No, this isn't some nouveau approach to cooking or an attempt to turn such a great culinary treat as the garbage plate into high cuisine. It's just my plan to take tackling the garbage plate in stages. The most recent dilation procedure has started to move me into the beginning of solid territory so along with the other food tests I thought I would start to tackle parts of the garbage plate. For those that have forgotten what a wonderful thing a garbage plate is here is a link to the video the food network ran. BTW I have been to Nick Tahoe's to have an authentic garbage plate.
So why deconstruct a garbage plate? One of the things that I have learned during my swallowing rehabilitation is that there is more involved than just opening my esophagus. In some respects I need to relearn how to eat again and my stomach needs to get used to eating again. It will take at least two more dilation procedures until I even get close but that doesn't mean I can't start training now so I am ready when my esophagus is. After all if you plan to climb to the peak of Mount Everest you don't just go and do it. You need to train, start at base camp and slowly progress up the mountain. Fortunately I won't need any Sherpas to scale the Garbage Plate. (Antacids yes, Sherpas no.)
The plan is to train to eat each component of a garbage plate separately. When I say eat I mean eat in a somewhat normal fashion. The target is the best garbage plate there is, the cheeseburger plate with macaroni salad and home fries. As things progress I will post updates. Who knows, maybe in just a few months I will be planting my flag on the top of the Cheeseburger Garbage Plate.
Monday, October 13, 2008
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