10 Things I Love: Food

Loving Food is about as basic a love as it comes. Breakfast, lunch, dinner. Bowls of cereal at midnight. Snickers bars out of the candy machine. Perfectly grilled filet mignon’s on the charcoal grill. The Rooti Tooti Fresh and Fruity at IHOP.

Sorry, I had a point in there somewhere, but it was lost as soon as I typed “Rooti Tootie.” While I do love food overall, for me its not only about what I am consuming, but the environment I am in, and especially the company I dine with.

The most optimal conditions for the perfect meal usually involve being surrounded by my friends and/or family and enjoying dinner over good conversation. Sometimes it’s the occasion that makes the meal memorable, like Thanksgiving, and other times it’s just a late night meeting for coffee and milkshakes at Denny’s (or House of Pies, or IHOP, or Waffle House.)

Since listing my favorite foods would not only be boring and would make me very hungry, instead I will make the rest of you hungry by showing you pictures of some of my recent favorite meals.

For anyone not lucky enough to live in Texas, this is what we call BBQ. This is not meat with BBQ sauce poured on it. This is true Texas BBQ.

The meal above was what myself, my girlfriend and many friends enjoyed during a weekend in April. The meal included BBQ Chicken, steaks, potatoes, and grilled peppers. We gathered at my friend’s MonaLisa and Crystal’s house and enjoyed the food and many laughs.

This was taken in 2005 during a trip to Lake Buchanan, Texas. We came into town for breakfast at The Bluebonnet Cafe, and when Jinny ordered a cinnamon roll and told us to “just wait,” I had no idea what to expect.

What came out was the giant cinnamon pastry drowning in icing almost the size of my head. I had just a bite and it was almost too much to handle. Breakfast was wonderful, but it wouldn’t have been half a delicious if it hadn’t been with such great company which is what memory will always truly standout.

Behold, the Lindy’s cake. Lindy’s is a bakery in Houston that receives its recipes from Heaven, and bakes just a little bit of it into all of their cakes. I’ve had the pleasure of enjoying them a few times, as they are a favorite of the McCormicks.

I apologize in advance to Becky and Henry, but this is the best way to describe what it is like to enjoy a Lindy’s cake:

Now that I’ve shared a few of my favorite food moments, I’m going to go eat everything in my fridge.