Friday, March 07, 2008

Food porn...

All of these things are off limits to me, but in the same way I watch Food Network and No Reservations on the Travel Channel (I actually do have totally non-food-related hots for Tony Bourdain), I've found myself perusing some of the yummy offerings on the web lately and imagining what it would be like just to go all crazy and eat them.

Like fresh sticky buns from William Sonoma. Pastry chef Jean-Yves Charon makes them, you just pop them in the oven. And eat them.

The food equivalent of S&M: Galaxy Desserts' Chocolate Lava Cake. Damn.

Jack and I are no longer friends and the alcohol/sugar combo might send me into insulin shock, I still like to think about breaking out a fork for Tipsy Cake soaked in Jack Daniels. Hey, I'm a southern gal. I can't help that I (used to) like my desserts with a whiskey chaser.

I think it's sort of like being in a monogamous relationship. You can look; you just can't touch. I eat things like a single square of dark chocolate or some fruit when I have a craving for sweets, but that doesn't mean I can't drool over butter-and-sugar-based dessert items. The temptation is there, but whether or not you act on it is the test of character. Speaking of temptation, I think a new episode of Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives might be on this week. I still daydream about that one episode where Guy battered and deep-fried a whole hamburger at Dyer's Burgers in Memphis.

Behold the deep-fried hamburger. Yum.

5 comments:

  1. If you do ever succumb to a sticky bun urge, the Wentworth Mansion's are amazing. But I suppose I shouldn't corrupt you thusly. Do you have the same trouble with honey or splenda? I confess I don't know much about diabetes, but I'd be willing to do some recipe testing to work it out for you. They shall be the "faux sticky buns of happiness."

    Anyway, don't you want to be Tina Fey's best friend? I love her. I wish I could find the skit where she talks about Britney Spears and "There was a time when a lady garden was as big as a slice of New York pizza" so I could watch it every morning. Kills me!

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  2. oh dear. I didn't see that one. good thing; memphis is just too close to resist the idea of a deep fried burger. slurp.

    and the williams sonoma e-mail 'newsletters' are a complete assault of my senses. I have received the sticky buns e-mail no less than four times, each time arriving approximately 4 days before my period. Thank GOD they cost like a ridiculous amount of money, because even hormones won't make me spend that much cash on something that will be gone in 4 nanoseconds.

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  3. Jem - I don't have the same problem with honey, it's the empty carbs (sugar and "enriched" flour) that I can't do. Might have to visit Wentworth Manse very soon!
    I don't just want to be Tina's BFF, I want to BE Tina. I even got a new pair of glasses last year that look like hers.

    Carrie - you'll have to let me know how that deep fried goodness is! And the William Sonoma email is exactly what started me on this food porn post. They are damn expensive though (but I've heard the scones are amazing as well!).

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  4. I am in love with Anthony Bourdain too! I was crushed when I read that he remarried this year...I'm not sure why, we don't run in the same circles and I'm married too :)

    Oh and I want to eat that burger with a burning passion, I can feel my ass getting larger just looking at it!

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  5. I'm really happy that one can't actually get fatter just by looking at food, because with the amount of time I spend watching Food Network and food-related television programs, I'd be around 300 lbs by now.

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