First things first. I’ve just discovered to my surprise (I guess discoveries are typically surprises) that anyone can post to this blog. The surprise is that I thought I had set write permissions to only members of the blog. So far, that would be Mary and me… with Casey pending. And the reason I did this is to prevent spammers from posting derogatory remarks, advertisements for performance enhancing drugs, and great deals on mortgages. I have seen this happen on our Rotary Club blog and don’t need that aggravation.
Now that it is the way it is, I’m going to leave it. Certainly friends and family are welcome to the club and may comment at will. Mary and I enjoy the chatter. However, if we find any spam, I’ll need to make all our friendly commenters members of the blog and restrict access.
This blog is unpublished and not secret. Meaning that so long as nobody thinks to look under this stone, they’ll continue to walk on by. However, anyone that knows the URL can readily read on and therefore by extension, post at will. So, though it might be fun in some sense to share our experience with a bunch of web-surfers, I’m not sure that would be productive at this point. The message here is to avoid sending the link to the i-am-a-vegan-too list. 🙂
Boringness: It occurs to me that my diet has been fairly boring. And I don’t mean since the beginning of the year, now only six days old. American Meals typically center on “some kind of meat” dish. And those meats are typically beef, chicken, pork, and fish – in that order. So, just taking the first one on the list, beef ground-up is hamburger – OK, there’s lunch – and sliced up – OK, there’s dinner, and of course adding to the mix various sauces and stacking them in different orders and numbers on a bun between a pickle and leaf of lettuce gives you the complete menu of the Big Mac Factory. End result, pretty boring.
Now that I think of it, pizza might be the only non-boring food group!
Of course, here in Kansas City, there are 57 varieties of BBQed meat, even without venturing across the state line, “all the way out of state” from whichever state you’re in… Regardless, how many times can you have BBQ in a week without being boring?
Now, adding to the mix eggs and cheese: you can fry an egg, scramble an egg, poach an egg, and even make an omelet with an egg and cheese. But an egg is an egg. Boring.
It occurs to me that what makes the meal interesting is the spice and variation in preparation, largely with those ingredients other than meat, cheese, and eggs. Especially when you don’t use a recipe (!), those meals are different every time. The recipe variation we’ve seen on these pages during these six days has limited immediate evidence of innovation. But the spirit has been energetic and the meals very tasty! We wish you were here to join us!
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