Hello food advocates, my name is Sarah and I love food.
Friends and family know I am having a bad day when I'm not thinking about it. I cook it, I dream it, I think food all the time. If a day dream during class does not consist of a food thought, yea I'm pretty much lost. (Oh by the way people, I go to Johnson & Wales University in Charlotte, NC - graduating in 2 months!) Food is my happiness; my piece of mine that I wish I knew more people like me as enthusiastic about the creation of food as I am. I'm not a big person, very tall - check, large appetite most of the time - check, like the smell of bacon and coffee to get me out of bed - check, check. But there's just that feeling you get when you are enthusiastic about what you love and that thing that you love so much makes you happy.
OK so I'm not a fan of those Campbell Soup commercials where you see people making casseroles and they're licking their wooden spoons and smiling because supposedly the soup made their attempt at dinner taste better (and no Campbell's chunky soup over rice is not a dish for dinner in my opinion), that smiley dance those actors do is in essence, I suppose, like the dance I'm thinking about.
Recently I made a really delicious, amazing tasting, best recipe of it so far, tomato sauce. Yea sure, I could buy it out of a can or glass bottle; but why would I do that when I can make it myself and usually for around the same cost to make it as it would be to buy it pre-made and probably over salted or too sweet or the numerous other problems I could point out. No, this tomato sauce recipe, marinara, was simple but totally food dance worthy.
Imagine the smell of rendering bacon... now sauteed onions, celery, carrots, and button mushrooms with garlic, thyme, and bay leaves sweating away in extra virgin olive oil and bacon fat. (Is your mouth already salivating? I mean who wouldn't with that bacon fat? no?) Now pour in Velvet Moon red wine, a mix of cabernet sauvignon and merlot, and let that reduce with chicken stock and crushed roma tomatoes. This concoction will reduce and meld together for almost 3 hours. Oooh yeaa, my apartment smelt A-mazing. Get ready for it...take a spoon, dip, and the sauce hits all your taste buds. But wait, what's that funny movement going on with my hips and the tip-top action across the kitchen, small as mine may be, that my friends is "the food dance". Once you taste something that just puts that big smile on your face and you do that wiggle, that's it. Your emotions for that food have exploded.
This is THE best feeling.
I love food also try cornmeal waffels for breakfast and with cold soup.Your approach is uniqie. Am goingto try every thing. KT Memphis
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