Chicken Alfredo and an Italian Garganega

Firstly, we are post-post-procrastinators. *Cues Devo* *Cuts Devo Immediately*

Secondly, a few musings on health, fitness and waking up.

Today, I read a neat article on great ways to wake up in the morning. Most notably to me was this bit.

The King and The Pauper Way Of Eating: The way our bodies function optimally is if we eat like a king in the morning and a pauper in the evening. This means that it's best to eat heavier, bigger portions in the morning because these meals will give us high energy throughout the day and then burn off. Eating like a pauper, meaning small light meals, in the evening allows us to go to sleep on an empty stomach. If your body is functioning normally, and you don't have stomach ulcers, going to sleep on a mostly empty stomach will allow you to sleep better. This nightly fast allows your body to take it's focus away from digestion and put it towards repair and rejuvenation of the body's cells.

# Work That Body: In number 1 above I mentioned that our bodies adapt around a 24-hour circadian rhythm. This works for sleep, eating, exercise, and many other bodily functions. We're a pretty efficient physiological machine when you think about it. This is why getting a dose of exercise is optimal in the morning. It gets the blood flowing and stimulates you to function on a higher level. "Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness." - Edward Stanley Once you're used to this routine, your body will prepare by providing you with high energy before you start to work out. As you can see, if you wake up with this high energy, you're going to just pop out of bed.

Thats good to know about the latter. I am such a heavy sleeper I wake up to three alarm clocks. And after pouring my coffee (so that it does not burn on the warmer), I do a workout with a ham and cheese english muffin sandwich afterward. To be honest, I've never had more energy in my life. Actually, only one alarm was good enough this morning and in fact I did go right into the pushups.

However, on the former. Well, tonight we had Chicken Alfredo with an Italian Garganega.

The Chicken Alfredo was a basic recipe we searched for on All Recipes. I know, eventually we'll begin to stop using pairing tools to make such meals, but that is how we did it. We already had this Garganega in mind, and that is how it goes.

Firstly, the meal was alright, nothing special. When I feel audacious enough to make it again, I'll use half & half instead of heavy cream, more seasonings like parsley (oh parsley how avant gaurde.)

However, I use very few introductory statements.

However, It excelled at buffetting and calming how utterly dry and tart the wine was.

Giordano Garganega/Pinot Grigio 2006 80% Garganega 20% Pinot Grigio.

• Color: Awesome. Golden and deep.
• Nose: TART mix of Grapefruit and Pinapple with a bit of cat pee and copper.
• Taste: DRY!!!! but delightful. Like somepeople, obnoxious but no one minds. At least for awhile.

The Meal in total complimented wonderfully. The chicken alfredo was able to keep the wine calm enough to allow your palette to get used to it's obnoxiousness until after you had already finished the meal and half a bottle was left. The meal was able to prepare you for this AWESOME blend.

Over all though, it wasn't fabulous, but it was delightful. I'd say the wine was an 89.