Friday Feast

For lunch on Friday, I ate at the movie theater before watching Prometheus. I went with my usual of a corn dog and a frozen coke. The corn dog was about as cooked as you could get before hitting over cooked. It wasn't bad, but it was a hair past really good. The breading was well done and the dog was just past pleasantly tough. I don't want it to sound like it was bad, but I think I've been a bit lax on my descriptions in the last few posts. This was a good corn dog, just not as good as they have been in the past. The frozen coke was very good, however. A nice mix, not too icy and not too syrupy.

For dinner, my sister wanted to go to Cracker Barrel, so that's where we went. I went with my usual, CFC. But, as you'll see in the picture, I hit up the corn instead of the dumplings.

I'd love to say I was trying to be healthier, but that'd be a lie. They were out of dumplings.

I KNOW, Tab. Travesty of the highest order.

My okra was very good, not the best I've had there, but better than usual. Meaning it was fairly crunchy, and not too ... gooey inside. I personally love my okra very crunchy, so this was a plus. The corn was nice and buttery, very plump kernels. Juicy and pleasantly salty. The mashed potatoes were really good for the old Crack House. I prefer mine more creamed than mashed, and they usually go more mashed than creamed. The gravy was good. The chicken itself was very flavorful and juicy, the breading not too thick or overcooked. The biscuits were good. A nice thickness and held the butter well.

Chicken and Salads

For lunch on Wednesday, I went with another salad. After the positive experience with the spinach on Sunday, I added them to the mix in this one. It was their generic salad mix, some spinach mix, eggs, chicken, ham, bacon bits and a drizzling of Italian dressing:

I hope it looks healthier than the last one did, it certainly tasted it.

For dinner that night, I had no idea what to have. So, I went with chicken tenders (not nuggets) and fries:

Burger time

I think I'm about burgered out. On Tuesday, the cafeteria didn't have anything that floated my boat, so I went with 5 Guys for dinner that night. Here's my usual bacon burger and fries from them (double bacon burger to most other places):

As usual, the burger and fries were outstanding.

The trip home

On the trip home, I only stopped to fill the car up. On the first mid trip fill up, it was lunch time, so I hit up old McD's and got some chicken nuggets and fries. No pic of them, as I ate them on the way. The nuggets were really good, and the fries, while tasty and fresh, weren't salted near enough for my taste. Which is probably a good thing for my health.

While we were out Saturday getting stuff for the party, Furey, Ike and I stopped to get the crab for the boil. The crab place also had scallops. I love scallops and have never cooked them, so I bought a couple pound of them. I left them in the freezer while I was there, and got one of those cheap Styrofoam coolers and a bag of ice to keep them frozen on the way home. It worked better than I had hoped, the ice was still mostly there after the 12 hr drive and the scallops were still mostly frozen.

I took the ones that had thawed out and ended up sauteing them as my searing of them didn't work out like I wanted. I prepared them in an olive oil, butter and garlic powdered concoction. As I didn't have any good veggies handy (did this after getting home and didn't feel like stopping to get any or going back out), I went with the instant potatoes (garliced them up too) and some biscuits:

They came out fairly well. Or very well, if you account for a first attempt ever.

The day after

For breakfast, we hit up the local Cracker Barrel. I went with the "Country Fried Breakfast" which in my case was the chicken fried chicken (big surprise), scrambled eggs, and biscuits and gravy. And I forgot to take a picture of it.

After that, the gang broke up and most headed back home. I hung out with Tab, Furey and their kids as I was heading back on Monday (12 hr drive wasn't happening after the day had started). So, we hung out in the pool for most of the afternoon.

For dinner, we had some hamburgers, corn, and finished off the crab that had been leftover from the party:

Yep, look at that, I tried to healthy up my usual fare. Went with corn for the side dish and tossed a couple of leaves of spinach on there. It was pretty tasty, and the spinach added a nice texture without being too bitter (last few times I've tried spinach on salads or such it had been really bitter).

And there were 3 blue crabs left over (yes, they really had a blue hue pre cooking) and a couple of clumps of snow crab legs, so we dealt with them. And they were tasty.

And for dessert? Key Lime Pie:

Very tasty, sweet with a little bite of tart.

Party Time!

My friends in Florida, Tab and Furey, were throwing a big "trailer trash" themed crab & shrimp boil party. So, for breakfast, I made (by request) some pigs in a blanket:

I was fairly hungry as all I'd had the day before was that Whataburger, so you can see that I forgot to take a pic before digging in. That pan was FULL of them.

As for the party, I did a pork loin, there was the crab and shrimp boil, a B L T salad, some bean dips, meat trays, chips, cheesy poofs and I don't know what all else:

I wasn't very happy with my tenderloin, but the crab and shrimp was excellent as was everything else I tried (some of the meats off the tray and all the chips).

What? A burger?

Over the past weekend, I went down to Ormond Beach (just north of Daytona Beach, FL) to visit some friends. Friday was my drive day down there. I stopped off in Alabama to have something we don't get too often, as they don't have a franchise in my neck of the woods, Whataburger:

I went with the double burger, ketchup only and regular fries and a Coke. Burger was outstanding, as usual, and their fries were really good too. I still prefer McD's skinny fries over theirs, but W's is probably second on the skinny fry list.

The Old Switcheroo

For lunch, I hit up the old Crack House (Cracker Barrel), and went with my usual, the Chicken Fried Chicken, mashed potatoes with gravy (white on both), fried okra and dumplings.

The food was very good, I ate almost every bit of it. I only hate half of one of the biscuits though.

For dinner, I had the other half of that flat iron steak to get rid of, so I fried it up, and added some scrambled eggs, for the old breakfast of Steak and Eggs. First time I've ever actually gone with that meal:

It was outstanding. I put most of that praise on the steak. It had the same seasoning as the other half, only they'd been sitting in a ziplock bag for a few days. It was stupidly tender,so much so that I made steak and egg biscuits out of those and had no problem eating them. Flavor was top notch as was the tenderness.

Fried Rice again

Fried rice attempt again. This time, I baked a chicken breast (it was EXCELLENT, I almost hated to cut it up and toss it in there) and had my roommate work on the rice with the rice cooker. Once that was done, I tossed it into a frying pan and fried it up with an egg, some butter, garlic powder and soy sauce, and the cut up chicken breast:

I'm not sure if I over fried part of the rice, or if I didn't let it sit in the cooker long enough after the cook light went off, but I had some overly crunchy rice again. But, I got the flavorings so right between the chicken, soy sauce and seasonings, I ate it all anyway.

Carnivore Day

Today was a meat day. I decided to finally try the cafeteria's wrap table out, and had them create me a custom wrap. It was going to be basically a club, minus the veggies, but they were out of bacon. So it was a ham and turkey wrap. They offered to toss it on the panini press, and hating cold food, I said "Please do." 

Unfortunately, I was apparently the first person to get a wrap on the press that day, and it wasn't greased up very well, so it tore the wrap pretty well. I told the lady not to worry about it, it was still perfectly edible. The ham was very sweet, or maybe it was the turkey, I don't remember which off hand now. The homemade chips were very bland. I'll just get a bag of regular chips next time.

For dinner, Jody decided to get some Garibaldi's delivered and I joined in on that. I went with my usual from them, the 10" meat lover's:

It took forever to get delivered, but it was tasty all the same.