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An Intimate Dinner For One

Posted on March 4, 2016 by LFFL

Vegetable Spring Rolls with julienned carrots, cabbage, celery, bamboo shoots, mushrooms, and sweet & sour sauce; Chicken Fried Rice tossed in soy sauce with egg, carrots, bean sprouts, and scallions.

This place is one of my favorite China Bistro’s. Every time I happen to go to PF Chang’s, I manage to order the same thing over and over again—but it’s what I love.

The spring rolls are delish dipped in the sweet & sour sauce—every single time! I did try a sweet chili sauce they gave me but I didn’t like it as well as my regular sweet & sour sauce that’s grown on me. The chicken fried rice I could eat for days on end—they give you so much of it.

But on three separate occasions, I always asked for an order of two spring rolls but they always came back with four. I only paid for two but ended up with four each time. Not sure where the disconnect was—but I’m not complaining since I’m not being charged for their mistake, and more importantly, I get to keep all four to myself!

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This Chicken Ranch Wrap Here

Posted on September 7, 2015 by LFFL

Ranch Wrap with fried chicken, avocado, bacon, tomato, Jack & cheddar cheese, lettuce, ranch dressing, & wrapped inside a garlic-herb tortilla.

I can’t say enough about this sandwich wrap. I’m in love with it. I already had this in another blog post way back yonder—but it’s so good that I had to bring it back.

There’s just a perfect combination of all ingredients inside of it—except I always like a little extra ranch dressing with mine. The yum factor is out of this world—or at least it is to me anyway. I’m sure there are those who would think this an average sandwich—but I devour this thing within mere seconds.

Again, I got this from one of my hometown diners. Where else do I go anyway?

So, if you have nothing else to do today, I say you should make yourself a sandwich wrap like this to fall in love with—or better yet, frequent a local delicious diner for one of these bad boys.

Take-Away Life Lesson: Those hometown diners can be amazing second homes when you find the perfect one just for you.

Casino Buffet Eating

Posted on June 7, 2015 by LFFL

Fried chicken, cream corn, baked beans, mashed potatoes, macaroni & cheese, and baked potato chips.

So here’s yet another buffet I love going to. It’s at one of the riverboat casinos in my area. All of the casinos have buffets and I’ve tried them all. You know me! But this one just happens to be my favorite—and it has a massive buffet, too! There’s so much food you have to get one plate after another.

There are several food stations broken down into several different lovely areas:

Chinese food station
Barbecue food station
American food station
Italian food station
Salad, soup, & bread station
Dessert station

What’s a girl to do when confronted with all these options? By jove, I’ll tell you! Just get one of everything! After all, that’s the fun of eating at buffets.

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Oh, That Sports Bar Food

Posted on January 1, 2015 by LFFL

Smokey Chicken Pasta with garlic bread; Maytag Potato Chips with smoked bacon & green onions; and Irish Nachos made with fried potatoes, jack & cheddar cheeses, bacon, green onions, and ranch dressing.

This sports bar has been in town here for a while but I never had a chance to try it out. So when they opened another new location closer to my whereabouts here, I decided to head down to try it out.

I loved the atmosphere and it’s a great place to watch sports—but I think I like my other sports bar better that I frequent.

The food was pretty good. But to tell you the truth, I wasn’t that thrilled with the appetizer potato chips. I did, however, fall totally in love with the Irish Nachos. Oh my goodness—they were delish! I had to get a second order of those suckers to take home with me since the ones on my plate didn’t last but a hot second.

So, if you have nothing else to do today, get a plate of those Irish Nachos from somewhere in your town. I’m tellin’ ya.

Take-Away Life Lesson: Don’t wait on folks to go out to eat with you either. The good thing about it is you get to eat all that marvelous food by yourself. There’s no such thing as ‘sharing’ when you’re eating out by yourself. Take advantage of it while you can.

A New Sports Bar In Town

Posted on August 30, 2014 by LFFL

Chicken Tenders with honey mustard & barbecue sauces and a side of Macaroni & Cheese.

I love meeting girlfriends out for lunch any chance I get. You can always get in good food and good gossip all rolled into one.

We decided to try a newly opened sports bar in midtown—and, boy, was it loaded with some good food. I really couldn’t make up my mind what to try on the menu. (Story of my life.) But after hours of analyzing it, I ended up going for the basic chicken tenders and—OH—they were amazingly good and crunchy.

It doesn’t take much for me to fall in love with a food item.

Pulled Pork Sandwich with fries.

Taxidermy.

Alcohol wall.

I always seem to order macaroni & cheese everywhere I go, too. I just like trying out different mac & cheeses because some definitely taste better than others—and, who are we kidding, it’s one of my favorite foods ever to eat in life.

So, if you have nothing else to do today, meet your friends out for lunch at a newly opened food spot.

Take-Away Life Lesson: Anytime macaroni and cheese is on the menu any place you go, definitely get a side order to go along with your meal. You can’t go wrong.

It Was A Murder Mystery Night

Posted on July 26, 2014 by LFFL

This was definitely a night I’ll never forget.

Let me start by saying, a friend and I decided to go to a murder mystery dinner since we had never been to one before. I love trying things I’ve never experienced before so I was all for it.

The first thing that threw us off guard was the location of this place. We didn’t really pay much attention to it until after we purchased the tickets. The cross streets threw us off a little because neither of us could figure out what was in that location other than old buildings in the “rough” part of town.

Come to find out, we were right! Omg. I’ll never know how they can get people to come to this location in the first place other than the fact that these people don’t all know about this part of town—until they get there and it’s too late by the time they realize it.

There’s a homeless shelter across the street one way and there’s a park across the street the other way where the drunks and crack-heads mingle. It’s definitely a part of town I wouldn’t think to go to for a dinner theater.

On the night of the dinner, the amazing part was when I pulled into the parking lot behind the building where the dinner was held and saw the cars and people all fancied up in suits, ties, and dresses—but look directly across the street and you see a complete contrast. WHAT?! Two different worlds side-by-side.

Don’t get me wrong—I’m not opposed to the homeless shelter—and the drunks and crack-heads have a right to mingle where they want to. I just didn’t expect to pay so much for a dinner ticket to a play in this area in an abandoned building turned into a dinner room that looked like a big warehouse of a bingo hall.

When we arrived there, we all waited in line to get our picture taken in 1950’s-style accessories they dolled us up into since it was a 50’s-themed play. But they weren’t going to charge us 50’s-themed prices for the pictures though!! They seriously were selling the photos for $20 a piece after the show was over. I could have had someone take a picture for me with my digital camera for free!

And don’t get me started on the food!

Chicken Parmigiana.

The bread.

The salad.

I don’t have a clue almighty what in the world I was eating. (Anything you see in quotes is strictly because I still don’t know if you can even call it that!)

Let’s start with the “bread basket”—a loaf of generic bread sliced down the middle. Seriously?! Did we really just pay for this?!
Let’s move on to the “second course”—the “salad & dressing.” First of all, the dressing was in packets. Packets, I say! Where am I?????? To top it off, my favorite dressing only came in fat-free and the other two options didn’t look so appealing. So I grabbed the fat-free Ranch and toppled it onto my salad. Let’s just say the entire thing tasted like grass with water. So I only ate one bite and I pushed it to the side. Done.

By now I’m scared to see what the “main entrée” looks like. A person came to “take our order” at our table. I ordered “chicken parmigiana.” CAN YOU SEE THE SLOP THEY BROUGHT OUT ON A PLATE TO MY TABLE!! No way! I can make a dinner plate at home better than that! It tasted just like it looked, too.

The bread and salad I couldn’t bring myself to finish.

During this whole time, the “play” was going on. I was completely lost as to what was happening at all. We could barely hear them talking on the microphones.

This was an interactive “dinner theater.” Each table was a team of 10 people. I refused to be our team captain because I was so baffled as to where we were in the first place! Someone else volunteered.

We were supposed to get up and ask questions and discuss the play with the other diners and the actors to find out “who dunnit.” We could “bribe” the “actors” with fake money, too, for more information.

I didn’t get up to interact with anyone since I didn’t know what to ask anyway because I could barely hear anything that was going on or keep up with it all. Come to find out—one clue was that the “killer” did not even know they were the “killer.”

My friend and I only stayed for two hours because we just couldn’t take it anymore. We had no idea how long this play was going to last—so, needless to say, we never did find out who the “killer” was since we left early. AND WE LEFT HUNGRY!!!

The detective.

The actors.

Dinner room.

My friend and I did have some good laughs throughout the entire thing though because we just couldn’t believe the entire experience we just encountered from beginning to end. All we could do was look at each other and laugh. Let the good times roll!

So, if you have nothing else to do today, give a murder mystery dinner a try if you’ve never been to one before—especially if you like the interaction of trying to find out “who dunnit.” You may come across a pretty decent one—and, if not, just laugh your way through it like we did. At least it gets you out of the house.

Take-Away Life Lesson: You never know what life is going to throw at you next, so try to find the humor in it all.

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Chicken Bacon Cheddar Philly

Posted on July 12, 2014 by LFFL

Made with chicken, bacon, cheddar cheese, onion, peppers, and ranch dressing; served with onion rings.

Today was a bright, beautiful, sunny, and fabulous day! Though I didn’t have the highway all to myself today, I enjoyed my drive nonetheless as I was on my way to enjoy some much-needed girl time. With drinks, lunch, and a good game today—how could I go wrong?

I tried something new on the menu today—a chicken bacon cheddar philly sandwich. Once I smothered the ranch dressing all over it, I pretty much devoured the entire thing. It was that good!

So, if you have nothing else to do today, have a day out with friends and try a chicken philly sandwich out on the town or get creative and make yourself one at home.

Take-Away Life Lesson: There’s nothing like introducing yourself to a variety of new menu items that pop up out of nowhere.