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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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A World Cup Watch Party

Posted on June 29, 2014 by LFFL

Bread Pudding topped with caramel sauce; served with vanilla ice cream.

Another World Cup gathering and, naturally, I couldn’t resist having some good food. I started with a chicken quesadilla which was crunchy amazing. I just love a crispy tortilla. Then I had to move on to dessert—bread pudding.

This bread pudding was so huge in comparison to the bread pudding I normally get from my hometown diner. It was wonderfully delicious and helped with my nerves while watching a close game.

USA vs. Germany game outdoors.

Marinated & grilled chicken, onions, pico de gallo, and pepper jack cheese in a crispy tortilla; served with salsa & sour cream.

USA vs. Germany game indoors.

So, if you have nothing else to do today, enjoy a good game with good food along with other rambunctious people.

Take-Away Life Lesson: Loads of good food can always help when your nerves are shot.

Bananas Foster—My Favorite Topping Ever

Posted on February 15, 2014 by LFFL

Made with butter, dark brown sugar, heavy cream, bananas, pecans, and cinnamon; served with vanilla ice cream.

Oh my, oh my, oh my, oh my, oh my, oh my, oh my, oh my, oh my. Wow.

Brown sugar into melted butter.

Add sliced bananas and pecans.

Stir all that goodness together.

The combination of all that warm butter and brown sugar just made me swoon—and then have the nerve to add bananas and pecans into the mix! Just throw all that warm goodness on top of vanilla ice cream and you’re pretty much done for the day.

The actual recipe also calls for dark rum, but I skipped that part of it. For all you rum lovers out there, you’ll be adding a few extra “oh my’s” to your dessert should you add the rum.

Earth Balance Butter — The, oh so, delicious butter I used.

Recipe for—Bananas Foster

So, if you have nothing else to do today, get yourself a pot of bananas foster going on the stove.

Take-Away Life Lesson: You can pretty much say you’ve lived a long fulfilling and happy life after a bowl of this.

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When The Dairy Queen Blizzards Went BOGO

Posted on September 14, 2013 by LFFL

Medium-sized Dairy Queen Blizzards with Butterfinger and Heath candy bars.

Well, HOT DOG!! Can life get any better than this? I can just thank my lucky stars for this deliciousness of a good deal.

It’s a “Buy One, Get One Blizzard for 99 Cents” ALL MONTH at Dairy Queen—and that’s ANY size! That’s cheap considering the normal price of one of these little homies. All right, all riiiiiight. Can I get a fist bump?

(DQ may have just swindled and pimped its own self without any realization.)

I’m telling you, the universe is aligning for me at just the right moment I really needed it to. Who doesn’t love a BOGO sale? At this rate I can get a set of these every other day and be set the rest of the month.

So, if you have nothing else to do today, go to your local Dairy Queen and take advantage of the Blizzard sale. You’re gonna fall in luuuuuvvvv.

Take-Away Life Lesson: Never give up hope that the stars and universe will never align for you—because I’m living proof that it eventually does.

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The Extent Of My Day

Posted on July 6, 2013 by LFFL

My daily Dairy Queen Butterfinger Blizzard and add a Heath bar, please.

As if there’s not enough hydrogenation and partial-hydrogenation going on inside that cup that I had to go and have them “add a Heath” candy bar to the mix like the Butterfinger with the ice cream wasn’t enough.

To top it all off, they ask if I want my “usual.” Just because my car shows up in your drive-thru area for the same thing every day doesn’t mean I have a “usual”, lady!!

And later, I hook myself up with these caramel apple blossoms from the Whole Foods store that I had in the freezer. Pop them in the oven and bake for 20 minutes. They were so on point! Delicious.

I’m satisfied with how my day went.

So, if you have nothing else to do today, fetch yourself a Dairy Queen Blizzard along with a Caramel Apple Blossom. Lounge around the house, savor every bite, and enjoy them with your feet up.

Take-Away Life Lesson: Apparently if you show up at an establishment on a regular basis and order the exact same things every single time, you have a “usual.” The jury’s still out on whether that gives you a good name or a bad name.

Eatin' Concrete And Gettin' A Nose Wash

Posted on July 3, 2013 by LFFL

Culver’s Concrete with a Butterfinger and a Heath candy bar.

Since I’m free from working this week, it affords me time to enjoy myself in a myriad of ways. What to do, what to do? Hmmm.

I’ll tell you one thing……….I soooooo deserved this bundle of concrete today! After getting to-go/take-away food from my hometown diner today, a friend of mine offered to buy me one of these bad boys—and who am I to turn down FREE FOOD?! We go across the street from the diner to Culver’s and I order up.

Now let me tell you why I deserve this—I got a free nose-rinsing at my dentist’s office today!! That’s right! No, seriously.

My twice-yearly-teeth-cleaning turned into a needle-producing jab of a cavity-filling which ultimately turned into the little water sprayer going full-blast up one of my nostrils while I was laying all the way back in the chair!

My mouth is in one spot, my nose in another so—HOW DOES THAT EVEN HAPPEN?! I quickly sat up and gagged while I was handed tissue. I drowned in that moment, people. I think I needed CPR—not TISSUE! It’s a wonder I’m alive at all right now.

My mouth was numb from the cavity filling, my face felt enormously fat, and I had water in me where it should not be. YEAH, I deserved an ice cream!

Afterwards, I gave myself a little ‘happy’ at the nail salon—only the chick that usually does my pedicure was FULLY BOOKED for the entire day!! When has THAT ever happened in all the years I’ve been going there??? Never, I tell you. I always walk-in with no problem.

It must be a 4th of July thing. So I had to take whoever I could get. Her husband, who does my manicure, tells me to just make an actual appointment next time. I GUESS SO!

When did THAT start up again? Last time he had banned appointments, period! I guess I didn’t get the memo. And when did she become so popular all of a sudden?!

So, if you have nothing else to do today, try a Culver’s Concrete with all your favorite fixins inside. No need to wait until you’re jabbed in the mouth or going through an unimaginable torture. You deserve a Concrete just BECAUSE!

Take-Away Life Lesson: Bring a clothes pin or a chip clip with you on your next trip to the dentist’s office to keep your nose pinched together and save yourself from a drowning.

The Ice Cream Maaannnnn!!!

Posted on June 30, 2013 by LFFL

So the ice cream man comes ding, ding, dinging around the corner a few hours ago and I reverted back to 6 years old again! STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You should have seen me. It was the saddest thing EVER, but I was going to get that ice cream even if my shoes fell off my feet. You know how you have to throw on your shoes at the last second? There’s a rush of adrenaline going to get out the door before he leaves you in the dust.

And it’s been so long since I had ice cream from an ice cream truck, that I guess I didn’t realize prices would have gone up since the 1800’s. I mean, why would I realize pricing applied to ice cream trucks, too? Kids shouldn’t have to suffer!

So, if you have nothing else to do today, listen for ice cream bells (the ones on the street—not in your head), have your running shoes ready, and don’t forget your ‘green backs.’ (For those of you that don’t speak thug—that’s money, dollars, whatever.) Dart out the door and be 6 years old again, if only for a moment. Livin’ life, baby!

Take-Away Life Lesson: The ice cream man doesn’t wait around long for anyone. He doesn’t care. If you’re not out the door within two seconds of those first couple of dings, you’ll probably miss your shot.