25 Things

Everybody has done this on Facebook, I'm going to do it on the blog. And all about food.

1. I love bourbon. I like it served over ice with a little water. NOT with Coke. Some of my favorites are Woodford Reserve, Blanton's, and my all time favorite, Knob Creek.
2. I also love Jim Beam and Coke. ONLY Jim Beam goes with Coke. It's the rules.
3. I could eat sushi every day, all the time. There are so many different things you can order, and the combinations are seemingly endless. LOVE IT.
4. Jason makes the best burgers ever. The only burger I have ever had better is from Dearman's Drug Store in Baton Rouge. If you are ever in Baton Rouge, go to Dearman's, at the corner of Jefferson and Corporate in the Bocage shopping center. According to my mother it has re-opened, and the burgers are still the same. Otherwise, I guess you'll just have to come have burgers here.
   
5. I do not like sandwiches. I'm not sure why, but I don't. I will eat the occasional panini, French Dip, muffuletta, or REALLY good deli sandwich, but that's a rare thing. Maybe once a month.
   
6. This does NOT apply to breakfast sandwiches. I love all breakfast sandwiches all the time. This is because:
7. I love breakfast and brunch. They are the best meals ever. And not just because Brunch means you get to drink in the middle of the morning. It's because you get to eat awesome stuff like casseroles with bacon and sausage and cheese and eggs, and you get hashbrowns, and I swear I could talk about breakfast and brunch for hours. Seriously.
8. Speaking of brunch, I once made one for Jason and I that included a pork chop and broccoli omelette and a weird mimosa substitute made with white wine, passion fruit juice, and Sprite. Both of these things were some of my favorite brunch things I have ever made or consumed.
   
9. Scrambled eggs are my kryptonite. I cannot cook them worth a crap. They just don't cooperate with me.
   
10. I don't actually follow recipes, even though I give them to you. I basically never make anything the same twice. Everything is always a little different.
11. After a 15-year hiatus, I have resumed eating pork products. I will never give them up again. Bacon is too important to me.
    
12. I still do not eat ham. I think it tastes funny.
13. I love cocktails. They make me feel special to drink them because they're pretty and served in nice glassware. Some of my favorites are a well-made cosmopolitan (NOT the super sweet sugary things people call cosmos), the Plum Collins at PF Changs, the French 75, mojitos, and the Filthy Martini from Stray Cats (which is the only place on earth I will drink martinis).
14. Pasta is one of my favorite things to cook and eat. If something will hold still long enough, I will probably saute it in olive oil and garlic and serve it over pasta with parmesan cheese.
15. I miss living in Louisiana so much sometimes that I can barely stand it. The food is just better there. ALL the food.
16. Surprisingly, I do not cook a lot of Cajun food. Nor do I deep fry that much. I don't know why that is, but I'm looking into getting a deep fryer so I can start.
    
17. I love fried pickles, but only pickle chips. Not pickle spears. I also love pickle flavored potato chips. And pickled green beans. And olives. And cocktail onions. Pretty much anything that tastes like brine really.
18. Even though it's totally cliche, salmon is my favorite fish. I try to cook it once a week if not more. I love it. Grilled, baked, poached. All of it.
19. I'm currently off beer. Every once in a while, I want a really good quality beer. But only one or two. I can't drink a lot of it anymore.
    
20. The only sandwich I've ever really loved was developped in college. It's a BARELY toasted plain bagel with turkey, the white cheese they serve in the caf, and a caesar salad with olives on top. I miss this sandwich more than words can express. I have never been able to replicate it with other bagels, turkey, cheese, and salad. It's not the same.
21. I don't like meat that looks like what it is. Ribs, chicken legs and wings, cornish hens. They freak me out.
    
22. Other than that, I really love meat. I started buying in bulk because it works better for me. We bought a second fridge so I could have another freezer for meat. It's magical.
23. Nothing about cooking intimidates me. I will try to cook anything once, no matter how complicated it seems. I think that's why I'm good at it.
24. Until about 2 years ago, I was a terrible cook. I think it USED to intimidate me, and that's why nothing was ever very good. When Jason and I got together, I could burn Hamburger Helper. Now? Pretty much everything is good all the time.
25. I am a compulsive cookbook buyer. I have more than I could possibly ever use. I also subscribe to both the Food Network magazine and Southern Living, which I seriously get only for the recipes.
    

There are so many other things I could say about food and eating and drinking, but the meme is only 25, so that's it. Maybe one day I'll do another 25 things.