I think I miss this combo the most out of all the usual suspects kicked to the curb during the great Dietary Overhaul of '08. With that went the pastas, heavy cream sauces, burgers from Hilberts and Burger Tex, weekly excursions with pizza and beer...and bye bye ice cream. The swing and surge of thyroid meltdown didn't really make it possible for me to be willy nilly about the food I ate. Until some sort of equilibrium with the medication and my body could be established, I was at the mercy of an ever increasing waist line...all I could to was batten down the hatches and hope for less than 20 lbs of excess.
But OH the grilled cheese... Kito makes a mean one too. Mustard on the outside, avocado and fancy/stinky cheese on the inside with Italian bread, sauteed to a golden brown in butter. Pair that with a high quality tomato basil soup...and...AMEN!
My friend Catherine and I put ourselves through a quick little workout on Saturday and reminisced a bit about the old days of craptastic eating. She recited a quote she read on a website: "If steamed broccoli and steamed chicken do not sound appetizing, you are not really hungry." AMEN times 2!
Obviously when I'm thinking of eating aforementioned grilled cheese holiness, there is little room to entertain steamed broccoli and chicken. The grilled cheese is in the emotional eating category. Actually, it OWNS the emotional eating category.
*Sigh* Maybe one day I will allow myself down that rabbit hole again. I will only do it when I am absolutely positive that it won't be my gateway meal into a month's worth of nutritional debauchery.
After all that what's on the plate for tonight? Mini stuffed pork loin fillets with swiss chard and pineapple for dessert.
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