hug it with her left arm and stir and beat and whip all the lumps out before pouring it into a sizzling hot cast iron skillet and popping it in the oven. she taught me how to create the crunchy exterior on cornbread (remember that piping hot cast iron skillet?). she taught me tried to teach me how to peel the potatoes so finely you could see through right through the skin. and she taught me that i don’t have to spend a lot of money or eat exotic things i can’t pronounce to feast.
ps: the picture? that’s me, there, the cute-bordering-on-adorable (well, somebody’s got to say it) one standing on the left, and my great-grandmother, chef mimmy. (the little onionhead she’s holding is my little sister.)
pps: the photo is a snap of an image and emulsion transfer i did in one of my no-fat art adventures.
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the story is mine, but credit for the kindling goes to gwen bell and her best of 2009 blog challenge.
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What a great tale, what a great picture and you aren’t kidding – that little one standing there is ADORABLE!! I’m with you on the non-culinary adventuress thing — heck, I only JUST discovered olive oil…and i ALWAYS get a tried-and-true when i eat out…
read “tried-and-true” as “FRIED-and-true”! funny. and applicable. we are southern, you know. shoot, if we’d’ve known about cholesterol when i was growing up, we would’ve fried it and eaten it.
What a great tale, what a great picture and you aren’t kidding – that little one standing there is ADORABLE!! I’m with you on the non-culinary adventuress thing — heck, I only JUST discovered olive oil…and i ALWAYS get a tried-and-true when i eat out…
read “tried-and-true” as “FRIED-and-true”! funny. and applicable. we are southern, you know. shoot, if we’d’ve known about cholesterol when i was growing up, we would’ve fried it and eaten it.
I love, love, love that photo! How lucky that you knew your great-grandmother. I knew mine too. That third generation connection is pretty awesome.
yes, and now my mother is still alive, so i’m still enjoying 3 generations, albeit as the bologna in the middle of the sandwich.
I love, love, love that photo! How lucky that you knew your great-grandmother. I knew mine too. That third generation connection is pretty awesome.
yes, and now my mother is still alive, so i’m still enjoying 3 generations, albeit as the bologna in the middle of the sandwich.
Love the story, the photo – and so get the best food being that food of memory. Ahhh, great start to my day, reading this…
hey julie. i want you to share your organization system with me sometime. you really get around – online and off! thanks for making the stop by here.
Love the story, the photo – and so get the best food being that food of memory. Ahhh, great start to my day, reading this…
hey julie. i want you to share your organization system with me sometime. you really get around – online and off! thanks for making the stop by here.