{"id":2118,"date":"2016-11-27T13:42:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T18:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=2118"},"modified":"2016-11-27T13:42:18","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T18:42:18","slug":"27-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2016\/11\/27\/27-4\/","title":{"rendered":"27"},"content":{"rendered":"\n


I bumped the one about Small Business to yesterday, as I had something to say. So, yesterday\u2019s prompt today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is coming very early, as I\u2019m all sorts of fucked on my sleep schedule. Thankfully, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any late football I want to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is your favorite food? (H\/T to someone on PB)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve come to appreciate all sorts of things, but I think I\u2019d have to go with things considered French bistro fare. Beef Bourguignon, Coq-au-vin. We\u2019re supposed to be having Croque-Monsieur for dinner tonight before I slog my way back into the office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I mentioned my oyster experience a few days ago; I\u2019m intrigued by mussels. I do have to admit that I\u2019m more than a little nervous about them, though, after reading somewhere that they were one of the things where you were most likely to get bad food. (Bourdain, maybe?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of my favorite places, Bistrot du Coin<\/a> was something we found by happenstance on a trip to DC years ago. We were up in Woodley Park, and were looking for some nommables. I think I found it on the now-defunct UrbanSpoon app, so we went.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fries done in duck fat. My wife (then-fiancee) thoroughly enjoyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve been back many times since. With my godcousin after my dad\u2019s burial at Arlington. Other times we\u2019ve stayed at the Washington Hilton. On the layover in DC between trains going to New Orleans for our honeymoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s been more difficult lately, though. Part of what one of my longtime neurologists recommended for me was a diet that\u2019s low in iron. Under that regime, I got four ounces of red meat per week. There\u2019s a lot of beef in French cuisine, unfortunately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though I never did see the movie (Julie and Julia<\/em>?), one year for Christmas, I did get the Mastering the Art of French Cooking<\/em> books. (Obligatory classic SNL Clip<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nice aperitif, glass of wine with the food, digestif or beer after dinner. And I\u2019m in my happy place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have I succinctly answered this one? I don\u2019t know. There\u2019s nothing that I could say I could eat every day. (Also, if I was to cop-out, and say something like \u201cgood French bread,\u201d would it still only be one if I needed butter for that bread most of the time? Is coffee your favorite drink if you always need something that goes in it? Aside, for my medical procedure a few weeks ago, I couldn\u2019t have creamer in my coffee. I had to use only sugar. I almost never put sugar in my coffee. But it worked. On the few days a month that I do drink coffee, I make it in a single-serving French press. I don\u2019t drink enough coffee to justify anything else.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, that\u2019s that. I didn\u2019t do anything other than the pharmacy for Small Business Saturday. Wasn\u2019t feeling up to it. It also seems as if we didn\u2019t win the Powerball drawing. Again, regressive tax, and vice peddled by the Commonwealth, but I can be reckless a few times per year. (Though that doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019m going to order modules in a restaurant that probably doesn\u2019t serve them every day. Or try to cook them myself in our tiny kitchen. Hell, I don\u2019t even cook fish here out of fear of the stench.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three days left, but the words are flowing again. I may not see worth a damn, but I still can sorta type.
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I bumped the one about Small Business to yesterday, as I had something to say. So, yesterday\u2019s prompt today. This is coming very early, as I\u2019m all sorts of fucked on my sleep schedule. Thankfully, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any late football I want to see. What is your favorite food? (H\/T to someone on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-journal-writers-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}