Though I generally like to eat healthy food, I have realized that my cooking is just about anything but - given the butter content of my preferred foods. At least it tastes good.

And I don't do greasy food, so that's a plus. Mostly because any considerable amount of greasy food or such makes me sick to the stomach.

But honestly...

Frankly, I use butter enough to make Paula Deen blush. Anyone that doesn't like garlic just best stay away from the kitchen altogether. If hot and spicy is not in your palate, then you would just die from my food most often. If you don't eat eggs, you're essentially screwed; and if you require meat (especially red meat) very frequently, then you might starve with my food.

Some of the things I love the most are garlic and various herbs - sage, rosemary, thyme, oregano, to name a few. The combination (of some number) of these flavors kind of form a basis for about everything I cook - a little butter or olive oil, garlic, herbs, pepper: I am happy as a pig in slop.

I also love vinegar, in all its glorious forms. With special affection for balsamic and cider vinegars. Not sure why I like vinegar so much, I just do.

I die for hot foods. I guess that is partly because of the way I was raised - we grew hot peppers when I was little, my grandparents grew them, my great-grandparents grew them. It is bred into me, to be simple. Now, I grow tabascos and habaneros, and am currently nursing a very young bhut jolokia plant (hasn't even put on flowers yet!) and just waiting until i can pluck one off the bush and pop it into my mouth...and die from the fire. But I will be so happy.

I love pork - ham, bacon, tenderloins, chops. I don't know why, but pork is like...the only meat I could very well not just forget about and leave off my list of possible meals. As well, I eat fish fairly frequently - often such fish as herring and sardines, both of which are good for you and tend to contain less mercury than tuna or the like. Salmon is wonderful and healthy, though I rarely cook it.


The major thing I could leave behind happily - most red meat. Sure, an occasional steak (if cooked just right - seared on the outside, just barely warmed and dark red on the inside, seasoned with just a bit of cracked black pepper and salt) is great. I honestly just don't care much for red meat. But I admit...a nice piece of lamb is amazing.
I also don't tend to eat other meat all that much either, anymore. I eat chicken somewhat, mostly for the sake of health -protein is rather essential. Though I can honestly say I seem to be the only person who doesn't like white meat chicken. If I am going to eat meat, I prefer it to be something I know wasn't farm raised - something that actually just lived its life and wasn't processed and mistreated and crowded into cages, etc. Which means I do love to get my hands on wild hunted venison or elk, etc.
[I also do not mind farm-raised so much if I know the farm - for instance a close family friend raises cattle. But I know he treats them well, doesn't them suffer, doesn't overcrowd them, etc.]

Okay...I am just rambling. I just felt like kind of talking about food, for some reason.