Eleventeen And One - Food Fight Friday - Round 38

I’m about to tell you something I’ve already said about eleventeen times. I don’t mean to repeat myself repeat myself but there may be someone tuning into @foodfightfriday for the first time and they haven’t seen me say it yet—eleventeen and one: “Welcome to my favorite Friday of the week!”

I had a tough time deciding on a cover image (again). I have about eleventeen cover images of Pura Vida made masterpieces that I could use—decisions, decisions. 🤔 Out of eleventeen total #food images in my phone, I got the cover image narrowed down to two. One of them is the meal I just had about 30 minutes ago—hot oatmeal with diced hot apples topped with pecans, chia seeds, banana and shredded coconut. The other one I’m thinking about using is plated really nicely with a handful of pretty little carrots chopped up to look like flowers bordering the plate and then it clicked! Go with the fish one and tell your audience about the #new wOrd you just learned: Pescatarianism—of course there’s a word for it! There’s a label for everything these days.

Grilled corvina and lime wedges. Penne pasta and chopped cucumber tossed in a homemade pesto. Mixed vegetables chopped up from the produce stand down the street and those flowery shaped carrots I was telling you about:

This is the oatmeal—what do you think? Did I pick the correct cover image? Man, that was tough decision—toughest choice I’ve had to make all day week! I just ate this one—I can still taste the hot apples:

I was down at the docks the other night with three other expats who were just finishing their dinner—chicken bird. Chicken bird smothered in ranch salad dressing actually. I was offered a plate and respectfully declined. They had a few side dishes, too, most likely cooked in butter “no thank you, I just ate” I said. Then I was asked, “oh that’s right, you’re #vegan, right?” I told them no and that I have been in the past, I said I don’t eat dairy or eggs or meat or anything but I brought fish back into my eating practices to clear up my oily skin. I’ll eat honey, too, so I guess I’ve never really eaten vegan. That’s when they told me I’m a pescatarian. “You mean there’s a wOrd for a guy who doesn’t eat meat or dairy but eats seafood because it keeps his skin clear—there’s a word for that??” I kinda felt like a...

...for being the only person there who’s never heard the word used in a sentence. 🤔 What? You’ve never seen a guy on a motorcycle with a small child between his legs towing a horse by rope on a residential street?

So, like any 21st century’er, I looked it up in my phone and there it was! Pescatarian:

A person whose diet is mostly vegetarian but includes fish and seafood.

Well poop right in the bed—I didn’t know that! And I know everything! Just ask me, I’ll tell you. This is how a Presbyterian I mean presidential no, not that label either, pedestrian danget! Pescatarian! This is how a pescatarian eats during the week.

Oat pancakes topped with homemade nut butter, fried plantains and agave syrup:

Oat, banana and zucchini pancakes topped with cinnamon, peanut butter and sliced strawberries:

Frozen banana nice cream topped with nut butter, macadamia nuts, pecans, chia seeds and shredded, toasted coconut:

Burrito—red and brown lentils cooked in tomato paste and seasonings topped with fresh tomato, onion, chiles, cilantro and fried potatoes—“p’tates” if you’re chef Pura Vida:

This is what the temporary kitchen looks like when Pura Vida is cooking. I say temporary because we’re Air B&B’ing 30 days at a time—temporary kitchen @puravidaville style:

Temporary kitchen @dandays style—what? You don’t think I can make it 30 days?

Zucchini toast with a little bit of olive oil topped with fried plantains, onion, tomato, lime, red bell pepper and salsa:

One more dessert round—the last item on the menu. Frozen banana and peanut butter nice cream topped with Oreos, ginger snaps and sugar-free chocolate chips:

Same place next week, deal? Thanks for hanging out with me again at kitchen #fff, the joint where food is the main course, that’s it. Join us one of these Fridays and meet some likeminded blogging type of people kind of who eat food or dissect it, grow it, throw it, don’t eat it, whatever it is, they run their keyboards about it! Stop by Discord and say hi. Have a great weekend—I’ll see you tomorrow!

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