glow
We had corned beef and cabbage for dinner tonight, and now I'm sitting around thinking about how certain foods make you glow after you eat them. There are plenty of foods that I love, but not all of them give me that happy, satisfied, deep glow. (Love the turkey and stuffing with mashed potatoes, but no glow there. Same for the Potter Pizza from Leaning Tower of Pizza and satsumas.)
I was making a mental list of glowFoods, and notice that in my case they're either really virtuous or very, very bad:
- sushi and sashimi
- broiled salmon and broccoli
- steel-cut oatmeal with soy milk
- chili dogs and onion rings
- the aforementioned corned beef and cabbage
- cornbread, blackeyed peas and greens
- real fruit pie with real vanilla ice cream
Comments
Spicy gumbo! Actually, a lot of spicy stuff, like *hot* lamb saag with basmati rice. Definitely sushi too.
Posted by: Clancy | November 15, 2004 8:50 AM
Um, what is steel cut oatmeal? (Am european, therefore thick as a brick).
Posted by: Johnny | November 15, 2004 3:29 PM
Funny, I always thought steel-cut oats were a sort of European thing: McCann's Irish Steel-Cut Oats. (Maybe they're just labeled "Irish" here in the States for marketing purposes?)
Anyway, steel-cut oats aren't rolled flat the way most oatmeals are, but are little tiny hunks of whole oat kernels that have been cut up. The texture is different from rolled oats in a hard-to-explain way. Chewier, for one thing. And it has the purest taste of oats that I've ever come across. With milk and pure maple syrup, it's oatgasm.
The drawback is that they take *forever* to cook: 40 minutes on a stovetop. They're totally worth it, but I don't have that kind of time or patience in the morning so I cook them overnight in a crockpot. The Skinny Daily Post has a lovely post on steel-cut oats, if you want more info.
Posted by: Krista | November 15, 2004 4:00 PM
sushi!
spinach w/ lemon and butter on it
mushroom risotto
poached eggs on toast
freshly baked bread
Posted by: michelle | November 16, 2004 10:55 AM
My wife & I have long known the sushi glow. I feel it with some other foods, but none so much as with sushi.
Posted by: joseph duemer | November 18, 2004 5:04 PM