Dear...You: The Neighborhood Qdoba Restaurant

Dear Qdoba,
I know you have been wondering why I stopped coming to see you! After all, you are right across the street from my abode. It was so convenient. There was a time that I would make a weekly appearance to sample your pleasures! The people who work for you were beginning to know my name and my preferred dishes! Why would such a comfortable relationship have to come to an end?

The fact is I needed to lose some weight! I was pushing two-hunny! My musculature was beginning to disappear like dictatorships in the Middle East. My man-boobs were beginning to rival Phillies broadcaster Tom McCarthy’s for sheer voluptuousness. My waist was beginning to display more jiggle than an episode of Boardwalk Empire that features Paz de la Huerta prominently. The final straw was a visit to the doctor for a physical. She inserted a syringe into my arm. She drew some blood. She went to look at the results. And then she straight up came back into the room and asked who was getting my film collection once I’ve moved on. Evidently she too liked films by Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock, and was eager for a bequeathing.

Tale of the Pie: Via Veneto Pizza

So Saucy's been doing great with the diet, and only a moderate amount of complaining (believe it or not). But we decided to take Friday night off to have a family outing and a few slices.

Our destination? Via Veneto's. Just a bit of background for you: the "disappointing pie" we refer to in our very first post, Getting to the Crust of the Matter, was actually from Via Veneto's. But the shop is about 15-20 minutes from our house on a good day and Saucy picked it up on a snowy February evening. And after the 30 minute or longer ride home, it really wasn't that hot. I mean temperature-wise and taste-wise.

Tale of the Pie: Pizza Stop

Just had a a pizza party with the family for my mom's birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM! This side of the pizza project doesn't know anything or care to know anything about the south beach diet. We ordered pizza from a placed called Pizza Stop. It's a little shop in a strip mall, very unassuming on the outside and in. However, the pizza was fantastic.

From pizza to pistachios: Our pie hiatus

So you may have noticed that there haven't been a ton of pizza reviews lately. Fear not, friends. They will be back soon enough.

Just on a brief break from pizza while we're working on lowering Saucy's triglycerides. After doing some research, South Beach seemed like the healthiest and easiest (not that any diet is easy, of course) way to do it. And I know from experience that it works - I lost about 25 pounds in the year before our wedding on South Beach.