Sept 28, a snack. Peach. Very nice.
Sept 28, lunch. A Carne Asada burrito from Nico's with double extra hot sauce. With Jan and Jerry on the patio.
Sept 28, dinner. At Barbara and Don's, a steak (I cooked 'em), potatoes with cheese sauce, and green beans. All pretty good for a Sunday dinner. With the whole family gang (Jan, Don/Barbara, Janet, and Dale)
Sept 28, dessert. Peach pie and Moose Ice Cream. I don't know what Moose Ice Cream is. It has caramel and chocolate chips in it, but is mostly vanilla I think.
Sept 29, breakfast. The usual.
Sept 29, snack. Two dried figs. Not the same as the wonderful fresh fichi we had a few weeks back in Italy. Sigh.
Sept 29, lunch. Big bowl of Pho at Pho 88 (#52).
Sept 29, lunch. Things you put on your Pho. Sprouts, fresh Thai basil, chiles, and limes. Yum!
Sept 29, dinner. Salad. Sausage, stuff. Good. At home with Jan.
Sept 30, breakfast. The usual.
Sept 30, lunch. Salad Nicoise. Tuna, potatoes, green beans, nicoise olives. But no hard boiled egg. And a really really garlicky (is that an adjective?) dressing that Jan made. Yum.
Sept 30, snack. A mentos. I guess there is no singular versus plural of "mentos." Or maybe there is. I have no idea what "chewy dragees" means.
Sept 30, snack. A peach.
Sept 30, dinner. An appetizer of a very dry martini and three olives. At Sullivans in Tucson with Jan, Face, Christine.
Sept 30, dinner. Some bread at Sullivans.
Sept 30, dinner. Another appetizer of steak tartare. I have never seen a portion this big. I ordered this for myself, but we split it 4 ways!!! It was quite well done. The capers, however, were too large. How to stack them all up? Can't. So needed to be re-sized and less roll-around-the-table products. Some people (chefs) just don't think very much before they put crap on your plate. At Sullivans in Tucson with Jan, Face, Christine.
Sept 30, dinner. My entree, lamb chops. A huge pile of mint jelly. Again, someone just isn't thinking when they make these things up. All this elegance, and a $0.79 dish with a pile of mint jelly out of a jar. Sigh.
Sept 30, dinner. A side dish at Sullivans, shared with the table. Potatoes au Gratin.
Sept 30, dinner. Another side dish: asparagus with hollandaise sauce.
Sept 30, dessert. Some sorbet.
Oct 1, breakfast. I made Jan a durian lassi and had the last bite of dried durian. A pale imitation of fresh, but still very good.
Oct 1, breakfast. The usual.
Oct 1, lunch. Nico's Carnitas Plate (#12). Price went up. But still good at $8.99. Shared with Jan.
Oct 1, dinner. A Starbucks Frappuccino. Lordy. In Atlanta airport somewhere.
Oct 2, breakfast. Cup of weak bad coffee at Chapel Hill Sheraton. Bah.
Oct 2, lunch. Miscellaneous deli plate. This was actually a way above standard deli plate; lots of interesting cheeses and the grilled vegetables, plus the meats weren't bought in bulk by the hundred-weight. But the hotel screwed it up by FREEZING the cheese so you couldn't taste it or get it apart off the serving plate. Sigh. So close, yet so very, very far.
Oct 2, dinner. Burger and fries in Atlanta airport. At Checkers, certainly not the worst burger. But close.
Oct 3, breakfast. The usual.
Oct 3, lunch. At Sauce in Tucson. A porcini mushroom and arugula pizza. Not bad, actually, not bad at all. Good crust. The arugula probably should have been sauteed or something, though.
Oct 3, snack. A very nice Asian pear from Food City. Not $3.99 each, but $0.50 each. And tasty!