Food and my Ideal Meal

I love food. There is just something about it that makes me happy. I spend hours upon end, daydreaming about delicious feasts and delectable grub. Some people eat to live; I live to eat.

My ideal meal would consist of the normal three parts: appetizer, main course, and dessert.

For my appetizer, I would have Clams Positano, an Italian dish in which littleneck clams are steamed and then thrown into a hot broth with garlic, salt, and pepper. After that would be Clams Oreganata, or clams baked in breadcrumbs. Clams are easily my favorite food. Then would come fried calamari, an enormous plateful of small baby squid lightly fried to perfection and served with a garlic aioli for dipping sauce. To finish off my appetizers would be French Onion Soup, topped with melted Gruyere cheese and served with a side of toasted bread for dipping.

Steak and potatoes would start of my main course. The steak would be a prime filet mignon, cooked medium rare, and the potatoes would be prepared with an abundance of cream and butter so that they are light and fluffy. Following that would be a large thin crust cheese pizza, made with fresh mozzarella, so hot and melty that the greasy cheese falls off the pizza. Then I would have spaghetti carbonara, noodles tossed in a creamy alfredo sauce and covered in pieces of bacon. After that would come a crab sandwich, with the crab sautéed slowly in a lemon butter sauch, and the fresh bun lightly toasted.

For dessert, I would begin with something simple: a vat full of chocolate mousse. After I finished gorging myself on that, I would move on to a melting chocolate lava cake, with vanilla ice cream on the side. These two desserts tie for my favorite. Chocolate lava cake is incredible. A warm, moist chocolate cake, surrounding a pool of melting chocolate. When you add the vanilla ice cream, magic happens. I’m drooling just thinking about it. After the lava cake would come a chocolate-raspberry soufflé, with extra chocolate sauce on the side.

I have no idea how I manage to stay thin. It is a mystery.

However, I might not stay thin if I begin to eat some of the food shown on one of my favorite websites, www.thisiswhyyourefat.com. Some of the foods shown include a BBQ Pulled Pork Donut Sandwhich, a “BBQ pulled pork sandwich with two glazed donuts for the bun, peach guacamole, roasted tomato
salsa, and Chipotle Cheddar Cheese Wiz.” Maybe I would gain a few pounds after eating a plate of chocolate covered bacon with sprinkles. Despite the fact that these all sound rather unappealing, I am still tempted to try some.