Warning: This is one of those silly posts. I am going to blame it on my head cold.
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I think my food combining instincts are going completely wonky. I think because I had been left alone as a Bachelorette for two solid months that I became a weird culinary hybrid of frat boy, ascetic/hermit and kosher foodie with a vitamin B deficiency.
I am not going to say how many nights I had popcorn for dinner while The Boy was away. I am not going to say because 1) it's embarrassing to think about how many times I ate popcorn for dinner and sometimes breakfast, and 2) I don't remember. It was that many. And those nights where the side dish was Cherry Garcia ice cream. Nope, don't remember those either.
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I am going to blame my little friend Chipmonkey for this popcorn fetish. She came over with her
nutritional yeast (which I had never even heard of before October 11 as I am not in any way a vegan or a health food person, you know that) and her popcorn and started my whole craving/obsession at my Movie Maven's Movie Marathon for America thingy. And now I have an enormo can (12 oz.!) of nutritional yeast in my kitchen. And the only thing it tastes good on is popcorn. I have been eating loads of both ever since.
Today, I had stale popcorn and a side of pickled herring in sour cream for breakfast. The Boy always looks at me like I am Cat Woman when I eat these fishy things (and will not be kissed and runs away from me) and in the midst of eating this "breakfast," I really do have to stop and wonder what is wrong with me. This meal can't be as bad as Mia Farrow eating the raw liver in
Rosemary's Baby, but it's still not quite right.
Why do I never want to eat normal foods for breakfast? Why is the only decent sounding meal to me this morning something that could be in a Monty Python skit? Yes, I eat the herring with
these guys reciting in my head (
"... and then you must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest with...... A HERRING!"). Do you do this? Eat foods that immediately make you recite Monty Python scenes? (
"And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying,’O Lord, bless this thy hand grenade that with it thou mayest blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.’ And the Lord did grin, and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals and fruit bats and...")
I'm wondering what made me combine these two foods, like if there was a reasonable physiological cause then that would explain it. They're both white foods? Salty foods? Have no real nutritional value foods? Or I've learned my food combining from years of Monty Python watching?
My tangobaby food pyramid is very bizarre. It consists primarily of
har gow, Funyuns, Junior Mints, Ovaltine and popcorn. And sushi and bratwust. Now I am even grossing myself out.
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I recently discovered, through a cute little Minnesotan transplant at my work, about such things called
hotdish. I partially thought that hot dishes only existed in
Lake Wobegon, but no--hotdish even has its own
wikipedia entry. But now I find that there is even such a casserole creation that is topped with Tater Tots. And another one made with herring!
Perhaps I am really a Midwesterner at heart? Can someone please help me with my food identity?
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The only other thing I am going to leave you with now is a clip from Stephen Colbert's
A Colbert Christmas because it is a very funny song about nutmeg.
If you don't come back to this blog for a while, I understand. I don't know what comes over me sometimes. But if you
do eat weird things that make other people look at you askance, I really hope you'll fess up so we can start some sort of self-help group together.
