You Know Better…Food Guilty Pleasures

Sup Food Fans!!!  I apologize for not staying as prolific with my food blog as I should be.  I have been writing blog entry after blog entry in my personal blog on MySpace, mainly talking about the upcoming Presidential election and politics.  Food and Politics, my two passions, and lately…politics has been winning the passion tug of war.  Thank God we have less than two weeks until the conclusion of America’s most historic and craziest presidential election, and I can get back to writing about food.

I was doing some prep work this afternoon for a surprise party…my mother’s graduation party in fact.  She graduated in May, 2008, but some things “came up”, and we moved the celebration to today.  Everything came out well.  I come from a family of cooks and caterers and my cousin, Ruth, really knocked it out of the proverbial “park”.  My three other cousins helped out, as did I, and again…it turned out well.  We had beef, chicken, steamed green beans, all kinds of stuff.  But for me…when I cook or cater, cooking all of that food…I usually lose my appetite, or I can’t eat the food that was prepared (Not because it wasn’t good).  I usually have to eat something that is totally the opposite.  So I didn’t eat anything the whole night, and when I left the party, I headed home, stopped at a local grocery store, and got one of my “guilty pleasures”…a Stouffer’s Microwave Five Cheese Lasanga.  YES…the BLACK FOOD SNOB eats Stouffers (“Nothing comes closer to home”).

There are certain foods that I eat when I am just plain lazy, tired, or just really have the taste for it.  These are dishes/items that take me back to a place…a time…a particular flavor (Not necessarily the best flavor), which is why I still eat it.  I pick up these eating habits from as far back as high school and college…they just won’t go away.  They are usually not good for you.  They are processed.  These items are usually the kind of thing that I rail against.  However…they provide a psychological comfort to me, and they don’t taste that bad.  We all have these culinary guilty pleasures…I am going to share mine, and if you see this blog entry, write back and share some of your’s.

(1) Velveeta Shells and Cheese
(2) Pepperidge Farm or Marie Callendar’s Chicken Pot Pie
(3) Stouffers Microwave Meat, Cheese, and/or Sausage Lasagna
(4) California Pizza Kitchen Frozen Pizza
(5) Stouffers Pizza
(6) TGIF Microwave Chicken and Steak Quesadilla Rolls
(7) Chef Boyardee Ravioli
(8) Taco Bell Meximelts
(9) Wendy’s Crispy Nuggets
(10) Wegmens Brand Pot Stickers
(11) Grocery Store Made “Krab” Dip…that stuff is awesome, for whatever reason.
(12) Safeway Brand Crab/Corn Chowder
(13) I forgot the brand…but the chicken cordon bleu…DEELISH!!!
(14) Stouffers Escalloped Noodles…truly one of my favorites
(15) McDonalds Cheeseburgers
(16) McDonalds Sausage Egg McMuffins
(17) Slim Jims
(18) 7-11 Hot Dogs…they’re good, what can I say.
(19) White Cheese Popcorn
(20) Clam Dip (I make it homeade), with a great salty potato chip, and the coldest Mountain Dew possible.