Big Breakfast with a House Full of People - 05.03.2009

Go figure, it turns out that kids like to be fed often. Despite the fact that my cousins and my kids stayed up until after midnight on Saturday eating White Castle and leftover pizza, they all woke up starving the next day. I made the kids, and Tony, and Olivia a big breakfast.

Connor had a cheese omelet and bacon. He ate the bacon before I could get a picture of it.

Emma asked for eggs "made so that I can stab them and they'll bleed the yellow stuff". She, Dylan, and Tony all had bacon, toast, and eggs over easy (the kind that bleed).

Emma's a little genius and decided mid-meal that her egg would be better off topped with bacon and sandwiched between two slices of buttered toast. I like how that kid's mind works!

Ian had a couple of pieces of toast and then asked for some leftover Chicken Rings from White Castle.

Emma finished her breakfast and then asked for leftover cheeseburgers and an apple. Awesome!

*I know that after reading the last few posts, those of you with children are dying to drop your kids off at our house for an overnight visit so that I can instill proper eating and sleeping habits in to your spawn. I would be only too happy to oblige! Just let me know! *

Good Times - 4.17.2009

I work at home 90% of the time and it's a luxury that allows be to often wear my pajamas until noon. On Friday I had a meeting at a potential client's site so I had to get up at a respectable hour and wear "business casual" attire. Whammy.

I didn't have time to cook breakfast for myself, so I ate an Egg McMuffin on the way to my meeting. I didn't get a picture of it because I am a bad enough driver in the first place. Adding food and a camera to the mix could have been deadly.

After the meeting, I had an hour to kill before my lunch dates that I had scheduled. There wasn't much open at 11 AM in the area that I was in, so I stopped in a small Vietnamese restaurant. I loved everything about this place, except for the food that was ordered.



Mi Li is a tiny restaurant with a few tables and booths, a pool table, several flat panel televisions and a big screen TV. I didn't use the restroom, so I can't fully rate the cleanliness of the establishment but the dining area was very clean and well-kept. So far, so good!



I gave the menu a quick look, but I wasn't at all hungry and I had a lunch meeting in an hour so I didn't order anything. The menu featured several varieties of "bubble smoothies" which involve tapioca and blended fruits. I've never heard of a bubble smoothie but apparently they have been all the rage for 10 years - or so I was told by my dining companion.


My friend ordered a pineapple bubble smoothie. She tried to get me to try it, but smoothies aren't my thing. I believe strongly that calories should never be consumed in liquid form unless their is alcohol involved.


My friend, ordered this for us to share. I have no idea what it's called but it involves fish cakes, bean sprouts, cucumber sticks, and a pork mixture in rice paper wrapper. The fish cakes looked unappetizing and I refused to try them. I tried the pork wontons and the pork mixture was really great but I really hated the texture of the steamed rice paper wrappers.

All in all, I loved this place even though I didn't really eat anything. I would love to go back and try the Pho next time - when I'm hungry.

I had a lunch meeting at Katzinger's in German Village at noon and I forgot to take a picture of my meal. I had a chef salad with olive oil and vinegar dressing. It was delicious.

Dinner... I was too lazy to cook dinner so we sent Tony out for White Castle. Ian and I had chicken rings. Connor and I shared some fries and he had cheeseburgers. Tony had cheeseburgers, onion chips, and mozzerella sticks. Apparently this combination is a gastrointestinal disaster that later resulted in Tony swearing off White Castle for the rest of his life.

The Day's Events - Saturday, 4.11.2009

Thank you Tony Stewart for picking up breakfast while I slept in on Saturday. It was very nice to wake up to a McDonald's Sausage McMuffin.

The neighbors recently spotted what they thought to be a fox in our neighborhood. Connor and one of the neighbor's kids also claimed to have seen the fox. I didn't believe any of them, so my killer attack-Beagle and I set out on a walk through the field and wooded area at the end of our street. Shadow picked up on a sent and took off racing through the wooded area and in to someone's backyard. I'll be damned, but what did we see? A wild animal that appeared to be a fox! I called my dad that night and asked him to bring his live-trap over in the morning so that we could try to catch the fox. He showed up bright and early on Saturday, dressed in head-to-toe camouflage. My kids were already wearing their camo, so we put Shadow on his leash and went out to looked for the fox. We quickly spotted him near the same spot that I had seen him the previous day. The animal was wandering a construction area behind the neighbor's back yard. We got a good look at it and it was huge! Bigger than Shadow and bigger than a fox... It was a Coyote!

We put some apples, carrots, and raw eggs in to the trap in hopes of humanely capturing the savage beast terrorizing the neighborhood... We decided to give it a day and check back in the morning to see if we had caught it.

You can really work up an appetite while Coyote hunting. The kids and I agreed that a trip to White Castle was in order. Ian and I like the chicken rings and Connor likes cheeseburgers, without onions or pickles. De-licious!

I have no objection to convenience foods. As a matter of fact, I enjoyed boxed macaroni and cheese and Noodle Roni. But Hamburger Helper just does not appeal to me. I don't like the look of it or the smell of it. Ick. BUT Connor and Tony like it, so I make it for them every so often.

As an alternative to the Hamburger Helper pictured above, I had Stroganoff flavored Noodle Roni for dinner. Yummmmm....