Food, oh-so-glorious food. What would life be without good food?!
I’d love to call myself a foodie, but that word is just over
used. Plus I don’t even think its nearly true, I’m more than the average food
lover, border line gluttonous i think. I live for good food. In fact, if there was one
outright weakness I know, its my love for food. My credit card statements don’t
read expensive clothes and retail stores, they bleed at the names of
restaurants I go to. Tell me about a new restaurant and I’ll be there before
they can have their menu printed. I recently got myself a multi-restaurant
discount card and well…I’m not too sure
that was a very wise thing because I now have an excuse to dine out guilt free,
it’s a discount for crying out loud, a girl’s gotta eat discounted meals.
But its not all bad, I mean as bad as I make it sound, food
has been a good friend to me. Preparing and making a good meal to be enjoyed
by close friends is something I look forward to. Yes, I selfishly love the
compliments but I also find that food makes you forget all your life’s troubles
for a while and just be grateful for the basic things we take for granted, like
good food. And lets not get to fine dining, I have tried to explain this to
some friends and everyone rolls their eyes when I start. Fine dining is like an
out of body experience for me. Having an attentive dedicated waiter wait on,
having food that has taken so much effort to prepare, presented in the most
tempting way possible over a good bottle of wine…i honestly have little
experiences to compare to those blissful minutes. But more importantly food,
gets me out of bed. I kid you not, I wake up and the first thing on my mind is
always ‘It’s eating time’. Its more so on weekends when I'm so excited to
try a new breakfast recipe or make my award winning pancakes (awarded by my
grandma, she swears they’re the best, and she would know after the many years
of bad pancakes she’s had). Food is my inspiration to get out of bed and face another day, among other things,but food takes the lead.
So here’s to food, and all the food lovers. Coz life is too
short not to enjoy good food!
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