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Awaken Your Giant

Happiness is not by chance but by choice.

Lunch

You see what I did there?

 

Filed under  //   Meals   The Office  
Posted October 23, 2009
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Lunch: Ambadi

AWESOME!

Ambadi Indian Restaurant
141 E Post Rd, White Plains, NY
(914) 686-2014
ambadi-usa.com
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Filed under  //   Meals   Out & About  
Posted October 9, 2009
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Sunday @ T.G.I. Friday's

½ price drinks and appetizers all day Sunday… 
Plus BIG GAME, Go Team!

Filed under  //   Meals   Out & About  
Posted September 22, 2009
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The Hong Kong Chef does it again

It is clear that the Hong Kong Chef does not want me to be great.  If he did (and I presume it’s a ‘he’) why would ‘H.K.C.’ deliver all of this to me for $5.25? Where else can you get this glorious bounty of button popping delights for less than a Mc value meal?

  • Orange Chicken with Brown Rice
  • Spring Roll
  • Wonton Soup
  • Chow-Mein Noodles. (A meal in itself with no expiration date…ever).
  • Yi-Pen Hot, Soy & Duck Sauces.

I did it to myself, now I’ve got to dial Ray and see if he will go with me to the track tonight. …Great, he’s not answering :(

Hong Kong Chef
470 Mamaroneck Ave.
White Plains, NY 10605
(914) 948-8045

Filed under  //   Cooking & Food   Meals   The Office  
Posted September 1, 2009
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Define Buttered Roll

Yesterday I bought a buttered roll at the corner store.
I support my local corner store because it's cool being able to walk there in my flannel PJ's & Crocs to get breakfast.
These simple things make me happy.
However, there is a dark side of convenience.
Yesterday it came in the form of 'skimping on the butter'.

I ordered a buttered roll as one would normally do by saying "I'll take a buttered roll, k? Thx!"
I did not bother watching him prepare the roll as 1/2 of a buttered roll is already 'roll' and simply putting butter on it completes it.
In theory.

As you can see from the diagram above, this is what I received.
In addition, the roll was the end of the day roll, that is crusty and slightly stale.
The butter was cold, and was a tore a hole in the middle.

Question: what percentage of butter makes a plain roll a buttered roll?

I'm inclined to say at minimum, it has to be 50%, but 75% should be the new national minimum.

In a valiant attempt (while driving) to disperse the butter, I executed the sacred Mr. Miyagi technique.
This is well known by many but rarely applied.  It involves taking the bottom part of the roll and the top and slapping them together and rubbing to spread the butter.



WARNING!!!
This can (and did) go dangerously wrong if the roll is stale and the butter is cold.  The bread can rip, causing butter to go through the roll on to your hands which may be needed to grab the steering wheel of SUV drifting out of lane.  However, with butter now on hands, the steering wheel may become slippery and you can kill a family of deer super easy while trying to multi-task.

Conclusion: The convenience offered by my corner-store's proximity to my house and their lax dress-code may not be worth killing deer. Not to mention a $500 deductible for the would be damage, sleepless nights hiding from deer ghosts, and finally the fact that a plain buttered roll is .75 cents and a buttered roll is $1.00 (and this was neither).  I know times are tough economically, but surely with the over production of GMO corn (that feeds the chickens, on the farm with the cows, that make the milk to churn the butter...) there should be no need for such scarcity on my breakfast roll.

I blame years of GOP mismanagement and the sheer laziness of the deli attendant.

 

(Disclaimer: No deer were hurt but could have been and always use your headset when on the phone...stop drop & roll also.).

Filed under  //   Customer Service?   Ferengi's   Meals   Recession  
Posted November 19, 2008
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Rainy Saturday

...this reminds me of when my Dad used to make me soup & toast on rainy days.

Filed under  //   Meals  
Posted November 8, 2008
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Brown-Bagging It.


The funds are low this week.  Translation: I'm brown bagging it all week long.  This is a good thing because daily breakfast & lunch can average $12 easily from the in-bulding cafeteria at work which has never heard of Adobo or any other seasoning.  $60 weekly, $240 monthly or $2880 annually.  Whoa! Kinda makes Peanut Butter & Jelly seem like a viable & tasty alternative. 

But fear not!
Brown bagging (or in this case a plastic target bag) does not have to be a soggy sandwich and dixie cup of water cooler piss...NO!   Why not "take it up a notch"?  Just a tad short of setting up my Foreman grill at my desk, I decided on Tacos.  The bulk of the work was done the night before, that is the meat cooking and then stored into small left over plastic containers.  Cheese, meat, gauacamole, taco sauce & shells along with a Rockstar Energy drink all assembled at my desk.  It can get messy, so I put it all together over someones excel print-outs I took off the printer while returning from the microwave.  Even with a desk full of small containers and and a napkin tucked into protect my shirt, some random co-woker stops by my desk to say "sorry for interrupting your lunch but...".  I pretty much kept eating and pretending I could not speak while grunting at them letting food fall from my face onto what I think was their print-outs.  That image is usually enough to send the message, "not while I'm eating...k? thx! bye."

In conclusion, I may have to do Tacos more often.  The Taco Kit was only $2.69 at Target and a pound of ground turkey was about $2.99.  Only thing I added was an diced onion and some additional Adobo.  All together I had dinner & lunch for under $6.00.  Plus I collected 3 "Box Top$ Education" labels worth .10¢ each for my sons school.
 
Tags: Brown-Bagging, broke = creative, Leave me alone and call the help desk.

 

Filed under  //   Brown Bagging   Cooking & Food   Meals   Recession   The Office  
Posted September 8, 2008
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