#food post

[emeralds-city]

Made a grilled cheese with apple bacon jam and provolone on sourdough. The sudden urge to start a failed catering business that prompts me to move back in with my father and work in a run down sub shop with more code violations than customers under the intense yet sad blue eyed stare of my culinary idol who has all but fallen apart the seams is soooooo strong.

[lexezombie]

hehehe <3 (pre-baked photos, will post again when i decorate them, theyre cooling rn)

[ecoamerica]

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[thethirdman8]

Is there anything better for breakfast than poached eggs and homemade toast.. but first coffee..

[conditionaljewel]

Homemade pasta sauce and meatballs for Sunday dinner, all made on noodle legs and with a foggy brain.

Bone apple tea.

[greatcheshire]

i think you've alluded a few times to the weird food situation you had in your upbringing, so i was wondering if you ever talked at length about that? if not, would you be comfortable saying like, what the heck was up with it? if not thats totally fine, i know it's probably a tough subject, but i will admit i am intrigued.

I believe I've talked about it before, but probably through scattered posts and what not, so I don't mind explaining it! If anything just so I have something to link to when people ask lol

CW: abuse I guess? Idk if this counts for abuse or not but just for safety's sake

Basically I wasn't really exposed to a lot of food as a young child. Like I was a picky eater at a young age, which isn't that unique, but my mom wouldn't pressure me to step out of my comfort zone at all and try anything else (vegetables, bread, most food) and instead resort to whatever I already liked. By the time I was five, this had evolved into my mom rarely, if ever, cooking anything for me and my sister, with her often just getting me fast food nuggets or me having to cook whatever a five year old could easily make and would want to make (aka a lot of microwave pizzas, dinosaur nuggets, hot dogs, and mozzarella sticks. She would give me Twinkies for breakfast, though, as they were "a source of bread so they're healthy"). As a result of this, even if I did want to try new foods, I was often unable to, as they weren't in the house or not something I could easily prep or understand myself.

This evolved once again around the time I was in middle school when my mom had me placed on a very restrictive diet in order to present a legal case for the court regarding my custody, treatment, and physical and mental health. She worked with my doctor at the time to put me on a diet where the only restriction was I couldn't eat anything over 7% saturated fat, which quickly showed to be a flawed system, as it meant I could eat as many cookies as I wanted but wasn't allowed a single yogurt cup. As part of this diet, my mom basically refused to buy any food for me that wasn't cinnamon rolls or Ritz crackers dipped in ranch dressing. So for a few years, so long as I was at my mom's, I was eating either cinnamon rolls or Ritz with ranch for three meals a day, minus the days I could sneak out and secretly use money to buy myself lunch somewhere. I remember one time she had me take a glucose test (where you have to fast and then get your blood drawn every hour for, like, 8 hours) and refused to get me anything real to eat afterwards so I chugged a few Vitamin Waters and ate Ritz crackers with ranch dressing in the hopes that it would help the woozy feeling that comes with having so much blood drawn after fasting.

When I was 14 my mom died and I was now living with my dad full time and at this point my palate began to expand, mainly due to my stepmom encouraging/pressuring me to try things that weren't just chicken tenders, cheese sticks, hot dogs, or pizza. However, I wasn't fully out of the clear yet, as my dad is also a picky, meat and potatoes kinda guy. So while I was trying more and more foods, it was a lot of stuff like pork chops or ribs or brisket or steak. Still good things to try! But not a lot of variety, especially for a family that doesn't eat non-American foods except for Taco Bell and doesn't keep fruits or vegetables in the house. Furthermore, I also had the point where despite being a teenager, being kept away from so much food for so long made me sort of averse to even breaking that barrier. Why try bread at this point when I'm 15 and know that I don't like it? What if I have it and it's gross? What if I finally do try lettuce and it makes me sick? Even when I did try things, a lot of it tasted so differently from what my tastebuds were used to that it was hard to learn to actually like it. This is something I still struggle with, to be honest: how to determine if I actually don't like the taste of something or if's just a new taste I've never experienced before.

It would kinda stay stagnant like this until I was 19, just finishing up my first year in college and about to go into my second. And as we all know, college is the time for discovery and experimentation, which in this case meant trying bread. I don't know why I started branching out into more foods then. I think I had just gotten so tired of eating the same thing every day, especially now that I was on my own in a dorm, that I wanted to at least try some new things, especially if I had a dining hall I could just grab things from. I still didn't explore THAT much, if I'm being honest with myself, but from that point on, at least I started to eat bread and burgers and sandwiches and wasn't totally adverse to the idea anymore.

My food exploration kinda slowed down in my later years in college, mainly because I didn't have the dining hall plan anymore and was low on cash and, well, when you have so little money, you're going to stick with safe food choices because if you spend $10 on a new dish and you hate it, well, guess you're out of dinner money now. But thankfully this year, through friends and travel and my own volition, I've started trying more and more things, trying to adapt to a "I'll try whatever" mentality (unless it has nuts in it because wow I hate nuts so much). It took a while, and I'm still learning and dealing with things, but I've come to realize that I don't need to fear food anymore, and now that I have my own place with my own income, I can purchase and try whatever I want to and don't have to worry about any outside pressure one way or the other. It's been a struggle. But it's getting better.

I hope that clears things up! I'm sure there's probably still questions and maybe this doesn't make sense at all but I hope fills in some gaps, at the very least.

[bryan360]

Tagged: @murumokirby360 @carmenramcat @alexander1301 @rafacaz4lisam2k4 @paektu

Just dropped off before finished today’s lunch that my sisters brought from McDonald’s. Though at same time, I’d digged their latest style changes to anime/manga inspirations. 😋👍

[caramelcuppaccino]

food in italy amirite

[therichantsim]

So I'm not usually a recipe type of cook. I just let the ancestors guide me and it hasn't failed me once. I was scrolling the clock app and saw the creamiest butter beans come across my FYP. They even sopped it with buttery sourdough bread. I ran to the link in their bio.

It's funny how when you get older you start thinking about fiber, salt intake, dark leafy greens, and vitamins lol. But these were so freaking delicious. I am stuff.

[bujokookie]

Cutest Turkish Bakery in little Italy.

[junicafebaby]

[57hz]

My asexual lesbian wife, furious that I got the wrong kind of ketchup, puts my record collection up on discogs. But since it's all entry level bullshit you can get at target and best buy none of it sells, which actually hurts more than I expect.

[idiot-mushroom]

This is soley about temperature, i’ll make one about topping later if ya’ll like this poll :]

also reblog so other ppl can vote!!

[mx-incognito]

Vegetarian lentils for my beloved mutuals 🍲

[conditionaljewel]

First Sunday pasta dinner of 2024 let’s fuckin go

[mjalti]

Making some raw carrot salad (yes I’m giving in to TikTok lol) and then my mom made liver last night & the fat congealed so I’m using it to make a soup with leftover carrot tops, onions, celery, ginger + oregano/lime that I used an immersion blender to turn into one homogenized mixture, then added shiratake “noodles”. Smells DIVINE and light.

I’m going to present the soup with a salad of various raw & fermented veggies, crushed feta cheese, toasted parmigiana cheese slices drizzled with a lil sesame oil and white vinegar.

[bryan360]

We’re having another Nintendo Direct coming tomorrow. Though don’t expect they’ll be bringing their next-gen console announcement right now. I’m trying to avoid some insider leaks until the company be ready to show up. Next year, maybe.

Also, my family had “Burger King” for dinner today. I got with the whopper, this chicken wrap, medium fires while grabbing juice because it didn’t came with drinks. At least worth mentioning while already munching down these meals. 😏👍

Kudos to my mom after gave me a slice of that burger while I’m still at my room. It’s on the fourth bottom right sided I’d placed.

Tagged: @murumokirby360 @carmenramcat @alexander1301 @rafacaz4lisam2k4 @paektu