Mood:
lazyNow Playing: Bob Mould - Circles
Topic: Tailgating at Home
Monday night at long last, and time for some football, food and fun, but not necessarily in that order. Oddly enough, there was a great deal of uncertainty surrounding the food plans for this past Monday night. Usually the plans are made in advance, or at least by the time I leave work, but this just wasn't the case yesterday. At first, I thought a nice, simple chicken curry was just the thing, but as the day wore on, I became less enamored with the idea. This is not because a curry wouldn't be wonderful thing, but more to do with my increasing desire not to do a lot of (or really, in this case, even a little) work. As sad as I am to admit it, sometimes I just don't feel like cooking. Yes, this surprises me as much as it does you, since cooking is one of my favorite activities, probably ranking only marginally lower than sex and video games on my favorite things to do chart (although that is subject to change, depending on what I'm cooking), but I digress. I was certain that the after work trip to the grocer.
So the wife and I embark upon our journey to H.E.B., our local grocer, and I quickly discovered that this would not be as helpful as I had though. The wife tried to be helpful (as always) and pointed out easy alternatives to actual cooking, including my favorite frozen lasagna (Stouffer's, of course), but somehow these things just didn't seem right for the application that we had in mind. Some were time limit issues (it takes about two hours to heat up a good size frozen lasagna) and some were just taste issues (although I have an embarrassing love of frozen pizza, it isn't something that should be served at a party, or even to company). So what to do? Well, instead of coming to any kind of real conclusion, we bought a sheet cake. The wife picked it out, red velvet cake with cream cheese icing, and it was good. And it will be again today since there is plenty left. It's always good to have something to look forward to after work, let me tell you.
Thus, we were forced into the final refuge of the indecisive, delivery pizza. Yes, I can hear your gasps of horror from here, but the truth is, as much as we all complain about it, we all eat it, in one form or another. And in the final accounting, our choice became clear: Pizza Hut. It is important to point out that I don't feel that Pizza Hut has the best chain delivery pizza, I have always believed that honor goes to Papa John's (at least of the big four that I have easy access to), but the wife is a big fan of the pan crust that Pizza Hut offers, and they had a good promotion going. Yes, a good promotion is probably king in the delivery pizza decision process, especially with the ridiculous prices of chain pizza nowdays. We ordered two large pan crust pies, one supreme and the was a meat lover's, and two medium pies, one sausage and one pepperoni, and it turned out to be more than enough. Overall, the pizza was good, not great, but good. My guess is that you already know if you like Pizza Hut's style of pizza or not.
The real highlight of the evening was a drink, cocktail, whatever your prefer to name your adult beverages. This one is called a Dark n' Stormy and was brought to me (and you too, if you wish) by the good people over on Slashfood.com. See the other post for more on this spectacular drink.
