The Desert

As he tipped the bottle to his tongue
and drained the last drop of water,
he let out a sigh and looked at the setting sun,
knowing that his time in the desert would soon be done.

Food!

Welcome to my internet diary. Here I will post on a variety of topics that interest me, from music to religion to apple pie to the cosmos and beyond. I'll pretty much be posting whatever pops into my head or is on my mind at any given time. If I want to write a post about milkshakes, for example, I will write a post about milkshakes. This blog is mainly a way for me to keep writing on a consistent basis. You might learn a thing or two about me if you stick around. Feel free to leave a comment if you want to have a discussion!

This is my first post here and it's about food. Everybody likes food, right? These are some of my favorite foods.

Cheeseburger and Fries

'Cause I'm an 'Murican! Seriously though, a solid burger and fries combo, preferably with some kind of fountain soda, has long been a comfort food for me (cheese pizza and a Coke/Pepsi works too). It's filling, satisfying, and reliable. Sometimes when I eat a burger, I imagine myself in a 1950s diner with white counters and a black and white checkerboard pattern on the walls. Other times I think about energy-refilling burgers found inside trash cans and stuff in old-school-style beat em' up video games. What's better than floor burger?

Sushi

I remember the first time I tried Sushi. I had no idea what to expect. I crammed the whole roll into my mouth as I was instructed and...this wonderful texture, this unique taste and mixture of flavors and sensations. I liked it. And I wanted to try more. There's an endless variety of sushi so I've nowhere near tried it all, but I've eaten both raw and cooked sushi and it's all been delicious. I love eating it plain and I love drowning it in rivers of salty soy sauce. On the topic of sushi, I also love...

White Rice...mmmmmmm.....

And I love seafood in general. I've often considered becoming a vegetarian, but I don't think I could ever give up seafood.

I also love...

Fish and Chips! (eating these with a pint of Guinness in England was the best)

...and...

Lobster! (I feel so guilty eating it when it's the whole lobster but it's sooo delicious) 

I also like salmon. Yeah, I love seafood.

Vanilla Ice Cream with Chocolate Sprinkles







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Vanilla ice cream covered in chocolate sprinkles (or jimmies as I've grown up calling them) is perhaps the most nostalgic food for me. There's a small, local ice cream shop down the street from me named "Meletharb" (the name being a rearranged form of "Bartholomew", the name of the shop's founder and the man who served me my first ice cream cone...probably) and it was there that I first tasted ice cream. At least, that's the most likely scenario. I don't remember what that first taste was, but there's a good bet that it was plain vanilla, or plain vanilla with chocolate sprinkles. In any case, this was my favorite flavor as a kid and I don't care if you think it's boring! It's just so purely delicious to me and is both a taste that transports me back to my childhood and is also just sublimely enjoyable to me.

Soup 

What kind of soup? Any kind! I love soup, all kinds of soup. I actually love any kind of hot food that warms me up. There's something so comforting about a bowl of soup on a cold night (or even just on any night). It fills my tummy and it fills my soul.

I'm also quite fond of Beef Stew

Chocolate Chip Cookies and Milk

Here it is, my favorite food ever: sweet, wonderful chocolate chip cookies and a tall glass of cold milk. I guess a better name for this list might have been "favorite foods of my childhood" but hey, I'm a firm believer that what you enjoyed as a kid, you'll always enjoy, even if you try to act all adult and tell yourself otherwise. There is nothing more supremely delicious, happy, and enjoyable to me than Santa Claus's preferred snack. Cookies and Milk. Love.

And here's some of my favorite drinks...

Tea

“If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you.” -William Ewart Gladstone, former British Prime Minister

Tea relaxes me. Tea cheers me. Tea warms me. Tea is just heaven in a cup. Drinking tea, any kind of tea, is so calming and therapeutic for me. There's not much that fills me with more pure bliss than sipping a warm, aromatic cup of tea while listening to beautiful music.

Beer

Ok, so I'm not much of a drinker. I gave up drinking "hard liquor" the last time I got sick from it. After suffering for a weekend-long hangover, I decided that I didn't want to voluntarily poison myself anymore. But beer's pretty ok. I'm quite fond of Blue Moon, but really I'm not too picky when it comes to beer (as long as it's not some cheap college student bile like Keystone, Bud Light, Coors Light, etc.). Casually sipping a beer while spending time with some friends is always a good time for me. Beer also goes great with food.
I guess this was mainly a "comfort food" list, but why wouldn't comforting foods be my favorite foods? I'd like to give a final shout-out to all the food that I haven't tried yet, because the only food I might like even more than the ones above are the things I haven't tried yet. I love trying new foods, especially ones from different cultures that I'm unfamiliar with. It's such an adventure!



I like pancakes too...