Gyros Cafe
August 9, 2010 | Filed Under Eats | Leave a Comment
My Mom looked after the kids while Rebecca and I took in a movie and dinner. The movie, Inception, was terrible, but dinner, at the Gyros Cafe in Oro Valley, was delicious. I had the Kurdish Plow: red and yellow rice wrapped in filo stuffed with beef, chicken, raisins, almonds, peas, and served with cucumber and tomato salad, tzadziki sauce, and melon. Oh man.
Brushfire BBQ
July 5, 2010 | Filed Under Eats | Leave a Comment
Before we enjoyed the zoo the other evening, we went to Brushfire BBQ, a small and relatively new restaurant on the southwest corner of Glenn and Campbell. I’m not a hug fan of barbecue; I just don’t have a taste the sweet sauce, but this place sweet. We’d been once before when I got the two-meat plate of smokey brisket and pulled pork with vinegar cole slaw and creamy potato salad. This time I got the brisket and spicy sausage covered in chipotle sauce accompanied again with the potato salad but also mac and cheese. Oooh, piquant!
BK
April 24, 2010 | Filed Under Eats | Leave a Comment
After a recent episode of Food Wars, I realized it’s been too long time since I’d consumed a Sonoran Style hot dog, far too long. So after the truck show we went to BK Carne Asada and Hot Dogs. Can you dig? Que rico!
Zemam’s
March 8, 2010 | Filed Under Celebrations, Eats, Family | Leave a Comment
For Zufaney’s birthday dinner we went to Zemam’s Ethiopian Restaurant. We first went in anticipation of traveling to Ethiopia and meeting and bringing home our boy and girl. We fell in love with the food which Debabu and Zufan, as little as they were, ate in the orphanage and grew strong while they waited for us. Served on the spongy, thin injera, which is used as a utensil of sorts, is shiro (spicy, pureed chickpeas), kik wat (spit pea stew), spinach wat, and cubed, stewed beef and minced, simmered beef, and some small samples of a couple of other dishes. Dig this review of Zemam’s from the Weekly. Fantastic!
Seoul Kitchen
February 27, 2010 | Filed Under Eats | Leave a Comment
I spied a new restaurant while we ran errands the other day, the Seoul Kitchen, on Grant between Rosemont and Swan just near the Crossroads Festival. We like patronize local industry when we can, and so we did. I enjoyed bulgogi and daeji bulgogi (barbecued beef and pork) with plenty of bancahn. Here’s a recent local review. Masegaemugusuyo, baby!
49 Chicken McNuggets
February 13, 2010 | Filed Under Eats | Leave a Comment
Last Sunday was the Super Bowl, and that was all the excuse I needed to try a delicious experiment. My students had informed me of McDonald’s $10 50 Chicken McNuggets deal, and I convinced Rebecca that it’d be ridiculous not to take advantage of the special for dinner. We added two large soft drinks and two large fries for $5 more for what was to be the greatest Super Bowl ever! I ate twenty-seven McNuggets (one of those on the way home with our treasure). Dee-lish!
Second Girard Thanksgiving
November 28, 2009 | Filed Under Celebrations, Eats, Family | Leave a Comment
Our second Thanksgiving feast, this time photographed before we eat. The standard turkey breast, with cheddar and bacon red mashed potatoes, and, this year, sausage, mushroom, and spinach dressing with pumpkin pie by Rebecca. I decided we’d make it a fabulous movie holiday and screen some of my favorites from my youth. Over four days we watched The Shadow, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, Flash Gordon, and TRON. Excellent!
Birthday Cake
November 15, 2009 | Filed Under Celebrations, Eats, Family | Leave a Comment
We finally got our birthday cake on Sunday evening. Mommy made a vanilla cake with chocolate frosting. Happy fourth birthday, boy!
Harbor Fish Cafe
October 14, 2009 | Filed Under Eats, Family, Recreation, Travel | Leave a Comment
After soaking our feet in the Pacific on our trip to Disneyland, we sat down for some delicious fish and chips at the Harbor Fish Cafe, just at the top of the beach. I had to take a shot of my dinner. Brother.
IKEA
September 30, 2009 | Filed Under Eats | Leave a Comment
We went to Phoenix mid-August to meet Debabu’s pediatric surgeon and we stopped at IKEA Tempe for lunch. Love the IKEA, mostly for its Swedish meatballs. Is it any wonder? Dig this repast of meatballs and fries smothered in gravy with lingonberry preserve on the side and a soda to wash it down. Delicious.
