I am hungry
I am very hungry right now. My mistake was chomping on an Altoid because it made me even more hungry and now my tummy is growling. Right now a batch of cupcakes sounds good. Canned meat even sounds good. Those frozen bags of chipped beef in a cream sauce that you would plop into hot boiling water in the 70s and serve over rice...sounds great cause it would be warm. Wonder if they still make those things. I hated them as a kid.
My tummy is remembering a trip to Philadelphia when I ordered a salad before my main course of some sort of fish. I was there for the music at Zanzibars and though I was in the culinary capital, didn't really think much about what I was ordering. The salad was a warm spinach and had berries and goat cheese. I didn't finish my main course what with the bread and butter and rice. I'm dying to know what I had now and wish I could eat what I couldn't eat then. The Sinatra hoagie at Sarcone's and the bakery down the street from that in Bella Vista! YUMMY! I loved Bella Vista, loved, loved, loved it. Also so close to 1st Street.
In Vegas I hardly ate unless it was at the Peppermill. I would clean my plate then. Breakfast and brunch were the best! I had a fruit salad and got loads of fruit served in a half a pineapple. Very pretty and tres yummy. Their pancakes and waffles and club sandwiches were so yummy. Again, another culinary capital and nothing. I'm not a food connoisseur though I do recognize a good dish when I taste it. Trying to think... but I don't believe I ever went to any fancy schmancy place in Vegas. Carmelo's is a personal fave though, more for their muzak and customers than anything. All locals, all older, older locals who dressed tres cool and spoke Italian with raspy, smoke damaged voices. They did a fried zuchini thing I loved and have the best sauce.
Elsi's I love ELSI's with my man on a Sunday or Saturday 11ish. I could eat there every day.
Fonda San Miguel! Where we got engaged and it is a very important place because of that. Their mole is divine as are those chile rellenos! I wish I could dine at Fonda right at this very second but no dice, it's 9am and I'm at work. But I love that my guy loves Mexican food so much. Makes things copesetic. I do wish there was a good Greek food restaurant cause i do miss the Greek food.
La Victoria Bakery, Mrs Johnson's Donuts, kolaches. So hungry. My fiancee and I have built up quite the repertoire of yummy meals. Tilapia Tacos with Guacamole and sausage with fresh cabbage I think are the faves. Come fall...I make great cornish game hens in an orange sauce served with asparagus and rice/walnut/mushroom pilaf or sorts. Kerouac ate pea soup. I have that same pea soup back in 1994 and that would even hit the spot right now.
Vienna sausages...that's what I meant when I wrote canned meat but couldn't think of the specific product. Oh, acreamy smoothie would hit the spot right now. Denny's would hit the spot right now. You have to tell them to make your bacon crispy though or they won't. Ramada Inn in Del Rio did serve the best waffle last time I was there. The bestest breakfast tacos are in Del Rio off North main. They are huge, fresh, generous and $1.60 each. IHOP, haven't been there in ages but that would hit the spot. Jester across the street would not hit the spot so I'll remain hungry until I can think of some place around here to go.
Anais Nin claims she did her best work starving. MFK Fisher I am sure would not, could not. Artichokes come to mind when I think of MFK Fisher. Love her writing. Then there are the tummy memories of The Peachtree in Fredericksburg. So delicious and with the best teas and company is the only way I have known it. I am hungry and it makes for nice thoughts even if I lack the epicurean slant in life. One day I'll turn into a food snob but I'm not at all near that now. Audrey Hepburn would only eat the tiniest one serving of anything. I felt like that when I bought a brie wheel recently and would slice lunch, dinner and a snack from it for a few days. Took one modest slice to do me too. Well towards the end I got crazy and took a huge chunk but it served me well as a light dinner.
I am hungry.
My tummy is remembering a trip to Philadelphia when I ordered a salad before my main course of some sort of fish. I was there for the music at Zanzibars and though I was in the culinary capital, didn't really think much about what I was ordering. The salad was a warm spinach and had berries and goat cheese. I didn't finish my main course what with the bread and butter and rice. I'm dying to know what I had now and wish I could eat what I couldn't eat then. The Sinatra hoagie at Sarcone's and the bakery down the street from that in Bella Vista! YUMMY! I loved Bella Vista, loved, loved, loved it. Also so close to 1st Street.
In Vegas I hardly ate unless it was at the Peppermill. I would clean my plate then. Breakfast and brunch were the best! I had a fruit salad and got loads of fruit served in a half a pineapple. Very pretty and tres yummy. Their pancakes and waffles and club sandwiches were so yummy. Again, another culinary capital and nothing. I'm not a food connoisseur though I do recognize a good dish when I taste it. Trying to think... but I don't believe I ever went to any fancy schmancy place in Vegas. Carmelo's is a personal fave though, more for their muzak and customers than anything. All locals, all older, older locals who dressed tres cool and spoke Italian with raspy, smoke damaged voices. They did a fried zuchini thing I loved and have the best sauce.
Elsi's I love ELSI's with my man on a Sunday or Saturday 11ish. I could eat there every day.
Fonda San Miguel! Where we got engaged and it is a very important place because of that. Their mole is divine as are those chile rellenos! I wish I could dine at Fonda right at this very second but no dice, it's 9am and I'm at work. But I love that my guy loves Mexican food so much. Makes things copesetic. I do wish there was a good Greek food restaurant cause i do miss the Greek food.
La Victoria Bakery, Mrs Johnson's Donuts, kolaches. So hungry. My fiancee and I have built up quite the repertoire of yummy meals. Tilapia Tacos with Guacamole and sausage with fresh cabbage I think are the faves. Come fall...I make great cornish game hens in an orange sauce served with asparagus and rice/walnut/mushroom pilaf or sorts. Kerouac ate pea soup. I have that same pea soup back in 1994 and that would even hit the spot right now.
Vienna sausages...that's what I meant when I wrote canned meat but couldn't think of the specific product. Oh, acreamy smoothie would hit the spot right now. Denny's would hit the spot right now. You have to tell them to make your bacon crispy though or they won't. Ramada Inn in Del Rio did serve the best waffle last time I was there. The bestest breakfast tacos are in Del Rio off North main. They are huge, fresh, generous and $1.60 each. IHOP, haven't been there in ages but that would hit the spot. Jester across the street would not hit the spot so I'll remain hungry until I can think of some place around here to go.
Anais Nin claims she did her best work starving. MFK Fisher I am sure would not, could not. Artichokes come to mind when I think of MFK Fisher. Love her writing. Then there are the tummy memories of The Peachtree in Fredericksburg. So delicious and with the best teas and company is the only way I have known it. I am hungry and it makes for nice thoughts even if I lack the epicurean slant in life. One day I'll turn into a food snob but I'm not at all near that now. Audrey Hepburn would only eat the tiniest one serving of anything. I felt like that when I bought a brie wheel recently and would slice lunch, dinner and a snack from it for a few days. Took one modest slice to do me too. Well towards the end I got crazy and took a huge chunk but it served me well as a light dinner.
I am hungry.
