Thoughts of Food

How is it that we crave and seek the company of food? As a Common Model I seek to explore. I enjoy exploring new places, picking new roads to follow to see where I end up and enjoying the many roads to good, delicious, interesting food. Maybe perhaps the food is just simple and soothing, or it stimulates your mind to new heights of pleasure, or perhaps its just good for the soul.

Take a dish I once tried in Greensboro, NC at some place called Tandoori Indian Restaurant. Besides the service being very good and knowledgeable, the food was very tasty. I had a mild curry and chicken that was smooth and robust with flavour. There was another dish that a friend was eating that was more spicy. Besides it nearly blowing my head off with heat; it was tasty with more than spice. I wanted to sit and eat and eat while the conversation flowed around the table and we laughed and shared. I would love to learn  how to cook Indian food.

Now I'm going to switch to dessert. Who loves a good dessert that finishes the visit on a satisfactory note?! For those coffee drinkers let's try a Tiramisu. When was the last time you had a Tiramisu that literally melts onto your tongue and has the creaminess and lightness of clouds.The flavour of coffee and chocolate have had a conversation to entice you to linger on your spoon as the dessert is slowly eaten. The spoon has now become your favorite best friend.
OR
Maybe a lovely slice of simple chocolate cake. I am always on the hunt for the best chocolate cake in whatever city I am in. Not a dark chocolate, milk chocolate, or mixed chocolate cake but one that is comfortably situated in plain site as good. Whether there is chocolate shavings on top or vanilla bean ice cream floating around on the plate, but the entire plate needs to be a complete dish. Have you found one that needs to be described as something served for a queen but easily acquired for the common model; a cake that can keep quiet as the tendrils of satisfaction help you drift into solace.

Now my challenge to you is to find wine that tastes like a fruit basket in your mouth and leaves you with imagination on the mind.
*** suggestion: Santi Apostoli Pinot Grigio

 

Until Next Time,
Eat, Drink, and be Merry!

Steak Marinade

I like to cook. So here's something you could also try.

Steak Marinade:

Steak seasoning juice:
Low sodium or No sodium soy sauce
Onion and garlic POWDER
Ground Ginger
Paprika
and possibly salt but only if want to as it can become salty real quick!!

Other components:
Horseradish Mustard- just some cheap store brand unless you want that Horsyness
Heinz 57
and Honey (is for a bit of sweet but really to help combat the saltiness)

A bit of water

OK. Put all this in a container where you can lay your steaks down flat and won't be completely covered with Marinade. Mix the ingredients with spoon before laying steaks in marinade.

Let steak soak up all the goodness. I kept mine marinading for about 12 hours but that's only because I made it at 10pm and then didn't cook it till about noon the next day. But of course you can soak steaks for no less than 2 hours to 12. Grill, bake, broil, cook however.

ENJOY!!

The Common Model

I look at ads around in the magazines and on television; I then go and dress myself up, look in the mirror and my thoughts are  tend to be, "hmmm, wow look at me? I am the common model." Then I go about my business. However, I have found that this statement means more to me than just a simple statement of recognizing I like in what I see, but that I like to represent the best of the common world.

While I was in the Cayman Islands last October (2011) visiting a friend of mine, we would play 'dress-up' as 20s somethings like to do when the clothes are a bit too expensive, but we know we look good in them anyways. We like to try them on and them take model like pictures of fun-n- flirty, come hither, and silly poses and things. We both look good in our skins and we both can laugh and be fun, or serious, or smouldering, or playful about life. At one picture I made a comment about how we could totally be the common model and the name stuck in my head for days. It just wouldn't leave my mind. So I took that idea and have tried to encompass what I see as a good common example of how life is beautiful without all those airbrushed ways. It's good for the soul. Now granted I normally borrow cameras from friends or use my phone but still life is fun and annoying and adventurous. I want to capture it from different angles, lights, emotions, and the common way, whatever it may be. Smoothly tanned, sculpted bodies are great for the photographer but so is a little childish fun in a 20s something body lighting up the frame with abandonment while laughing it off as a great day!