“The first course will feature American Osetra caviar, farmed from the estuaries of Illinois, paired with quail eggs from Pennsylvania and a dozen varieties of potatoes from farms in New York, Idaho and California.
“That will be followed by a salad of petite radishes and baby carrots on a bed of lettuce and splashed with red-wine vinaigrette made using honey from the beehive on the South Lawn. The salad will be served in a clear, glass bowl and resemble a terrarium.
“The main course, dry-aged rib eye beef from a farm in Greeley, Colo., will be served with blue cheese, charred shallots, oyster mushrooms and braised chard.
“Dessert is chocolate malted cake, described as a modern version of a layer cake made with bittersweet chocolate from Obama’s native Hawaii, Florida tangerines and served with vanilla ice cream from Pennsylvania. After dinner, guests can dip into a serving dish made entirely of sugar to sample fudge made of Vermont maple syrup, shortbread cookies made with lavender from Mrs. Obama’s garden and cotton candy dusted with orange zest.”
Preaching income equality: It’s not just a job, it’s a frickin’ adventure. Here at the Secret Lair we’ll be enjoying our usual breakfast of delicious gruel, sweetened with braised sunbeams and unicorn farts gently sautéed in good intentions…
Well, I’ve never had the good fortune to taste “dry-aged rib eye beef” from anywhere, but I’d love to try it. It all sounds pretty unreal… and mighty expensive – especially for all of us with NO “income.” (And we won’t even go into the dogs being at the table…)
I had two eggs and some toast for breakfast. I made the bread, grinding the wheat… and I traded my work on something else for the eggs with a neighbor. That’s the kind of “equality” I’m interested in.
Now, sauteing farts is something that sounds a bit dangerous to me. 😉 Can you make Bananas Foster with those? 😉
Miss Violet
One of these days I’m going to take the leap and start grinding my own flour. I’ve a feeling the mill will pay for itself in mere months. As for eggs 🙂 Yeah, right now I’m up to my keister in fresh eggs, and soon there’ll be more chickens yet.
ETA: Ouch, I take it back! Looking at wheat berry prices, I can buy flour at a fraction of the cost. Forget I mentioned it!
I’m thinkin’ our leaders would be better off staying quiet about how they eat. I had a can of green beans for breakfast…
I don’t know why this post reminded me of this, but it did, so…yeah… I got nuthin’…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2bR_sTkJiA
Breakfast? Rice and beans. That’ll be dinner, too. Come to think of it, that was dinner yesterday. And lunch. And… And that circus tent (size XXX^3 L to cover that butt) Michelle Antoinette calls a dress, estimated at $12,000? I could pay off my debts and still live for a year or more on that.