Culinary Guilty Pleasures

I’m all about being bad … at least when it comes to food. I eat too much, I drink too much, I work out too much (to counteract points a. and b.), and I definitely have eyes that are bigger than my head.

I love healthy lifestyle blogs, and tend to lead a pretty healthy life myself, but I’m not one to preach. This blog is about enjoy the “sweets” of life. When there are so many sours to everyday, why don’t indulge a bit?

Here’s a list of my culinary guilty pleasures, what are yours?

1. I drink full-calorie dark beers in large quantities and convince myself they’re not worse for me than the Amstel Light drinks of the bar-world. You will never catch me with a Michelob Ultra.
2. I spend hours in the supermarket. Sometimes I visit several a day. Perusing the aisles, wishing I could buy everything, and generally walking out with items I don’t need and/or can’t afford.
3. When I cook for people, I don’t just cook, I entertain them. That means that everyone eats with real silverware and plates, I make every part of the meal (sometimes even the bread), and always make sure no one has an empty wine glass.
4. I use more butter and salt than any healthy lifestyle blog would allow. Sorry.
5. I make sure that every plate I make or eat not only tastes good but looks good. Why would you want to eat something that didn’t look good?
6. I enjoy eating breakfast alone. It’s my time to recharge and get ready for the day. While eating breakfast alone is refreshing, eating lunch and dinner alone is sad, and hence always have plans!
7. I try and eat out at one new joint every week, my list of “places to try” is over two pages on a Word Document. Sometimes I do two in one week .. and on weeks such as this, the rest of my week’s meals consist of either cereal or scrambled eggs because of my lack of funds. It’s worth every penny.
8. Sweets always taste better when they’re made by someone else. Maybe it’s because I’m a perfectionist, maybe it’s because I think that more than any other food, baked goods are best enjoyed fresh.
9. I buy organic produce and cage free/grass fed meat. It’s expensive, but, to me, it’s literally a moral obligation I have to myself but to the planet. I believe in the process of food before it hits your kitchen as being even more important than the process inside the kitchen itself.
10. I eat dessert after every meal. Yes, I do. I know that sounds crazy, ask anyone. I mean this is the Diary of a Sweet Tooth.

Now, go and indulgence, life’s too short.