January Blog Challenge--Favorite Foods and Drinks

Favorite Foods and Drinks

This is another one that I tend to go through phases with as well.  This has been especially true this past year as I've gradually recovered from cancer treatment and gotten my taste buds and ability to swallow back. As the taste returned, I was only able to tolerate certain things and some things still bother me a little, such as ketsup. I can eat it now, but it still burns just a little. This is true of other condiments as well.

So here is a list of things I do like. I doubt it's completely conclusive and I'm always willing to try almost anything,

Foods:

• Mexican food--especially bean and/or beef burritos, chicken chimachangas, quesadillas, steak fajitas, refried black beans, queso, creamy jalapeno dip, and salsa.
• Seafood--shrimp, salmon, crab, and scallops.
• Steak, medium and topped with almost anything--steak sauce, blue cheese crumbles or nothing at all.
• Black and bleu salad from Newks (salad with blackened steak and bleu cheese crumbles
• Fried chicken, with or without the "fixins" i.e. mashed potatoes and gravy, biscuits, corn, baked beans, macaroni, etc.
• Pasta--just about any kind: lasagna, pesto, alfredo, manicotti, farfalle, penne, rigatoni, etc.
• Japanese--rice, broth, steak, shrimp, chicken and some sushi
• Breakfast--anything and anytime of the day

Drinks;

• Right now I'm on a rum kick--specifically Bacardi coconut rum with diet coke/coke zero
• I used to love Coca Cola Classic but in recent years, especially since cancer, I can't handle the sugar in sodas. I'll occasionally have coke zero but not nearly as much as I used to.
• Coffee! I'm particularly fond of white chocolate mocha creamer, Bailey's, or peppermint mocha. French vanilla will do in a pinch. I can take or leave sugar or stevia in it as long as I have creamer.
• Sweet tea! Hello? It's the house wine of the South!
• Water. Believe it or not, I do drink a lot of water.
• Margaritas, but generally only during the summer.
• Long Island Tea (or Roadhouse Tea with Everclear)
• White wine--especially Moscato or Riesling
• Milk. I also drink a lot of milk!