Anticipation Crushed

I was running a little short on time getting ready to go to work this morning so I opted to skip breakfast at home for some yummy biscuits and gravy at the Rhatigan Student Center (RSC).  You know how you anticipate ordering something and how good it would taste?  Imagine my diappointment when I found that they are no longer offering biscuits and gravy.  :0(  The next best looking thing was 2 plain cake donuts that didn't taste good at all since my anticipation of the "better" breakfast was completely ruined.  Karma sucks sometimes.

May Contain ... #3

I had KFC for lunch today.  Included in my meal was a honey packet for my biscuit.  The label on the front was "Colonel's Honey Sauce" with 11% real honey in very small print.  This intrigued me so I flipped it over to view the contents:

• high fructose corn syrup
• sugar
• corn syrup
• honey
• carmel color

I also bought a pack of new Tic Tac Chill because they were cherry flavored and they sounded good.  What did I find in very small print?  "Not a low calorie food."  You've got to be kidding me.  One tic tac is 1.8 calories.

Food labels will never cease to amaze me.

May Contain ...

This was almost as good as the grapes.  

I ate lunch at City Bites where they have amazingly huge baked potatoes and very big pickles - the kind you get at the zoo and are about 5 - 6 inches long.  

I was surveying my fountain drink options when I spotted Hi-C Fruit Punch.  The best part about it?  In small print on the bottom of the fountain label: Contains 0% juice.  If there's no fruit juice in the fruit punch, is it just punch then?

Table for one

Tonight is my last night as a bachelorette.  Ryan has been in New Mexico since Monday for training for work and will be back in town tomorrow night (yay!).  When I got up this morning, I saw I had a enormous pile of laundry to do and a stack of dishes that isn't going anywhere.  I decided as a treat that I'm going to break out my Tea Posy tonight and enjoy a nice cup of tea between all the work I've procrastinated doing.

When Lori and I went to visit Amanda this weekend, we went to the mall to look for dresses.  We stopped at Gloria Jean's, a coffee place in the mall, for a quick caffeine pick-me-up for the girls.  I saw Tea Posys on the shelf and had seen them on some HGTV program a while ago.  The tea posy has these hand packed tea pods that when you put them in boiling water, they turn into the beautiful flower bloom that you see in the first picture.  Click the picture to learn more about them!

May Contain: Grapes

I went to Dillon's on my lunch hour yesterday and picked up some fruits, tomatoes and cottage cheese for lunch.  One of my choices for fruit was a container of mixed red and green grapes.  Wonderfully, they were washed and did not include any stems.  As I neared the bottom of the container, I could see a label stuck on the bottom.  Curiosity kicked in, so I put the lid back on and flipped it over.  What did it say?  

MAY CONTAIN: RED, GREEN, OR BLACK GRAPES

Well it's a good thing that Dillon's labels stuff because I couldn't tell from the price tag what was in my container of mixed seedless grapes.

Please sir, may I have some more?

I learned today that I need to start packing larger lunches.  Here's my lunch menu:

          Lunchables (turkey, cheddar cheese and crackers)

          Strawberry cereal bar

          Leftover meatloaf from the night before

          Apple cereal bar

          Applesauce

           Peaches

After eating all this, I look around my desk realizing that I'm still hungry and I'm out of options.  So I walk over to the RSC (student union at Wichita State University, where I work) and look to see if anything else sounds good to eat.  I ended up bringing a 20 ounce cup of ice cream and a fairly large (as in bigger than my hand) cherry turn over.  

I think that should last me until dinner.

Lunch!

Today I had take out from Novelle Cafe.  Humus!  How wonderfully delicious.  They make humus just a yummy as Bella Luna.  Mmmmm!

Adventures in Sushi: Part 2

Ryan and I made sushi last week and I now have even greater respect for the sushi masters.   

Here's our attempt at Spicy Tuna and California rolls.

The sushi wasn't bad.  The California roll was pretty darn close to what they actually taste like (crab sticks, avocado, cucumber, mayo).  The Spicy Tuna was close in look and content.  The spicy mayo that we picked up didn't have quite the taste that the professionals have, so that didn't impress us too much.

Overall I'd have to say that this was a good experience.  We started at 6:30 and we started eating at 8:00! That's too much time for me to wait to eat sushi.  The rice was very sticky and the nori (seaweed) was a little difficult to cut through without mutilating the sushi roll.  If I want sushi again, I'll just order take out!

Adventures in Sushi: Part 1

Due to the unfortunate sushi coux at our favorite sushi restaurant, I have decided to do something possibly messy and stupid. I have decided to try and make my own sushi.

I have most of the materials: nori (seaweed), sushi rice, crab sticks (fake + real crab ... kind of like hot dogs, I don't care what's in them, they just taste good), avocado and tuna.  I think Ryan and I will make out first attempt tonight. You'll hear more about it later!

Sushi Evolution

Ryan introduced me to sushi when we first started dating. Our favorite place to get sushi was Sumo's. Back in the day before they moved to 13th and Greenwich this place was like Cheers for us. We know the owners, so everytime we came in we were greeted by name and they would come over and chat with us.

So when Ryan and I moved from the east side of town to the west side of town we were pushed farther away from our favorite sushi restaurant. We would occasionally go to Sumos, but it was always planned and never a spur of the moment decision. It was our delightful surprise later to discover Tokyo Steakhouse had expanded to include a brand new sushi bar which helped with our sushi cravings. The food was just as good as Sumo's but quite a bit cheaper.

Well, change is never easy. Imagine our surprised when we tried to go eat sushi on Monday and the sushi bar was closed. We tried again Tuesday night and they were back in business but with one very surprising change. According to the hostess, the assistant manager, the head sushi chef, along with his other sushi workers all walked off the job over the weekend! At least the new replacements made good sushi.