Well, it may have been a L, but at least we ate well.

[urface59]

My brother-in-law's first wife was fanatical about calories, fat content, etc. about food. I hated to go out to eat with them when he was married to her. Talk about a joyless soul.

One time we went out for Italian. I forget what I ordered but she wanted to lecture me on how unhealthy my meal was. I finally got fed up with her. I said, "the only difference between you and me is in 50 years we're both going to be dying. You'll wonder why and then you will realize the only difference between us is that I ate better."

One time she made a vegetable lasagna with spinach. It was delicious. I tried to compliment her about it. It was more important to her to tell all of us that it was fat free than for us to tell her we actually liked it.

I was so glad when my brother-in-law divorced her. She had so many issues she was impossible to be around. She is so screwed up that her kids asked her to let their step Mom be their real Mom and she could be the step Mom. I would rather hug a Commanders Kicker than spend 2 minutes talking to her.

Awwww come one. I'm all for some great fatty foods but it seems like you're implying something that's a little bit harsh.

 

[YosemiteSam]

I'm a middle of the road guy when it comes to it. I take into account what I'm eating, but I don't obsesses over it. I drink my coffee with light sugar and half-n-half.

I try my best to avoid fried foods for the most part, but in no way completely eliminate them from my diet. I love breaded onion rings (battered not so much) French Fries, etc. I eat them may be once a week sometimes less sometimes more. I do try to eat more baked lean meats than fatty red meats these days, but no way would I ever give up steak and potatos. I'm a freaking Texan!

Now Fettucini Alfredo is horribly bad for you and is NOT a staple of my diet, but I do eat it probably twice a year as it is easily one of my all-time favorite meals. If there is one food that will kill you fast, it's Fettucini Alfredo.

I think when it comes to eating, you just have to be smart about how to approach it. If you just eat anything you desire, you're going to put yourself in an unhealthy position and not only what could end up being a short life, but a short life as a serious stroke victim. (much worse than just dying of a heart attack)

If you only eat cardboard, you are going to miss out on some of life's more enjoyable things.

 

[CATCH17]

I'm a middle of the road guy when it comes to it. I take into account what I'm eating, but I don't obsesses over it. I drink my coffee with light sugar and half-n-half.

I try my best to avoid fried foods for the most part, but in no way completely eliminate them from my diet. I love breaded onion rings (battered not so much) French Fries, etc. I eat them may be once a week sometimes less sometimes more. I do try to eat more baked lean meats than fatty red meats these days, but no way would I ever give up steak and potatos. I'm a freaking Texan!

Now Fettucini Alfredo is horribly bad for you and is NOT a staple of my diet, but I do eat it probably twice a year as it is easily one of my all-time favorite meals. If there is one food that will kill you fast, it's Fettucini Alfredo.

I think when it comes to eating, you just have to be smart about how to approach it. If you just eat anything you desire, you're going to put yourself in an unhealthy position and not only what could end up being a short life, but a short life as a serious stroke victim. (much worse than just dying of a heart attack)

If you only eat cardboard, you are going to miss out on some of life's more enjoyable things.

Its nice every now and then to have cardboard for about 2 months and get sexy though.



But I will make this dish. I can't wait.

 

[Hostile]

Awwww come one. I'm all for some great fatty foods but it seems like you're implying something that's a little bit harsh.

You don't know the woman. I am not kidding. Her son asked her if Jeanette, his new wife, can be his real Mom and his real Mom be his step Mom. She was the walking example of nails on a blackboard.

 

[DallasCowpoke]

Now Fettucini Alfredo is horribly bad for you and is NOT a staple of my diet, but I do eat it probably twice a year as it is easily one of my all-time favorite meals. If there is one food that will kill you fast, it's Fettucini Alfredo.

Just to be clear, a true, Italian Alfredo is nothing more than butter and Parmigiano-Reggiano.

The sauce is not made separately from the pasta. Instead, the ingredients are added to the pasta individually and the whole mixture is tossed to coat the pasta. The consistency, or "creaminess" of the finished sauce is actually achieved by adding small amounts of the still hot water the pasta was cooked in, not unlike the technique for making a risotto.

The *******ized American version can be anything from butter, cheese and heavy cream, to something more resembling a cheesy white sauce or a bechemel, than a true Alfredo.

I'd wager most single-slices of a basic frosted layer cake contain more fat and calories than even an "Americanized" version of Fett Alf?

Besides, it's not WHAT you eat, it's how much OF it!

 

[YosemiteSam]

Just to be clear, a true, Italian Alfredo is nothing more than butter and Parmigiano-Reggiano.

The sauce is not made separately from the pasta. Instead, the ingredients are added to the pasta individually and the whole mixture is tossed to coat the pasta. The consistency, or "creaminess" of the finished sauce is actually achieved by adding small amounts of the still hot water the pasta was cooked in, not unlike the technique for making a risotto.

The *******ized American version can be anything from butter, cheese and heavy cream, to something more resembling a cheesy white sauce or a bechemel, than a true Alfredo.

I'd wager most single-slices of a basic frosted layer cake contain more fat and calories than even an "Americanized" version of Fett Alf?

Besides, it's not WHAT you eat, it's how much OF it!

Just be clear that true Alfredo is made with "triplo burro". (triple butter) With triple (real) butter, you can't eat very much of it due to extreme fat content! :laugh2:

That said, you are right. Some people do use cream in it also, but if you think about it. Butter is made from what? Yep, heavy cream. They just *******ize the process of making of Alfredo.

 

[DallasCowpoke]

you can't eat very much of it due to extreme fat content!

Wanna bet!!?? : I lived off Fettuccine Alfredo, Quattro Formaggi pizza and Spaghetti AOC for damn near a year.

No, seriously. I worked nights my 3rd year of culinary school at a 20-table, neighborhood Italian place, owned by 3 brothers with the last name DiGiulio.

On weekday nights, it was only a 3-man kitchen. 1 on the line, a pizza guy and a dishwasher. The guy that essentially got me the job, was another student who was about to graduate, so they just let him train me. I basically came in on a wednesday, studied the menu while following him for 2 nights, then took over that friday.

The second night I was there, the only brother who really spent any time at the place, and that was only to sit at the bar, drink and eat or meet his coke or weed connections, walked through and saw me pouting creme in an order of fett alf.

Long-story-short, that was the last time I ever made that mistake!

 

[Duane]

Wanna bet!!?? : I lived off Fettuccine Alfredo, Quattro Formaggi pizza and Spaghetti AOC for damn near a year.

No, seriously. I worked nights my 3rd year of culinary school at a 20-table, neighborhood Italian place, owned by 3 brothers with the last name DiGiulio.

On weekday nights, it was only a 3-man kitchen. 1 on the line, a pizza guy and a dishwasher. The guy that essentially got me the job, was another student who was about to graduate, so they just let him train me. I basically came in on a wednesday, studied the menu while following him for 2 nights, then took over that friday.

The second night I was there, the only brother who really spent any time at the place, and that was only to sit at the bar, drink and eat or meet his coke or weed connections, walked through and saw me pouting creme in an order of fett alf.

Long-story-short, that was the last time I ever made that mistake!

:laugh2:

Sounds like something out of the Sopranos.

 

[YosemiteSam]

If I could live off good Alfredo, I would.

There was a restaurant called Alfredo Trattoria that was on Lemmon Ave in Dallas close to Inwood Rd and just down the way from Love Field. They had the best Italian food I knew of in Texas and their Alfredo was easily the best I had ever eaten. I tried to take my wife there after we got married, but the placed closed down.

 

[DallasCowpoke]

If I could live off good Alfredo, I would.

There was a restaurant called Alfredo Trattoria that was on Lemmon Ave in Dallas close to Inwood Rd and just down the way from Love Field. They had the best Italian food I knew of in Texas and their Alfredo was easily the best I had ever eaten. I tried to take my wife there after we got married, but the placed closed down.

Yea, I know the place and the owner, Mario Perez.

I'd see him time to time at monthly ACF meetings. I always gave him **** with, "Seriously dude, you're destined to fail. Who in their right mind's gonna pay $12 for a plate of red gravy and noodles, from a Mexican-Dago!?" :

 

[CliffnDallas]

Why do middle aged men, and sorry if yo are not, but why do they always eat crap that is heart attack friendly?

In my late twenties I made a choice to give up most fast food and foods with sodium, etc. I eat a lot of grains and try my best to eat vegetables. Mostly eat pastas and soups/sandwiches, occasionally pizza.

:hotdog:

There are no salad bars in Heaven...

 

[CATCH17]

Ok I woke up and made this dish and we lost today so the pork tenderloin is definetely bad luck.


My cheese melted all out btw.

 

[Danny White]

There are no salad bars in Heaven...

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