Lunch, A Simple Affair

When I had a job that required me to go somewhere and sit in front of a computer each day, lunch was the only thing that got me up and into the office. Those lunches were different though. Often they were near feast-size proportions, huge burritos, foot long sandwiches, personal pizzas and any number of fast food offerings that were settled for out of apathy.

No longer. In the years since my office days I've come to see lunch as a meal that needs to be defined by two things: simplicity and quality (It should also be seasonal because I'm a nerd like that). This means that lunch can simply be an orange and a peach, a simple freshly made salad, some bread and cheese, or a sandwich that is small enough not to pitch oneself into a catatonic food coma by 2:00. That's a big thing, because Growing up American the realization that small portions of quality food can actually be much better than large portions of mediocre food was something of a food epiphany. (Shut up Europe)

So in the vein of simplicity and satisfaction comes todays lunch. It is blatantly ripped off from here, an apple, cheddar, horseradish mustard panini. Due to my grandmother's kindness I have exactly 4 metric tons of fresh homemade horseradish on hand so I simply mixed a heaping helping of it with some dijon and had a really, really great thing going. The end result was good enough to make it into my rotation. I'm a sucker for horseradish though (I'll often just eat a spoonful of the stuff), so I have a feeling I probably over did it for normal human tastes, but for me, perfection.

In closing. Yes I am one of those people that drinks coffee with lunch.