Real Cheese!!!
8 February 2010
Last night we gathered with our Bible study friends to watch the Big Game. At the grocery store, I picked up a jar of queso to bring in case people weren’t enamored with my black bean salsa. As I opened the jar, my gaze caught on the label, which declared, “Made with real cheese!!!” I have to say, I’m a little depressed to live in a time where queso being made with real cheese is a selling point.
I wouldn’t call myself a foodie, but I do enjoy food, and I can be kinda picky about stuff. But it’s more stuff like I prefer Jif peanut butter, Hellman’s mayonnaise (that’s Best Foods to you folks west of the Rockies), and name brand graham crackers. Labels that say weird stuff like, “Made with real cheese!!!” are a big motivator for me in cooking. I like putting all the ingredients in the pot myself. I like knowing what’s in my cookies, dressings, and stews. And if I had a good queso recipe, I might have put forth a little effort yesterday. (Most recipes I see use Velveeta, and I just have a hang up about that stuff for some reason. Though I occasionally eat Kraft mac and cheese and Cheetos, so…)
You would think with my delight in knowing where my foods come from, I’d be more of a gardener. Um, no. Like at the moment, I’m excited to start our garden. I want to do Heirloom tomatoes this year. And I’ll be enthusiastic when we’re at the nursery getting our plants, but my enthusiasm will wane throughout the summer. And in August, when the mosquitoes, spiders, and cicadas are out in full force, my interest will evaporate entirely. But I come from a long line of gardening women, so there’s always hope that this is the season where my passion will flourish.
Hope everyone had a great weekend! See you back here on Wednesday.
I try (really, really hard) not to think too much about how Velveeta’s made. Because I confess I love the salsa-Velveeta queso, which we made yesterday . . . =)
Posted by Roseanna White on 8 February 2010