seriously?

I like to read food blogs, but maybe not as much as I like to read knitting blogs. Tonight, I was doing a bit of browsing and found this post on Becks and Posh about photographing everything that you eat for a week. Check out that picture! I guess that post is a proposal, so maybe the pictures aren't representative of everything eaten within a given time span. It seems a little unreal.

I'm imagining a photo of the things that I've eaten in the past week, including a bizarre set of gummy fangs that I picked up in the department copy room/kitchen/storage room. I think I have an extra gummy pizza in my backpack somewhere. I mean, I guess that people are hardcore food bloggers for a reason, but can you imagine that collage being a set of your ingestions for the past week? I can't help but wonder if there are some dirty eating secrets... like the plastic wrapped fake-cheese single that I ate before I cooked dinner. I would throw the rest of them away, but I can't stand to throw away food!

For dinner, I made an absorption pasta dish inspired by Chocolate and Zucchini's version. I used bowties and threw in shrimp, chard and king oyster mushrooms. It turned out ok, except for the mushrooms, which tasted sort of bitter and didn't go with the other things at all. I thought they would be innocuous mushrooms, but I was wrong. They kind of reminded me of straw mushrooms, which are not my favorites. Otherwise, it was tasty. I grated some parmesan on top, which oddly made the dish smell like cheetos, which didn't exactly detract from its appeal.

I had also squeezed in the juice of half of a sweet lemon that I picked up at the local grocery store that carries a lot of Middle Eastern foods. Somehow, I couldn't exactly get my head around the idea of a sweet lemon. I still thought it would be tangy, but guess what? It's actually sweet. I could eat that thing like an orange. Weird, right?