What Happened Between Me and That Caesar Salad
So I tweeted earlier about how I made and devoured a Caesar salad. Except I didn't use the word devour. And it's possible that I didn't use it because my brain couldn't work because it had Caesar salad stuffed in between its synapses.
I'm not kidding. I made this salad because I'm on this new kick, which you will surely be hearing much about, and part of this kick involves learning to cook. While it's true that no cooking per se is involved with the compiling of a Caesar salad, we non-cooks tend to use words like "cook" very liberally. I pretty much use it to describe anything I'm doing in the kitchen, even if it's, like, taking a vitamin.
Anyway, a cook book was purchased and skimmed. And I wasn't even planning on getting this particular aspect of the kick started today but then I opened the cook book and saw that Caesar salad was listed. Now I love this food, even though it's not a food but many foods. (Quick question: what was your favorite food as a kid? I had two: donuts and bacon, and that pretty much says it all about me. And no, I didn't like them together although these days that's probably a possibility.)
So back to Caesar. I made the salad and it was a success -- I transformed bread into croutons! I made my own salad! I separated an egg! I was so damn thrilled with myself that even though I wasn't hungry, I decided to try it. Try it. This was Caesar salad for four, mind you.
It was amazing! And I was reading yesterday's Times. And suddenly, I looked up and the salad was gone. All of it. I'm not sure I can express quite how big this salad was. How big? Well, I've sort of felt sick ever since. Not because of the raw egg or because the salad was in any way bad but I just don't think humans are meant to eat that much Caesar salad in one sitting.
I'm still recovering. I've semi cancelled my plans for tonight. I'm really happy to be on my way to becoming Martha Stewart but I just want to make sure: no one's ever died from eating too much Caesar, right? It's important that you keep in mind the fact that I tend to have a stomach of steel; literally, I could eat a live cow and probably be fine.
*My symptoms are a slight headache, fatigue and a very full feeling...this may actually be normal, except for the very full part.
I’m pretty sure you’re going to be fine, but if you feel a tickle in your nose, have a big sneeze and then your coffee table is suddenly covered in dressing maybe you should call somebody.
hmm my favorite food as a boy must have been White Castle Hamburgers
My dad used to take to this location near a train station
It was so nice to go there
you will be fine, now when it comes out it may be like passing a hay bale lol but you will feel better..
i am having the same kind of love affair with broccoli and eating it quite often but prefer it with heart stopping amounts of butter..
favorite food for me as a kid.. probably them weenie wraps they sold packaged like biscuits and cinnamon rolls..
I don’t think America will have really made it until we have our own salad dressing. Until then we’re stuck behind the French, Italians, Russians and Caesarians. ~Pat McNelis
My favorite food as a child was broccoli covered in melted cheddar.
I think you’ll be fine. Not sure how you managed to put away a salad built for 4 but all should be well very soon. Headaches subside, that full feeling will as well. I will Google to check on death by Caesar salad but I’m confident it’s never happened.
It’s so awesome that you are learning the whole cooking thing. I’m thinking a huge ADA dinner party should happen in the future. We could have a party to celebrate one of us actually advancing a grade. Or, since the Cougars are kicking ass, an after a huge victory party might be another possibility.
My favorite food when I was a kid is still my favorite food to this day. Mostacholli with Italian sausage. I love it and could eat it every day if someone would just let me. If I ever get the chair for something, that is my last meal.
Congrats again on the salad success, especially the croutons. I’m sure it will be the first of many domestic successes you will have as you delve deeper into that cook book. As far as I’m concerned, if it’s done in the kitchen and it involves food, it’s cooking!
Mike (yes, donuts are cop food)
#boughtandacaesarsaladareagreatcombinationforthebodyandthemind
Remember on Seinfeld how Elaine always ordered a Big Salad at Monks?
When I was growing up we had pizza night about once a week (we ordered from a place called the El Dorado). I still love most Italian food.
When I was in grade school I ate a lot of candy. There was a store near our house and I stopped there almost every day after school to pick up a candy bar or two.
The summer before I started high school we moved to a nearby town and there weren’t any stores nearby. My candy consumption plummeted dramatically.
Do you still have your big collection of restaurant menus, Anna?
When I was a child I always liked Captain Crunch cereal, pop tarts (no strawberry, allergic), macaroni and cheese, green peas, carrots, apples, oranges, bananas. I really didn’t like much junk food or fast food. And I still don’t.
I don’t know if anyone has ever died from eating too much Caesar salad, but too much of any food probably is not good for the body. People have died from drinking too much water (usually in some idiotic TV or radio show ‘contest’). Anyway, 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda stirred in 4 ounces of water, taken once every 2 hours if needed, should help you feel better. Although, you are probably already feeling better by now, or at least I hope you are. But if not, get to a doctor, preferably the sooner the better.
this post made me hungry. I’m off to the ADA cafeteria now.
My favorite food as a kid was canned chicken salad. I’ve tryied to find the same brand as an adult, but I don’t thik they make it any more. I think the animal they used wasn’t chicken and I’m starting to wonder if that animal finally went extinct.
Try making something that involves “applying heat to some sort of food product”, then you can say you are learning to cook.
At Voodoo Donuts in Portland, OR they have:
Bacon-Maple bar – A traditional maple bar topped with strips of fried bacon
Let your childhood dreams run wild !!
we get a video i like rather than a quote tonight..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jByfWOLmjo
As a kid? Cereal and applesauce, though like the bacon and the donuts, not together.
So what’s the title of this infamous cookbook?
Our job is not to make up anybody’s mind, but to open minds and to make the agony of the decision-making so intense you can escape only by thinking. ~Author Unknown
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Donuts and bacon? How is bacon in keeping with your Hebrew heritage? This concerns me almost as much as why I am home on Friday night wondering about your family’s Jewishness.