Top Chef Challenge

I've been dying for chocolate and peanut butter lately. Not really in candy form, more so in like a cake or cookie type form. So last night I tried hitting the local 7-11, which is usually a vast resource of snacks that could satisfy any craving. Not so. Nothing other than candy with both chocolate and peanut butter. Not even any Funny Bones. Grrrrrrr. So I had to pull a Top Chef. I bought a brownie that looked fairly tasty, sliced it horizontally and slathered some Trader Joe's creamy peanut butter in there and nuked the whole thing in the microwave. Pretty creative, if I do say so myself, and it scratched the itch. For the time being.

How interesting would a pregnant lady craving challenge be on Top Chef?? More apt for their quick-fire challenge, you take a selection of pregnant women and the chefs have to appease their changing craving. Case in point, on my way to work I wanted eggs so I treated myself to a Panera souffle. By the time I got to work, souffle in hand, I wanted a corn muffin. *sigh*

Mmmmm.......Bacon

This baby is all about loving bacon. Now don't get your panties in a bind, I'm not eating it every other day. Just in clumps of days. With a few days off in between. But I made this discovery. It's called a "Chicken Carbonara" sandwich at Quiznos. It's got white meat chicken, mozzarella cheese, mushrooms, bacon and BACON ALFREDO sauce on it. And they toast it on sesame seeded bread so it's all toasty and warm. It's the tastiest thing I've had in a long time. And helps me get through a 3 hour show. PLUS.....I discovered that Quiznos has the most deliciously soft chocolate chip cookies (that they'll warm for you if you so desire) which are essential in getting the blood sugar back up at intermission of said 3 hour show.

Mmmmm....Special Sauce

My pregnancy cravings haven't been that outrageous or that demanding. I've really had a taste for bacon, but I've always had a penchant for bacon. I'm still devouring and loving chocolate. Which is reassuring - I was worried when Annie told me that her chocolate affection went out the window when she was pregnant.

But of late, I've been dying for hamburgers with special sauce and onions. Which everyone else knows as Big Macs. However, Big Macs to me have always been hard to manage. They fall apart on me if I don't eat them at light speed which is no fun. So a while back I discovered "Mac Jrs." They're Big Macs in a one-layer size. Perfect for goobers like me who apparently can't handle two-layer sandwiches. Now, they're really not on the menu (you can't even find them on the website), but at McDonalds not run by complete idiots (you want a what?) they'll wrangle one up for you. Mmmmm......special sauce and onions.