Chrissy Teigen, the supermodel that Twitter both needs and deserves, is fond of food. She loves fast food, slow food, and everything in between, including a strange thing she does with Doritos in which she licks all the flavor dust off the chips — like some kind of snack food Bunnicula — and then returns the depleted corn crisps back into the bag. (How did this tidbit not make it into “All Of Me”?) Ready for another interesting “things Chrissy Teigen eats” factoid? She has the same dinner every day. And it’s cooked by her mom. Her mom!
Last month, the queen of the clapback gave Refinery 29 an interview in which she described exactly what she eats every night and how she has to force her poor, beleaguered mother (who, let’s be honest, is probably living her best life living with Teigen and Legend and all of us would switch places with her yesterday) to finely mince garlic and cook up a branzino for her.
She said, “I have one whole fish every night, covered in garlic and olive oil, stuffed with lemons and rosemary. And I eat it every single night. So I go, ‘Mom! Guess what time it is?’ And she gets all sad and she goes: ‘Fish timeeee.’ Cuz she knows she has to finely mince the garlic, which takes forever.”
Once again, this tidbit endeared all of us to Teigen and made us wonder if fish timeeee was actually as awesome as it sounds, although we have it on good authority that branzino is delicious; here’s a nice easy recipe which includes the phrase “season each fish cavity” if you’d like to try. And Teigen, not a stranger to giving the world answers at a time when it needs them most, happily obliged, posting a video of her dinner to Twitter yesterday.
https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/862156970773446656
As usual, fans quickly flocked to like and retweet the video, but one person was a little concerned, asking if Teigen could really eat so much baked fish. So Teigen, as she sometimes does, decided to drop a response:
https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/862154838280294400
She’s got the right idea. Branzino is one of the safest and healthiest fish to eat due to its high protein content, omega-3 fatty acids, and abundance of selenium (which is an antioxidant, and as the commercials tell us, antioxidants will keep us young forever).
So now you know. You want to eat good, keep your body, and have an enjoyable dinner every night? Eat a whole branzino. Maybe two. But they’ve got to be cooked by Chrissy Teigen’s mom. Or, you know, a mom. So call yours up. Mother’s day is coming and this would be a good opportunity to get into unnecessary conversations with the woman who raised you about whether you’re getting a promotion, getting married, or finally ready to have kids.
