EATFREAK

Never ever ever misunderestimatize the importance of fresh ingredients.  Sometimes all the fancy flavor squishing cooky goodness in the world can’t compare to one really fresh blackberry.  Or a fresh tomato.  Or a stinky ass cheese.

Every once in a while, my wife and I will do what we call a “wine and cheese” night.  It started out as a night wherein we’d get a nice bottle of wine and a few cheeses, accompanied by a few cornichons, a slice or two of a dry cured meat, some fresh fruit for dessert.  As the photos on this page might imply – it’s gotten a little out of control.

The concept here is basic.  Get a shit load of really fresh, really amazing ingredients – chuck it all in a bowl – enjoy a glass of wine or ten – get some good company around – and stuff your face.

This particular time (in the photo)  There’s some fresh mint and basil, some spanish olives, cornichons, Heirloom Tomatoes, some capicolla, a nice sliced chorizo (really cool wrapped in stinky fresh mint), Some Burrata, some tiny sweet peppers.  I’m probably missing some stuff – but it’s not the point.  The point is to find whatever is really fresh that day, whatever you want.  I really enjoyed getting a bite of Heirloom Tomato with Pepperoncini wrapped in Basil, personally.

If you’ve got a farmers market near you on Sundays, you should be going to it.  I’ll get more into that later, but you really should.  That Sunday is a good opportunity to do this.  You get all kinds of fresh shit to use throughout the week, but first, that night, take a bit of each thing you got, chuck it in a huge platter and do this.

I spend a lot of time obsessing over wanting new flavors, wanting to cook something really fucked up good and different.  It’s really good for me to relax and just enjoy some super tasty stuff that’s as simple as is humanly possible.  no cooking, no nothing.

Oh yeah – dessert.  As you can see, we just threw some fresh strawberries and a hunk of brie in a bowl.  That’s my idea of dessert.  That’s the kind of dessert I want to whisper dirty things to.

So There.  Go Forth.  Eat Good Food!  Do It Now!!

ok bye.

p.s.  I’m hoping I don’t have to mention the obvious health factor here.

p.s.s.  throw in a really good baguette with some good quality olive oil to dip it in and you can probably not worry about anything else again for the rest of your life.

i’m hanging up now.

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Comment by Stacey Robinson November 1, 2009 @ 4:10 pm

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