Category Archives: Dining out

Birthday Celebration! 12/8/18

Every year I celebrate my birthday with my friend who has a birthday the day after mine. We have been doing this for many years, probably more years than most of my readers have been alive! It is a fun … Continue reading

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Sonoma Wine Country. 11/30/18

Since my birthday is a week from tomorrow, we figure that it is a good time to start celebrating early. December will be a month of celebrating and travel so there will not be a whole lot of cooking. But … Continue reading

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Ethiopian lunch. 11/28/18

I do not cook a new dinner because this is the fabulous food I had for lunch! My daughter and I took a break from outlet mall shopping (where we bought nothing) for a fine Ethiopian lunch at Zeni’s in … Continue reading

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I am trying to make this dish!!! 10/25/18

So back on 10/21/18 my post was about Spicy Thai Basil Eggplant with Tofu. Today on our trip to Utah we stopped at Mojave Thai Cuisine, a really surprising place to find out in the desert. We ordered their medium … Continue reading

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Vegetarian lasagna. 9/22/18

Last night we ate our friends’ and they made a delicious vegetarian lasagna.  The recipe was Ina Garten’s Roasted Vegetable Lasagna. I cannot recommend it enough. The use of goat cheese is inspired.

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Too busy celebrating to cook! 9/14/18

We have been off celebrating John’s birthday so my well-planned menu has flown out the window. We ate out for dinner one night and then had no dinner the next due to a large lunch. After one more celebration with … Continue reading

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Cruise food. 8/27/18

It has been a week since I posted so I thought I would catch up with what you can eat on a cruise ship. First we have room service for breakfast. The benefit of this is it is a set … Continue reading

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Norwegian fare. 8/20/18

Thought I would post a few of the meals I ate in Oslo, Norway. We are on our way to Sweden today having thoroughly enjoyed Oslo. Most of the meals I ordered show that I was usually trying to eat … Continue reading

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Portuguese tapas. 7/17/18

Today is our actual anniversary day. Forty-six years ago John and I hopped in my ‘67 Pontiac Tempest and eloped. Pretty exciting!  Back in the day you did not marry out of your religion very much and John and I … Continue reading

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Celebration dinner. 7/14/18

It is not quite our anniversary but we decided to have an early celebration.  No doubt we will be celebrating again on Tuesday. Forty-six years of marriage deserves a lot of celebrating! We are dining at Navio, the fine dining … Continue reading

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