Y is for Yes Please
My N post was about items that I will say ‘No, thank you’ if they are offered to me. Being that it is a holiday Friday, and I am lazy, here are a few items that I enjoy, and if they are offered to me, I will say, ‘Yes please’. In no particular order…
Potatoes. French fries, potato chips, latkes (Happy Hanukkah tonight!), hashed browns, baked potatoes, whatever. I love them.
Salads. So many different salads are delicious. Green salad, pasta salad, tuna salad, chicken salad, arugula salad, Caesar salad…
Pasta. So many pastas that I love, but my personal favorite is the mushroom pasta at a restaurant in Oakland, Belotti. Amazingly delicious, though not vegetarian as there is beef broth in the sauce.
Fruit. Perhaps my favorite fruit is raspberries, but I also love apples, oranges, blueberries, pears, watermelon, grapes…
Wine. I love a nice glass of wine. I enjoy reds, especially Cabernet, but reds sometimes do not play nicely with my sinuses. Mostly I drink white wine for this reason. In summer it is likely to be a Pinot Grigio or a Sancerre, and in the winter I like Chardonnay. Spring and fall it depends on my mood.
Bread. I love a really good baguette or batard. Toasted with avocado; with scrambled eggs; as a side with dinner. So many ways to enjoy bread. A lovely combo is a good sourdough, with butter, and a glass of Chardonnay.
Eggs. So many good ways to eat eggs. Fried, scrambled, in an omelette, on a sandwich, poached…I love eggs and can eat them for any meal.
Away from the food items, I also say ‘yes please’ to time at the ocean, time at a good museum, time with a good book, time with friends, time with family. Yes please to long walks with Mulder. Yes please to time playing stupid games on my iPad.
What do you say ‘yes please’ to? What are some of your favorite things?
4 Comments
nance
Oh, yes. We are so similar in our Pleasures. I, too, love potatoes in all forms: a good, thick-cut homemade French fry with ketchup and a dash of vinegar and salt is my paragon of Potato Goodness.
I can make an entire meal of a good, chewy, crusty bread and nice butter. Or pungent olive oil with cracked black pepper and a sprinkle of herbs. If it’s warm bread, even better.
I do like fruit, but I’d be even happier with a plate of roasted vegetables, especially if it included onions, carrots, cauliflower, tomatoes, and any number of root vegetables. I even like roasted celery.
I’m not a fan of eggs as you are. They seem to bother my stomach for some reason. I do love a runny egg on top of almost anything, however.
I say Yes, Please to almost anything lemon–lemon bars, lemon pie, lemon pound cake, lemon poppyseed bundt cake. I make lemon curd once in a while, and it’s decadently full of butter and so delicious.
About the only wines I don’t care for are malbec and moscato and any sweet wines. I would love to be able to drink oaked chardonnays, but sadly, they trigger migraine for me now. I have renewed my acquaintance with chambourcin after visiting a winery in Maryland–it’s a nice flirty little fruit-forward red that drinks quite easily, like a sort of fruit-punchy beaujolais.
We had a vouvray and a chardonnay at Thanksgiving.
Almost all my Yes Times echo yours. I appreciate my walking time, my time with people I love, my alone time for reading and relaxing and journaling, and I do love my time with Zydrunas, the granddog. He cheers me any time I feel down. And lake time with Rick is always precious–a big yes.
Looking forward to Z! But then, you’ll be done. 🙁
J
If only Zydrunas were MY grand dog, I could make my Z about him. I need to think of SOMETHING. I will post for the rest of the month too.
I forgot lemon…I am with you on that, I love lemon. Lemon sorbet is heavenly on a hot day. Last Christmas I made a cheese cake and topped it with Meyer lemon curd, and it was amazing.
Looking at my picture, above, from Bastille Day…I realized that I forgot apricots. Apricots are so difficult though. They are amazing if you get them in that 1/2 hour time span when they are perfectly ripe. Not underripe, not overripe. I think it’s been a few years since I’ve had a perfect one, and I look for them every week at the farmers market when they are in season.
Ally Bean
My food preferences mirror yours. I like simple meals, but with a variety of flavors and textures. I can’t think of a thing to add to your list. And isn’t that interesting!
J
Clearly we could happily break bread together, Ally. You, me, and Nance!