SPFD FOODOLOGUE

Here's a list of everything I orally consumed on my weeklong trip down to my hometown of Springfield, MO, a town known for homelessness, religious zealots, cyclists, college kids, and chinese food. Seriously, I heard once that there's more asian chicken and rice shacks here than anywhere else in america, per capita.

Per friendly suggestion (thanks, Jay Dee), I will turn each of these items into a blog post, either by day or by dish, I haven't decided yet. I may even do a recipe zine for this trip, as well, as a follow up to Broke Kitchen Cooking. That way, I can have both the recipes and the essays without sacrificing content for either.

Will likely follow the blog format of mentally meandering over each meal for the essays, ending with the recipe post. The zine will be like BKC, straight colloquial renditions of how-to-make versus poetic riffing. I'm unwilling to forego the quarter-page format, and essays on sentimental food experiences (like those listed below) are a logistical nightmare to translate into zine-size, both in content and coherence.

Lots of ideas. ALSO, learned about M.F.K. Fisher after picking up an anthology of her culinary musings at bookmarx over the weekend, so I'll be researching her quite a bit in my overarching mission to write regularly about food and how outright giddy and gleeful I get about it. Lots to look forward to! Also, Thanksgiving is next week! Gotta power through these drafts I have on my list so I can tackle those for a timely post containing original food photos. Freaking swoon, dude.

Without much more ado, I eagerly present to you:

SPFD FOODOLOGUE

THURSDAY

hardees low-carb breakfast bowl with gravy
sugar free red bull
blue cream soda
taffy
potato soup and french bread
30 pack pbr


FRIDAY

starbucks at the bistro
mustard powder, 1/2 gal 2%
au gratin potatoes with leftover ham from last time
grad school cubans
steak n shake milkshakes (bday cake and wchoc)
Kum n Go: pb choc rice crispy, lg diet coke, thinking of fish with the pink milk and green juice


SATURDAY

canton inn
grocery plan and shop (borscht, spaghetti and meatballs, tamales and chocolate tres leches cake, pierogis)
borscht and kielbasa with saeurkraut
wasabi peas
whiskey sours
waffle house hashbrowns and coffee, cedars, mamma mary's


SUNDAY

Kum n Go coffee, diet mtn dew
pb rice crispy cubes
salami and goat cheese and hawaiian rolls and green olives
biscuits and gravy with glaze, no choc gravy
tainted pink in places from borscht splatter the night before
same gas station attendant, chip-pottle, love language
dillons deli selection:
dillons leaving spfd, eel sushi, meat counter, cara dinners
singing to-do riffs
accidentally 450
watch sister make gumbo, import makes best authentic
amber dinner: fizzy tonic and mason jars of sink water
tomato and chickpeas with yard egg
curried kale and carrot and onion
stone cutting board
corgie, foil
cornbread muffins with round tops
sharpie in the bathroom, borges,
table conversation about focus and facebook (inspired vs drained by feed)
mother's beer too yeasty, "pizza beer"
b&g stack story, snes game (bought), read junky aloud to me, no wifi
"freestyle cocktail": rum and sour tonic and orange fanta and maraschinos
tomato paste tube
i mention hummus, he says he prefers baba ganoush better
didn't make pierogis due to podcast, ordered dominos: philly with white sauce, pepperoni (untouched), bbq wings, parm bites (crust chunks), lava cakes


MONDAY

virgin cocktails for fish, realizing a knack for mixing
must eats in spfd: canton, caspers, taylor's, gem of india, grad sch, andy's
pierogis, leftover cabbage plate
to-go sour mix


TUESDAY

double americano from mudhouse
navajo taco, yelp half off deal
tamales
choc tres leches cake


WEDNESDAY

double americano and choc espresso beans
took leftover tamales and unused beef with me
stuckey's before rolla, got rainbow poncho, faygo for gabe, bud light tall can, sf red bull
made navajo tacos for fish and gabe at home