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Hi everyone! It’s been a while since I’ve let you know what I’ve been eating, and I’d like to take the opportunity to tell you all that I’ve been ingesting the fear and hate and raw power of wild animals that have been hunted down and murdered. It tastes great! It tastes like pure energy. Originally the term “venison” applied to all foods that were hunted down and murdered. Now it only really applies to deers. The two wild and unruly dead beast bits I’m talking about are of course deer meat and dead cobra whiskey.
First, Dead Cobra Whiskey! In that context pure energy tastes just like an old dead cobra. Remember dissecting cats or whatever in high school? Imagine if you could taste that smell and that it also is a dead cobra and it is giving you awesome powers. After the Dead Cobra Whiskey was all gone the tiny bottle was refilled so that all could enjoy at their leisure some Dead Cobra Beer!
Next, Deer Stew! My new favorite dish. Deer is delightfully low in fat, calories, and cholesterol for red meat! AND it’s hard to have just a little bit of it because deers are huge. What a wonderful meat! To season deer I like to use what are typically fish seasonings: lemon, garlic, dill, salt and pepper, and of course a healthy squirt of olive oil since there is not really any fat in it. For the stew ingredients I was like “hey why not go with some atypical ingredients since I’m dealing with an atypical and totally amazing free spirited dead champion?” So I added then some green onions, carrots (pretty typical actually but whateves), turnips, and curly kale. the garlic and dill were fresh and (especially the dill) were added generously. Crock pot it overnight if you can wait for that long and HELLO! What a tasty dish! The tasty taste of dead wilderness. It gets you high as hell on raw spirituality and freedom.
From here on I will do my damned best to eat only untamed meats. Like deer and boars and rabbits and BEARS and sharks and salmon and crabs and crawfish and tuna.
You know I’m glad this list includes more fish because lately when I cook red meat I cant help but associate the smell with periods. Powerful? Yes. Appetizing? No. I hope that wasn’t too much information.
kisses!
On Tuesday April 29th, the IFC center here in the NY, NY, NY (props to Zach Bruno) will be showing The Burger and the King, a 1996 documentary about Elvis and his life long love affair with food.
Now the whole thing can be viewed on youtube in 6 parts with Scandinavian subtitles, but Im willing to wait and watch it on the big screen, and as an added bonus, the director, James Marsh, will be there to do a little Q&A afterwards.
I was a pedestrian Elvis fan for a decent amout of time, mainly of skinny young Elvis. However, following a visit to Graceland the summer after graduating from college, I became totally sold on the fat, older, decadent (yet still really religious) Elvis who flew to Denver in the middle of the night to have a hollowed out loaf of bread filled with butter, peanut butter, jelly, and bacon, better known as the Fool’s Gold Loaf. The same dude who ate fried chicken coated with crushed up potato chips and shot out one of his 3 tvs (they were all next to each other in his basement mind you) because he felt like it.
You might remember that not too long ago Reese’s came out with limited edition Elvis peanut butter and banana creme cups to commemorate…well I dont know what the special occasion was. But I do remember picking up a pack while on a car ride either to or from New York and Cleveland, and finding it to be pretty disgusting. However that might have to do with my total disliking of any banana flavored candy.
The Peanut Butter & Co. shop in Greenwich Village offers a pretty good Elvis sandwich, though its more of a combo sandwich as they combine the fried (though they just grill theirs) peanut butter and banana sandwich with bacon. I’ve experimented with the bacon and peanut butter sandwich a few times at home with limited success (i think the key is getting good bacon and figuring out a good PB/bacon ratio), though that doesnt mean I will stop. And since I bought some hamburger meat not too long ago (I have a stock of buns in the freezer. Dont ask), I might experiment with the peanut butter burger as well.
But I digress.
Thanks to A Hamburger Today for the heads up and info.
Here are some more photos from a dinner party that we had almost more than a month ago. These were taken by Nadirah Zakariya with her Lomo camera. Pretty juicy. She rulezz. Here’s her Flickr.
peace
