various culinary experiences

First, I would like to thank Alfred for his assistance with this post. I'm writing this on Thursday night, but don't have the cord to get the picture from my phone to include it, so he's going to put the picture in and post it on Friday morning. Because we can't just have picture-less posts willy nilly every week. It's just not right.

So we went out to dinner Wednesday night with Ilya and Mercedes. We went to this new place with a Spanish chef and a big tapas menu, it was right up Mercedes' alley. It's the same place we went for my last lunch before I went back to the museum, but this time we did it right, we just ordered a bunch of tapas and all shared. We had squid, chorizo, shrimp, chicken, a Spanish tortilla (kind of an omelet with potatoes in it) and of course sangria. It was really good, even though some of the bigger pieces of squid looked like centipedes. Then afterwards we went out for ice cream at the super delicious ice cream place by Alfred's office. Somehow Alfred managed to resist the frosty goodness, that's my sundae he's holding in the picture.

Tonight we went out again, but just to a bar and grill type place. It's really good too though, I had a meatloaf sandwich with the best pasta salad ever, and Alfred had a sandwich about 5 inches thick. And we had empanadas with some ingenious dip (ranch dressing mixed with salsa, delicious!) as an appetizer. We had a gift certificate from restaurants.com so it was cheap, too.

After dinner tonight we stopped at the grocery store to get some blueberries for breakfast. There was a lady in there who was going through the blackberries and literally touching every single one in each package to find the best ones. She was just standing there and opening each package, poking and touching and squeezing each and every berry. I stood there for a minute just staring at her in shock and she totally didn't notice, she was way too engrossed in manhandling the fruit. It was kind of disgusting. Take home lesson: always wash your produce!