Chicken 19: Go for the Gusto

What a miserable morning. Suddenly rain and suddenly no one knows how to drive. I hope whatever accident occurred was a good one.

Next month seems like its going to be Subways month. How exactly that's going to go down is going to be interesting. Easy mode is just a foot long sub per lunch. Hard is 6" for lunch, 6" for dinner, 5 days a week. Extreme mode is hard mode, but 7 days a week.

There's also Jared mode, which is his diet. He had a 6" turkey sub for lunch, and a foot long veggie sub for dinner. Veggie sub? Why even bother living?

Subways is healthy, which is partly the reason to take that on after this month. This may be one of my least healthy months ever. Also, its 5 bucks for a foot long sandwich. This month has been pretty damn expensive too.

Chicken 19: Chicken Paprika on Penne

Cafe Gusto was the destination of choice today, with chicken pot pie absent from the menu at our diner neighbor. Usually Gusto was only called upon for lasagna or rotisserie chicken, but we were looking for something out of the regular stuff. Lasagna didn't fit in the whole chicken week thing either being that it used beef.

Chicken came with the choice of being served over rice or over pasta. I picked pasta as I've had enough rice last week with my poultry. In addition to the choice between the carbs, there was yet another decision to make regarding the form of pasta. I chose penne over the linguine. I suppose his noodly appendages would have prefered the linguine.

Looking at the chicken paprika, I was expecting more of a sausage and peppers taste from it. It had the peppers cut up the same way and that greasiness that is oh so good. That's about all there similarities though.

The two chicken breasts in the meal were cooked very tender, and were still moist. Peppers that came with it were extremely soft and carried the flavor of the sauce. The sauce actually tasted like a vodka sauce, and the color matched for the most part. It did seem like there was more grease than a standard vodka sauce though.

The penne with the chicken had a bit of a mushy texture. It looked like it had some kind of sauce or something on it, as the color was a little on the red side while the linguine was much lighter in color. The pasta was not bad, it was just a bit odd. I would have picked it again. I regret nothing.

Good lightish meal. They had pork loin at Gusto that looked pretty good though. I'm not so much tired of chicken as I am desiring more options.

The final week goes on.