favourite flavours
Some foods I call vegetables,
when in fact, they are fruits.
Some may question pickles as being food.
Does no fat mean no calories?
Is Olestra of this planet?
Arrive at your own conclusions.
I, however, will savour the choices
of the finest tastes ever enjoyed,
as served for your dining pleasure:
First we toast,...
Salud amor y pecetas
y el tiempo para gozarlas.
CONDIMENTS
Adam's Ranch green olives with jalapenos
Black olives (one for each finger)
Dill pickles
DESSERTS
Aunt Lorene's prune cake
Creme brulee' from Vivace'
Donna's carrot cake with pineapple, not raisins
Dorothy's blackberry cobbler
Jim's coffee cake
German chocolate cake
FRUITS
Cherries
Dora's apple sauce
Mangoes
MacIntosh apples right off the tree
Raspberries from Cape Cod
Red tropical bananas
GRAINS/STARCHES
Barbara's potatoes baked in salt
Jasmine rice
Mexican corn bread
Onion garlic bagels with veggie cream cheese
Wheat berry toast with peanut butter
HERBS
Basil from Tami's garden
Fresh dill weed from Trinidad
ITALIAN FOOD
Capellini alla puttanesca from Carmelina's
and from Vivace'
MEXICAN FOOD
Caldo de queso from Crossroads
Chilaquilas from Casa Molina
Omelettes from Emiliano's
NECTARS
Chamomile tea
Cold mountain spring water after a long hike
Dom Perignon with fresh strawberries
Rumona
Tangerine juice
OTHER DELECTABLES
A loved one's kiss
PLANT PROTEINS
Miso soup with seaweed from Chu's Too
Pinto beans from Willcox
Pecans
SAUCES & SPREADABLE TREATS
Hawaiian hot mustard from a secret recipe
Vinaigrette from Presidio Grill
Mesquite mustard from Fredericksburg,Texas
Granny Anne's pimiento cheese on celery sticks
Land O' Lakes monterey jack with chiles
SOUPS AND STUFF
Garlic soup from Yucatan
Bob's sauteed mushrooms
VEGGIES
Artichokes
Aunt Lil's gigantic beefsteak tomatoes
Fresh corn from western Massachusetts
or from Pepperwood, California
My grandfather's sweet onions
Spinach pie