Recipe: Sexy Mac and Cheese (or: Sexin’ It Up — continued.) 15 February 2007 1:26 pm
Posted by Tracy in : advice, cheese, cooking, eating, friends, milk, recipes, sundance, vegetarian , 2 commentsSo Wordpress is giving me some kind of no-comments-for-you guff on yesterday’s post but the intrepid Mikey Jo found a way to say:
I think you totally dodged the question here! Just because you’re not trying to get it on with someone you’re just getting to know, doesn’t mean that cooking for seduction purposes is off the table (so to speak).
For my own part, I’ll weigh in with my conviction that foods that often seem to get people’s motors running are foods that require work to get at, foods where you have to get your hands and mouth working together and things have to be tugged on or peeled open. I submit for your approval the examples of artichokes, roasted lamb ribs, and lobster. Not that I suggest combining all of those into one dish.
Of course, freshly made pasta is always sexy too, but for different reasons.
Oh Mike. I’m sorry. I thought yesterday’s entry was running on for too long, so I pulled a fast one and went all “to be continued…” which I know is a cheap trick but the good news is I’ve been having so much fun thinking about answers to Chiara’s question that posts about sexy food might turn into a series. The original “Sexin’ It Up” discussion began over two weeks ago, and yesterday’s post was based more or less entirely on the initial OMG MUST WRITE CHIARA stream of consciousness reply with which I responded to her email. She was patient and firm with me, and like you quite adamant that I quit dodging the question, and I quote:
In addition to the hippy woo woo of, like, “Knowing your crush” and “Following his or her lead” and “doing what you think would be nice for him or her” I want to see some HARDCORE VOODOO LOVE RECIPES, girl. That’s what I want: recipes that immediately draw one’s thoughts to hittin’ it.
Luckily, I had two weeks to ponder this very important question. Peter said that I should advise Chiara to go with fast food and confidence, but after much soul-searching I came up with something even hotter: homemade macaroni and cheese. Some of you already understand. Maybe you know me, in which case I think you’ll agree this dish is a pretty good representation of my complete and total lack of subtlety in matters of the heart and beyond. Or maybe you’ve experienced the awesomeness of the dish I am about to describe, which is even greater than that of Sundance hot buffet “mac and crack,” which itself is truly frightening in its power to enslave nonvegan hippies. (Our former housemate Allison once told one of her tutoring students that I knew the recipe for Sundance mac, and he immediately instructed her to relay a marriage proposal to me. The addiction is that strong. But I digress.) To the skeptics among my readers, I can only say: try this recipe before you mock me further. To my vegan readers, I can only apologize. Someday I will post a seductive dish without animal products for you, but today is not that day. (more…)
