Trying to be extra health-conscious lately, but if you don’t butter your muffin you’re just an idiot.
But food choices are not black and white; the alternative to fast food is not necessarily organic food, any more than the alternative to soda is Bordeaux.
The alternative to soda is water, and the alternative to junk food is not grass-fed beef and greens from a trendy farmers’ market, but anything other than junk food: rice, grains, pasta, beans, fresh vegetables, canned vegetables, frozen vegetables, meat, fish, poultry, dairy products, bread, peanut butter, a thousand other things cooked at home — in almost every case a far superior alternative.
” Mark Bittman, Is Junk Food Really Cheaper?
Ice cream sandwich at The Meatball Shop, Manhattan location. Peanut butter ice cream between one chocolate banana cookie and one chocolate chip.
Mark Bittman recommends grilling whatever the fuck you feel like grilling, and I like it. When grilled, apparently, watermelon loses “its sloppy sweetness, and it takes surprisingly well to savory accompaniments”— so of course I will try it, hoping for the best but prepared for disaster.
I just knew that today would be the day I got my shit together and made a perfect omelet.
Going through a big-time egg cream phase. Although I guess the same could be said for every spring and summer.
