Four Foods on Friday
I can’t get over how quick time goes by. I feel like I was just answering last week’s Four Foods on Friday questions! That’s okay, because I’m ready for the weekend and Val does a great job every week asking new questions and rounding up our answers.
1. When going out to dinner what items do your order? Appetizers, soup, salad, dinner, dessert.
I used to think that every time I went out to dinner it was a special occasion, which meant appetizers, main course, and desert, but when you go out to dinner more than once a month, it’s no longer a special occasion. I’ve gotten a lot better are resisting appetizers and desert, but I do order an occasional spinach dip or calamari.
2. How predictable are you when eating out? Do you usually order a meal that you’ve had before or do you like to try new things?
I’m all over the map. Sometimes it’s a salad, other times it’s a burger, every now and again I feel up for a special. I had the seafood special in San Francisco this weekend, and mussels, shrimp, lobster, and scallops are truly special together!
3. When eating at a restaurant, what beverage do you like to order with your meal?
I used to always order a Coke, but now I order water the majority of the time. I find that I don’t feel sick to my stomach after I eat if I just drink water.
4. Name a meal that you ate at a restaurant that you liked so much you tried to recreate it, as well as the name of the restaurant and the recipe.
I will never be able to recreate the Mediterranean Bread from Chicago Pizza and Oven Grinder Co. no matter how hard I try. I’m just going to have to wait in line for two hours with cash in hand to enjoy it on special occasions (and this is one of those restaurants where I order appetizers, salad, main course, and desert). Yum.
oh spinach dip! so yummy. have you found a good store brand if you want that fix at home?
That bread looks gorgeous. I agree, many times it’s worth getting back in line instead of trying to cook it up yourself, it can be so hard getting that same exact taste
That bread looks tasty.
Thanks for playing FFOF!
[...] Corrin feels the Chicago Pizza and Oven Grinder Mediterranean bread will never be beaten so she hasn’t tried. I’m not 100% sure but I think Corrin was trying to tell us her level of predictability depends on her mood. [...]
I want that bread, right now!
I used to order everything when we went out to eat, until I realized how much we were spending and not eating. I do still order appetizers and everything when it’s a true special occasion.
“Out to eat” is relative for us. We rarely eat at sit down places, so those trips are special. We eat fast food places a fair amount - couple times a week - so not special at all.
Mmmm….that bread would be good to dip in the spinach dip!
Yay for Spinach Dip!!!