{"id":1391,"date":"2006-08-07T23:12:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T06:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2006\/08\/07\/equal-opportunity-foodie\/"},"modified":"2006-08-07T23:12:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T06:12:00","slug":"equal-opportunity-foodie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2006\/08\/07\/equal-opportunity-foodie\/","title":{"rendered":"Equal opportunity foodie"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love food like I love music — there is no forbidden. Just as I love country and 80’s love songs, I also love baloney on white bread and Jack-in-the-Box’s 99-cent chicken sandwiches. And just as I like exploring the edgy music of friends with far more eclectic tastes, I also love to find new tastes even if they’re considered haute cuisine. (I have a prejudice against haute-anything.<\/em>)<\/p>\n

I thought of this because my wife and I just had an amazing meal. We were out shopping until 9:30 pm, so it was too late to cook anything extremely extensive but I was determined to use our new gas grill. She bought me a gas grill for my birthday because we wanted to be able to grill on a moment’s notice, and isn’t 9:30 pm on weeknight the perfect time to prove a gas grill’s advantage over the trusty charcoal one I’d been using all these years?<\/p>\n

So we took an extra steak we had left over from the weekend, rubbed salt and pepper into it and threw it on the grill. Then we took a brandywine tomato from our garden, sliced it, dusted it with sea salt (a surprise gift from a friend over the weekend) and fresh cracked pepper, and drizzled olive oil (a tiny sample bottle that we got as advertising shwag at some fair) over it. A second brandywine got the same treatment with the additional of shredded basil, also from our garden, and some mozzarella. Both awesome.<\/p>\n

Borrowing a funny combination my brother showed me while he lived on a farm, we also had fresh, raw radishes and buttered bread. A bite of buttered bread, followed by a bite of pungent, earthy radish. I hadn’t had that since I had it with my brother more than 7 years ago, but it brought me back.<\/p>\n

And the finishing touch? Orange salad! Non-dairy cool whip, orange Jell-O powder, cottage cheese, and mandarin oranges from a can.<\/p>\n

It’s times like this I wish I could just grow and cook food as my day job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love food like I love music — there is no forbidden. Just as I love country and 80’s love songs, I also love baloney on white bread and Jack-in-the-Box’s 99-cent chicken sandwiches. And just as I like exploring the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}