Chat Files: Restaurant Week Edition

10:12 AM Fyn: Hi Miss [Cerulean]

10:13 AM me: Hey Miss [Fyn]!

I finally had a Restaurant Week meal that was awesome!

Fyn: which steak place was it?

10:14 AM me: Ruth's Chris at the Pier V.

10:15 AM It was kind of loud, but the food was good, and it was a great deal.

The whole meal cost as much as only my steak would have if it hadn't been restaurant week.

10:16 AM And they have very good floor managers. When my steak first arrived it was overdone, and I was fretting about whether to send it back and a floor manager just...appeared and asked me straight up if it was cooked right, and when I said it was overdone, he took it away and got me a new - perfect med-rare steak in a matter of minutes.

10:17 AM I started with the lobster bisque and liked that, too! I am always proud of myself when I eat seafood.

10:18 AM Fyn: nice!

10:19 AM the whole idea of really good floor managers is amazing to me

really great steak, i presume?

10:20 AM me: oh my GAWD. It was so good.

I was glad I'd gotten the petit filet, so that I didn't totally stuff myself. And that the plate was so hot, lest I lick it.

And I got bread pudding with whiskey sauce - yum!

10:21 AM J got gumbo for his app, but I gotta say....it was good, mine is better.

10:22 AM Still, it was great to have a restaurant week meal that I really felt reflected what a normal meal there would be like.

For Your Consideration: Corn Dogs are Awesome

Morningstar Farms Veggie Corn Dogs: I did a (totally scientific) taste test last night, and I'm a believer. All the mustard vector of a corn dog without having to eat mechanically-separated meat byproducts. They are scrumdidilliumtious!


(Just please god, don't make them in the microwave.)

Totally unnecessary update: Chat Files!

Cerulean: I have a * a plan* for tonight's dinner.

Fyn: yes, yes?

i have one and half peking duck carcass

what kinda soup can i make w/ it?

Cerulean: duck soup!

I really have no idea, just wanted to yell "duck soup"!

my dinner is not exactly gourmet, I warn you.

Here's the thing: I love corn dogs.

But I think hot dogs are gross.

It's a dichotomy that has burdened me my whole life! Sorta.

So, the vegetarians at the beeeeeach were telling me that Morningstar makes vegetarian corn dogs - and P., the frigging lumberjack, who loves meat like I love breathing - couldn't tell it was a veggie corn dog until he was told.

(at which point he spat it out, 'cause that's how serious he is in his distain for non-meat products.)

So I'm making vegetarian corn dogs and corn on the cob.

I'm going to pretend I'm at a state fair.

Fyn: i didn't know you disliked hot dogs

did you try the morningstar corn dogs? i am intrigued.

also, alton brown totally has a corn dog recipe

Cerulean: I'll let you know how the corn dogs come out tonight.

I imagine that as long as the batter is good, I will like them. Corn dogs are basically an excuse to eat deep fried corn bread dipped in mustard. Yumz.