Ridiculous Things Overheard in Restaurants
Today we were eating lunch at Flying Tiger in Dayton Ohio. As an aside, I realized that we plan a fair portion of our travels around food, in today’s case adding 3 hours to what would have been a 1.5 hour trip in order to eat at Flying Tiger (which has great food in general and some of Jason’s favorite vegan Chinese dishes in particular).
To set the scene, we’re sitting in the restaurant with our friend Jacob, enjoying our respective meals. An elderly couple on the other side of the restaurant calls over the waiter. The husband points at the closest of the fish tanks and asks about “that fish”. The waiter walks over the the fish tank and points at a small fish. “No”, says the old man, “that big one a little farther over.” The waiter points at something else in the fish tank. “That one sir?” asks the waiter, to which the husband responds “yes”…
“Sir, that’s not a fish. Its a rock.”
We’re convinced that the poor waiter probably didn’t get a tip after pointing that one out. We tried might hard to keep straight faces, but have admittedly been laughing about it all afternoon. A rock!
Amazing! Only slightly more amazing than the man walking his dog while wearing a gorilla mask (?!?) we had seen the evening before in Columbus, nevertheless these are the things that make my day.
No comments Digg thisThe Mister is a Necromunda Nerd
It will come as no surprise to anyone who knows Jason, but he is (and always has been) a huge fan of gaming. And by gaming I mean Warhammer 40k & Necromunda. I’ve heard him talk about it a lot and I’ve even picked up a display case so that he can get his miniatures all laid out. Until this weekend though, I didn’t realize quite how many Necromunda minis he has…
And this is just what he has in Columbus! He did spend the time to get everything catalogued so that he can start trading off duplicates (of which there are many) to fill out the gangs that aren’t complete. But man, I’m dating a nerd.
No comments Digg thisCats love the sun & the garbage strike
We’re all well aware that there’s a garbage strike going on. My neighbours put out this strange triangular table, hoping that someone would take it. Its been sitting outside for a few days, looking neglected. Today we got home from brunch (at Sadie’s diner, nomnom!) to find my cat Romeo sitting on the table lounging in the sun. It has everything that a kitty could want: sunshine, plant matter to eat/provide a little shade, and its at the perfect height for people walking buy to pet her.
Romeo was a street cat on my street when I moved into my house eight years ago (although she had been spayed already). She’s mostly indoors these days, but she does love getting to sleep out in the sun in the nicer weather. Its nice to watch people and children in the neighbourhood interact with her and pay attention to her. The entire street has her back!
Its also nice to see her this happy and healthy. She was diagnosed with congestive heart failure back in December and was on death’s door at that point. She was in at the vet’s this week for a checkup and the vet was impressed that she looks so good – in fact, he said it made his day. Romeo is a fighter and I’m glad that she’s had this time with us to get to enjoy days like today and sleeping in the sunshine.
No comments Digg thisMedieval Times is Awesome (and vegan)
A month or so ago, our friend Robot sent us the following message on facebook:
“Good morrow fellow country people!
I have been charged by his royal highness to recruit you to cheer on the mighty knights of our kingdom in the field of battle. The next tournament is being held on Sunday the 7th of June at 4:00 p.m. at Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament.Tickets can be purchased at the peasant friendly rate of2 for the price of 1 using the sorcerers incantation: BOGOWEB at http://www.medievaltimes.com/
We will be getting the standard package as the kingdom is in a recession and we would all like to feast together (people of the plant included). If by chance you find yourself needing a ticket partner let me know and I will try and link you to another of your fellow country people hopefully with sexy results.
Feel free to recruit others non as then we can cheer even louder and hopefully summon a berserker into the field of battle. Please do not link me to the details of this as I plan on surprising my maiden with a ticket.
If you are able to attend please let me know and I will try to have a staging area for us to meet and rush the gates 30 minutes beforehand otherwise you will have to fight you own way into a seat.
For the Alliance!”
Really, how could we resist? We were assigned to the blue section/knight. Once we got over the cheese factor, we had a blast screaming and shouting and cheering and otherwise being high spirited supporters. It really was a bunch of fun, and our theory is that the more people who come the more fun it would be!
Jason was pretty stoked because they were able to put together a vegan meal for him. Yup, the dinner theatre notorious for half chickens and no utensils was able to accommodate vegans!!! We knew that they had a vegetarian option and when our man wench came around we asked if they could make something vegan. Turns out that the tomato soup is vegan by default. They were able to pull together a meal with a veggie kabob, hummus & chips, and rice pilaf. Sadly our man wench was unsure if the garlic bread and dessert (an apple turnover) were vegan, but it just meant more for me.
Jason definitely has a way better beard than the king.
After dinner, we went out to grab a drink in Liberty Village. The majority of our party was still wearing our paper crowns (we forgot they were on!) and we definitely got some strange looks walking into the rather high end pub.
Overall, we had enough fun that we’re trying to get together another group of people to attend with us on Saturday July 18th. You in?
Post Punk Kitchen’s Chewy Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies
So before anyone gets their knickers in a knot or thinks that I’m some sort of woman with an agenda against my former company, I actually busy making cookies while writing/editing last night’s post.
While looking through our cupboards yesterday, Jason had come across a bag of vegan chocolate chips that I’d ever so deviously hidden away (and subsequently forgot about). I haven’t (successfully) baked since we’ve been home so I decided that I should make us something good and wholesome for dessert. [As an aside, dinner was curried adzuki beans & green peas over steamed mixed rice]
I googled vegan chocolate chip cookies to see what would come up, and came across Post Punk Kitchen’s Chewy Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe. Seriously, these things are like brownies in a cookie form – just amazing!
Here they are just out of the oven. However, this picture didn’t really do them justice, so I took a close up of one cookie (the was shortly demolished).
And they really are chewy cookies! When the instructions say cook them for exactly 10 minutes (they won’t look done, but they are) – listen!!!! Its what gives them their amazing texture.
