A Perfect Day of Food

One of the many blogs I follow had this post last week – what would be your perfect day of food if calories weren’t an issue? What a fun exercise!

My list discounts calories AND the amount of food one person can actually intake within a 16 hour day. Let’s forget that I’d just be napping on a couch with a hand on my belly and my eyes lolling back in my head before we could even hit up the PM snack in real life.

That said, I bet there have been days in my life where I’ve eaten close to this many calories. (Please see the State Fair visit I’ll be making sometime in the next 10 days…)

Without further ado – My Perfect Day of Food!

Breakfast

• Two McDonald’s hash browns
• Homemade French toast served with grape jelly and local maple syrup
• The fresh squeezed orange and strawberry juice from the Yoke Restaurant in Chicago

AM snack

• Hot chocolate a la Parisienne (a mug of melted chocolate served with a pitcher of warm milk, a package of cane sugar, and another bite-sized piece of dark chocolate)
• Cherry pastry – Not from any particular restaurant or recipe, I just love cherries and pastries and this seems like a good place to add it in.

Lunch

• French onion soup, bread and oven roasted garlic from Bistro 110 served with a glass of sparkly pink champagne
• Salad I had in Paris – butter lettuce and diced tomatoes dressed with a Dijon mustard vinaigrette served with three pieces of goat cheese baguette toasts. The whole plate is drizzled with fresh honey.
• Three Rocket Baby macarons – raspberry, lemon, pistachio

PM Snack

• My aunt Ellen’s cheesy hamburger dip served with the big sized Fritos
• Ice cold 21 oz. bottle of Diet Coke

Dinner

• Juniper 61’s Old Fashioned created with Milwaukee’s own Bittercube wild cherry bark, Madagascar vanilla, and cocoa bitters
• The Mama Sow dinner from Jerry’s Old Town Inn as served in 1996 to the Skarich Family:
  – Thick cut onion rings served with barbecue sauce
  – Iceburg lettuce salad with cheddar cheese, tomatoes, croutons, and a mix of French and Thousand Island salad dressings
  – Fresh baked bread served with homemade butter
  – A half rack of the most tender ribs you’ll ever eat in a perfect saucy sauce, a baked potato with butter, cheese, salt, pepper and chives, and one skinny watermelon slice
  – Only change I would make – you do NOT have to wear a bib to eat these ribs!
• Pecan toffee pie from Junior League of Houston cookbook

Fourth Meal

(Let’s pretend that at this point in the day I would be able to stay upright long enough to do something like go out dancing and would feel a little peckish before hitting the hay…)

• Grilled cheese as prepared by John, the best cook at Patterson dorm at the University of South Carolina, with ketchup to dip
• French fries (from where?? Who has the best fries?? How do I not have an answer to this question?!) with a bucket of honey mustard dressing from the GMP (i.e. Aramark’s standard issue probably out of an industrial can – but it was still so good!!!)
• A big pile of crinkle cut pickle slices
• A fountain diet coke with a lot of ice provided by McDonald’s or Subway, but served in a glass cup
• A Dusty Road sundae from Champion Chicken (as served in the days of Chicken Fest, not as it is actually produced today – a lot less on the malt powder and a lot more with the hot fudge and cherries)

Honorable Mention

This list is shockingly lacking anything of Asian origin. I thought it would be obvious for me to add the following from Yen Ching to the list as if you know me the least bit, you know I could eat this for every meal for the rest of my life.

• Sizzling rice soup
• One and a half egg rolls with sweet and sour sauce and soy sauce
• White rice
• Cashew chicken

• Or, if I’m being honest, I’d just list P.F. Chang’s lettuce wraps and be on my way.

So now that I’ve got you drooling on your desk – what would be included in your perfect day of food?