good food

 My west coast brother informed me that today is "Let's All Eat Right Day" and also "National Chocolate Covered Peanuts Day."  I'm really not quite sure how those two go together unless you're supposed to eat the peanuts with your right hand.  I wrote a blog a few weeks ago expressing my view that not everything is edible just because it's covered in chocolate, but I do think chocolate covered peanuts are ok.  My lefty wonder spouse is pretty ambidextrous when it comes to eating so he could handle using his right hand for snacks.  But sadly he's allergic to peanuts. Ah well.  

We did make an attempt to Eat Right this evening. We went to dinner with friends at Zianos, one of our very favorite Italian restaurants. There we ate salad (definitely good food) and bread sticks (also good food I think).  I will refer you back to my recent blog about the importance of grain in our diets in defense of bread sticks.  The fact that these bread sticks were puffy, slathered with butter and covered with grated parmesan should not count against them.

Then the main course, and this is where the question of whether we were Eating Right becomes a little more problematic.  The food was, of course, delicious and the helpings were beyond bountiful, but I have a feeling that the sauces, thick and creamy and buttery and oozing calories did not exactly fall into the Eating Right category.  On the other hand, we certainly ate well.  Close enough.