Oh no! An entire month slipped by, and I didn't write anything in my blog. It was quite a crazy month. We were out of town for at least one weekend. When we were home, we had so many visitors that I was doing laundry for the guest rooms regularly. (OK, so not hard to put sheets and towels into the washer and dryer).
I did eat out. On the road, we had our usual lunch/dinner stop at Sheetz gas station. Yes, I like their food. I usually go with a Made To Order (aka MTO) chicken sub: 6 inch toasted white roll with chicken, provolone cheese, mayo, bacon, oregano, and black olives. I've also started to get a cup of fries. I really like their fries.
In Buffalo, Darryl and I went to dinner with our great friend Katie. We decided on Ilio DiPaolos in Hamburg. Great food! I ordered the tortellini with the house sauce and a side of Italian sausage. In place of my salad, I had a great cup of french onion soup. We all split some cheese covered garlic bread. I figured I would order the tortellini because we were going to a wedding with a buffet and you never find tortellini in a buffet line. OOPs... Ok, so never say never. We did have tortellini at the wedding, but this one was prepared with a white cream sauce and had specks of bacon in it.
We did enjoy the usual fast food stuff... Pizza at King's Dominion amusement park, Panda Express, pizza at Wegmans, Asian at Wegmans...
I also ate at Capital Ale House... three times in less than a week. YIKES! But I did have three different meals, a lamb burger, a cheese burger (on $2 burger night), and a cheese dip on steal the glass night. I would have had more that last night, but I already had dinner on the table when we decided to go steal the Heavy Seas glasses that were on special.
Best of all.... I got to enjoy another meal at King's Arms Tavern with two of my best friends from Buffalo. After dragging Katie and Michelle all over Colonial Williamsburg, we had a wonderful meal at the tavern. I did have something different than my meal from the summer... I went with the prime rib. It was out of this world!!!
Out side of my restaurant experiences, I spent many hours really focusing on school. I really didn't try to make anything special for dinner. I definitely did not try to copy any of the meals I had out at the restaurants.
November is a new month. I still have a lot going on at school, and there is Thanksgiving to celebrate, so my cooking time will still be limited. However... I will be creating my famous Canadian Thanksgiving Meal (which normally is celebrated during Columbus Day weekend, but we had guests in town and a crazy month). This year I'll be cooking for 40 or so people again and I'll be experimenting with some new recipes that I have found. I think I will blog about that experience this month, and then jump back into restaurants again in December.
