Recognizing the importance of the food pyramid to your health and overall well being is paramount – when you’re under 30. I’m no longer under 30 (HA! HA! there are advantages). Therefore, I’ve created my own cholesterol laden, fat riddled, delicious food pyramid based on a road trip this weekend to the Italian capital of Oklahoma – Krebs (population 2,000+). I hope my doctor doesn’t see this.
It was the first purely pleasurable road trip I’ve taken in a few months. And when I encircled my arms around the gems I’d purchased at Lovera’s Italian Grocery, this tray resulted.
Had I been asked to choose my last meal before I recently summited my first mountain (Grand Teton), these items would top the list. I could live off this assortment for the rest of my life. Well, I’d have to buy more of course…
And wouldn’t this delectable plethora be fun to pair with various soda pop choices from your Arcadia library of soda pop? Talk about overindulgence – yikes!
Components in the SRT food pyramid: Meat – smoked or cured or medium rare grilled over a really hot fire; Cheese – in this case, Scamorza; Grapes (yep, they’re there, in a particular form); Bread; Olives – any kind, but these blue cheese stuffed ones bottled in olive oil, are sublime; Sweets.
Meat, cheese, grapes, bread, olives, sweets – the perfect ingredients for a lovely fall picnic. No inclination for a picnic?! That’s OKAY. These are the PERFECT ingredients for anything (please no comments about a heart attack – this is meant to be a fun post – age means we’ve learned balance, right?).
Those are some great food shots…wow…I think you’re considered Great with the camera if the camera can capture and then result with a reaction that the sub-conscious mind never saw coming…..’eye pleasure’…..’growling of stomach’…..’drooling of the mouth’, on an on an on…….
Comment by Lisa — October 9, 2009 @ 6:00 pm
It’s not a meal without olives and cheese!
Comment by Anil — October 3, 2009 @ 9:02 am
What a delightful little road trip! I bought two sticks of pepperoni with various other goodies, and it’s gone already! My husband who normally would not like such scarfed it down….be going back soon. Oh, the cheeses, the olives….about all I’ve eaten since we returned. And the food and the beer…..ah…………..Little Italy! Lovely trip with remarkable people, family!!
Comment by Clay Mama — October 1, 2009 @ 6:02 pm
Thank you everyone for your comments! FOOD always seems to be a favorite post topic. What’s not to love?!
Gina, dark chocolate? I harp so much on it, I figured I’d give it a rest. This was the first nougat I’d eaten, and while it can’t give chocolate a run (imo), it was darn tasty. My choice of wine for a tray of tasty morsels such as this? I LOVE red wine, rich, robust, VERY dry. But it’s summer so I’ve been drinking a bit of Savignon Blanc – brand Monkey Bay. I only give the brand because there’ s not much white wine I like – most is too sweet. But this one has been very nice during the heat of the summer. Soon though, it’s red all the way. And more to the point of your question I think lots of choices would go with this tray. I mean, milk would work. š
Comment by Tammie Dooley — October 1, 2009 @ 4:49 pm
If these are the basic food groups of traveler’s then I’m sooooooo there. I couldn’t find half of these ingredients in guatemala:)
Comment by marina k. villatoro — September 30, 2009 @ 5:25 pm
Yum, yum, yum!!! We have a little cheese shop @ our Farmer’s Market in Flint (just voted “Most loved in America!!) and we try different cheeses frequently. And olives! I remember vibrantly the day I realized there were many, many different kinds of them!!! Did you forget the dark (darker the better) chocolate, or did I just miss it?? Also, what’s your choice of wine? Or sparkling water? Or Italian soda? to accompany this feast???
Comment by Gina — September 30, 2009 @ 5:01 pm
I think I’m going to have to take a little trip over to Krebs now. That food looks outstanding and I’m sure it tastes even better.
Comment by Steven — September 30, 2009 @ 4:26 pm
Love Lovera’s. Not sure if you made it around the corner to Pete’s Place, but that’s another stop worth making if you’re near Krebs again.
The food is alright (BIG Italian dishes served family style), but they brew their own beer, Choc Beer. The recipe is based on a turn-of-the-century American Indian (Choctaw tribe, I believe) brew that Pete picked up when he first moved to Oklahoma.
http://www.petes.org
http://www.chocbeer.com
Comment by Tanner — September 30, 2009 @ 1:18 pm
I am totally drooling over those photos. We lived in Italy for two years and just loved the food. Great photo essay celebrating the flavors of Italy.
Comment by Myscha Theriault — September 30, 2009 @ 11:51 am
hoo boy – those photos are really, really incredible. i am so hungry now!!
Comment by jessiev — September 30, 2009 @ 10:19 am
Italians really know how to live right, don’t they? I’ve got to visit Krebs … soon!
Comment by karen — September 28, 2009 @ 11:58 pm
Goodness, this is better than I eat when I’m not on a roadtrip!
I’m shoving off on a solo road trip from Norman, OK to Atlanta on Thursday. The foods I have stocked up on are banana chips and popcorn. Crunching on food keeps me awake and satisfied.
Comment by Maggie — September 28, 2009 @ 11:45 pm
If anyone ever accuses you of not having a sense of humor, Tammie, just send them my way and I will explain things to them.
Comment by Doug Pologe — September 28, 2009 @ 10:12 pm
As I scrolling down through photo after photo I realized that I needed a large napkin to contain my aroused appetite! Was that that old school pepperoni that I grew up on and carried on every woodland trek? Good hard bread to live on or accompany other savory treats? Olives, cheese, salami…..ahhh…now that’s a meal! Quick… send me directions….I’ve got to go soon!
Comment by Pops — September 28, 2009 @ 8:44 pm