I'm Obsessed!!!! (Part 1)

Three Cheese Bacon 'n' Cheese Fries

Spicy Buffalo Wings and Spicy Ranch

I'm obsessed with food!!!! Anyone who spends any amount of time with me knows this to be true. I love food. I love eating it, I loved cooking with it, I love baking with it. I love smelling it, I love looking at it, I love pinning it, I love....I think you get the picture.... =P

This summer, I gorged myself on the foods that make me soo happy. These two pictures are from Rib City. My favorite meal ever. Spicy and tangy, follow it up with their towering chocolate cake and you are halfway to a heart attack!! Endless cups of sweet tea though, make the process a dream.


Now, granted, my food obsession comes in handy for my roommates, pretty much on a daily basis, but I recently took a trip to Taipei to visit my cousin. I hadn't seen her in quite a long time and it was so good to see her and catch up on about a decade. :)  I had a great time touring about the city with her- seeing the Taipei 101 (I just like saying that, it sounds so rich and classy) at night and seeing all the lights at night, eating at countless Din Tai Fung styled restaurants, finding street food, and 24-hour breakfast diners and Applebees like places. And let's not forget :

I was so overwhelmed by the sheer delectability of the hummus and chicken pita that I ate here that I could not even stop to take a picture of my delectable Mediterranean salad with beets that I actually relished (did you like that pun?? ) , fresh warm pita to dip in the fresh, warm hummus, or chicken pita stuffed with hummus, yogurt, vegetables and meat. I think I glimpsed heaven for just a moment here as I lost myself in the creamy stuff. This pita bar extracted a reaction out of me that I do not recall ever having before for any other food. If I go back to Taipei, do you think that I will be visiting this place? (Was there even a need to ask the question????? You figure it out. I will be halfway there by the time you even ask the question.

Anyways, back to my roommate's benefits. I cook almost on a daily basis, and every Saturday I like to get up around 9a (sleeping in for me!!) and cook a big breakfast to celebrate the weekend and another week finished. Last week, I made French Toast with a vanilla pudding syrup and a SW bacon/cheese omelet. This week, I tried out Pumpkin Pancakes (with the pumpkin our import store recently started carrying) topped with cinnamon syrup and bacon cheese and onion eggs. I think they were a success cause even when we have left overs, they do not last more than 4 hours after the meal. I recently discovered a rosemary round loaf that should soon become a staple for my Italian dishes and I think I finally mastered cooking up a good beef dish with roasted veggies. And I think I just invented the perfect nachos. (I am making my own stomach growl now....)

I love food. I love experimenting with food. I love eating food.

But what if food was all there was to life?

.....to be continued