01/20/2010 21:10
Voices in my head...
Today was a difficult day. Let me clarify - today was a difficult food day, not a gremlin day! (See yesterday's post if you have no idea what I'm talking about...) 
I teach food. I teach in a hands-on production cafeteria kitchen at a technical college. We had a 1950s theme in the cafeteria today. We made tuna noodle casserole, chicken pot pie, and salisbury steak. We made green bean casserole, creamy cheesy hash brown cassserole with cornflakes on top, and mashed potatoes and gravy. We made peach cobbler, apple crisp, and banana cream pie. Have I mentioned the malt and shake station set up during service so you could have one made to order?
I think sometimes that I am a product of the wrong era. I love these foods. I could drown my sorrows in all of them; they make the world and my problems go away. Well, at least until indigestion hits and my weight goes up. But seriously. Yum. It must have been nice to cook or grow up in an era of nutritional ignorance.
I had to taste some of the foods before they went upstairs to make sure that they were acceptable...these are still students making this stuff. The voices in my head were screaming for a whole bowl of this or a large side of that, <sigh> but I settled for my spoonful. I made it through.
I then settled in for a nice warm bowl (ha ha actually a tupperware container) of Butternut Squash Apple Soup that I made last night at home when I was experimenting. It was all-natural, organic, free of all oogy boogies like preservatives, and I know EXACTLY what went in it. Did I mention it was pretty damn good? It sure is good to cook in an era of nutritional awareness.