Wise Owl Chips, Chinese Food, and Iacono's

My mom and Steve love Wise Owl potato chips. They aren't typically found in central Ohio and they always stock up on them when they can find them while on out-of-state road trips. I happened up 4 bags of these salty carbs while I was at Big Lots recently and gifted them to Pam and Steve for Christmas.

Here is take out from Joey Chang's in Hilliard. This isn't your ordinary takeout Chinese. This is high class carryout from a sit down restaurant. Siam chicken, Triple Delight, and dumplings.

Iacono's pizza!

Ian opted for chicken fingers from Iacono's. The real star of this picture is obviously Ian. He's awesome.

Yep, Ian is still awesome in this picture.

Out of the park, grand slam home run!

I took the kids out to Iacono's in Hilliard for dinner last night. The meal started with a very contentious match of tic-tac-toe. Ian won several games, but was getting increasingly pissed off every time that he lost. I could see a shouting match brewing so I finally had to take the activity/coloring book away.

Ian ordered chicken fingers, Connor had an Italian sub, and we all shared a pizza (1/2 cheese, 1/2 sausage and mushroom). Connor and I had the following discussion regarding the quality of the food:

Connor: "Mom, how do you think the food is tonight?"
Me: "Amazing, I think that they hit it out of the park."
Connor: "Like, a home run?"
Me: "Yeah, it's a good thing. Like a home run for food"
Connor: "Ahhh, well then this is a grand slam home run. An out of the park, grand slam. Oh - it's a walk-off, out of the park, grand slam!"

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.

Truth For Sanity comes over for dinner & other stuff from this week

I've been getting over a sinus infection and bronchitis, so I spent most of the weekend and the beginning of this week cooking things that were bland and easy to prepare.

A couple of examples - noodles cooked in broth and topped with a little bit of cheese and browned under the broiler.







And mac & cheese out of a box... FYI - This is the three cheese variety featuring cheddar, colby, and blue cheeses - in powered form of course. This was really tasty!










Recently, Truth for Sanity (the band that my husband is in) came over for dinner. Just as I was about to throw food on the grill, the gas tank went out. Balls. Plan B... I had to cook everything inside on a grill pan. No easy feat when you are cooking 5 brats, 6 hot dogs, 2 turkey burgers, and 4 cheese burgers. I was so flustered that I forgot to a take a picture before serving dinner. What you see here is the aftermath.



On Monday, the kids and I had dinner with 3/5 of Truth for Sanity. We met Tony (my husband, the babies-daddy), Bill, and James at Iacono's. I don't know what the hell has been wrong with me lately but I only took a picture of the appitizers and not the pizza! FYI - If you are in the Hilliard area on a Monday, stop by Iacono's for their specials featuring $1 drafts, 1/2 price appitizers, $2.50 individual sized pizzas, and soup & salad bar with 1/2 a sub for $4.50. Good deals!

Tony Explains Why He Eats Pizza with a Fork and Other Mysteries Are Revealed - 05.15.2009

I give Tony a hard time about almost everything. Most recently, I've been teasing him about his annoying habit of eating pizza with a fork. Oh, and he doesn't just eat his pizza with any fork. He prefers to use a salad fork instead of a dinner fork. As a matter of fact, he prefers to eat everything with a salad fork instead of a dinner fork.




Tony was kind enough to pose for a picture with a plate of Iacono's pizza and his small fork last Friday. He then explained why he eats his pizza with a fork... He says that he only starts out with the fork when the pizza is too hot to hold. Once the pizza cools down, he will use his fingers to pick up the pizza... Okay - so the pizza is too hot to touch but not so hot that he can't eat it? Whatever, I will accept his explanation at face value. He has never offered an explanation as to why he prefers to eat everything with a salad fork though.




Here's the pizza!




And here's Olivia with her pasta. Iacono's makes their own pasta fresh every day and it's delicious.




Here's another thing that I don't get about Tony... He's recently aquired a taste for energy drinks. In general, I just don't get energy drinks. It seems like diet soda or coffee with a multi-vitamin would have a similiar effect without having to drink something that tastes like ass.

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.

Tuesday, 4.21.2009

Okay, I didn't take many pictures of food on Tuesday. As a matter of fact, I only took one picture of food and this is it. My mom and stepdad came over for dinner and we ordered food from Iacono's. I love Iacono's pizza. Sadly, we were halfway done eating before I remembered to take a picture so you are basically seeing the leftovers here. We ordred a pepperoni pizza, a second pizza with half cheese and mushrooms and ham on the other half, a veggie basket with fried mushrooms/cauliflower/zuchinni, and chicken fingers.



Three of my favorite goofy goobers in the entire world - Ian, Steve, and Connor.



I'm pretty sure that Connor took this picture of Ian and I'm pretty sure that Ian is getting ready to punch Connor.



Ian took this picture of Tony. I am sure that Tony is trying drop his signature scowl but Ian caught him still grinning a little. One of these days we'll catch Tony actually smiling in a picture...