Keeping up ...

I am proud to say that - with the exception of Friday night and all day Saturday - I have been keeping up with my 'Cinch' eating plan! The meals are so filling and so tasty, I am not finding it difficult to follow through with this! I think the hardest part is the meal preparation, or rather, the hardest part is motivating myself to wash and cut up all the veggies, etc. I guess doing this has also made me realize that however much I love cooking, most weekdays I am just too lazy to bother; it is so easy to just thaw out some ground beef and boil up some pasta for spaghetti and meat sauce - one of my top 5 favourite things to eat - but, I am loving getting in all these fruits and veggies, it makes me feel good about myself!

So, as I said before, this is all with the excepetion of Friday night and all day Saturday. Alex was supposed to come into town this weekend and we had dinner plans with 2 of our good friends, Ingrid and Andy. Well, due to the enormous amount of snow we've gotten pounded with over the last few days, the highways were too bad for him to travel on, so it was just the 3 of us. The plan was for me to go to their house for a couple pre-drinks, and I must say I have never seen Winnipeg streets that icy before, it was scary driving out there! (Scary, mostly because I was driving Alex's baby, the Audi S4, you know how terriefied I am of getting into an accident in that car, even if it wasn't my fault I would feel so awful! But, the car handles like a dream, even on pure ice, it is such a pleasure to drive that car!) Anyways, so Ing and I polished off a bottle of red (Nugan, a blend I picked up at Costco, very nice wine) then Andy drove us to Bistro 725, by far one of Winnipeg's BEST restaurants. We had the most phenomenal meal. Started off with a couple Pomegranate Prosecco's (Prosecco is a dry Italian sparkling white wine), I'd never heard of it before, it was a new twist on one one of my old favourites -MIMOSA'S!! After 2 glasses each of those, we switched it up to a Ginger Apple martini, blah, we sent them back and ordered a bottle of Prosecco instead!
Then came the food.... we all shared a few 'small plates' and a cheese board. We ordered: the shrimp gnudi, duck confit (a recipe they've changed since the last time I was there, an OMG this was AMAZING, the duck was so tender and flavourful and the sauces - I think it was a wild cherry and cheese sauce - fit so well, I could've eaten 2 of them!), mushroom and blue cheese mussels, veal and foi gras sliders, and tenderloin of bison (I think it was bison?!). I swear the food gets better everytime I go there! After the delicious meal, we ran across the street to Luxalune, a pub I used to work at a few years ago. We just sat for a drink then came back to my house for a nightcap. All in all, a wonderful evening!
The Audi had a sleepover in the Demchenko-Bell's garage, and Andy was nice enough to come and get me Saturday to pick up the car. Saturday was, of course, a day of recuperation - damn you, Prosecco - and I ate nothing but junk food all day (and it was delicious!)

But now it is Sunday and I have a lot of catching up to do. Laundry, clean house, journaling for one class, photos and meausrements for another class, poster's for studio presentation, and I have a few phone calls to make. Guess I better get a move on!
till next time...