Gigi's Pizza & Wedges

Last night, in the middle of the pouring rain, we went to get Steve a haircut. He looks so cute now. His hair was getting quite unruly. Anyway, afterwards we went to our favorite pizzeria. And the name. It's not called just Gigi's Pizza. It's called Gigi's Pizza & Wedges. So that's what we did. We had a plain slice each. I think it'd just been made. The slice was really very good. The wedges, though we'd tried both eggplant and veal cutlet with mixed reviews, well I wanted more last night. When we had the wedges previously, the eggplant was always really very nice but the veal was too dry. They'd overcooked the thin slices of veal which isn't too hard to do as veal cooks up kinda quickly. Last night we split a meatball parm and an eggplant parm. I'm sad to report this but we were kinda disappointed and that's hard to say about our favorite pizzeria. The meatball, first time trying it, wasn't too bad. The meatballs were a little too bland for my liking though you could taste a little seasoning towards the end of each bite after chewing a bit. Overall, it just wasn't an outstanding wedge. And the eggplant. I was so disappointed with the eggplant that neither of us finished our wedge halves. The eggplant tasted freezer burnt to me. It was just yucky and that made me sad. Anyway, we made up for it afterwards by treating ourselves to Good Humor ice cream bars and sundaes. I had a chocolate eclair bar and Steve had a toasted almond. A few hours later we had our sundaes which wasn't as good as my eclair bar. So that's the food report for now. Eat something good!

Gigi's Pizza & Wedges
3651 Lee Rd
Jefferson Valley, NY‎
(Next to Decicco's)

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Steak Tips Dijon

It sounds all fancy doesn't it? I suppose they were trying to attract the gourmet crowd. What is it? It's Lean Cuisine steak tips dijon, red skin potatoes and green beans. It wasn't that bad but it wasn't good either. Yes, edible. Doable again? No. I won't be buying this kind anymore. The brown sauce was a little too sweet for my liking. Even though I hit it with a little kosher salt, it was still a little too sweet. I didn't really taste that dijon part. Maybe I did but it was just bad tasting and I didn't question it. It wasn't til after I'd eaten did I realize that it was dijon.

For breakfast, almost back to back with lunch, I had a Fiber One multigrain bagel with reduced fat cream cheese. I really wanted to add butter, but I want this to be one of my good days. On a half though, I added a little low sugar strawberry jam. Yum! So far my caloric intake is about 600 kcals. Not bad. If I can keep dinner under 1000 kcals then I'll know my day wasn't that bad. It's hard. Putting the breaks on eating. I'm sure you've all figured out that I have an eating machine inside me and that once it gets turned on, it's really difficult to turn off. So play nice today and Eat something good!

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Spaghetti & Meat Sauce

I wish we had some of our homemade and home canned fresh plum tomato sauce. I make a very simple sauce. The taste of the tomatoes is so good that you don't need much. I use bay leaves, garlic and s&p. We blanch the tomatoes and then put them through a food mill then I make my sauce. That's it. Anyway, we had ziti and meat sauce last night and I was a little disappointed. The sauce was fine. I cheated and used Ragu meat flavored sauce (It's 100% natural). I don't really like other sauces too much. Not even the expensive ones. I feel like, hey! I can do better. So the sauce, I sauteed some garlic and bay leaves then added the ground chuck. Then I added the jarred sauce. The most important part of this sauce is the freshly ground nutmeg. That adds a great deal of flavor and works with the sauce nicely. I was disappointed by the meat part. I bought a 90/10 mixture that I thought was ground sirloin. Turned out it was ground chuck. For some reason, the meat was stringy and chewy and I didn't like that at all. However, we ate and enjoyed it for the most part. I have some leftovers but I don't want any of it. I'll try to feed it to Steve though I think it'll sit there for a week and then get thrown out. Guys! Listen! Eat Something Good!

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Pastrami Sandwich

Today's lunch was pretty good. I went to the grocery store and picked some stuff up for dinner and Steve's lunches. When I got home, and after I put away the groceries, I set out to make myself a really good sandwich. Hot pastrami and swiss on a poppy seed kaiser roll with Gulden's brown mustard. At first, I couldn't find the pastrami. I thought maybe I'd left it in the trunk, but no luck. Then I saw it was in the refrigerator in the same bag as the ground sirloin. I was so worried then so psyched.

I nuked the meat and cheese before putting it on the bread. And that's how I like my pastrami sammies. I don't really like lettuce and tomatoes and stuff on it. I like it straight up. It'd been on my mind for several weeks now after having read someone else's blog about this awesome sounding pastrami sandwich.

The best pastrami I've ever had is from Katz Deli in NYC on Houston Street. It's pretty well known and their cafeteria like setting is relaxing. I feel comfortable there. I mean it's decorated with pictures of celebrities who've eaten there and there were quite a few. I think even Bjork (singer) had a pic up there. They make a pretty fat sandwich. And their pastrami just melts in your mouth. It's delicious. If ever in NYC, I highly recommend that you get a pastrami on rye from there. I'm overdue for one. I'll dream about for a little longer...Eat something good!

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Kashi Heart to Heart Cereal

I found a new cereal that we both love. It's the healthy'ish kind though still quite good. It's Kashi Heart to Heart cereal (Oatbran flakes and blueberry clusters). You can really taste the blueberry and the flakes, though very crispy and crunchy at first, softens the little'ist bit after a while. It's kinda nice that it does that because our previous cereal, Nature's Path Optimum Power (soy, flax & blueberry) - it lacked strong blueberry flavor and it was a little too crunchy for my liking. Oh, and Kashi uses wild blueberries. They're suppose to be better for you. And there's white tea in it. I thought that was cool. Tea is really nice. I had a snapple asian pear green tea today. It was really refreshing after a mile walk. On the way back from the walk, Sid was walking really slowly. It was too hot out for him today. But even in hot weather, you can Eat Something Good!

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Clairmont Diner

Diners around here are steadily increasing their prices. I no longer feel like I get a good value from them. (I think the portions are getting smaller too - it's been my suspicion. So the Clairmont Diner - in Yonkers, NY. It was crazy. They had a twin cheeseburger deluxe for $7.75. That's dirt cheap around here. And they were good sized burgers. They were thin and wide. As wide as the bun which wasn't too small. I must've used like a pint of ketchup tonight. Oh, Steve had the other twin. The burger. We both thought they were pretty good. I ate the fries on the deluxe platter. Steve had fries with his turkey club (fresh turkey, bacon, lettuce, tomato and mayo on white toast.) I had half of it. It needed a good amount of mayo on it but it was pretty good. OR we were just starving. No, it couldn't have been just that. You can tell. I usually can. I mean there are times I'm eating something yucky'ish but I keep eating cause I'm starving and I can't stop even though I want to. Red flag. Eating disorder? Who knew...I'm probably a compulsive overeater. I pretty sure that I exhibit that kind of behavior at times, not all the time but a lot.

Dinner was worth the long motoride down there. Now Steve's wanting a sweet treat. He had a brilliant idea while we were motoring the way home. Take marshmallows and toss in simple syrup and then roll them in sugar in the raw and cinnamon. Then deep fry. I don't know if that'd work. I think the marshmallow would just melt hitting the hot oil. And the thought overall for me is that it'd be way too sweet. I mean rolling a sweet in more sweet? I guess it can be done. It gets done with say, ice cream bars all the time. And I do love a good Hagaan Daaz chocolate dark chocolate ice cream bar. I'm gonna go watch a show about how to make tomato paste now. Wow, pretty tomatoes! See yas. Eat something good!

Clairmont Diner
929 Yonkers Ave

Yonkers, NY 10704

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