Happy Mother's Day From Ian

An Indication That I May Have Too Much Time On My Hands - 05.13.2009

On occasion, the OCD part of my brain takes over and challenges me to make foods that would be much easier to buy. One example of this behavior is my frequent urge to make pizza. It's easier to call Iacono's and order a pizza than it is to make one, but there's no sense of accomplishment in ordering a pizza.


A few days ago, I started to fixate on the idea of making homemade wonton soup.



It's not really that hard to make homemade wontons and it doesn't involve a lot of ingredients.



It is; however, mind numbingly boring to fill and fold 2 dozen wontons. My attention span is exactly 2.5 seconds long and it felt like it took days to fold all of the wontons.



The end result was delicious but I really don't see myself repeating this experiment. I'll just get off of my lazy butt next time and drive down the street to Golden Chopsticks and get some soup there.

Monday & Tuesday

Here's a bunch of stuff that we ate on Monday and Tuesday of this week.

Anyone who doesn't like ramen noodles or macaroni and cheese from a box is clinically insane or has a poor palate.




Sometimes we have bread for dinner. Just bread.




Spicy mixed vegetables from Grand China in Hilliard.




Connor surprised me this week and switched up from eating mint chocolate chip ice cream to eating chocolate ice cream with chocolate syrup. It was quite shocking as mint chocolate chip has been his favorite flavor for as long as I can remember.

Guest Contributor: Olivia - 05.13.2009

Thank you to Olivia for sending me a picture of her co-worker's lunch. Let me be very clear - this is not Olivia's food. This is what her co-worker had for lunch yesterday. Apparently, this person's lunches typically involve hotdogs mixed with either fried rice or macaroni and cheese.

Macaroni and cheese mixed with hotdogs and corn. This picture hurts my heart. It's sad to see perfectly good macaroni and cheese tainted with the grossness that are hotdogs and canned corn.

A Special Message From Ian James Stewart - 05.12.2009

A message from Ian:

"Why did it just occur to me that I should pick my nose and wipe it on my brother and make him cry? I feel like I've been missing out on so many booger opportunities in the past 6.5 years. With this knowledge, I will now be UNSTOPPABLE! HAHAHAHAHAHAHE"

Guest Contributors: Chris and Mandy - 05.12.2009

Here are a couple of pizzas that my brother and sister-in-law recently ordered from Dante's pizza.

True Story: My brother says that this pizza gives him a boner. He would marry it if he could.

Guest Contributors: Colleen and Olivia - 05.12.2009

Here's a picture of Colleen drinking Pinot Noir through a Twizzler straw, as photographed by Olivia. Genuis! You ladies will both go far in life if your mind keeps working like this!

My First Guest Contributor - Chris Miconi! 05.12.2009

I would like to thank Chris Miconi for allowing his lunch date with my husband to be photographed for the blog. Thank you to Tony for taking the pictures and forwarding them on to me.


Tony and his work-husband, Chris, dined at El Vaquero today.


Chris had what was eloquently described by Tony as a "burrito" for lunch. Unfortunately, no other details were provided. From the picture it appears that this may have been a chicken burrito with sour cream sauce.

Discuss Amongst Yourselves: Tony Eats Pizza with a Fork

Tony has no problem with going to Rooster's and getting his hands and face dirty in public while scarfing down a pile of chicken wings.


Oddly enough, he does find it necessary to eat his pizza with a fork.



Exhibit A: Tony eating Iacono's pizza with a fork. Iacono's pizza has a thin, crispy crust and it's cut in to small squares. Why does Tony feel the need to eat small squares of pizza with a knife and fork? I have no idea.

Mother's Day Part 2 - 05.10.2009

I really wanted to go to Benito's for dinner on Mother's Day for Liz's spaghetti and meatballs special. I don't think that Tony was trilled about having to go there for dinner, but he had to agree because he doesn't get a say in anything on Mother's Day.



When we got to Benito's, I was horrified to see that they were closed due to a water outage. I had my heart set on sitting on the patio and eating pasta. I had no plan B.

After leaving Benito's, we decided to go to Ottie's which is a pub that is nearby. Guess what? They were closed too. Fuck. On to plan C. Plan C??? Starliner Diner! Oh, but they were closed too.



Plan D... Iacono's. As we walked up to Iacono's, Ian ran ahead of us and yelled "Wait! Let me see if it's open!" He pushed on the door and was thrilled when it actually opened. He then stood infront of the door to wait for the rest of us and opened his arms wide and declared "It's open! HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!" That kid has a special way of melting my cold, black heart.



Tony and Connor ordered pizza. Ian got his usual chicken fingers. My brain told me to order cheese manicotti but when I opened my mouth to order the words "Grilled chicken dinner, please" came out. The logical, well behaved part of my brain must have taken over for a moment.



The waitress delivered everyone's food but mine and told me that the kitchen had made me a grilled chicken salad by accident and that my food would be out shortly. She came out a few minutes later with my plate, which wasn't exactly what I had envisioned my meal was going to look like. The server was very nice and apologetic about the delay. Then she offered to sell me the salad that they had made by mistake. Huh? You want me to buy a salad that I didn't order, in addition to the other meal that I am already paying for? I'd just had a side salad anyway, so I politely declined

All in all, it was a great Mother's Day.