Comfort food !The large Veggie-po boy and steamed veggies



I WROTE THE BLOG ENTRY IN 2008 ABOUT A 2007 PO BOY  .USED MEMORY RECALL TO LIST THE INGREDIENTS WHEN I WROTE THE BLOG.VERY RECENTLY I WENT AND SEARCHED MY PHOTO ALBUMS AND FISHED THIS PICTURE OUT AND POSTED IT TO THIS ENTRY IN 2012.



The fact that i mention veggies and comfort food in the same sentence, might surprise many , primarily because veggies are viewed by many as this food you eat to stay healthy but invariably is not going to be tasty ever.

This is a misconception since veggies are the tastiest .If you have not already killed the taste buds with pure refined foods , which have less complicated tastes, since mostly they ride high on pure sugar or pure salt...

pure SALT and pure sugar ARE BASIC tastes that the taste buds recongnize .

When you eat food high in either salt or sugar the taste buds are so flooded with just sugar or salt, they forget or are unable to sample and  to appreciate the more sophisticated combinations of flavors found in fresh natural foods, which consist of very little of sugar and salt and more of associated tastes from other components found in the fresh natural foods.

Appreciation of food also includes visual sensory inputs and the smell related inputs as well

People who shove in large amounts of food loaded with salt and sugar and then gobble them up are not giving enough time to let all of  the sensory organs/receptors experience things and then send out satisfactory happy signals .

Instead these FOOD SHOVELERS rely on just this satisfactory signal that goes to the brain when it senses food going down the gullet and when it senses a stretch from the stomach when it is full or overstuffed..hmmmm

We have stretch receptors in the Gastrointestinal system esp the stomach that send happy signals when stretched, as in, telling the brain that our belly is filling with FOOD!

COMING BACK TO TOPIC ON HAND,

So yeah , my ultimate comfort food is when 

a/I can eat unprocessed food ,

b/feel the myriad of natural  tastes AND

c/be  not overpowered by spices or sugar or salt .and

 that happens when I eat fresh steamed veggies very very lightly salted and well.

It is such a heaven...It is so light..feels perfect.

I once ate a large veggie po boy at a restaurant ( I DON'T EAT OUT OFTEN, so this is a rare occurance and blog worthy? k?) and when I was asked to order a side, I ended up ordering , steamed veggies too,coz when I get overly hungry ,I end up craving juicy steamed food ...

bulky

 filling

and yet light ,,

 very revigorating...

SO,after placing my order at the counter,

I sat there waiting for the order to be ready and ended up taking pictures ,of the pictures they had up on the restaurant walls

Took pictures of tables and chairs and myself(self timer pics)

Finally,after all this picture taking much to the amusement of the regulars and the staff who possibly were wondering as to what I found so PICTURE WORTHY at this deli, the sandwich plate arrived.It didn't arrive, they called out my name and i went and picked it up at the counter..A large oval plate :))

A large po boy, fresh bread roll, slit in the center.

They hadn't cooked the cucumber and mushrooms and spinach that they had used to fill up the po boy-

I am not sure if there was cheese ,but they had jalapenos, fresh spinach, fresh mushrooms and tomatoes and cucumber, none of them blanched or cooked...

All laid  out on the po boy like a colorfest

Accompanying this  po boy was a very tiny ceramic bowl ,a white one filled with brocolli and some other veggies -carrots..yeah,carrots,steamed and very very lightly salted.

I was so hungry by then,I just shoved the po boy into the mouth and ate like crazy(again much to the amusement of the other regular eaters there)

Then i proceeded to eat the steamed veggies .GULP,CHOMP,CHOMP.Then some water...GULP

Finally!! heaven.!!LOL.

I know.

I used to be a great mac and cheese fan way back in 2004.It used to be a great comfort food for me,but now...now in 2007,I like the po boy better in comparison.