use real butter

I like potato chips very much. I like most salty snacks very much. And because I know myself so well, I don’t buy them at the grocery store so that I won’t have any in the house when I get munchy. The other day, I walked into the kitchen feeling peckish and what did we have? Cinnamon buns with homemade cream cheese frosting, fudgy and chewy brownies, chocolate chip cookies, apple cranberry crisp, ice cream, and several pounds of high quality dark chocolate. Blegh! I didn’t want any of those… I’m not a fan of sweets like some folks. I puttered about the kitchen and finally settled on washing some grapes and eating those. That’s how it is supposed to work out, but I had potato chips on the brain for many days.

In fact, I picked up some Cape Cod salt and vinegar potato chips at the store yesterday. But those are for skiing because you need something fatty and salty to convince you NOT to spend $10 on a burger at the summit restaurant. For sandwiches, I got roast beef and muenster cheese (I’ll be honest, turkey sandwiches will send me straight into the line for a $10 burger – I crave beef when I ski – plain and simple). Jeremy calls it roast beast and monster cheese. It is a favorite of ours. Which got me thinking about where I first had roast beast and monster… at the Williamsburg Cheese Shop in Colonial Williamsburg (bastion of idiot tourists from hell). It’s one reminder of why, unlike Jeremy, I loved high school.

**Jump for more butter**

I chatted with Jaime the other day about food. Since she’s pregnant, she’s not feeling in the mood for certain foods and then other times all she can think of is a particular thing to eat. I said I was having a food problem of my own – getting all excited about cooking a dish and then when it’s done, I don’t want to eat it. Of course, I can’t blame that on pregnancy (I guess I could, but that wouldn’t make any sense). More like, it’s a sign of my state of mental well-being. But there is a food I never tire of and I rediscovered it this week.

I love sandwiches.

Being an unfan of breakfast foods, lunch and dinner are my preferred meals. Lunch, however, is the topper of the day because it’s so flexible. You can eat anything for lunch and I like to eat when there is daylight, if that makes any sense (none at all, probably). I like cold sandwiches, hot sandwiches, grilled sandwiches, open face, panini, subs, hoagies… One of my favorite sandwiches is the reuben, which we had for dinner tonight.