There used to be a nice salad that I would buy at Wendy’s that had a piece of grilled chicken on a bed of mixed greens and some mandarin oranges, sliced almonds and a special vinaigrette dressing.It was reasonably priced and I would try to order that at least once a month, as I don’t eat out at fast food places very often.
But last month I drove up to Wendy’s to order that for lunch and they didn’t have it any more. Now they have a selection of designer salads.
That upset me, as I really liked that salad and now there is nothing like it on the Wendy’s menu and not anywhere else that I can find, not even a full service sit down restaurant.
I spent well over an hour cleaning out my refrigerator this morning. A jar of pickles managed to tip over some time ago and has been leaking, the trickle down effect, big time. So I started just trying to clean up that mess and ended up cleaning the whole darn thing. Don’t get me wrong, it was in need of a full pledged cleaning, it’s just that first thing on a Sunday morning it’s the perfect time for me to tackle something like that.
Today was A’s last day at work at our store. He’s a nice young man that was a shift supervisor. He’s going back to college, and he’s taking a week’s vacation before starting school. Today was “truck day” so we could not take the time to do a proper good-bye celebratory lunch or dinner. When I arrived at work this afternoon I asked the store manager if we were going to have any kind of luncheon for A and he said no, we were too busy with the truck and we’d just have to say a quick good-bye.
Well, I’m the last one to take a lunch/dinner break, so during my break I went to Domino’s Pizza across the street and bought four pizzas and brought them back to the store. I offered pizza to everyone there, declaring it was my treat in honor of A’s last day. I just couldn’t see letting him go off to college feeling unappreciated by the crew at the store! One of the young ladies that works there DID bring in a couple of cakes, and we all signed a good-bye card. I also gave him a duct tape wallet that I made as a good-bye gift. He’s a sweetie-pie and I’m going to miss his smiling face at work! I wish him the best of luck and hope he stays in touch.
I was looking at funny commercials on YouTube and found this funny ice cream commercial. I like ice cream, too, but I don’t think I like it quite this much!
Sometimes I get in the mood for a good healthy salad. A good bountiful salad can make for a great meal. Right now people’s gardens are producing and folks are giving away produce like crazy, which is awesome for folks like me that don’t have a garden but enjoy the harvesting of others.
I like the spray salad dressing that they have available. You can really control the amount of the dressing this way. There is nothing worse that putting way too much dressing on your salad and then it becomes a soggy mess. A nice find spray is perfect!
Just a reminder to clip those Box Tops For Education labels from the numerous food and personal hygiene products that are gracious enough to donate money to our school systems. All of our schools are in need of funding and this is a quick and easy way for everyone to help bring in some case for our kids.
There are many shows that my family likes to watch but one that we never miss and actually make a family event of is the Food Network’s Chopped. This is one of the most creative and challenging shows to come onto direct TV in a very long time. What, aside from the challenge of the competitions, is so unique about this show?
For my family the biggest draw of this show is the challenge of trying to come up with something uniquely delicious that will satisfy the panel of three expert culinary judges. The catch to the challenge is the mystery basket of ingredients that each chef is given. The mystery basket doesn’t contain your ordinary, run of the mill ingredients, it contains unusual items such as ostrich eggs and kiwis. The chefs have 30 minutes to come up with three courses with the ingredients off the top of their heads, and to make them delicious to the judges.
The shows name is derived from the show’s theme that after each course the contestant who didn’t quite measure up in the opinions of the judges is eliminated or “Chopped”, from the competition. One aspect that entertains my family so thorougly is that we like to try and come up with dishes from the basket of unusual ingredients as well as trying to predict the winner.
There is a pizza parlor right across the street from our pharmacy, and today we decided to order pizza for lunch and have it delivered. That is a treat for us – we only get 30 minute lunch breaks, and when we order pizza in we are allowed to eat the pizza at any time and still take a 30 minute break too.
The four of us split three pizzas, and there was a lot left over, so we put the leftovers in the refrigerator and will have pizza again tomorrow! I like it when we do that – when I bring pizza home there usually aren’t any leftovers for me to eat the next day!
A couple of nights ago I decided that I’d be nice and pick up a couple of Pizza Hut pizzas on my way home from work for my family to eat. I knew that everyone had a busy day and figured that no one would have the energy to cook, so I called Pizza Hut about thirty minutes before I had to come home and ordered two pizzas. Their $10 special that I was hoping to use had expired, so I ended up buying differently than I had planned on. One of the pizzas that I ordered was a thin crust pizza. I ordered that for my sister. Well, I tried a pice of that myself, and I have to say it was really nasty! Give me my pan pizza any day of the week!
Have you ever dreamed of having the perfect fantasy kitchen? I do, all of the time! I’d love to have custom made cabinets with customized kitchen spice racks in it. I love the spice racks that hide inside cabinets that swing out to give up the goodies that are hiding deep inside. I think that they are just about the most clever spice rack ever designed!
In my current kitchen, there are cabinets on all of the walls so there is no way that I could have a wall spice rack in my kitchen; I’d have to go with the kind that mount on pantry doors or hide inside drawers. Right now I have a lazy susan inside my pantry that holds most of my spices. I hate to admit that it is overflowing a little bit.
In my fantasy kitchen, I’d have at least three times the room size, and two food prep areas. I’d have hanging pot racks and a double oven in a wall. I’d have two kitchen sinks, and one of those microwave ovens that keep your food refrigerated until it is time to cook it, and then automatically cooks it. If I had one of those, I’d think I’d died and gone to heaven!
I have been drinking Lipton Tea since I can remember. A cup of hot tea in the morning, iced tea all day long and a second cup of it hot after dinner. I’ve tried other brands but none of them even come close. I don’t care that Lipton is a few more cents more, it’s worth every penny.
I was delighted when I went grocery shopping yesterday to find a package of Tony Roma brand barbecued short ribs in the refrigerator section of the grocery store! I can remember a few years ago my hubby and I went on a vacation to DisneyWorld and we rented a condo near the resort. Two nights we went to eat dinner at a nearby Tony Roma restaurant. We had never eaten at a Tony Roma restaurant before, but we had heard that they had the best ribs in the world, so we decided to go try them out for ourselves. Well, we liked them so much we returned for a second time a couple of days later. So I was thrilled to find their ribs in the grocery store and I picked up a package. I hope to serve them for dinner this weekend! I’ll let you know how I like them!
My family and I decided to go to a local family restaurant for dinner last night. We decided to visit Cracker Barrel because we all enjoy their food. We left the house around 7:00 p.m., but since I’d just read a book about Home safety tips, I had to return from the car to set the home security alarm, we actually left a few minutes later. The restaurant is about 20 minutes from my home.
Once we arrived there was a slight wait of about half an hour. Once we were seated we were unable to get a booth like we had hoped, but were fins at the table. The kids played with the fun little games as I ordered our food. I went with the pork chops with 2 vegetables. I chose macaroni and cheese and mashed potatoes. They are the best at Cracker Barrel! Each of my sons ordered cheeseburger and fry kids meals with Sprites to drink. Even though they ordered burgers, we all enjoyed the biscuits and cornbread the waitress brought with our drinks.
Our waitress was very friendly and attentive to our needs. And, as she was suppose to do, offered dessert at the end of our meal. Our glasses were never empty and she had a bright, warm smile that made us feel welcome. The food was delicious as always, but I should learn to save room for the dessert!
Our evening at Cracker Barrel was great. Good food and good service goes a long way in my book! We can’t wait till our next visit!
Today my oldest son decided to treat me to dinner at a favorite Chinese Restaurant, after treating me to see the new Ironman 2 movie. It was really nice; this is probably the very first time he’s taken me out for Mother’s Day and completely treated me with his very own hard earned money. The movie was good, the food was good, too. We were quite surprised that the restaurant was not crowded at all! Unfortunately we sat near a family where one of the kids was extremely noisy, which was annoying, but for all intents and purposes we enjoyed ourselves immensely. I hope we have more Mother’s Days like that in the future!
Saturday night is going out night! Tonight my group of friends and I are going out to dinner and then to a local night club, hoping to do some dancing. Planning on going to a Japanese Steak house restaurant – we really enjoy watching the show of the chef juggling the food and the knives. Very entertaining! We are hoping to meet up with some guy friends at the night club later and maybe dance a few sets with them before we call it a night. I can’t stay out too late tonight, I have to work today AND I have to work tomorrow so I have to be careful not to over-do it and get too tired or I won’t be worth a hoot at work!
We have a customer that calls our pharmacy every day as soon as it opens. She talks to one of us for at least thirty minutes. She is a very nice lady, but her timing is really bad! When the pharmacy first opens it is slammed with customers wanting to pick up the prescriptions that they called in for refills overnight. No one worked overnight, so the opening crew needs to hustle and fill them all as soon as possible.
Well, today we received a huge gift basket full of fruit, crackers, cake and snack foods delivered to us. The card said it was from the lady who calls us every morning, thank us for our patience! Wasn’t that nice of her! I think accepting it is a violation of the company’s policies, but I’m not the one the basket was addressed to, and I’m not the one who accepted it, so I won’t get in trouble. It would be interesting to see if anyone DOES get in trouble for it!
Much to my surprise, I have today off of work! My friends who live a few towns away have invited me to come out to their place for a noon time Memorial Day Barbeque, so I’ll be leaving in a short while to head out. I asked them if I could bring anything and they said no, just to come.
I’m looking forward to grilled steaks, potato salad, devilled eggs and corn on the cob! Yummy!
Today is my 8th wedding anniversary! Happy anniversary “M!” I had to work all day today, so didn’t have time to go out and do something special, we’ll have to catch up on that soon. I’d like to try to eat dinner at a Restaurant called Ben & Mary’s Steakhouse out on RT 17. I’ve heard that they have good steak, and I’ve been wanting to give them a try ever since we moved here.
I must be hungry, I’ve got food on my mind today! Our family LOVES mashed potatoes. I HATE to peel potatoes! In fact, I have carpal tunnel syndrome, and peeling veggies aggravates it, and ten minutes of peeling turns into three weeks of agony, so I just don’t do it anymore. Well, no one else in the family would DREAM of peeling veggies, so when we have mashed potatoes we resort to the “instant” boxed flakes (which isn’t too terrible) but recently we discovered the Bob Evans brand of ready-to-heat-and-eat mashed potatoes in a tub. They are FANTASTIC! They are reasonably priced, and one tub feeds three people with decent portions.
