To break up some of the television posts, and my daily following of the Conan Tragedy, let's focus on food for a bit. Some odds and ends bouncing around in my head on the subject, since I'm not motivated enough to sign up for a Yelp account.- I'm surprised at how decent the food at Applebee's has gotten. My first experience with the popular chain was about five or six years ago, when a friend brought me there and insisted that I try the riblets (the mini-bone-in meat they had). I did, and I was not impressed, since it was more bone than meat for the most part. The other portions of my meal, which I believe was a simple fries and chicken fingers basket, also disappointed.
Now though, they actually have a couple decent burgers. Their two for $20 deal is also quite splendid - Two entrees and an appetizer for $20. Yeah, it's not gourmet food, but it is a good amount for when you don't feel like cooking. Today I tried one of their under-550 calorie meal, some sort of peppercorn and cheese steak with mixed vegetables, and that was surprisingly edible as well. Again, it wasn't anything that would compare to a good steak house or anything, but it was serviceable for the $10 I paid for it.
- On the other end of the spectrum, I had this pretty delicious dessert the other night from a place in Dudley called Eighty Ates. You can check out their dessert menu here; I had the Irish Cream Mousse Cake. It tasted so smooth that it didn't really taste like anything at all, if that makes sense. Also, it was friggin' delicious.The closest approximation I could find on Google Images was the slice on the right, and even that doesn't come close to really giving a proper display of my dessert's decadence. While I was eating it, I didn't think it was anything super-special, but as I've had a bit of time to ruminate on it, well, it really was splendid.
- And finally, does anyone have weekly food rituals? Mine is a bit odd, at least in my opinion for a 25-year-old dude. Every week, when I get my paycheck, I like to go out that night and get some Coldstone. The odd part is that it is normally after covering a meeting or something for work, so it is 8 p.m. and nobody is there. I imagine that the worker thinks I'm some mysterious or creepy loner who oddly ventures out to Coldstone by himself for ice cream.
I'm still trying to find my favorite Coldstone combination though; I've only been about six times to the place. I like the strawberries themselves, but some of the other fruits like raspberries and blueberries are too pulp-y to me. So far, my favorite signature combination is Cheesecake Fantasy minus the blueberries, which you can see to the left. For the full list of their signature creations, check out here.The Irish cream cheesecake picture is from here, which I would now like to visit the next time I'm in Nashville. The food porn image is from here.
I don't really have food rituals anymore but we had a couple at my parents house growing up.
ReplyDelete1. Fridays were "pizza & soda night." besides that night, we weren't allowed to have soda with dinner. it was also the only time we were alloweed to burp at the table without getting reprimanded.
2. Nightly snack. As long as I can remember around 8pm or later it was snack time. Anything we wanted, chips, soda, whatever. And I mean, we literally did this every night. Not always together, we could be in different rooms watching tv or whatever. If we're all watching a movie together though, we'll either all get our snacks before we start the movie or pause it at some point so we can all get snacks.
I don't do that living on my own. I usually just have dinner and I'm good. But even now, when I go home to visit, I'll end up having a snack at night. I won't even be hungry and my mom will be like "going downstairs to get sodas, you want one?" and then I'm drinking a soda and eating doritos.
Heyyyy Danielle!
ReplyDelete1) We had the same night at my house! We would always get the pizza from a local place, K&S. To this day, the guy there still remembers me, which is kind of cool.
2) Awww, that sweet :) I was allowed a snack - at most six cookies - after school. Your mom is so cute! I can totally picture her doing that.
haha neither of my parents were home after school, so we could pretty much have whatever we wanted after school. For a few years my after school consisted of a bowl of cereal w.Tiny Toon Adventures or Boy Meets World followed by TRL.
ReplyDeleteCereal??? That's not even bad for you! I always thought Tiny Toon Adventures was a little overrated, excluding the musical episodes, but I loved Boy Meets World. They don't really make shows like that anymore, as the little I've caught of Hannah Montana and other shows are supremely self-aware that they're shows. Yes, even kid's shows are hipster now...
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