Archive

Tag Archives: Nutrition

Author’s breakfast, 24 January 2025

meal

the meal started with a good night’s sleep. the night before i’d e-mailed the managers at work that i thought i’d overworked my post-surgical hand the past three days and would therefore rest my hand today. when the alarm went off at 2:10 am I shut it off and got three more hours of sleep.

when i woke and took my four pills and flossed and brushed i thought i’d walk a mile and a quarter and end up at mcdonald’s, there to have an egg mcmuffin or two, but i knew i had ingredients for a cheaper and more nutritious meal at home. got a roma tomato and mexican-blend cheese and a carton of eggs and sausage and white onion from the fridge. put a bit of canola oil into a fry pan and put a third of a chopped white onion in the oil, tipping the pan and spatula-tossing till they were coated.

broke two eggs into a white bowl i’d made  last year and whisked to semi-homogeneity. removed the now-caramelized onion from the pan and poured the egg in. kosher-salted and peppered and tipped the pan around to make of the eggs a circular continent. after leisurely cooking on medium heat i spatula-compelled the continent into sharpei-like folds. let rest/fry one more minute, then plated and sprinkled the rough-shredded cheese on top.

into the pan i dropped two lumps of sausage totalling about a quarter pound. spatula-mashed them as thin as I could get them without raggettifying their edges, then cranked the heat and let them sit while I fast-sliced the tomato, eating the exotic ends.

a flip for the sausage patties, a lowering of the heat, and i let the patties fry while i put the plate of eggs and cheese and onions in the microwave for thirty seconds. added the sausage patties to the plate. put the plate on the laptops on the table and set kosher salt and pepper next to the plate and the mostly-empty jug of whole milk nearby. took and photo edited the photo you see.

and i ate/mixing bites/it is great/such delights/warm and cold/salty-savory/ne’er gets old/bursty-flavory/sweet whole milk/for the beverage/adds the silk/for the leverage/over sadness/over trauma/past the madness/past the drama/upping tempo/and nutrition/braiding hemp–o/hail Nutrition!

and I thank Heaven, and Goodness, and this moment’s Reality, and i thank whoever reads all the way down for your steadfast attention, and i wish you Good Appetite of Victuals, Words and Happiness.

The Nutritional Vacuum

Some things are put in food
To make it look or taste better.

The hue of the paint that is used for the interior of some prisons
Is chosen to induce docility.

Prior to the digital enhancement of photos
A popular men’s magazine would apply
An all-purpose surface cleaner to the flesh of their nude models
In order to enhance the sheen.

Recently it was discovered that the weekend’s worth of love donations
Of a television evangelist
Was in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Many of us think that those rectangles of paper
With a certain ink pattern on them
Have intrinsic value.

Some of us make patterns of our own
And a rat-a-tat-tap noise as we make them
And then a clicking noise
That sends the patterns out into the world

And we hope our patterns are translated
Into a connection with others.
Why?
Because, as comfort- and contact-seeking animals,
We need one another,
And as emotional, desperate expressives,
We want to feel,
And what we feel to be felt by others,
And understood,
And acknowledged.

Serving Size 1 Post
Servings Per Container 1

Calories 0
Total Fat 0g*
Cholesterol 0mg

Dietary Fiber 0g

Protein 0g

* disputed