Pork Monday

Lunch Monday, I went with the cafeteria's pork tenderloin. I had them douse it in their gravy, and added some mashed potatoes with gravy, creamed corn, and a roll.

The loin was pretty good, but as usual, not a lot of flavor. Nice and tender and juicy though. The gravy helped with the lack of flavor problem. The potatoes were ok, but the corn was horrible. There's 2 predominant ways to do creamed corn, and I'd go so far as to say in my neck of the woods, it's about an 90/10 split on which of these gets done. You can either do it sweet (90) or salty (10). If you can't tell by the split numbers I've assigned, there is a preferred way. The cafeteria went with the salty route and it wasn't good.

For dinner, I went with baked pork chops and zucchini.

I've gotten pretty adept at cooking this, so the chops were very juicy, great flavor and tender. The zucchini was pretty good too.

The beginning of a decline

For Father's Day, I had planned on taking Dad (and the family) out for dinner. Dad didn't feel like going out, so it's been postponed. As a late lunch/snack that afternoon, I went with some chicken flavored ramen:

It's chicken ramen. It was tasty, for chicken ramen.

Since dinner was a wash, I debated with myself on what to eat on the way home. It ended up being Captain Grease D's. I went with the 3 piece fish dinner, corn on the cob and fries.

The fries were freshly cooked for me, the fish wasn't, but it didn't taste like it had been sitting out for too long. The corn was nice and juicy, the fish was tasty, not quite as salty as I would've liked. But that's probably for the best.

Asian Buffet

Saturday was spent playing on the computer and doing laundry. As such, I didn't realize how late it had gotten. Why's this important? Cause I ate one meal that day. Went to the Asian buffet. Started off with some sushi, I think it was a crunchy shrimp roll, which I forgot to take a picture of. I also had a cup of egg drop soup and some of the mongolian grill:

They only had a broccoli bin (yuck), mushrooms (double yuck) and some shredded carrots/onions/and green things, which made it in. They joined the noodles, some shrimp, chicken, beef and an egg. It was pretty good, nothing great.

Finished the evening off with a hot fudge shake from Sonic (the Dip was stupidly packed).

Friday Food

For lunch, I had the leftover pork chop and corn from Wednesday night:

The pork chop was plenty juicy, as I kept it stored in the excess from the baking, and reheated it in that same juice. The corn was fine too.

For dinner, I had a Red Baron Meat Trio pan pizza. As far as higher end frozen pizzas go, this one is my favorite.

They have some kind of seasoning they use with the cheese and the crust has a great flavor, thickness and texture. The toppings are usually plentiful and always tasty.

Big food Thursday

For lunch on Thursday, I had some of my leftover chicken noodle soup, and the cafeteria was doing chicken fried rice, so I grabbed one of their great egg rolls

The egg roll was plenty meaty, as I got a shot to show. The soup had thickened up so much, I only had a portion in the cup, and had to add some hot water from the fountain and nuke it to make it back into a soup as opposed to more of a casserole consistency.

For dinner, Jesse and I hit up the Longhorn steakhouse. I went with a salad, and their Shrimp Scampi Filet.

I forgot to get a pic before working on the salad. It was much fuller than that beforehand, I assure you. Oh and it had Italian dressing. I've been trying to branch out from my usual honey mustard dressing I get on them. I didn't finish it, as my lunch was very filling and I wanted to be sure I could eat all of the steak.

I did manage to remember to get a pic of the steak before I ate it, however not before I ate the three big shrimp that were on top of it. It was very good, nice and tender, good seasoning and the shrimp and other stuffing was a nice compliment. The baked potato was cooked well, but their salt shaker didn't want to dispense the salt out of it, so the potato suffered from that.

It evens out, right?

For lunch, the cafeteria had their superb country fried steak. I was rather hungry, so I went with 2 sides, both potatoes and gravy (the other sides were stuff that I don't like, and I can't remember which ones).

The steak was good, as usual, but I'm going to have to get them to start putting some gravy on both sides. The crust is a little tougher than plastic knife is good for, and I'm afraid that I'm going to end up going through the foam container. Crust is great, otherwise, it's actually not too thick or crunchy, it's just the interaction with the container. The potatoes were ok, not very well seasoned, but not bereft of it as they usually are.

For dinner, I tried to even out the heart attack of a lunch with a baked pork chop, roasted zucchini and some corn:

The pork chop was very good. I went with my usual mix of salt, pepper, garlic powder and a little bit of onion powder this time. The zucchini had the same, but instead of onion powder I added some butter as it was almost done. The corn just had some salt and butter.

Wrap and a bird

For lunch today, I tried another turkey, ham and bacon wrap from the cafeteria:

As you can see, this time it didn't stick to the paninni press (and they had bacon). It was ok, not too great.

For dinner, I had a chicken soup craving, so I baked 3 chicken breasts, seasoned with salt, pepper and garlic salt. Once they were done cooking, I cut two up and tossed them in a pot with a bunch of chicken broth, got it boiling and added some egg drop soup seasoning. After it cooked for a while, I tossed in some rice noodles and most of a cut up potato.

I didn't get a pic of any of it.

The chicken breast I did eat was OUTSTANDING. I don't know if it was just a superb piece of meat or if I hit the exact perfect amount of seasoning or what, but it was tastier than it had any right to be. And the soup... oh man, it was outstanding too. It was so good, in fact, that I regretted eating the chicken breast earlier, because I wanted a second bowl of it.

Pizza

Monday was another long day at work. I went with a Garibaldi's pizza for a late lunch. The usual, a meat lover's:

This was 10" of tasty. Perfectly cooked, topping portions were great and plenty of cheese and sauce. This was all I ate today, it was that filling.

Steak night

For Sunday, I went to see Snow White and the Huntsman with Mom, Sis and her boyfriend. I had a frozen coke and a pretzel there for lunch. I didn't get a picture of it, and it's probably for the best. But it was pretty tasty.

For dinner, I went with another flat iron steak and some zucchini. 

That steak is an outstanding cut each time I've had it. Full of flavor, very tender and usually only one little piece of fat that you can't really deal with. Which is surprising, because it looks like there's a large piece that runs down the middle that you'll have an issue with. But it has cooked down into almost nothing each time I've made one of these. And for usually around $6 or $7 at Kroger, that's a lot of meat for your buck. I highly recommend it.

The steak and zucchini were salted, peppered, a little bit of garlic powder and olive oil (on the steak). As the steak was almost done, I tossed a little bit of butter in there, and then some more on top of the zucchini. The rolls are Sister Schubert's brown and serve yeast rolls.

Not a very healthy day

On Saturday, I went in to work, in order to make some of the time I missed for my vacation up. I ended up being there for 11 hours that day. For lunch, the cafeteria had a lot of stuff that didn't look that good, and 2 things that did, beef and potatoes:

The roast was good, and had so much gravy it was almost like a beef stew. The flavor was nice, not too salty but very hearty. The potatoes were actually salted and the gravy just enhanced them, instead of making them just tasty.

For dinner, I was tuckered out, so I just went the easy route and tossed some more chicken tenders and fries in the oven: