Got home at late thirty again tonight but was wound up from staring at a computer all day so late night run it was.  We took the two crazed hyenas on about a 3 miler through a hilly neighborhood.  After a tough level 3 Jillian workout last night my thighs were en fuego going up the hills.  Reminded me of this one time I played with matches.  Anyways, let me tell you what I had to eat today because it was awesome.  I started off MLK Day at work with a banana and some apple cinnamon tea.  When I couldn’t take it no mo, I left the office to go to Central Market to make my own salad for lunch.  Unfortunately, I took the long way around the store and ended up with $40 worth of impulse buys (WTF is wrong with me?  I bought beer chips and I don’t even like beer.  CHIPS MADE WITH BEER.  THAT’S A NO SARA).

I NEEDED these. Or so I thought for a split second.

I Made a Mezza on My Desk.

The Signature Salad bar is $7.50/lb and it is so worth it.  They have just about all the goodies you can think of putting on a salad and I’m not talking about goldfish and jello.  Pictured above you’ll see I went with romaine mix covered with couscous, cucumbers, roasted bell peppers, hummus, tofu, tabbouleh, a dolma, 2 pita pieces, edamame and a side of balsamic vinaigrette for dipping.  It was INCREDIBLE.  Know what was not incredible?  Dinner.  It’s really difficult for me to write this considering Haiti just had an earthquake and there are people with no food, no running water, no clothes and no unlimited texting.  Here I am writing a food blog about to bash the free meal I got for dinner.  For that I apologize, but the show must go on.  For the next few months we have meals catered in due to the fact that we work redonkulous hours during tax season.  Tonight we had meatloaf, corn, green beans, mashed potatoes, rolls and salad.  Here’s my plate:

Yes, those are different colored green beans. Normal.

Coincidentally that is the before and after pic because I couldn’t choke down but one sample bite of each.  Needless to say I had the rest of my salad from lunch for dinner.

How was my weekend?  Hey thanks for asking!  It was pretty ballin.  Friday night we hit up Sushi Masu and Hibatchi for a little hot griddle action.  I had the scallops and my hot date ordered the filet mignon.  Apparently it was reward night because I certainly forgot my wallet.

Sushi Masu? More like Sushi Mushy.

I gots flava. Their miso soup don't.

Bonus salad with ginger sauce. It was aight. Nothing fancy. Like the Cowboys.

Crazy onion choo choo on fire trick! Never seen that one before! I suppose they're gonna retire this one too along with Conan.

Sometimes it’s better if you don’t see how things are cooked in front of you, especially if you are trying to eat healthier.  When I saw the chef adding butter to the scallops and vegetables and dousing everything with salt I kind of lost interest.  I like my scallops cooked simply with lemon and pepper so the buttered method was whack.  Jason thoroughly enjoyed the filet mignon though.  The vegetables were another disappointment because they were cooked too long.  I think the chef was too busy trying to make sure he used all of his ketchup bottle and knife juggling tricks during his “act” that he left the food on too long.  I don’t blame him.  Sometimes I drive to work only to realize I have gone past work and must u-turn.

Saturday morning I woke up feeling like J-Woww and was ready to conquer the day with Sleep, Tan and Clubbing.  Only in Dallas that equates to Running, Costco and Mystery Dinner Theater.  I whipped up an unbelievable bowl of simple oatmeal.

The H is for Hungry, fella?

Instant oats, greek yogurt, dab of maple peanut butter then topped with a small chopped honeycrisp apple.  This was the absolute perfect meal before I set off on a 5.5 mile run with Enzo Monster and Riley Bears.  It was finally warm again on Saturday and the weather was ideal for a nice run.  Also ideal for ring and runs but that’s another story.  After my run we hit up Costco to pick up 2,000 lbs of dog food.  I heart Costco so much.  Guess what I saw a lady carrying out?  A HUGE box of Skinny Cow ice cream sandwiches!  It was like I died and went to lactose intolerant heaven!  Between that and the huge jugs of pomegranate juice, what more do you want from your ginormous grocery store?

Saturday night we went out with Jason’s boss and his wife and their friends to a mystery dinner theater party.  I had no idea what it would be like even after looking at the website but it turned out to be pretty fun.  I wish I knew then what I know now (obvi) because I would have asked a lot more people about their relationship history rather than what kind of underwear they had on.  Huh?  Let me explain.  When you first walk in they tell you the mystery has already begun so you grab your “Suspect” nametags and read an instruction sheet full of questions intended for the other party goers.  This event takes place in the Old Mill Inn Restaurant at Fair Park and the meet and greet introduction is done in the saloon downstairs.  It is open bar with a fruit/cheese platter set up as well.  They have actors mixed in with the group and you are supposed to try to find out as much as you can about these people and take notes.  One of the questions on the sheet was “What kind of underwear are you wearing?” so of course that’s all I asked all night.  People were like “Do you have a lot of money?” and I’m like, “Let’s be honest here.  What kind of underwear do you have on?”  After the meet and greet we all go upstairs for the three course din din.  WHICH INCLUDED CHICKEN IN A BISCUIT.  You heard me.  Chicken.  In a ferkin biscuit.  So weird.  Who would have thought?  I’m actually going to start making everything in a biscuit.  Or a pancake.  I mean seriously I would eat more vegetables if they were served inside a pancake.

The winning table. I sat there. Whit cheated off our sheet. He won.

Salmon, wild rice, asparagus, red bell pepper, OMG CHICKEN IN A MFA BISCUIT

Chocolate cream pie or some junk. Luby's?

Fake Stripper Money. Mystery dinner theater is dirtier than you think.

A clue! The shape is important. It's really a circle. Or is it? Remember sheep blood. And cow hats.

The Cop explaining "The Situation." It was more of "An Issue."

The winning couple who couldn't have done it without my astute observations. The only reason we didn't win is because I drew a pterodactyl on the answer sheet.

My nametag. Hello my name is "I'm a Suspect." And I'm wearing foil underwear.

I won’t tell you all the details of the dinner because I can’t ruin it.  This is the internet, people.  This blog could have 5 readers one day and 5 million the next.  When it gets to 5 million do you think we can have a party where we cook sh*t in a biscuit?  But srsly, if you can get a group together try out Keith and Margo’s Murder Mystery Theater.  Because let’s be serious, what else are you going to do in Dallas?  If your name is Ethan you’ll probably go dancing.  GOTEM.

Fast forward to Sunday.  We got fed up with Tony Romo and his spatula hands so we went for a walk through the Arbor Hills Nature Preserve.  I’ve been through some nature preserves before and this was not a nature preserve.  “Watch out for wildlife!”  Oooh ooooh I saw a kid wearing a tiger costume!  Do I win?  Even though the nature preserve was pretty lame, it was absolutely beautiful weather wise.  After running some errands we decided we had a craving for pho so we tried Pho Mac in Plano.  It wasn’t the greatest pho ever but it was cheap and it hit the spot.  We were super fungry so we also ordered a banh mi thit.  I said thit.

Pho Mac JAM PACKED WITH AWESOMENESS

Tofu Pho with bonus basil leaves, sprouts, jalapenos, lime and Sriracha Sauce. So simple, so pleasing to the palate. Amen.

We didn't just order pho because we're phat. Banh mi thit sandwich: pork, cilantro, shredded carrot, cucumber, awesome.

The sandwich was only $3!!  And the pho was $5.99!  The staff at Pho Mac was very friendly and the restaurant was clean and I would return pho sho.

That’s all she wrote kids.  Time to shower and hit the sack.  After I down this acai-blueberry-pomegranate Vitamin Water that I’m obsessed with.  Hollerz!

Fin Sushi and Sake Bar
6149 Windhaven Parkway #F Suite 140
Plano, TX 75093
972-473-0329

They already hung Christmas lights! How could you not go celebrate?

Fin staff yelling friendly Japanese jibberish at you when you walk in: check. Yelling indiscernible obscenities back at them because you don’t know what just happened: check. Loud pop music: check. Sushi chefs actually speaking Japanese: check. Mochi ice cream: check. THE MOST SURPRISING AMAZING TASTEBUD ADVENTURE SINCE MOVING NORTH OF 635: CHECK!

My friends, I would like to share my new favorite sushi restaurant with you: Fin Sushi & Sake Bar. Let me take you on my culinary dinner tour. We started off with edamame which came in a cute little bamboo basket that reminded me of the Sally Struthers Save the Children commercials.  My ONLY complaint about the meal was that the edamame was a wee too salty.  Oh well it will help me float.  Huh?

Who's your mommy? Edamame

Next up was the Ahi Tower.  Whoever invented this should get the Nobel Peace Prize.  Or at least be President.  Or have a Portuguese Water Dog named after them.  Our waiter went to great strides to make sure the ingredients were fully mashed together and formed into the shape of a heart, despite Jason’s desperate attempts to get him to do a Tyrannosaurus Rex.  He’s so romantic.  Fin’s Ahi Tower tasted a bit creamier than the Tower at Blue Fish or Sushi Masu but it was a good creamy.

Like a friggin Bob Ross palette

Crushed Dinosaur Dream

Let’s get to the best part.  They had FOB sushi.  And I mean that in every offensive way possible as long as you get the point.  Some of the freshest fish I’ve ever tasted.  We had the MFK roll, the Spider roll and the Hawaiian roll.  I typically wolf down sushi so fast that I completely miss the first and second trimesters of the sushi baby forming in my tummy.  However, the rolls at Fin were meant to be savored.  I took time to carefully dip into the wasabi (Japanese for guac) and then let my mouf try to guess the mystery ingredients.  The presentation of the sushi definitely got 5 points for plating.  I mean check the pics below…America’s got talent.  The Hawaiian roll even had a “rose” of sashimi salmon!  Morimoto made a frickin rose out of salmon!  What made the meal even better was that every time someone walked in we got to yell along with the staff to welcome them.  HEEEEEEEEEYYYYYY WAAAASSSSAAAABBBBBIIIIIIIII.  It was like having a surprise party for strangers!

MFK Roll. You know what it stands for

The spider roll says building webs is for suckas.

Hawaiian roll and a banana leaf in case you don't like sushi.

Sashimi rose is the new parsley.

This is the point when the waiter hands us our bill.  But we had a little surprise for him.  Still fungry!  Bring on the dessert menu.  Don’t mind if we do have tempura ice cream and an order of mango mochi ice cream.  What’s that?  The tempura is enough for two?  You must mistake us for weaklings.  We’ll have both.  GOOD MOVE.  See the Yogen Fruz post for a quick lesson on mochi.  Imagine mango ice cream wrapped in an albino sour patch kid with slices of strawberries to flavor punch you in the six pack you just acquired from eating like a champion.

No, not mocha, mochi. There is nothing chocolate about glutinous paste.

Vanilla Tempura Ice Cream with Chocolate Drizzle for Shizzle

Note: Fin is located in a shopping center on the northwest corner of Windhaven/Tollroad near the never popular wildly ballsy “Which Wants”.  The center is still under construction but don’t be alarmed.  Fin is open and ready to rock your world.

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