I don’t know how I feel about Le Blog right now. I don’t get all excited to post like I used to. I almost never think, during the course of the day, “Oh, that would make such a funny post!” I think I’ve come to terms with my un-hilarity.
On the other hand, all of you who read and commented on my last post, I don’t ever want to lose you. I wish we all lived on the same street (my street of course, because I live in Utopia). I really, really love you all. So, without further ado, lets talk about the new food guide pyramid that Derek and I have been cooking up.
I don’t have a graphic, but use your imagination. On the top of the pyramid, there are two sides of the point. One side is the bacon side, and the other is the ice cream side. Under the bacon side, and flowing outward, are all the foods that can be combined well with bacon, and under the ice cream side, all the foods that are made better by the addition of ice cream. Directly under the two is the miraculous selection of edibles that is improved by adding either ice cream or bacon, or even both. We feel certain that we can account for nearly every food on Earth in this manner.
For example, this morning, I’m preparing for the Thanksgiving feast with my contribution of pumpkin pie and “Harvest Nuts and Seeds”, a recipe from the Moosewood Restaurant that everyone should probably try right now. Anyway, both pumpkin pie and spiced, glazed nuts are pretty obvious candidates for ice cream. But, I bet a little chopped, cooked bacon would be a lovely addition to a bowl of candied nuts. A little salty, a little sweet! It sounds delicious to me. I don’t think I will ever add bacon to pumpkin pie, though. Unless it’s a savory pie. Like maybe a pumpkin quiche. That could definitely use some bacon.
So if you’ve gotten this far, maybe you love me well enough to commiserate with me on the fact that last week, after I’d put up the braggy post about my smart husband getting lauded at the Pentagon, Derek came home from work one day, having given a presentation for a conference of sorts, and informed me that the Air Force Chief Scientist had been there. You know, that one guy from Washington? The one in whose office we talked about squirrels? And who made me laugh by pretending to be a waiter? Yeah? Well, he approached Derek after the presentation, and said, “Hello Derek! It’s good to see you. I read your wife’s blog the other day.”
I don’t know if that’s a direct quote. It doesn’t actually matter. The groanings I made from within myself were loud enough to eclipse my memory of the words. It was worse than when I realized, after I turned in my sketchbook for my art class the next day, that I had forgotten to tear out the page where I had brainstormed for my abstract self portrait by listing as many words as I could think of to define myself, and then had asked Derek to list some, and had proceeded to write down his list, too. Which included “smokin’ hot.” That’s some kind of entertaining, right?
Happy Thanksgiving! I love you all.
November 25, 2009 at 10:21 am
I don’t have anything planned for Thanksgiving Dinner that includes bacon or ice cream. What was I thinking? Time to reevaluate the menu.
One time while visiting a friend at college she made a tuna casserole for dinner. Her and her roommate were so excited to make it because the last time they made it they had to improvise and they thought it turned out pretty good. They used ice cream instead of whatever you are normally suppose to put in tuna noodle casserole (I don’t know I’ve never been a fan of tuna casserole or any casserole in general.) Anyway, it was not good. Maybe bacon would have helped.
November 27, 2009 at 1:58 am
Come and blog as you please, no need to set a schedule or push yourself.
Remind me to tell you about my friend whose husband had immigrated here and didn’t know that bacon needed to be cooked and had been eating it raw for several years.
November 30, 2009 at 8:38 am
Ew. Thanks for that. Now I will have to imagine eating raw bacon every time I even think of bacon.
November 30, 2009 at 12:58 am
Really missed you all at T-day and especially on Notch Peak. I guess you had an okay excuse. Tell Derek congrats!
November 30, 2009 at 8:40 am
Yeah, I’m pretty sad I didn’t get to go to Notch Peak. And eat pine nuts off the tree. And play games. Actually, we taught the Hart-Dixons Rah-Dee-Rah this year. Good times were had by all. Someday, we’ll get home for Thanksgiving.