Five foods to eat before You die...

Sometimes questions are difficult for me to get my head around. I think this was a difficult one. It required a glass of wine!

What are five foods I’ve eaten and think that all of you should try at least once before you die?

That’s the question Melissa over at The Traveler’s Lunch Box asked of five food bloggers. She’s not calling it a meme but it’s spreading like the proverbial wild fire! Neil from Food For Thought has tagged me for same. I’ve been sitting on this one since last Thursday. As they say “Just Do It”.

Five (5) Foods To Eat Before You Die...

One (1)

For years I’ve been sort of a kook, low fat, low salt, whole grain etc. But, the first thing on my list will not fit into that category. Everybody should get to try my Mother’s fried chicken at least once. Fried chicken, fried in a skillet using bacon fat! Seasoned with just salt & pepper and bacon fat, this is divine, heavenly food. When I was growing up, my mom fried two or three or four chickens every Sunday after church. The number was determined by how much company would be coming in. My favorite part was the crumbles that would get knocked off the pieces and the neck because it had the most crunch.

Two (2)

This is starting to look like nothing will fit into the healthy category. Now, I love sweet things as much as most but I’m not really a sugar person especially first thing in the morning but I make an exception for the second thing on my list. Everybody should have my Daddy’s doughnuts fresh from the hot fat. I’ve tried bought doughnuts of many kinds, one bite of each. They really aren’t worth eating. Dad’s are real and real beyond good.

Three (3)

It would be really great if I could give you all the love of a second mother like my Aunt Dort and Dort’s German Chocolate Cake. Doris, I always called her Dort, my cousin Kathy always called her Dory, was my mom’s sister. I think maybe German Chocolate got a big promotion in the 50’s and Dort started making this cake. Whenever I visited, she’d bake one. Her German Chocolate Cake was always worth it.

Four (4)

Finally, let’s have something healthy! I’m always craving Heirloom Tomatoes like the one’s Jason made for us (see here) last week in Seattle.

Five (5)

Thank Goodness, healthy again. Several years ago, Gorn & I and my friend Sue & her husband Mark volunteered with a group called Earth Watch. The trip we selected to go on was in Alaska at a little place called Mother Goose Lake. The lake is only accessible by float plane. Here’s a link to something like we saw flying for an hour to reach the lake. Our camp site was on the shore in view of an old volcano now Mount Chiginagak. The four of us shared a sort of cabin: two very small bunk rooms with stacked bunk beds and one larger common room where we ate and cooked. The only other people we saw for two weeks were the Earth Watch leader and his two assistants. We hauled water in buckets to filter for drinking and boiled for washing dishes. Our “baths” consisted of seeing who could dash into and out of the lake the fastest. We had an out-house for our facilities. What did we do there? We put up things called mist nets, caught birds, counted and measured them (weight etc) and then let them go. One day we counted eggs and nests on a small island. Several nights we got up every two hours to check traps that caught small mammals to count, measure and release voles and the like. Everything we ate on this Mother Goose Lake had to be flown in on the float plane. Everything except Fresh Wild Salmon from the head of the King Salmon River. One day, Sue & Mark went fishing and brought back, yes, the freshest and wildest Salmon ever. That night we ate well by camp fire and stars. Everybody should have a wilderness feast such as that.

Thanks for the tag Neil and Thanks Melissa for starting the wild fire.

So, I tag:

Karen from Bake My Day (no pressure here, I know you are well occupied with a really exciting project)

Megan from Ches Megan

Sally from Tip of the Iceberg

Clivia from Clivia’s Cuisine

and Natalia (hope you have time what with starting the new job) from From Our Kitchen