Hmm...Now I want to try some new combinations
I myself am a pasta person, any type of pasta, but I like my own sauces the best (then you know what went in them).
Previously I would have said:
-Mushrooms and cream tossed with angel hair pasta and Merlot
-Fettuccine Alfredo with grilled chicken and broccoli cooked in garlic sauce and...Merlot
-Veggie lasagna and Merlot
-Pre-made ravioli/sauce and 'Red Table Wine' if you don't have the time/money to do anything better: D
But, lately my happy wine and pasta nights have been put on a hold. First, this whole getting-married-must-save-for-a-dress thing, and next my sister has convinced me that I am going to get fat if I continue eating the way I do. Apparently eating whatever you want whenever you want is a bad thing? I wouldn't listen to her if I hadn't jumped up on the scale right then and there and realized I have gained five pounds!! Granted, I was wearing jeans and tennies at the time and usually I weigh myself in the nude, but still that was enough for me.
So, here I am, ready to enter 'the zone'. Granted, I'm not very sure if I like the idea of entering any zone that she and her insane body-building boyfriend cavort in, but heck, I'll give it a try. (They flex and pat each others arm muscles all the time, I think it's some sort of mating ritual. I don't understand it as once you've felt your sisters arm muscles, there's no real thrill in going back there.) The first thing I learned was that pasta was very, very bad for you.
How can this be? My favorite food is pasta, then wine, then cheese, then strawberries.
So, I've been trying to change my food. My idea was to cook a nice chicken breast on a Teflon pan and toss it with steamed broccoli. Of course, the fear of a tasteless chicken breast caused me to pat on a few 'helpers', you know rubbing in garlic, Italian herbs *cough* Parmesan cheese. Then I decided olive oil would make it better and I knew a certain amount of olive oil was allowed on the zone. But, alas, the little devil in my head assured me that my sister would never know if I put a pat of butter on the chicken to turn it that nice golden brown, so away I went and things were downhill from there.
I will say it was a delicious meal, didn't even miss the pasta, but then I had some nice toasted garlic bread to make up for that.
My sister also says it's the most delicious chicken she's had for a long time, but to that I say "if you cook your chicken with little japanese fish sprinkles it will taste like fish, stop doing that, it's insane, and stop trying to make your own tofu!!".
*shakes herself*
Oops, where was I?
Anyway, we'll see how this 'zone' thing works out
Sorry for the long babbling.
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