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made typical Azorean fish stew. Invited us all to the feast.These folks know a bit about yummy, hearty, peasant food. Memories of granny's cooking. Could easily get fat here. Need to bring Bravo for lots of trekking.

Let's face it, they are almost all nonsense, when really subjected to rigorous study, as hard as such is to do in free living human populations. Not talking here about diets for folks with various disorders. With some types of Syndromes, diabetes, celiac disease, gout, porphyria, etc., of course it makes sense to listen to a nutritionist (who, just by the way, are mostly all hot). And diets won't help our poor CS liberal friends from the struggles with severe TD-HD Syndrome. But I digress. However, those diets for loosing weight are mostly only of benefit for some scummy physician and his diet book. Or that dumb blonde anorexic TV celebrity, to expand her audience, and also promote the vapid paperback. Yet, just got back from "we beat the Indians day dinner", dinner with some family, and our twins did the cooking. All the ladies in the house are on the ketogenic diet, which for all I know, might just cause mild acidosis in some folks. But they are all looking pretty svelte, and ALL of the dishes, normally great at these get togethers anyway, were especially tasty. Sure, the extra fats advised by these plans will add some taste. But the spices were more tasty as well. Always bring a little back with me for Mr. Bravo, and he woofed it down in no time at all. I still think, if you want to loose weight, eat less and exercise more, each gradually. But maybe some diet news make sense.

These past few weeks, I have been very active on Instagram, where I watch reels. I need to stop doing that at night, just before bed.

The reason? Food.. I watch a LOT of food reels, and it's making me hungry.

Last night, I was watching about ten reels with brisket, mac and cheese, spaghetti, lasagne and big steaks. One reel improved on the Baconator from Wendy's, which in of itself is a damn fine burger. Now, seeing as it was around midnight, and all the shops were closed, I had no way of buying the ingredients I needed to make said burger from scratch. I also didn't have a blender, so.. Maybe it's for the best, because I wanted to make the bacon mayonnaise that was put in the burger.

I also got a fantastic idea for bacon cheese, but that'll be made another day. To add to that: I need to experiment with barbecue sauces, because I need different ones for different meats. Some of them will be spicy. I love spicy stuff!

My cooking is about to be taken to the next level over the next few months!

I often buy Hummus when it's on a BOGO sale. That's Buy One, Get One aka (also known as) two for one. 2F1 or a 2fer sale.

Hummus Ingredients: Chickpeas aka Garbanzo beans.
Lots of the brands have different spices added including many with Tahini.

I didn't know what Tahini was so I looked it up.
Tahini is ground Sesame seeds. Actually, it's Sesame and oil.

I'm afraid to ask what oil they use in Tahini as I rudely found that vegetable oil doesn't come from a vegetable, it comes from Soybeans and Soybeans are Legumes... technically classified as a group of plants whose seeds grow in enclosed pods, like peas and peanuts.

So now, I'm buying containers filled with a mixture of alternate names that is high in fat, carbohydrates with protein... and (get this) is considered healthy!

Depending on the brand, it's $5 for a 10 ounce cup.

Now, THERE,THAT's how to talk to your GF. On closer analysis, it has it all. An invite out to tasty food. Compliments on her beauty, and the hint of passion after the meal. But I digress.
There's much talk about businesses failing with C-19. In the USA, restaurants are one of the top businesses, and they, as a group, seem to be in for the greatest percentage of business failures. So, as statistical outliers always attract the epididymis' eye of Vierk, let's rant away.
For starters, why would anyone want to be a restaurateur? Well, there are a few types. The saddest cases are those who are basically romantic (sometimes chefs) social foodies, who love to bask in the life of cavorting with customers, and banging the staff/customers. Recently I heard one such lady from NYC brag about "having in the artsy, leftie, moneyed wannabe bohemian types, foodie cruising in various regalia, among their ilk, less for the food, than for being fully in the scene". This particular lady was newly bankrupt, and now in nursing school. She said that few of these sort succeed, typically lacking a lick of business sense. They see themselves as artistes, and as such, only a tiny minority make it big. Sugar mommys/daddys sometimes are behind the exceptions.
The business types, though, can succeed, in various ways. Rarely on their own, most either form, or buy into, profitable franchise operations---yes the "eatery chains". Volume purchasing, advertising, and management approaches seem to do it. Profits can be very good, from margins often multiples of those in the "on their own" artiste operations.
I am wondering, with rents and staff forming so much of the costs of operating, why we aren't seeing more home based purveyors of take out food, or even of "live upstairs, guests seated downstairs" places, as I saw in Lisbon, and in much of the developing world. By analogy with Air B-n-B, perhaps in some form.
My own take on this topic is less eating out. After all, a little getting to know the food workers, and their work environment, can easily make anyone less sanguine about the restaurant scene. And it's more than sociopathic spitting on a dish, as of a poor worker somehow "getting back at the rich". On your way to the restaurant bathroom, psuedo mistakingly saunter into the kitchen, as I did in NYC, where I used to visit mostly for the food, and with raer exceptions, the lack of hygiene will shock you. Not to mention the conditions in the John. Graduate studies in entomology was frosting on the cake, as it were.
In fact, most of the tiny margin, artiste like establishments probably were close to failing BEFORE C-19. It's capitalism at work. The failures will force overpricing landlords to lower rents, and so on. And I'm becoming a much better cook at home.

who can tell me where can i have best Mexican food in Florida.....