My New Year was a gastronomic orgy. I had filet mignon and lobster tail. I dipped everything in the drawn butter and I could not stop eating the garlic rolls, which were practically soaked in more butter. This, after consuming appetizers of calamari and lobster bisque soup. I didn't just impress my better half; he was shocked and awed by my ferocious appetite. Yesterday, I ran five miles outdoors and spent two miles on an elliptical. Then I had a loaded baked potato. I had been fantasizing about this tuber since the previous day. I was going to be near the restaurant that serves some really fabulous BBQ, and I always get it served on top of the biggest, mutant potatoes I have ever seen. The cook peels back the foil that it was baked in and then "pushes" it from both ends to give it a deep pocket for the fixings. From a vat of butter he scoops out a generous glob. He dumps a large portion of pulled pork onto the melted puddle and ladles sauce over the whole thing. But we're not done. Oh no. A scoop of sour cream, bacon crumbles and chives top it off. Pickles on the side. Oops, forgot about the cheese. Somewhere in the assembling of this masterpiece he grabbed a huge handful of shredded cheese. I have finished it on occasion, but not this time. Close, though. Time to hit the gym.
Saturday, January 3, 2009
A Healthy Appetite for 2009
So far, it feels pretty much the same as last year, but how would I know if I'm not paying attention? If there was calamity I would hear sirens and see streets filled with panicked people fleeing, wouldn't I? I haven't, but from the little news that manages to slip through, all seems to the usual SNAFU. On a different planet (so it feels to me) Israel and the Palestinian territory is going at it. Is that really a big surprise?
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Egads! If you could bottle your metabolizm, you'd make a FORTUNE!! HOW do you stay so skinny and eat like that? It's a good thing you live so very far, far away, otherwise, I'd feel compeled to come to your house and lob potatoes (unbaked!) at you!! This alone shows that there is no fairness in this world!!
ReplyDeleteToday, I sit typing at a new computer - new monitor, new itty bitty keyboard, new tower, new printer/scanner/copier because the old monitor/tower/etc as of about 10 am yesterday began a new residence in snowbanks outside the back patio door.
ReplyDeleteThis is what happens when old, tired equipment gets on your husband's one remaining nerve and shatters that one. Speaking of shattering, I am truly thankful he remembered to OPEN the patio door BEFORE he began pitching the equipment. And that he tossed them far enough so they ended in the snow and not shattering on the patio.