FRIGHTFUL FAVORITE FLAVORS

Tuesday Evening


Gym time tonight was 45 minutes on the arc trainer (592 cal. burned)!

Know what's a really bad combination? Your husband being gone the whole night + no food in your house because you've been too lazy busy to make a list and go shop + that limbo of going from eating whatever you wanted on vacation to trying to eat healthy again.

The result: a feast of Jordan's favorite flavors of food that's not-so-good for you night. The first is something that has yet to be introduced on my blog, but I always knew it was inevitable... Pretty much the only fast food that I will partake in: Fazoli's alfredo. dun-dun-dun (to be read in a dramatic horror movie sound)

Here's the back story:
 This dish isn't even on the truly menu! It is a baked fettucine alfredo and it is my thing. I used to work at Fazoli's. It was my first real job and I started there when I was just 17 right after I graduated highschool. I worked there all through my first year of college until that next summer. Prior to working at Fazoli's it had always been my favorite "restaurant" (I am pleased to say that I at least have more grown-up, healthful tastes in restaurants now). When I was younger, every year on my birthday when I got to pick my place to eat...it would be Fazoli's. The one time I could pick ANYWHERE I wanted to go, and it was Fazoli's. Another shocking thing, as much as I love variety, I only ever got ONE dish. Every. single. time. A bowl of fettucine alfredo. Every time- no exceptions. Literally for probably a good twelve years it is the only thing I ever ordered from Fazoli's. I absolutely craved it. Once I started working there I was eating Fazoli's every day (and adding a few pounds at the time) and eventually the inevitable happened....I got sick of eating the same thing. So I created a fabulous new dish that isn't really on the menu. They have a baked spaghetti, which is just spaghetti noodles, marinara, cheese on top, baked in the oven. I swapped out the spaghetti noodles for fettucine noodles, subbed the marinara for alfredo sauce, kept the cheese, and then covered it in red pepper flakes. Voila! My amazingly delicious baked alfredo. It has now been several years since I worked there, but every time I have a super craving- this is what I want. I used to order this probably every two and a half weeks to enjoy now and work off later :) Now it is much farther between fulfilling this dastardly craving since it has obviously been at least three months that I've had it. Not good for you, but occasionally a happy occurrence.

So I brought home my atrocious wonderful supper and paired it with the other fearful craving of the night. A slice of cake from Concannons.

All of this combined with Harry Potter makes me, well, a pretty boring, unhealthy but nonetheless satisfied person this evening!

Sigh, I must get groceries... ;)