August 2008

News and Updates:

I will eat anything.

Omnivore's 100

The instructions said:

1. Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.

2. Bold all the items you’ve eaten.

3. Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.

These are my results:

The Very Good Taste Omnivore’s Hundred:

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

I wish there was a word for feeling simultaneously proud and embarrassed about one's accomplishments. Such as the above. It appears I am an adventurous eater, which also means, I'll put just about ANYTHING into my mouth.

This is me and Joseph* on the top of Camelback Mountain.* I got a bee in my bonnet to find out what 5* luxury looked like so we stayed at the Sanctuary on Camelback for a few days in August. It was all very YOUR WISH IS MY COMMAND. And scarily hot out, being August in Arizona and all. Hoping to write a story about it at the very least so I can write the trip off and at the most to let people know about what the differences between 5* american decadence looks like compared to, you know, the gutter...

*See how Joseph looks so much taller than me and I look so much petiter than him because he's standing on a rock?

The more enlightened or more experienced people in my neighborhood plant great big huge gardens full of flowers and vegetables so when little kids and homeless people and scrungers and punk rockers come through and snag a tomato or wack a dalia with a stick, they don't even miss it. I didn't calculate for this when I built my container planters this spring in the only sunny spot in our yard - out front. I have spent more time on my stoop chasing down perpetrators and yelling at them than I care to admit and big dogs and fences are becoming more interesting to me now. But first, I thought I'd try this. Kid drawings act as kryptonite on the hardest of hearts and even the illiterate will understand the message. So now, I wait and see...

Addendum: (two months later) The signs kind of worked. They stopped picking our tomatoes and dalias but did pluck the heads off of my dead sunflowers. Even the ones which didn't have any seeds. ...*@#!in' tweakers.

October 2008
Open Studios Announcement

July 2008
Farting Around
Humpbacks
Dancing Men
Wishlist
Book Advice

May 2008
Birthday excitement
I come out of the closet as a church person
Tiger, elephant and monkey pictures

February 2008
Breathing is good stuff
etc.

Fall 2007
Please stand by while I contemplate my navel
Meanwhile, here are some words and images from the wall of happy to keep you entertained.

Birthday 2006
Tulips
Best Birthday Cake Ever
Spring Fever