Say What I Think

Last night hubby and I went to Olive Garden for dinner, it was to replace our date night. We have found it is challenging to eat there because of hubby mushroom allergies and my pork allergies. Olive garden is a nice restaurant, and we like the atmosphere but finding something to eat is always a challenge just like finding the
best prenatal vitamins. I ordered the chicken Marsala hubby had the chicken pramagaina with Alfredo sauce. It seemed to taste good for hubby and mine tasted very good even as lift overs.

Okay if we eat out to much more this month I will need someweight loss products to help me lose my fatness. Last night we ate at Baker Square with our friend. They have changed there menu a lot since the last time we went there, but they still have the Wednesday pie shop special. Hubby and I ordered the same thing, that doesn’t happen to often. We both order the Salmon sandwich, I had fries hubby asked for Peta bread instead of fries. He had the mango lemon aide and I had the blackberry twist lemon aide, it was good. The salmon sandwich to me didn’t seem warm enough, but it was still good, just would have preferred it to be a little warmer.
For desert I had bannanna cream pie, and that was very good. I even ate most of the crust. Overall the food was okay. The server did a good job at taking care of us and giving us the space we neeeded.

Last night hubby and I went out for dinner, the places we wanted to go were already closed. So we decided we would go to apple bees and order off there appetizer menu, we are both watching calories, hubby wanted mozzarella sticks, and we just shared a side of those. We order fruit smoothies too, those where good. I pill the bread off of the cheese because I have to watch how much wheat products I eat. The waiter came over, and I said sorry I don’t eat the bread and he told me a lot of customers do that same thing watching calories. Okay if I was overly concerned about my calories I would have not eat the cheese lets face it cheese is high in fat so it probably not classified as a fat burners. Now they claim some cheese are good for burning fat but I find that difficult to believe.
Our drinks came to us right away. My husband and I where talking about them at one point and asked out waiter how much real fruit was being used in them and where told the smoothies where made with fruit puree which is good. Just like real fruit maybe added stuff in it. I still prefer out local smoothie place here.
The mozzarella sticks came shortly after we order them they where nice and warm and tasted good to but I think it hard to mess up mozzarella sticks. Overall we had a nice experience at Apple Bees and our waiter did a good job.

This weekend my husband and I were treated out to dinner with another couple. It was a interesting and fun experience. There was a couple of options for me to pick from, and they where good. I struggled with choosing what I wanted, I knew I would not pick the Chicken because I can get that everywhere, and can make it pretty good on my own. It was a toss up between Salmon and Lamb chops. I told the group it was a toss up and one of them said order something that you normally wouldn’t get, so I decided the Lamb chops it be. The waiter told me everything is cooked on separate grills, so that meant my hearts desires was going to be met as far as food went that night. Not like trying to find good laptop memory sometimes that just don’t work out the way you wanted it. Well, the guy brought the meat cart up to show us our options, which was a lot of beef just about all the cuts you can imagine. He got to the Lobster, most of us thought it was a prop not the real thing, well he pointed the bugger towards me to show the nice quality of lobster it was, and the thing moved. My responses was Oh my goodness it just moved. It was well surprising when your thinking it not real. I will say it was a nice looking lobster, so was their shrimp and pork products but those aren’t foods any of our group order. Everyone order beef except for one chicken and on lamp. The sides like asparagus and broccoli were huge, bigger then anything I have ever seen. Veggies on Steroids or something. It was very hubby. We had these Homemade Potato chips, they were the best I have ever had, very good. Hubby wanted to order a 2nd order but lol we decided to go with another side. We got the Harshbrowns instead and those were good. We wanted the mash potatoes but those had pork in them, and would be danger our waiter even remember it was in there with out us finding it out the hard way. I was impressed, I can not tell you how many restaurants pork as an ingredient has been over looked, until I had a reaction. I was very impressed with him, and glad he did such a good job. He did tease me a little bit a couple of times, but well I never go to any 4 star restaurants so I don’t know how things are done.
My lamp chops were very good, I didn’t even want salt or pepper on it, they where perfect. The broccoli was tender and warm, and the harsh brown now I don’t normally like them where very good. The lamp chop meat was hug, I was surprised I ate it all.
I have to admit this was a fun experience and the food was very good everyone at our table enjoyed dinner. I ordered my lamp medium it. I told him I don’t want blood coming out on my plate but I want it to be pink in the inside. My meat came just about perfect, maybe I would have preferred a little more cooked but not enough to complain about it was very good. They got very close if not right where I told them I wanted it to be. The beef looked good and my hubby ate all of his beef too, it was so good that it was kind of the place you don’t want to bring home leftover you just want to eat it there.
We had a Ice cream sunday. Okay this thing could have feed at least 8 people, it feed all 6 of us, and there was still some, I had 2nds on that. It was huge Oh my goodness was it the biggest ice cream I have ever seen. It was very good, and man the fruits which came with it were very fresh! I honestly can’t think of anywhere I have seen huge veggies, the potatoes where giant size I didn’t even think they got that big, and looked that nice when they do.
Lets see this isn’t the type of place, to go on a budget, your looking at spending at least 30 to 100 depending on what you are getting. Sides had to be gotten separately from the meal. So your looking at spending a little bit of money but it’s worth it if you have it to spear.

On Friday there were not many options for dining out but Friday nights are dad night to be taken out to dinner. We almost needed international travel insurance, to get dad his weekly dinner. The weather was horrible, and it wasn’t exactly the most pleasant driving conditions but considering how the last couple days where roads where better then i thought they would be worst. Little Six Casino is about 10 miles from us, so it took us about 20 minutes to get there, other then a couple of big clumps of snow in the middle of the road it was not to bad. We got in for dinner.
We had a very nice waitress, and she did well. My husband asked to be moved as far away from smoking as possible and again we were placed close by. I said something this time right away, and we where moved away from smoking pretty much clear across the restaurant which was prefect for us. Our waitress stayed with us for our whole visit, which was good because she was a nice lady.
Dad order their prime rib, it looked nice and was tender. Dad enjoy the meat. He also had a salad, squash and potatoes. They all looked pretty nice, dad seemed to eat it all. Except he had left over prime rib. Hubby had a hickory BBQ chicken sandwich and a bowl of soup. Hubby liked his chicken rice soup but it was bad for his diet. I had the same as hubby but with onion rings. Mine was pretty good.

On Friday, I took dad out for dinner. We went to Famous Dave’s on 98th and Normandale BLVD, they are pretty good. I didn’t realize that we headed over there during the dinner rush. I felt bad telling them I had a pork allergy. The waitor told me he’d have the cook clean the grill and I told him No, it’s pretty much dinner rush, have them heat my Peta some other way.
When we first came in there was a greeter there, to be honest he was a little much to deal with but a nice young man. He was overly happy, and kindof bugged dad. I try not to let people get to me.
Dad ordered the Meatloaf platter, he liked it. In place of the greenbeans dad wanted drunkin Apples. Dad ate all his meal and ate more then he normally does and faster too. He was done with his dinner before I even finished my dinner. Wow, that’s a first. I think he ate as fast as a 115334 vacuum motor picks up dirt.
I ordered the Salmon spread with Peta bread. It was good. I also ordered a side of drunkin apple. I think the apples are one of my favorite things at Famous Dave’s. Our waiter did a good job, and got everything we needed and didn’t make any mistakes.
He was very kind to dad and very nice to me too. Everytime we take dad there it always goes well. There is a lot of things Hubby and dad likes, and there’s a couple things on their menu I enjoy. My favorate is the Salmon spread.

Today I had lunch at Chinese Gourmet Restaurant in Burnsville MN. I will say I was not impressed at all with lunch. My nephew was with me, I am still care taking for him today. His remark when we first came up, is man this places looks like it should be closed down, it looks bad. I couldn’t help but look at the property and think the same thing, there was nothing to brighten up the building or lot, it looked plain which isn’t the best thing. Lunch was $10, honestly they did not have enough options for their lunches, I ended up ordering their fragrant vegetables I think they used more spices then was need, the only good thing about my meal was it was served hot. It was not the worst meal I have but it was not worth the money, because I didn’t have the soup.
My nephew had the sweet and sour chicken, he ate most of it, and it looked good. He got some cheese wontons and said they were not very good. To be fair I do not like most Chinese food and fairly picky, but not like they will need Tennessee injury lawyers. I simply did not like the food there, and did not like their lunch menu, it only had 5 picks for entrees and 3 picks for soup, the drink had plenty to pick from even though they did not have Dr. Pepper as a choose but they did have Mt Dew.
The best part of lunch was a business meeting I was invited too

Lets face it most restaurants we choose are not a good way to fat burner. Friday night we decided to take dad for Chinesse Dad claims he don’t like that type of food, just like he don’t like lamb, chicken or turkey. It’s funny he always says he don’t like things but ends up eating all his food and enjoying it well commiting how good the food is there.
Last night I order the cashew chicken and they tried giving me the Peanut chicken. No thanks to that, I am not a fan of cooked peanuts, cashews on the other hand works well good.
I guess the waitress misunderstood or her cook it. Overall the food was good.
The bathroom I don’t much care for because I think it just don’t look clean, not that it is not clean just doesn’t look clean to me.
The good thing about Great China Buffet you can either order the buffet or something off their menu. We prefer the menu because it cheaper. The best thing about them is that their pop is reasonable and the food is servered hot and tastes good too.

Last night hubby, dad and I went to Baker Square to eat on our way home from casino. Dad had won fairly nicely, and I won a little. Normally Baker Square is good and we don’t have trouble there with food or anything. They normally have great customer service too and they did have good customer service. When we got in we saw they had a new pie oh yummy, it was Andy’s mint pie.
I decided I would go with the Soup and 1/2 sandwich pie shop special. My hubby choice the chicken Parmesan, dad had his french toast. We each got a slice of pie.
I got my soup and sandwich. I think the cook didn’t pay any attention to the salad, because it was very limp and had brown on it. Yuck, I wouldn’t even serve that at home so I told the waitress. I was nice about it, boy she was loud with the cooks back there. Can I have some lettuce with out Brown on it, and something about not serving that. Maybe the cook needs a good pair of eyeglasses, because it was easy to spot on the lettuce. The soup was very good and my favorite part of the meal was my pie. I only ate half of it, and kept the other half for later today.

Dad was telling me the other day that he wanted some french toast from that one restaurant. He said he wanted to walk over there and get some, well I don’t mind taking him to Perkins for his french toast. Dad and mom must have ate out a lot because he seems to want to a lot, sometimes it’s easier when I have cleaned most of the morning or done homework most of the day and simply do not feel like cooking or doing much of anything. So Friday night I got paid form another job I work a little bit and decided it would be nice to take dad out for dinner on Friday, since hubby and I wouldn’t be eating together.
So we went in to Perkins by use on Normandale and 98th St. in Bloomington MN. There was a little wait but I wasn’t surprised because we went during dinner rush. I had the chicken pot pie and dad had his senior citizens french toast. Dad wanted hot coco but didn’t want to order it because he couldn’t have more then one cup, and I told him. You can have coco maybe our waiter will be really nice. The waiter said he would give dad another one as long as he told no one. That was very nice of him, I didn’t expect him to do that but he did a good job with dad who is 86 yr old. I appreciate when wait staff treat dad well, and have respect and kindness toward him. This Perkins has always had great customer service since day one and I have never had a problem with their service yet.
My chicken pot pie had caved in a little before they brought it to me but boy was it yummy. Dad was happy with his french toast and I was happy with the overall service over there. If it was just hubby and I we might have decided to simply hike over there. We are closer to it then any Manhattan jobs.