Ameri-sized

America is pretty great I love finding food that's as big as my face.  Driving the Parks Highway between Fairbanks and Nenana there exists a restaurant called Monderosa. It's a funky little restaurant that has old school "rustic" Alaskan appeal. The building itself is made of large dark stained logs and when I stepped inside I noticed two things simultaneously 1) it's really dank dark, 2) it reeks of smoke because the server/cook/bartender has been puffing away as the lone person there.  

breakfast of champions

No I'm not writing about Wheaties or the Kurt Vonnegut book which is pretty good but not my favorite Vonnegut book, which is currently Cat's Cradle.

40 and beyond

I've hit my 40th post and it's not even been a year yet.. I didn't know I had it in me to write so much.  I've never been fond of writing.  I just really like food.  I've really surprised myself at how much I'm enjoying this too.  I love sharing my food experiences despite the blurry pictures.  Big hugs and lots of love to all my friends that have given me encouragement in my writings and many thanks to any random readers out there.

skinny-dippin

What do you do when you have a 7 avocados and they're all ripe?  There are many, many dishes that I use avocados in but only one of them is not a dessert and is capable of killing off a good quantity of avocados; guacamole.  That decided Eddie and I had Latin dip night followed by Biutiful a very striking, touching all around great movie I would recommend watching it..  just know that it's a little sad, very real, a bit dark, subtitled unless you speak Spain Spanish (Spanish with a lisp) and for lack of a bigger vocabulary beautiful.

converting

I sometimes think about joining different churches because their food festival fundraisers are so good.  I like to imagine that eventually I would make friends with the members of the congregation which translates into the idea that I could potentially get invited to their homes for dinner because that is the ultimate goal for any friendship I make, an invite to a food gathering of some sort.  But then I think about the weekends of being trapped inside a small building faking my beliefs just so I can occasionally get invites to yummy dinners and it doesn't sit well.  

going vampire?

I will eat almost anything well maybe anything that isn't wiggling still (but I won't judge the people who do).  I have to admit though I wasn't always like this, I the omnivore was at one time a self proclaimed herbivore.  Yes, I went through a ten year stint with varying degrees of vegetarianism from pescetarian to straight up vegan.  I enjoyed it and I think that letting your body take a break from meat consumption is a smart thing to do every once in a while as meat is harder to digest and giving your body a break every once in a while is a good thing it's like a digestive vacation.