Best day ever at Midieval Times @ North Myrtle Beach

Dinner theater at it's best! Horse, knights, jousting, and food that you must eat without silverware.


"There were no utensils IN Medieval times; therefore, there are not utensils AT Medieval Times" - Janeane Garafolo as the Serving Wench, The Cable Guy




We had seats in the Blue Knight's section which means that we cheered for him and against the Red Knight!


"The blue knight rules! The red knight sucks the big one! Down, down, down. Right knight goin' down. Down, down, down. Red knight goin' down." - Jim Carey as Chip Douglas, The Cable Guy

Dick's Last Resort @ North Myrtle Beach

Here's a restaurant where you the servers treat you like shit and do their best to embarrass you during your dining experience. And you love every minute of it because it's hilarious.



Your visit begins with the server throwing your silverware on the table and saying "what the hell do you want to drink?" This is followed by additional personal insults and plastic bibs being tied on each diner in unconventional ways.



Of course there is food. The food is good, not great, but good. The menu features items such as wings, ribs, hamburgers, peel and eat shrimp, and nachos.



At some point, the server makes a hat for each diner with various insults written on each. Ian's said "My butt itches and my fingers smell like poop"! He later trader for Connor's hat which read "I pooped my pants."

Ocean Isle Beach - Dinner at Sharky's

Our first dinner out while on vacation. Ian has taken to posing as either Dr. Evil (as seen here) or as Jeff Hardy (the professional wrestler) when I take his picture. I must prefer the former over the latter. He had a hot dog for dinner.

Unfortunately, my mom developed a shellfish allergy a couple of years ago and this prevented her from eating anything worth a damn while we were away. She and Steve opted for pizza.

Check out Tony's awesome shirt.

Here's my dinner. It was awful. I ordered breaded scallops and shrimp. The scallops were slimy. The shrimp was on the level of Red Lobster, but not as good.

Connor had hot wings.


Tony and his pretty shirt had a steak, onion rings, mashed potatoes, and grilled veggies.

Endless Hours of Fun

Connor really likes football and he really likes to swim. Us vacationing adults really like to sit in the pool and drink cold beverages. What happens when these worlds collide? We sit in the shallow end of the pool and throw the football towards the deep-end while Connor leaps in the air to catch it. Good times, good times.

Quick update from NC!

Vacation is half over and I have a ton of pictures to post. Here are just a few. I'll get more up later in the week.

It goes without saying that the beach here is spectacular.





Here is Ian's breakfast from the other day. He specifically asked me to make him bacon and eggs. Shocker! I wish that he would eat a big breakfast like this every day.







Dining al fresco! Breakfast by the pool, complete with screwdrivers.









Do you know why this breakfast sandwich tasted so good? Because I ate it while standing on a pier over the ocean!









Late one evening, Tony decided to make french bread pizzas. This is shocking because Tony. Never. Cooks. Anything. He did a good job with this dish! He sliced up some Italian bread, topped it with jarred spaghetti sauce, and added pepperoni and sliced provolone cheese. Yummy!

Parting is such sweet sorrow...

Hi all. We are heading off on vacation for a week and I will only be posting at my leisure, which likely means that I won't post anything at all until I get back.

In the meantime, I would like to leave you with these images to hold you over for a while.



Frozen Kung Pao chicken from Trader Joe's. It wasn't bad and it wasn't great.






Not food related at all, but I still wanted to share this picture. This handsome fellow was given to me two very good friends before they moved. I keep him safe and sound in my home office and say "good morning" to him every day before I begin work. Connor's Lego collection also resides in my office.





This isn't just a regular egg, sausage, and cheese sandwich... It's an egg, vegetarian sausage, and cheese sandwich. I love Morningstar farm's veggie sausage.




Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.

Danimals Crush Cup - 08.12.2009

Marketing genius! The Danimals Crush Cup requires no spoon in order to consume the food coloring filled yummy goodness inside. How exactly is this different from the no-spoon-required Gogurt? Simply put, it's more fun to crush your yogurt out of a plastic cup than it is to push it out of tube (at least according to Ian).




Here is Ian enjoying his 4th Crush Cup of the day!

Roadhouse Wings & Grill - 08.09.2009

This picture speaks for itself. Connor is clearly a wing-eating champion and a total badass.

Food from last week

Homemade pizza from last week...



Cheese pizza






Pepperoni pizza







Fresh mozzarella with campari tomatoes and homemade pesto with basil from my Nonnie's garden (my personal favorite)







Here's my Friday afternoon cocktail invention. This drink has slices of lemon, lime, and clementines as well as a splash of cranberry juice, a splash of OJ, one shot of vodka, a maraschino cherry, topped off with Diet 7 Up. Okay, as I typed that out, I realized how disgustingly sweet that sounds but it was actually pretty good.



I had Chipotle for lunch one day last week. This buritto contains chicken, black beans, cheese, corn salsa, tomato salsa, hot salsa, and tomatillo salsa. I've never tried the tomatillo salsa before and I didn't care for it. It was too watery and it threw off the composition of the rest of the burrito.




This is a vegan falafel with white bean hummus from Dragonfly Street Food in the Short North. Holy shit, was this good. It didn't taste like traditional falafel, but it was really good nonetheless.

Happy Birthday to my Nonnie! 08.10.2009

My grandmother, Nonnie, is turning 75 years old this week. Last night the kids and I took over a pizza and a bottle of wine a celebrated with her. This pizza is from Iacono's and it was outstanding.

I lead an exciting life

When I am not jetting off to Ibiza, vacationing in the south of France, or buying art from Christy's Fine Art Auction House, I do other glamorous things such as cleaning out my refrigerator. Here's my *very* clean fridge. I didn't just go through the shelves and drawers and throw stuff away, I actually removed every single item from the fridge and took all of the shelves and drawers out and scrubbed everything clean. You can also see in this picture that I keep an abnormal amount of citrus fruit on hand.

Tony is Funny

I love it when Tony thinks that he has discovered something new, but it's really something that's been around forever. One example of this is his recent discovery of the band Blue October. He saw a video of theirs a couple of weeks ago and decided that it was his favorite "new" band. I tried to explain that they've had many hit songs and are popular enough to have videos shown pretty much 24/7 on VH1, but he wouldn't believe me... Example 2 is Tony's discovery of the homemade egg, cheese, and bacon on wheat toast sandwich. The other night he asked me to make him this sandwich and I said "fine, no big deal." He then felt it necessary to go in to great detail, describing how to cook the egg (this coming from the guy who hasn't cooked anything in the 9 years that we've been married). I told him to shut up, that I had it covered, and he still proceeded to describe how the guy in the cafe at work makes this sandwich. Finally he left the kitchen and I cooked the sandwich. Tony loved it but couldn't believe that I knew how to cook a hard-fried egg (with the yolk broken), as if was a secret recipe or something. I tried to tell him that my homemade egg sandwiches are featured pretty frequently on my blog...

Tony milks his birthday for everything that he can - 08.02.2009

Tony received an Applebee's gift card for his birthday. He's like a kid with a couple bucks in his pocket when he gets a gift card. He wants to use it right away. As a result, we had a late lunch at Applebee's. I make fun of Applebee's constantly, but truth be told, I used to frequent it for happy hour. We haven't been to one in probably 6 years though.








The food was better than I remember, but it still wasn't great. I had french onion soup and a chicken ceasar salad. Both were okay. Tony had an A1 burger.






Connor had mini sliders which he took one bite of and declared to be "not very good". Ian had chicken fingers. He enjoyed them right up until the moment that he started to gag on one and spat it up in to my salad. At that point, I decided that I was finished with my salad.







After lunch, we went home to veg out. We watched about 4 hours of Man Versus Food. Tony begged and begged for hot wings and reminded me several times that it was his "birthday WEEKEND". So I relented and we tried a new place, Roadhouse Wings & Grill.







The wings at this place were really flippin good! I had the second hottest sauce available and it was... very hot... and very good!









Tony had hot wings, Connor had medium, and I had extra hot boneless wings.










I asked Ian how his food was and he threw some gang signs at me. I'll leave that response open to interpretation but he looks pretty happy in this picture