Lunchtime Dining and Really Good Food

While I always like dining out at nice restaurant I always seem to love going for lunch. Lunch is a great time. You get the same good food AND it costs less. Now while this usually applies to places where you can drop your professional business cards into the hat for a free lunch. This also applies to some of the finer dining places where you live.

IF you want to eat some really good food call up your favorite upscale restaurant and see if they do lunch. I just ate at the most exquisite French place. They are open one day a week for reduced lunches, just so they can properly train their staff in proper meal etiquette.

One little pointer here. Make sure you have more than an hour for lunch. If you are on a strict time schedule, you may not finish. Also do not eat there on the same day as an important meeting . . . you may not stay awake.

A Cake Design

Recently I was thinking what would be a fun cake to make. I have made trucks, cars, monsters, skateboards, butterflies, and many many other items. So my good friend is retiring from the post office . . . and what to make for the party.

I thought of stamps. However, stamps are on the way out. I thought of an envelope. Not all mail envelopes.

Then I had the flash of insight. Mailboxes! all lined up in a row just like his rural route. So now the question is should I make them tall to impress people. Or make them flat for easy cutting and serving.

Well I am thinking of trying out both. One to impress and one for eating. The really good news. Noone seems to have done this yet.

Free Food

I was out at a restaurant the other day . . . you know one of the ta-ta type of places. Really good food. I left my name and address . . . somehow . . . and I was picked to win a dinner. They sent me one of those really nice printable greeting cards that announced my win.

I never seem to win anything. Maybe I should play the lottery again since it is at 200+ million dollars. Then I would not have to worry about winning a free dinner. Then my wife could be a good Jewish wife and never have to cook again.

Ethnic Food Has Survived

One of the great catholic gifts out there is the gift of the polish pierogi. I mean this is a great food that is quite yummy. I like the dough. I like the filling. I like the butter. I like the taste. I hate the calories.

There are many recipes out there for pierogis. So why do I consider it a gift from the catholic church. Well the RCC managed to keep families together for awhile and kept the tradition of food alive. There are many other ethnic foods that we can be thankful for, that have not died a horrid death in the American Melting Pot.

Find a recipe here at google

Setting up the house

One of the things that I do enjoy in life is a freshly painted kitchen. Painting costs are sometimes difficult to estimate. One of the main costs is the paint. When we paint any room I always try to purchase the best paints. When you look at paints we can see a number of differing types of quality, esp. when it comes to cleaning up from an accidental mess. Of course when I make a mess that will hit the walls, it is usually something really messy.

sticking thinks

Well, today in the mail I received a batch of return address labels from my college. So what am I supposed to do these. I have to confess that I am thrilled with my past college called, JBC.

Why should I use these? I am not to sure. I really do not want to give free advertising to jbc esp. when I think I was rooked by them. So what would have been useful? Labels with fruit on them. Something else that I would like to use, maybe I should just order them. I do like the labels and use them all the time.

So what was that number . . .

Lunchtime Blues

One of the things that I do not like about the new year is everyone goes on a diet. So nobody wants to eat out at lunch . . . sigh. You would think that with all the Diet Pills out there we could eat and still lose weight.

Of course that diet robot eating in your tummy from AI (the movie not the book) would be really cool. Eat what you want and lose weight.

Well tommarrow is Friday, hopefully the guys will be ready to go out to eat.

the Right Stuff

Getting the best food delivered to the table is hard thing. We have work and the right set of ingredients. If an ingredient is not quite right or to old the taste or flavor of meal can be changed in substantial ways. People try to get to the best in many things, yet they can fail.

I had a friend in real estate. I thought that he could get to the Apex NC Real Estate and make vast some of money. As it turns out, he made some money. His problem was not having the right ingredients. As it turns out you have to have a good personality, the right clothes, business sense, a will to fight and bargain, and lots of luck. So remember good food needs the right stuff just like we do in life.

Flood Placement

Dogs and tables. Okay, we have a big red dog. When I have prepared a really nice mealtime dog comes and visit. Let's be real . . . the dog comes when there is food. Does not really matter good food or bad the dog does not care.

So the dog is tall enough to like a plate on the table. She will eat food most anywhere she can. She will eat it on the rug. She will eat on the chairs or couch. However, when food is placed in the Emily crib she will not touch it. That is a good thing.

Dilbert Live

Well, it looks like I can do some business card printing and be the consultant. The funny thing is that I ran into someone when getting my coffee and I said I was consultant. He wanted a card. How odd people are willing to accept me as a consultant. And how odd all I need is a business card. Maybe I should go write for the New York Times. Now, all I have to do is read more Dilbert and learn from Dogbert’s example of how to be a consultant.

Let’s see over charging and abusing people. Sounds good to me.

Grrrr.

Okay, I have to rant for a brief moment in time.

It happened today. Dilbert came to life. I run into enough consultants, however, I seldom run into one that I really know something about. Computers and networks I know. So this person comes to my door and proffers a card with his name and title of computer consultant. Okay, so we talk and this person knows so little about computers I want to barf. He took one course and thought he was a consultant.

So this is what it takes to be a consultants. I must design some business cards with my name and Consultant as the title, and bamm money starts happening. Uhm, I think not.

So maybe on Tuesday I will be a food consultant.

A Die-T

If you are like many, many Americans you have started a diet.

Though think of the choices out there.

Low Fat
Low Carb
Low Taste
Vegan
Lacto Avo Veggie
Veggie
Suzzane Sommers

To many choices. What to do and how to lose weight


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