Eating right isn’t hard
A colleague was visiting New Orleans as her daughter is thinking about Tulane. She said to me, I can’t believe you could find such good food and good music in the same city. Welcome to our world. But a lot of the good food has been right here at the LaLa these days. The other day we had some shrimp and pesto linguini with fresh pesto made by my neighbor from the basil in her garden. Then my other neighbor caught some fresh trout and we made trout almondine. We took some kale and mustard greens and cooked them with Savoy’s turkey tasso – yum yum yum – then drizzled balsamic vinegar over the top – delicious. That’s not to mention the peaches from the Green Market with the custard. Those peaches are worth walking a mile for – so yum.
Today Tin had polenta with lentils and kale and mustard greens – he ate it right up. Can’t get him to eat a piece of fruit to save our lives but he loves good food. (He does eat apple sauce and blueberries in his steel cut oats in the morning – but a real live piece of fruit gives him the vapors.)
We eat good and real food at this house. (And out – we took my colleague last night to Meaux Bar and had tuna tartare – big yum.)
June 28th, 2010 at 9:23 am
he loves good food so odds are high that one day you’ll be holding him as you snack on some fresh strawberries and he’ll reach over and grab one. devore it. and proceed to cram 5 more in his mouth. and so the no fresh fruit stage will end.
June 29th, 2010 at 10:37 am
Good to know – the imitating stage has begun in earnest – he picked up a dead cell phone that had the battery removed and was marching around the house with it up to his ear talking away in kid Chinese. I realized also that he only sees me eating on the fly – at the counter gulping down a quick bite to return to my office – obviously I’m not a good example. My goal in going home is to try to start eating with him for dinner and so he can see how it is done properly (not how I typically do it).
Was thinking about you the other day – I was flying and reading In Defense of Food and thought about our ambitions in the nutrition arena – funny how Pollan is prescribing the death knell for nutritionism so we better be reconsidering our ambitions.
June 30th, 2010 at 10:09 am
i know! the goal is to have most dinners at the table–even if it’s just a roasted chicken or orzo (thank you orzo) with veggies and cheese. but it’s hard, no question. hopefully at least he’ll get that the ideal is to sit down and eat together, even if it’s not always accomplished. ah, modern life..
i love the imitations! dread them a bit too though 🙂
June 30th, 2010 at 5:58 pm
I dread them too – particularly any imitations of me driving (potty mouth).