top ten ingredients

i often say that a particular food item is on my list of "top ten" favorite foods. and equally as often, i eat a bite of my dish at a restaurant and declare that it's the best food i've ever had. yes, i know that i tend to exaggerate about my favorite things, especially food. so i thought i would make a concrete list of top ten favorite foods at this moment in time, march 6, 2007 at 4:04 p.m., just so that i would know when i was officially eating one of my favorite foods. as i was composing my list, i realized that the topic was way too broad. there are so many different categories of favorite foods: favorite sandwiches, for example. then, you get into whether you want to list favorite generic sandwiches (grilled cheese with tomato) or sandwiches from particular places (chicken cuban sandwich from caliente cab). the lists that i could make up are practically limitless! so today's list is going to be top ten favorite ingredients. i thought i would start with an easy one. this means the food item must be an ingredient (peanut butter counts because in its purest form it is one ingredient and recipes can sometimes call for "peanut butter") and it should not be a food item associated with a particular brand or restaurant. okay, here goes. these are not in any particular order. or maybe they are.

my top ten ingredients of the moment

1 crunchy peanut butter
2 green olives
3 salt
4 shrimp
5 edamame
6 feta cheese
7 artichoke hearts
8 broccoli
9 flank steak
10 bananas

i'm going to go make a pizza topped with all ten ingredients!