It began with my weekly bacon cook. I like to cook bacon at the beginning of the week because it keeps well and the logistics of disposing grease every day sucks. Pre cooked tastes like ass as well
I then fried some potatoes in the bacon fat until they were golden brown. After that, I cooked 3 eggs scrambled. All this seasoned with salt and pepper.
You're probably thinking "eggs , bacon and potatoes. Nothing special about that!"
Well, that's where you're WRONG. I had some brisket in the fridge from this weekend's smoke. This particular beauty turned out absolutely perfectly as I found a new secret - add ghee (clarified butter) after wrapping!!! Really turned up the moisture and made it so juicy.
Anyhow, I plated as follows: eggs followed by potatoes, then slices of smoked brisket, 2 straps of bacon and a whole avocado on the side with some salsa!
Oh man this was good, words cannot adequately describe how well all this went together. This is a last-meal quality breakfast for someone who is into savory foods and can take or leave sugars.
One of the oldest ladies in the world, who lived to be 140 in Europe, was asked about how she reached that age. She responded, "if it only tastes good, spit it out."
She seemed to understand that people and food exist to deceive each other. While the basis of picking food that tastes good makes it seem like an easy choice, we've all continuously damaged our own health on the basis of picking food that we like.
Even John the Baptist refuted this mentality. He claimed that mankind was creating many health problems by only picking food by choice, instead of maintaining a healthy diet by using the resources that one can acquire locally. When locusts destroyed the crops that were being grown, he surprised everyone by capturing some of the locusts and then showing to others how the locusts could be used to provide another food source through the extraction of the nutrient paste that the locusts created through destroying the underripe crops.
My point by mentioning all of this is that nutrition, by definition, shouldn't be designed around "what tastes good," but instead by what benefits you derive from eating it.
And can anyone really claim to fully understand nutrition when we are constantly bombarded with lies about it to begin with? There's been so many different foods that we've only begun to understand have longer term damage and short term benefits.
AlexanderMorose13 0 points 2 months ago
One of the oldest ladies in the world, who lived to be 140 in Europe, was asked about how she reached that age. She responded, "if it only tastes good, spit it out."
She seemed to understand that people and food exist to deceive each other. While the basis of picking food that tastes good makes it seem like an easy choice, we've all continuously damaged our own health on the basis of picking food that we like.
Even John the Baptist refuted this mentality. He claimed that mankind was creating many health problems by only picking food by choice, instead of maintaining a healthy diet by using the resources that one can acquire locally. When locusts destroyed the crops that were being grown, he surprised everyone by capturing some of the locusts and then showing to others how the locusts could be used to provide another food source through the extraction of the nutrient paste that the locusts created through destroying the underripe crops.
My point by mentioning all of this is that nutrition, by definition, shouldn't be designed around "what tastes good," but instead by what benefits you derive from eating it.
And can anyone really claim to fully understand nutrition when we are constantly bombarded with lies about it to begin with? There's been so many different foods that we've only begun to understand have longer term damage and short term benefits.