Pesce Week 18: The Educationing

Well I don't have way too much time today. We're going to be celebrating my nephew Cameron's third birthday today. That means running around, setting up the hall and then the party itself, oh and not to forget the 6+ hour drive home. So I don't really have too much time to post about school and the amazing meal I had on Friday, a calamari steak. I promise to post more about this in a short amount of time. Until next time.

Notoriously,
Mandog

Pesce Week 15: The Road Trippening

So yesterday Waldino, Marlon and I went on a road trip to San Diego. It was pretty bawse. We started by going to this one restaurant/bar I was told about called Analog Bar, I didn't get to check out the video game and music area, but the atmosphere was really chill and the food was fantastic. I ordered Chilaquiles Tatchos, tatchos are their specialty which is tater tots done nacho style. The sauce was fantastic and the two eggs done sunny-side up just accented the flavor perfectly. It was only $6 during their happy hour and was well worth the money. Waldino got the Pulled Pork Tatchos, which I heard the pulled pork on it was fantastic, also $6, also worth it. Marlon got their Pancetta Mac n Cheese, he couldn't taste the Pancetta very well and it was really small other than that he said it was good, it was $5.50 but not worth it due to the proportion. The three of us split a dessert, their Churro French Toast, it was really freaking good with their strawberry jam, it also came with a brown sugar maple syrup but the flavor of that with the french toast was too similar. I decided to try mixing the two "sauces" together once we were out of french toast, it was so freaking good. The Churro French Toast was $6, happy hour only reduced the price of the appetizers, but split between 3 people, well worth it. All together we payed $10 each to enjoy a nice relaxing atmosphere, good music and great food. If you're ever in the area of the Analog Bar, 801 F Street in San Diego on the corner of F and 5th, I highly suggest checking it out.

That's not all we did yesterday, not by a long shot. We walked around the Gaslamp Quarter and saw a Dr. Suess and Chuck Jones art exhibit. It featured a lot of art you could buy starting at $300 or so, of course we couldn't buy anything but it was really good seeing everything, including original Disney animation cels. Once we finished viewing the exhibit and talking to a curator we continued on. We made our way to the Convention Center and saw some event going on, we couldn't get in so we wasted some time just looking at what we could do there and then decided to continue on. We got a ticket that waved the cover charge of a club, Belo, so we checked it out. They told Marlon he couldn't wear hats or his red shoes, but they'll let him in by checking his hat and just a warning on the shoes. We get down there and avoid paying $20 because we're awesome, but the club was completely dead, so we left. We walked around some more, found our way to this really cool bar called something I don't remember, but it was influenced by Alice in Wonderland. All over the ceiling there were cards, the walls were faux hedges, there were books in a few places and it was downstairs. This was a really nice bar, but we had been walking around for quite a few hours at this point and we really just wanted somewhere to sit down which we couldn't find there without buying bottle service. I don't know about you guys, but eff that, I'm poor. We walk and find ourselves a hat store, Marlon had been wanting to find a good hat for cheap and so he did. From there we go to a Sam Goody and relax for a bit, but I mean sitting on a couch we could do anywhere, we were in San Diego so we continued walking. We walked into a Brookestones and try out this head massager that looks exactly like the headgear part of Cerebro from Xmen, it was awesome. From there we decide to get some food and go back to the bar/club scene. We find a place to sit down and get some food. I wasn't hungry but Marlon and Waldino bought pizza from Gaslamp Pizza. Not too expensive and it looked pretty good. After that we walked around and found tickets to wave the cover of this bar called Double Down, it's pretty much a louder version of Giddy Ups from that episode of How I Met Your Mother. Once we were done there we decided to go to Pechanga's to check it out, relax and get some coffee. It was pretty bawse, they gave us $10 for signing up for a club membership and Marlon ended with $11.50, I ended with $1.25 and Waldino ended with, well, less. After that we call it a night and drive the rest of the way home. It was a fantastic trip.

So there is this week's post. Complete with being large, a Super Tasty (my food critic review column article thing) review of Analog Bar and a story. Oh and if you go to park in that area, don't put in a $20 for parking that costs $8, because you'll have to mail in to get your change... carry singles gentlemen. Until next time.

Notoriously,
Mandog

Pesce Week 14: The Heat Wavening

GOTT DAMN IT'S HOT! It may only be barely in the hundreds and all, but it is hot. Sitting on the couch is not an option, I am forced to sit on a chair much closer to the fan/AC unit.

So this is actually supposed to be for my Pescetarian Experience and not an outlet to complain about the temperature. So.... I didn't use my cheating day, I decided to just not eat the meats and stick to just the potatoes and beans. It was good. Today I tried a crépe with some vegetables in it. It was pretty good, I just hate red onions and there were plenty in it. Other than that it's been highly uneventful in the food realm of things. Until next time.

Notoriously,
Mandog

Pesce Week 13: The Extreme Trafficening

Hello and welcome to week 13 of my Pescetarian Experience. From tonight's dinner alone I am glad I chose to be pescetarian and not vegetarian. I ordered myself a Scallop Parmesan Pasta, which was delicious, and my mom ordered Seared Ahi Tuna and Coconut Shrimp for appetizers and my God they were so freaking good. The Ahi Tuna was so perfectly melting in your mouth and the shrimp was just awesome. So yeah, that was one freaking amazing meal.

So as some of you may know I'm down in Escondido, San Diego area, for my cousin's wedding. Since I probably won't post anything on Facebook about it, and the wedding is tomorrow, Congratulations Jason and Alice. We decided to go to Old Town in San Diego itself after being at the Wild Animal Park (or San Diego Zoo Safari or something that it is now). We get to Old Town after getting turned around and there is absolutely no parking, because of Comic Con. I had no idea how close to the convention center it actually was. So we decide, eff this, and we head back towards our hotel room deciding to get dinner somewhere along the way, this wasn't too bad traffic-wise. So after the amazing dinner I mentioned we head back and the traffic was horrendous, where someone nearly crashed right into Rey and Beth. We made it back here safely though, so yeah....

Until next time. Oh wait! I just realized something I wanted to post on, there is a chance, depending on the dinner menu, that I will be using my first cheating day since starting all of this, so yeah, I'll post on that if it happens. Until next time for reals this time.

Notoriously,
Mandog

Pesce Week 10: The Self-Gyppening

I would like to start this by saying that learning how to spell the word gypped made me realize how racist (prejudiced rather) that term is. Today I went to Chipotle for dinner ordering the vegetarian burrito and since I was offered guacamolé last time and spent $2 on it I said no when they asked me if I wanted it. I just looked at their online menu and the vegetarian burrito comes with guacamolé. I'm midly annoyed at myself for saying no and not getting the deliciousness that is guac on my burrito. Oh well, I know better for next time.

It really doesn't feel like I've been on this diet for Sixty-seven days as of now. It feels like it's been two weeks. So has anyone been doing the challenge of the one month of pescetarianism and stuck to it yet? I promise to not eat fish for one month if at least one person goes pescetarian for a month. Also I will not use my cheating days, which I have yet to use. I'll catch you guys next week when it will feel like Week 2 once again.

Notorious,
Mandog

Pesce Week 8: The Foodsening

So week 8, what can I say. I've found myself wishing for something with meat in it more than I used to. That's a change. I find myself bored with these posts since I don't have much to post about aside from, "Oh, it's been a week, I haven't failed yet...."

I do have a recipe I found and then modified by changing ground beef to ground fake beef.

Pasta Shell Tacos

A pound of ground beef (I used a package of Morning Star Meal Starters something... the ground beef)
1 package of cream cheese
Taco seasoning
Large pasta shells (I fit 16 filled ones into a dish)
Salsa of your choice
Cheddarjack cheese (or maybe a mexican blend) shredded
Taco sauce

Heat the oven to 375°. Cook shells according to direction (boil them until tender pretty much). Prepare a 9x13 dish and pour salsa on the bottom. Brown the beef (or heat the faux beef) and mix the taco seasoning to direction. Add cream cheese and heat until homogeneous. Arrange the shells in the baking dish and fill. Top the 'tacos' with taco sauce and bake for 15 minutes. Top with cheese and crushed tortilla chips if desired. Bake for an additional 15 minutes. Top with sour cream, guacamole and/or anything else desired. ENJOY!

They were really bomb, my family ate the non-meat with pleasure (just my parents, the other two weren't eating at home that night). So now that you have that recipe try it out. I'll catch you guys next week.

Until then,
Mandog

Pesce Week 6: The Etymologicalening

So it's the end of Week 6 and I'm still going strong, I have yet to use a day pass, and I have no overwhelming desire to do as such. That being said Wednesday was a little painful, we went to Red Robin for dinner and I couldn't get my favorite burger from there, the Royal Red Robin Burger which is burger with egg, cheese and bacon on it. Instead I ended up getting their Bleu Ribbon Burger sub BOCA, which was delicious, and a Rootbeer float which was only $.50 more than a soda with free refills on the float. Yes, that is right, for $2.99 you can have as many refills on a rootbeer float as you would like. It was heavenly.

So last night Matt Veronica, who is graduating as I type this, had mentioned that he doesn't believe someone is a vegetarian if they just eat cheese pizzas and don't eat vegetables. Now I disagree with this, but etymologically he is kinda correct, since the veget- does refer to vegetables. He offered another name for people who didn't eat meat, nonmetatarians... which would mean nothing going off of etymology. Yeah, I'm just saying Matt, that's a retarded suggestion.

So there's my post for week 6, only 30 more to go. I look forward to having more to write on. Until next time.

Indifferently,
Mandog

Pesce Week 2: The Fishening

So here I am at the Friday of week two and I've got to say, this mess is still really easy. The only thing I run into with problems is if I'm just sitting around and I feel like making something quick I don't have as many options as I used to. I kinda broke a small personal promise I made myself that I would eat fish at most twice a week for health sake, mercury content and all, and I ate fish thrice this week. Granted the fish I ate this week were all fairly low in mercury content, seeing as Sunday I had Salmon which probably has near to the least mercury of all the fish out there.

Some of the vegetarian food I have tried so far consist of the following:
-Boca Burgers = BAWSE!
-Hormel Vegetarian Chili = There was something in the way they spiced it... I dunno just wasn't that good to me
-Morningstar Scrambles (their groundbeef) = crazy delicious
-Morningstar Chik'n Enchiladas = good, but the enchilada sauce was pretty whack
-Morningstar Chik'n Nuggets = I feel like I'm cheating when I eat them, seriously, so good.
So that's what I've tried in my first two weeks, I know in the remaining 33 weeks I will try so many more things and love it.

Notoriously,
Mandog