I tried to eat a whole rack of baby back ribs all by myself tonight at BJ’s Brewery in Cupertino with the Baylight men in celebration of the last days of Ted’s bachelorhood. The entree included a New England clam chowder and mashed potatoes with gravy and mushrooms. They had a pretty good grapefruit-lemonade too. I almost made it. I think I could’ve crammed in those final 5 or 6 ribs down the hatch, but I wouldn’t have enjoyed them much, so I ended up saving some of the ribs for lunch tomorrow. Guess I can save that last can of emergency Spam (TM) for another day. =] However, I was eyeing that tall glass of grapefruit-lemonade that Young had. I don’t even think he touched it. We were all about to leave and I was just about to say, “Uh, are you going to drink that?” but then he went ahead and took that obligatory swig before getting up from the table. Doh, too late.
Then I went home and couldn’t help but take a giant spoon to the leftover Cheesecake Factory cheesecake in the fridge and finish off the half-eaten donut out of the box that I managed to save from the depths of the trash can into which Dong and Janice were about to toss out these sugary delights after service today. Good thing they found me. They got to join a half-eaten box of Krispy Kremes that somebody must’ve brought home this morning.
That reminds me that after I saved the donuts, I joined a bunch of the Baylight gang to lunch at The Board Walk. Funny how I’ve passed by place on El Camino probably 100 times, and I’ve never noticed it before. It was pretty similar to The Oasis in Palo Alto, except that the floor was actually a boardwalk, peanut shells did not lie strewn about the floor everywhere, and they probably would’ve actually disapproved had I taken out my pocketknife to carve “niftyken was here” on the tables and walls here. I had a turkey and monterey jack sandwhich and a HUGE caesar salad that was supposed to be the side dish. The sandwhich was totally dwarfed by the greens. Somehow I ate it all.
Oh yeah, Saturday. I had brunch with Grace. Homemade pancakes and scrambled eggs. People from next door came in one after another to grab a hearty portion of the tasty treats. =] For dinner, I went to Pluto’s with Kang. I had no idea the chicken would cost a dollar more than just the regular Farmer’s Greens salad. It tasted like tofu for some reason. Yum yum! ^_^
While watching The Making of The Passion of the Christ and Enemy at the Gates at home with Ed, I couldn’t stop munching Sam’s container of Trader Joe’s “TASTE” Assorted Nuts and other crunchy things. Things I like in the mix: honey roasted sesame sticks, cajun corn sticks, iso peanuts. Things I didn’t care for in the mix: pretzel balls, roasted salted corn nuts (I used to love these things, especially Cool Ranch flavor). Things I couldn’t find in the mix even though it listed it in the ingredients: tamari almonds. (Okay, Baines House, who ate them all?) Wow, this posting is totally unchronological. And since when do I ever talk about food? This is probably more food than I typically eat in a week.
Hey food is good for you. God made food for us to eat. And if you don’t get any enjoyment out of food then you are missing out on soooooo much. I mean, eating is one of those things that we have to do anyway … why not enjoy it? It is a lot easier to delight in than say GI tract motility.