Posted on 08/29/2010 7:00:05 AM PDT by big black dog
If you factor in taste, I'd have to say it's cantaloupe.
Full of vitamins, minerals, and fiber, and low in calories.
Just had a big hunk of it for breakfast.
No food is healthy. With the exception of oysters, it’s dead when we eat it.
But that’s one of the beauties of this Perfect Food. Even a bad pizza (even that cardboard crap called “Totino’s” in the freezer section of a grocery store) will still be eaten. By comparison, Pizza Hut is a serious step up, and Pagliacci’s (a local chain in Seattle, seriously GOOD New York Style pizza) is definitely fine eating.
Even so, pizza is like hamburgers, or popcorn. Even bad pizza is still edible and will be eaten!
And I’m pretty sure that the Totino’s pizza would rot slower than your cantaloupe...:)
I also like amaranth and millet in a mix, with spices, and hot pepper bits, and jicama. All very inexpensive stuff.
Smart poor cooks always make what becomes the rich man’s high cuisine a few generations later.
That’s one of the best bacon pics EVER!
Sorry for the shock...does that mean I owe you a new keyboard?
Grind your own wheat. Eat meat, eggs, dairy, fresh veggies, sugar, honey. Cook with lard, butter, and olive oil. Drink wine. You’ll live forever, guaranteed. :-)
Hmmm. Maybe it's where the "beer and the cantelope play."
Why did the wannabe bride and groom settle for watermelon? Because they can’t elope.
According to a G-I buddy, it’s sardines & Guinness.
“I can’t find any”
Trader Joe’s has frozen Canadian wild “organic” blueberries
I feel pretty, oh so pretty, I feel pretty and witty and bright! Thanks. ;)
HA! (I stole your pic BTW.)
Any Texan knows that almost any special dinner at a Tex Mex restaurant will get you both healthy food as well as a taste treat.
First, to beat the heat you start with good hot sauce (chopped peppers, tomatoes, onions, cilantro,)for digestion and crisp fried tortilla chips along with a cold Tecate with lime. Now there’s your basic food groups as just an appetizer.
Next you get your #2 dinner plate that comes with your standard ‘sides’:
refried beans (grease and protein)and ‘Spanish’ rice (carbs and grease Ummm-ummm)with a big ol dollop of guacamole on a bed of lettuce. (now here you gotta pile on some more hot sauce so you send out for another bowl or two. The waiters will immediately know you are a knowledgeable gourmet and bring another Tecate without asking)
Sitting to one end of the plate will be a taco ( a doubled over open crispy fried corn tortilla that looks like a little ol...er...doubled over open crispy fried tortilla) filled with ground meat and lettuce and tomato spilling out on the plate. More hot sauce is de riguer on the taco.
Are you seeing all the food groups we got here, class?
By the way, a real Mexican food aficianado will know to wrap a hot steamed tortilla around the crispy taco to prevent it disintegrating into your lap when you bite into it. Your waiter will note this and bring you another Tecate without waiting.
Depending on the cafe, the main entree will be two or three enchiladas buried under melted cheese and chili gravy. Enchiladas are baked rolled corn tortillas with a filling of stewed chicken, ground beef/pork/cat or cheese. Some places give you one of each or you have to make a choice (this is like Sophie having to choose between her children except you have to eat your choice and live with it for a few hours)
Some frou frou nouvelle cuisine joints will add a chili con queso (open faced crispy fried corn tortilla with melted cheese)but it ain’t necessary.
It’s a good idea at this point in the meal to finish off any of the tortilla chips and hot sauce that is left. It shows the wait staff and owner that you truly appreciate their fare and caint hardly wait to start over again sometime real soon. Your waiter will bring you another Tecate and your dessert, a shot of mezcal with the worm in it.
Wash all this down and you have had the finest healthy meal that can be found anywhere. Except maybe for breafast flour tacos, but that’s another story.
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