If Thanksgiving wasn't enough of an overindulgence I knew the week after would be. For it was my friend Zack's annual Turducken feast. And while I, as a vegetarian, do not partake in his prepared-and-deboned-all-by-himself-turkducken there are a plethora of apps, sides and desserts that I can indulge in.
This year, I did what I did last year, and I vowed never to do again, which was making too large of a portion. With 20 or so people I felt I had to prepare enough for each person, not recalling that with so many sides to go around, about a quarter of mine would get eaten. So I now have about a week's worth of multigrain penne with sauteed sweet potatoes and leaks (quite good by the way, and I suppose I can call it healthy as well, which I must in order to get through eating it all). As an app I made grapes wrapped in a combo of gorgonzola and cream cheese and rolled in crushed walnuts. I normally try to steer clear of cheese, though it is my Achilles heal of food, and with about half of what I made leftover (though it did get great compliments and a lot were eaten, but as noted above - I made to much) I was able to continue indulging into the week. Lucky for me Zack tries to make all sides vegetarian and others bring plenty as well so there were sweet potatoes and mashed potatoes and stuffing and salad and more...much more. In keeping with the weight watchers adage my sister recently told me that they learned leading up to Thanksgiving, I tried to create islands on my plate, but it really all ended up being a big continent.
And dessert! There was plenty. Steve made his wonderful banana cream pie, which always gets raves and the black bottom bourbon pecan pie, that some at the event look forward to each year. This time though he used semi-sweet and apparently in the past has used bitter-sweet chocolate (or vice versa, I'm not as up on my baking chocolate) but I did know that though this pie was great, I preferred last year's. And of course there was some pie left over so guess what we ate for breakfast on Sunday and Monday? In addition there were cookies and pumpkin pie and a coffee cake galore at the Turducken feast. Plenty to go around. Next year I am going to just bring wine.
And that was just Saturday.
Sunday's indulgence involved a 7 year old birthday party at Margie's Candies on Montrose, which included a 30 (yes 30) scoop dessert for all to share. It was hard to resist, particularly with the butterscotch sauce and nuts. And like Saturday's overindulgence, there was plenty to go around and go home with, but I stood tall and resisted taking ice cream home with me.
This week, I vow to eat better, but with the holidays upon us, I think the best I can do is just do my best and try not to let my trying to eat right get in the way of enjoying all the treats the holiday season provides.
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