How, you ask, did Larry conquer Olive Garden? Because Larry made freakin’ Zuppa Toscana soup, almost exactly like Olive Garden makes it. I found a recipe online after googling “Olive Garden Toscana recipeâ€, there it was! He got the ingredients, and after using his culinary expertise, he rocked the hell out of the soup. Next thing to conquer – how to make those addictive breadsticks! “Olive Garden†was Sunday’s dinner; you know what he was able to make on Saturday? My favorite meal from Chili’s, the Cajun Chicken Pasta! On the same website, I also found the recipe for that meal too, and amazingly, he made a very good representation of that dish too. Can I say I am one lucky guy? Because I am.
Anyway, if you want to endeavor and recreate some classic Chili’s or Olive Garden dishes, here’s the site I got the recipes from. Not sure how long this site will stick around, so get the recipes fast:
The weather here in NYC has been stupid. It was 56 degrees here today. What figures is that the 30 Rock maintenance folks can’t turn the heat off, so the heat was on full-crank too, so it was a fuckin’ sauna at work today. A few times today I thought I must be catching a fever as I got so hot while sitting at my desk. That can’t be good for you. What I’ve heard is that by the end of the week, we’ll be back to 20-degree weather and snow. Yay!
My Colorado Springs friends are going to be having SnoFest this weekend. :-( I wanna go.
Other Colorado Springs news: my previous tenant has been evicted, and after some cleanup, it looks like I once again have a tenant in the house. Thank God. It’s not exactly cheap to pay two mortgages all by myself.
Did I tell you that I’m going to be starting guitar lessons next week? I decided to try something new. I had already started violin while back in the Azores, and while I think I could have eventually been decent on it, I just don’t have the motivation and discipline for it anymore. Violin is hard! I’m sure guitar isn’t super easy either though, but I think it’ll be fun to play an instrument that lends itself to group singalongs. Because you know I LOVE group singalongs! 🙂
The NYC Half Marathon training plan is going forward still, and I seem to have persevered through the initial leg/calf soreness that usually dissuades me from continuing. I couldn’t run the 7 miles I was supposed to today, but it is EXTREMELY difficult to run for over 60 minutes in one spot. I got so bored. After 5 miles, I was like, Peace out, I’m done.