My body craves grease

[susandennis]

I have no desire to eat healthy. Unless healthy is deep fried with an aioli dip.

I spent decades on a diet to lose weight. I didn't even care about healthy then. When I hit 50, my birthday present to myself was to never edit what I eat again. I eat what tastes good. Period. The End. If it cuts my life short, then I will have the tastiest short life possible.

But, as the world around me refuses to follow my lead, it is harder and harder to find tasty things. Flavors have been changed as everyone scrambles to board the healthy train. White bread - yes, white bread - now has something in it that ruins the flavor. Kraft macaroni and cheese has been ruined by 'natural'. Baloney and hot dogs both have lost the taste they used to have. And potato chips. Don't even get me stared.

Mexican restaurant tortilla chips have always been my downfall. I've never been to any Mexican restaurant that didn't have amazing I-can't-stop-eating-them-yes,-please-we'd-like-another-basket chips. The tortilla chips they have in grocery stores taste like cardboard to me. But, I'm always testing and trying them to see if I can find the restaurant equivalent.

I did. At Cash & Carry this week. I picked up a bag on a lark and I am mainlining these suckers. I snapped a picture and put it in my grocery list so I could remember next time. (And, can I say how much it cracks me up that all of a sudden all corn tortilla chips are now newly GLUTEN FREE!!! Like lots of foods... they always have been!) I think they are so tasty because you can still taste the grease from frying. And omg so delicious. So delicious.



My sewing today was early Project Runway episode worthy. You know when the designers are new and they haven't weeded out the losers who can't sew and keep fucking up? That was me. This vest could not be more simple. I mean there is nothing to it. I cut one panel with the elephants upside down. I sewed the pockets on the wrong side. I sewed them on the right side and then noticed that one of the fucking elephants was upside down. I mean seriously, I could not have invented more ways to fuck this up. I did the max. BUT... I love it. It's exactly what I wanted. Loose, short, pockets, simple.



It took me about 3 times longer than it should have so no doll making happened. I may go back to the sewing room once the party starts outside but I think, right now, I'm going watch some TV.

Comments

[slinkslowdown.livejournal.com]

The changes to Kraft Dinner were bittersweet for me... I loved the neon orange color and the flavor of it. But my mother's full-on allergic to the yellow food dye they had in it back then--she can finally eat it now without being covered in hives. :T

I eat what tastes good. Period. The End. If it cuts my life short, then I will have the tastiest short life possible.

Pretty much my diet, lol. Although I have lost 80lbs here because the food staff make for us is from scratch and not all canned. But it's still amazing food that I almost always want to get second helpings of.

But if dinner some nights is something I don't feel like or something I can't eat [too much lactose for my pills to nuke or has egg whites in it], I just grab McDonald's or have ramen or something up in my room.

[susandennis]

Well, I'm glad for your Mom anyway. Kind of nice ot know there's some good in that change :)

[slinkslowdown.livejournal.com]

Also, my only "healthy" craving is Caesar salad. Quotation marks because I add bacon, chicken, unGodly amounts of cheese, and loads of dressing.

But, hey, it's a non-fried green thing! >>

[susandennis]

ANY non-fried green thing totally counts as healthy.

[daphnep.livejournal.com]

You look like you're dressed to cavort among your dolls!!!

[susandennis]

Now there's a fun idea!

Want grease?

[allanh.livejournal.com]

Go to a Mexican grocery store, preferably one with its own carneceria. See if they have chicharrones con carne, which is deep fried pork rinds with pieces of skin attached. Most Mexican grocery stores I've found on the West Coast make and sell their own chicharrones con carne. They usually have the regular chicharrones, which is just the fried pork rinds.

Re: Want grease?

[susandennis]

okdokie

[lacachet.livejournal.com]

I worked in a Belltown Mexican restaurant, back in the 70's and 80's. We had a number of vegetarian customers, and there was much chagrin when I would point out that the yummy chips were fried in lard! I usually just practiced "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" :)
The owner did change to vegetable oil, eventually.

[susandennis]

Yep, lard. These are totally larded and... delicious! I'm going to be a nice person and not snark on vegetarians... except in my head.

[onelargecat.livejournal.com]

And by the same token, we were once in a Mexican restaurant where a vegetarian at the table asked if the refried beans were vegetarian, and the waiter asked, "Is there any other kind?" LOL. We were like, uh, that means they AREN'T.

[susandennis]

Yup, exactly. :)

[mhaithaca.livejournal.com]

Chicken broth in the rice and pork in the beans... unless they tell you otherwise!

As for the newly gluten-free tortilla chips, while they may never have had wheat ingredients, commercial chips were almost certainly made on the same equipment, or on adjacent equipment in the same plant, as snacks with wheat flour. For very-sensitive Celiac sufferers, literally a speck of flour could be a real problem. If they're labeled gluten-free, they were made in a facility that promises no cross-contamination, and that's both valuable and important.

[onelargecat.livejournal.com]

Yep...that's what I was thinking about the chips, too. For the people for whom gluten-free is just trendy, it doesn't matter, but for Celiac sufferers, it actually matters how they're prepared and that there's no cross-contamination.

[letmesaythis.livejournal.com]

I love this photo of you in your fun, adorable and colorful vest.

[susandennis]

It's all about the elephants!! Thanks :)

[rsc.livejournal.com]

There's nothing wrong with the occasional upside-down elephant.

[susandennis]

I know you are right but it just somehow seemed wrong this time.

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

They've removed a lot of salt from previously tasty food here to make it healthier, which can be very disappointing

[susandennis]

Yes. The salt removal is a biggie and it can't be fixed by sprinkling some on. I hate to be one of those good old days people because I'm not. The old days sucked in most every way. But, I would love, one more time, to have a baloney sandwich on white bread in 1965.

[tilia-tomentosa.livejournal.com]

Love the elephant vest. :)

[susandennis]

Thanks!