Sure I have cravings at times for a milkshake or a bag of salty chips...and I will enjoy those on occasion. But here's what I'm noticing. With every "healthy" meal that I make and eat, the ingredients taste better and better. Sweet Kale or Spinach? Tomato slices that taste like candy? You bet.
Today I went to a favorite restaurant as I had been having a craving for some plain old eggs. From my first bite I tasted... cardboard. The whole grain toast and whole fat butter that came with it were yummy...but the eggs clearly did not taste like eggs. I've tasted eggs that were delicious before, and obviously powdered eggs that tasted like nothing...but I could not imagine that the kitchen I ordered from did not use fresh eggs...so I asked. They are eggs from a carton, "pre-cracked".
Clearly they had lost much of their own flavor and picked up the flavor of the packaging box. is this really a good trade off? how did the chemical structure of the eggs change while they were sitting in that box with all their other egg brothers & sisters?
The more I cook at home with whole fresh ingredients...even if the meal itself is a disaster, at least I know what each ingredient is, where it comes from and how it was prepared.
Lesson learned...if I'm eating eggs, I want to crack the egg myself from a fresh farm supply.
What kinds of things do you prefer to fix at home rather than a restaurant?
