Highlights from #FoodFictionFriday Assignment #3: Imaginative Eating

Another great week of food fictioning! Here’s a peek at all the goodness that’s happening…

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#foodfictionfriday @jessica_tom Bread. Its bland. A PB and J rail car. But, it can be so much more. You can roast it, toast it, fry it, bake it, smash it, PULVERISE it. Now its injera, naan, or a crumpet to soak up tea. Potato, ciabatta, and pretzels. It’s the yummy in onion rings and the MMmm in schnitzel. Meat becomes meatloaf, and salads have texture. OH, Panzanella salad. Are we getting happy? It forms a nest for an egg, a cup for pie. PIE! Soup bowls Dips Layers of lasagna, twirls of noodles. Italian puddings. PUDDINGS? Oats and wheat and spelt Semolina, keto conscious, and pre-sprouted. PRE. SPROUTED. Gluten free. Brioche roll with pureed nut spread and fruit reduction Bread………

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@ells3844 wrote a full-throated love song to BREAD. I loved how she took examples from around the world, then quickly expanded our typical understanding of bread with out-of-the-box examples and language.

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A little late in turning in my assignment, but here is my excerpt for this week’s #foodfictionfriday theme of imaginative eating. In my first entry to this series, I expressed the embarrassment of having to eat what was clearly different from everyone else. From an early age, I had already been been introduced to cuts of meat that most adults are not at all familiar with, let alone have tried even once. Beef Laab, or what I would lovingly refer to as meat salad, is one of my Dad’s favorite dishes. Its essentially a “salad” comprised of all the cow parts with a hint of greens. Those greens being cilantro, spring onions, mint, & several squeezes of lime. No lettuce. This meat melange would include tripe, beef heart, & eye round, and of course fish sauce. As a kid, it was not my favorite, but now as an adult, I savor it. It’s one of the rare dishes that my Pops still enjoys. Whenever my Mom makes it, the best part about it, is to be able to sit across the table from my hero & reminisce about My Father’s better days. #foodfictionfriday #mystories #whatSAAPAF #imaginativEating #laos

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@curiouskitkatt took an autobiographical route and demonstrated what’s unusual is always a matter of perspective.

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This week’s #FoodFictionFriday was to describe an unusual way of eating -- either as a way to reveal character or simply let loose creatively. Here’s my homework for the week: ✏️ Salad’s not the sole place for dressing. I’ll admit to bread and rice, if we’re confessing. But those foods were in the way, Why not *freeze* it in an ice tray? I could eat 100% vinaigrette -- what a blessing. :: Convinced my cravings I’d sate, With some bottle squirts and a short wait. But oil and vinegar don’t harmonize, Which I sadly did not recognize. Icy...gelatinous...oil: ‘twas the worst thing I ever ate. ✏️ If you’ve been following me for awhile, you know I have a thing for limericks. But you probably didn’t know my husband is actually the limerick lyricist of the household. He wooed me with limericks during our courtship and often writes them for special occasions. (Though not for his wedding vows, thankfully). ✏️ Can’t wait to see what you come up with! PS: I’m trying a new thing where I’m posting my piece on Thursday night, in case you guys need some inspo before posting on THE #FoodFictionFriday. Let me know if you have any questions and happy food fictioning!

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And here’s my entry for the week!

Thanks for playing along. Next week’s challenge takes inspiration from an iconic food television show…