Stromboli Sans Pants

Just going to cut straight to the point on this one: I made stromboli without pants. 

Back in June, Mary hosted her sister's bridal shower, which segued into Mary hosting her sister's bachelorette party later that night, which then segued into Mary herding everyone back home from downtown Portland earlier than planned as the OLCC frowns upon people falling asleep in da clubs. But that's another story.

The next day was a recovery day, aka adult beverage marathon while watching Food Network shows we had DVR'd. One show, "The Best Thing I Ever Made", a creatively named spin off of the original show "The Best Thing I Ever Ate", is a recent favorite of ours. Chef Scott Conant is featured pretty regularly on the show and he happens to be one of our favorites mainly due to his impressively man-scaped beard. His featured dish was a stromboli - salami, cheese, basil and garlic rolled up in a simple pizza-like dough.

Aside from the the allure of the sandwich, what solidified this dish as one we would have to make immediately was that Chef Conant introduced his segment from his kitchen without wearing pants. Unanticipated sophomoric humor at its best. We were sold.

Luckily, I had some friends coming over for a birthday celebration, so I channeled my best Scott Conant, dropped trou, and rolled some stromboli. As much as they were all fans of the show, they were even bigger fans of the munchies.

To top it off, I even got the Scott Conant Pantsless Stromboli Seal of Approval.

Well played indeed.

--Isaac.