Wednesday Slump

calindi

I know it's "Hump Day", but I always feel like it's "Slump Day" - it's the middle of the week, and I'm severely lacking motivation.  So what do I do when I'm bored?  Think about food!


1) Ice cream - what do you always order?

2) All time best meal you ever ate?

3) What is your BF/FI/DH's favorite meal that you make?  Does he make a meal you love?

4) Best restaurant deal or bargain that you've found

5) What's your comfort food?

calindi

1) Ice cream - what do you always order?
Whenever they have it, black raspberry ice cream with chocolate sprinkles, with whipped cream and TWO cherries!  Otherwise, mint chocolate chip or peppermint stick is a good stand-in flavor.

2) All time best meal you ever ate?
Even though I posted this question, it's super hard for me.  I love food too much!  I will say I think it's a sushi meal I had in NYC at Sushi of Gari, a Michelin star-rated restaurant that is INCREDIBLE!  Expensive, but incredible.

3) What is your BF/FI/DH's favorite meal that you make?  Does he make a meal you love?
He loves the chicken picatta I make, and I love when he makes french toast.

4) Best restaurant deal or bargain that you've found
A seafood restaurant near me has free oysters on Wednesday nights with the purchase of a mojito - we're going tonight!  So excited!

5) What's your comfort food?

Mashed potatoes all the way!

Hazel_B

1) Ice cream - what do you always order?

I try tons of different ice cream flavours, but my all time favourite is vanilla...preferably French Vanilla. Does anyone know what makes it French?

2) All time best meal you ever ate?

So hard to compare. At the moment I'm reminiscing about some amazing paella that I had in Spain.

3) What is your BF/FI/DH's favorite meal that you make?  Does he make a meal you love?

I don't cook it very often but BF loves when I make any sort of lamb dish. For me, BF doesn't ever use a recipe...consequently, things are never duplicated. I love any of his Mexican style dishes though.

4) Best restaurant deal or bargain that you've found

Hahaha, anything in the US. Eating out in Canada is expensive by comparison.

5) What's your comfort food?

Homemade macaroni and cheese.

CASK85

1) Ice cream - what do you always order?

Chocolate Chip - simple, straight forward and perfect

2) All time best meal you ever ate?

Ahhh, this is hard! It was probably at Naha in Chicago. I don't really remember everything I ate, but it was the fanciest dinner I have ever had, and I remember clearly this one salmon dish that blew my mind - it was so perfectly cooked that I still dream about it . . . *drools*

3) What is your BF/FI/DH's favorite meal that you make?  Does he make a meal you love?
I make a lot of stuff he likes, but he always gets really excited whenever I make pulled pork. He makes killer eggs over-easy (which I always manage to screw up), and he made me chicken parm once that was really good (and so sweet). 

4) Best restaurant deal or bargain that you've found.

My favorite bar has free popcorn. . . does that count?

5) What's your comfort food?

Cheesey things.

bourgehm

1) Ice cream - what do you always order?
 I don't like ice cream anymore. It's a new thing with me. I just don't like it.

2) All time best meal you ever ate?
Oh my... Hard one. I'd say this place FI and I went to last year up at his cabin. I dont' even remember what it was called. But FI got a steak and I got a fajita, and it was AMAZING. Best thing I've ever eaten.  Or else the steak I got for my birthday dinner with FI. That was also delicious.

3) What is your BF/FI/DH's favorite meal that you make?  Does he make a meal you love? 
That I make: Shells. It's pasta shells stuffed with a bunch of stuff like sausage, cheese, sauces, spices... etc.
That he makes: Well, he makes this amazing chocolate raspberry cake (that he knows I love). That's my favorite. He doesn't really cook otherwise.

4) Best restaurant deal or bargain that you've found
Resturants.com

5) What's your comfort food?
Mac and cheese.

bsidebella

1) Ice cream - what do you always order?
A twistie soft-serve cone with chocolate sprinkles

2) All time best meal you ever ate?
I...I can't choose that!

3) What is your BF/FI/DH's favorite meal that you make?  Does he make a meal you love?
He loves my macaroni and cheese and my turkey meatloaf.

4) Best restaurant deal or bargain that you've found
There is a sushi place by me where you pay $25 a person and it's all you can eat sushi. They bring you platter after platter of sushi and they won't bring you another platter unless you eat everything off the first.

5) What's your comfort food?
Pasta. With anything. Marinara, pesto, cheese, you name it.

marleylikeair

1) Ice cream - what do you always order?
Depends where I am. I'm likely to go for a cheesecake-flavored ice cream with cookie dough if I'm at Coldstone. Pistachio when I used to go to Carvel in NY. (Theirs doesn't have the actual nuts, yay.)

2) All time best meal you ever ate?
In Paris, I had the most incredible dessert ever--and I've had some fantastic desserts! It was at Le Procope, the oldest cafe in Paris. I ordered the Profiteroles, aka puff pastry with vanilla ice cream inside, drizzled (okay, drenched) in warm chocolate sauce. You wouldn't think that would be the best dessert EVER, but when each of the three elements is handmade from scratch on-site in Paris and is absolutely perfect in taste, texture, and temperature, OH MY GOD. People throw around the word "orgasmic" to describe great food, but sorry--this one really, truly was. Fireworks went off in my brain. I forgot everything except what was in my mouth. The world stopped. Seriously.

ETA: And by oldest cafe in Paris, I mean 1686.

3) What is your BF/FI/DH's favorite meal that you make?  Does he make a meal you love?
He has a couple faves, but one of them is definitely my family's cheese souffle. We traditionally make it on Xmas day, but he requested it again, so I made it last night. He makes great eggs in the morning.

4) Best restaurant deal or bargain that you've found
Ladies' Night at a place here in town called Blackwater. Five-dollar martinis and apps.

5) What's your comfort food?
ICE CREAM. Ben and Jerry's. Also Mac & Cheese out of the box. Or grilled cheese dipped in tomato soup. Also, kettle corn and m&ms, accompanied by Fresca with orange juice in it. Also, liquor.

Beads921

1) Ice cream - what do you always order?

Cookie dough. Always. Used to be moosetracks, then I became sensitive to peanut, and that was the end of that.

2) All time best meal you ever ate? 

It was at the high-end seafood place at Disney World in Florida, and it was a risotto with scallops. Absolutely delicious!

3) What is your BF/FI/DH's favorite meal that you make?  Does he make a meal you love?

I don't know what his favourite meal is that I make. I mostly just know what he does not like. I'm pretty sure he's keen on my stir-fry, which is a good thing, because I love it and make it often. 

He doesn't cook, so I don't have a favourite meal of his. It's too bad, too, because I think he could be a very good cook. Grilling steak, which he does very well, is the extent of his talents. 

4) Best restaurant deal or bargain that you've found

We honestly never eat out, so I have no idea.

5) What's your comfort food?

Probably ice cream, which is a real problem since I'm supposed to avoid dairy, particularly when stressed. I also like pasta and rice, and when I'm in a bad mood, I'm more likely to build my meals around them.

motoLyn

1) Ice cream - what do you always order?

Mint N' Chip, so yummy in my tummy.

2) All time best meal you ever ate?

Sushi at  a local place that FI introduced me to, salmon rolls melt on my tongue like butter.  Ohhh hungry now.

3) What is your BF/FI/DH's favorite meal that you make?  Does he make a meal you love?

He loves it when I make Tater Tot Casserole, he can eat a whole baking dish worth on his own.  His Garlic soup with crusty bread, he actually made it for me last night.  I tell him this is why I agreed to marry him.  And if he ever makes me mad just make the soup and all will be forgiven. 

4) Best restaurant deal or bargain that you've found

50% off dinner at a sushi place in Laguna Beach, which sits right on the beach so we can watch the waves and the sunset.  We usually spend at least $100 for two of us. 


5) What's your comfort food?

LoL!  That would have to be mashed potatoes and gravy.  Sometimes I add some mac and cheese to it. 

ndelgaizo

1) Ice cream - what do you always order? Chocolate chip cookie dough

2) All time best meal you ever ate? the original kelly's chicken dinner in revere*yummy*

3) What is your BF/FI/DH's favorite meal that you make?  Does he make a meal you love? He loves my Dijon salmon with couscous. He has trouble boiling water... so I guess a sandwich?? lol :P

4) Best restaurant deal or bargain that you've found? I like the deals at the 99 restaurant

5) What's your comfort food? Mac and cheese made from scratch

PaigeMcC

1) Ice cream - what do you always order?

Vanilla.  I'm cool like that.

2) All time best meal you ever ate?

can't pick just one.

3) What is your BF/FI/DH's favorite meal that you make?  Does he make a meal you love?
He doesn't have a fav, so he says, but he likes my s&s meatballs, sketti and my homefries.

4) Best restaurant deal or bargain that you've found
$5 martinis and 1/2 apps at a bar in town.  NOM

5) What's your comfort food?

PB&J

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1) Ice cream - what do you always order?
Coffee - Love it with toffee in it too! mmm...
2) All time best meal you ever ate?
It's the same every year - Thanksgiving! All my favorite foods in 1 meal. Can't beat it!
3) What is your BF/FI/DH's favorite meal that you make?  Does he make a meal you love?
BF love's my pot-roasted meatloaf. He can't get enough of it. (Idea: maybe i'll make it for v-day next month!) He's not really a cook...but he can grill anything and I love that quality in a man!!
4) Best restaurant deal or bargain that you've found
restaurant.com - we get $25 certificates from there for $2 at the end of each month. We're able to try some nice places for less than 1/2 of what it would cost otherwise...great deal for date nights out!
5) What's your comfort food?
Mashed Potatoes. I love them...potatoes in general are amazing, any way you make them. I could live on potatoes I think.         yep...I totally could.

MLekathLEEN

1) Ice cream - what do you always order?
Mint Chocolate chip or Mint Moosetracks..nom nom nom.

2) All time best meal you ever ate?
Asiago stuff gnocchi's from this Italian restaurant. They are so stinky but soo goooood!! FYI- I hate when people put extra letters in words but in this case, the extra O's were necessary.

3) What is your BF/FI/DH's favorite meal that you make?  Does he make a meal you love?
I make some good cupcakes. I think I'm going to try that famous salmon dish for him this weekend. I'm too lazy to find one of the 100 threads about it so will someone post it or PM it to me
Anything he makes is amazing. I love when he cooks me stuff

4) Best restaurant deal or bargain that you've found
Restaurant.com 80% off already discounted restaurant giftcards.

5) What's your comfort food?
Mac and cheese or loaded mashed potatos.

sparkles88

1) Ice cream - what do you always order?
The most random flavor they offer, or something with both chocolate and fruit. I always regret getting a fruit flavor and not having chocolate or vice versa

2) All time best meal you ever ate?
Surf and Turf on a cruise last year during formal night. Lobster+Filet Mignon+A view of the ocean=Amazing.

3) What is your BF/FI/DH's favorite meal that you make?  Does he make a meal you love?
I make Creamy Italian Chicken in the crockpot, and he really likes that. BF doesn't cook much other than chicken and brown rice, but he did make an amazing pot roast recently.

4) Best restaurant deal or bargain that you've found
A happy hour with $6 Martinis that come with a refill and 1/2 off all the food on the menu

5) What's your comfort food?
Probably Mac & Cheese.

niknik15

1) Ice cream - what do you always order?
mint chocolate chip is my go to, but lately I have been going to yogurt places where you can put anything in your bowl and I usually get a little of everything. If I go to a marble slab then its cheesecake with oreo and strawberries.

2) All time best meal you ever ate?
A couple weeks ago I went to a neighborhood italian place (Milano's) and got this chicken dish which was to die for. It was a chicken breast sliced in two then cooked. So they were crispy (I'm not a big fan of the texture of most meat). Then there was ricotta between them. It had zucchini, squash, sundried tomatoes and one seasoning on it. All sauteed in garlic butter. With noodles on the side. I totally wasn't expecting that much from looking at it, but I completely ignored my BF while I was eating it.

3) What is your BF/FI/DH's favorite meal that you make?  Does he make a meal you love?
I'm not sure if he has a favorite, but right now he really likes tilapia with a parmesan sauce (?) on top. His favorite dessert is an extra moist chocolate cake with andies mints in it.  Sometimes we make makhani (indian butter) chicken together and its really good.

4) Best restaurant deal or bargain that you've found
At Milano's, where I had the best meal ever, they had a coupon where you buy a meal and get another for 2.99. Thats when we started going there, but now the coupon has changed to 4.99. 
 
5) What's your comfort food?
Ice cream by far! Although potatoes (usually waffle fries) or any type of pasta are a pretty good substitute.

Elle1036

1) Ice cream - what do you always order?
Blue Bell (a Texas creamery -- not sure if you weirdos in the rest of the country have it) has amazing seasonal flavors.  Blackberry cobbler, key lime pie, peaches n cream....  ahhhh

2) All time best meal you ever ate?
My favorite meal lately is the crabcake eggs benedict at this little brunch place.  Love.

3) What is your BF/FI/DH's favorite meal that you make?  Does he make a meal you love?
We don't cook often, but he loves when I make Turkey Piccata.  He's pretty good with a grill.  I should buy him one.

4) Best restaurant deal or bargain that you've found.
I don't pay too much attention to this, but last night I went to a place with 50 cent beers and $2 hotdogs.

5) What's your comfort food?
Hamburgers.

sparkles88

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_not-engaged-yet_wednesday-slump-1?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special%20Topic%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:136Discussion:f0886aa9-1760-4cbd-9b5b-b9cb66c6d031Post:75b0265c-81f8-441a-95c3-3984e8399a8e">Re: Wednesday Slump</a>:
[QUOTE]1) Ice cream - what do you always order?<strong> Blue Bell (a Texas creamery -- not sure if you weirdos in the rest of the country have it) has amazing seasonal flavors.  Blackberry cobbler, key lime pie, peaches n cream....  ahhhh </strong>2) All time best meal you ever ate? My favorite meal lately is the crabcake eggs benedict at this little brunch place.  Love. 3) What is your BF/FI/DH's favorite meal that you make?  Does he make a meal you love? We don't cook often, but he loves when I make Turkey Piccata.  He's pretty good with a grill.  I should buy him one. 4) Best restaurant deal or bargain that you've found. I don't pay too much attention to this, but last night I went to a place with 50 cent beers and $2 hotdogs. 5) What's your comfort food? Hamburgers.
Posted by Elle1036[/QUOTE]

I think Blue Bell is only a Texas thing. BF has family in Texas, and we visit them every summer. They buy us gallons of Blue Bell. Blackberry Cobler and Birthday Cake are the best!

Elle1036

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_not-engaged-yet_wednesday-slump-1?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special%20Topic%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:136Discussion:f0886aa9-1760-4cbd-9b5b-b9cb66c6d031Post:eef7932f-fa30-45ff-a0fb-589c8ce89ff1">Re: Wednesday Slump</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Wednesday Slump : I think Blue Bell is only a Texas thing. BF has family in Texas, and we visit them every summer. They buy us gallons of Blue Bell. Blackberry Cobler and Birthday Cake are the best!
Posted by sparkles88[/QUOTE]

I used to live in Louisiana, and we had it there, too, but that might be the extent of it.

Anyway, the Blackberry Cobbler... YES.  I have dreams about it sometimes.

PolkaDotBella

1) Ice cream - what do you always order?
 I love Ben and Jerry's phish food ice cream or their chocolate chip cookie dough. I love to eat the ice cream and leave the chocolate fish or cookie dough for last then eat those...

2) All time best meal you ever ate?
 The best meal ever was a 1/2 pound hamburger and a blue moon beer after a long all day hike. We got back to our campsite and after the campfire was reduced down to coals, the bf made the hamburgers over it... so yummy and delicious! I've never had a better meal in my life!

3) What is your BF/FI/DH's favorite meal that you make?  Does he make a meal you love?
 He loves loves loves my manicotti and my turkey meatloaf. I love it when he bbq's steaks for us on the charcoal grill.

4) Best restaurant deal or bargain that you've found?
 We don't really eat out a lot, but there is a really cheap sushi place by us that is really good!

5) What's your comfort food?
 Potatos! Baked potatos, mashed potatos with gravy or french fries....

calindi

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_not-engaged-yet_wednesday-slump-1?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special Topic Wedding BoardsForum:136Discussion:f0886aa9-1760-4cbd-9b5b-b9cb66c6d031Post:18e9cf6e-6549-4d95-8da5-2702430afc5e">Re: Wednesday Slump</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Wednesday Slump : I used to live in Louisiana, and we had it there, too, but that might be the extent of it. Anyway, the Blackberry Cobbler... YES.  I have dreams about it sometimes.
Posted by Elle1036[/QUOTE]

We have it in South Florida.

And I don't like it much.  Sorry!

Elle1036

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_not-engaged-yet_wednesday-slump-1?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special%20Topic%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:136Discussion:f0886aa9-1760-4cbd-9b5b-b9cb66c6d031Post:f34b9a33-69cc-4562-b1ce-7b298a6adc16">Re: Wednesday Slump</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Wednesday Slump : We have it in South Florida. And I don't like it much.  Sorry!
Posted by calindi[/QUOTE]

Oh, Cate, you hurt me so much sometimes...

leia1979

1) Ice cream - what do you always order?
If I'm at Marianne's in Santa Cruz (best ice cream EVAR), I get the cocoanut fudge. It's coconut ice cream with a rich fudge ribbon. Yum!

2) All time best meal you ever ate?
Oh gosh, I don't know. The food from Rapanui Island Cafe on the Big Island of Hawai'i was really good. I also love the butterfish from Roy's. Also the coconut shrimp from Market Broiler is one of my favorites.

3) What is your BF/FI/DH's favorite meal that you make?  Does he make a meal you love?
I'm not sure if he has one. I've never asked. My favorite that he makes is poke (if you haven't had that, it's raw ahi tuna with sea salt, spices, and red seaweed).

4) Best restaurant deal or bargain that you've found
Probably this yummy south Indian place. I can get a ton of food for $20 (enough to feed three people).

5) What's your comfort food?
Pasta. Or enchilads from the Mexican place I've been going to since high school.

sparkles88

I guess Blue Bell covers more ground than I thought. I just know people from Texas are awfully proud of their Blue Bell and call it a "Texas Thing."

calindi

Anyone heard of Newport Creamery?  It's a Rhode Island company, similar to Friendly's (please tell me you've heard of Friendly's at least).  Their ice cream is my comfort food - I love that stuff!

There's a little ice cream store near me that we like a lot, too.  They make ice cream with tropical fruits - delicious!

LizzyTish88

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[QUOTE]Anyone heard of Newport Creamery?  It's a Rhode Island company, similar to Friendly's (please tell me you've heard of Friendly's at least).  Their ice cream is my comfort food - I love that stuff! There's a little ice cream store near me that we like a lot, too.  They make ice cream with tropical fruits - delicious!
Posted by calindi[/QUOTE]

mmm Newport Creamery and Somerset Creamery are soo good!

Elle1036

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[QUOTE]I guess Blue Bell covers more ground than I thought. I just know people from Texas are awfully proud of their Blue Bell and call it a "Texas Thing."
Posted by sparkles88[/QUOTE]

People in Texas are awfully proud of a lot of things... Blue Bell... the Bush family... Shiner Bock...  trucks...  it's kinda ridiculous.

motoLyn

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[QUOTE]1)3) What is your BF/FI/DH's favorite meal that you make?  Does he make a meal you love? I'm not sure if he has one. I've never asked. My favorite that he makes is poke (if you haven't had that, it's raw ahi tuna with sea salt, spices, and red seaweed).
Posted by leia1979[/QUOTE]

Best poke ever! was at a Hawaiian market on Oahu near Kailua beach.  Stopped there for snacks and I couldn't help buying a poke that they made fresh that morning and packaged into a plastic box.  Ate it straight with a fork and came back the next day for more. 

Sosteadilygo

1) Ice cream - what do you always order?
Cookie dough or Moose Tracks.. o gosh I want ice cream so badly now, but we are in the middle of a snow storm!!

2) All time best meal you ever ate?
My veggie pot pie is pretty awesome, I dig this vegetarian/vegan restaurant around here, some of their dishes are ah-mazing.

3) What is your BF/FI/DH's favorite meal that you make?  Does he make a meal you love?
 BF really likes Naan bread pizza.

4) Best restaurant deal or bargain that you've found
 Restaurants.com is pretty good, groupon is good too!

5) What's your comfort food?
 Mac & cheese, hands down. It's my weakness!

[Deleted User]

1) Ice cream - what do you always order?
I usually stick with cookies & cream. Sometimes I order coffee.

2) All time best meal you ever ate?
Dinner with my Mom at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse. Mmmmm.

3) What is your BF/FI/DH's favorite meal that you make?  Does he make a meal you love?
I don't really cook. But once BF and I move in together I want to try making him shrimp and grits. And he makes this thing he calls pizza loaf. Kinda a mix between a calzone and stromboli. I could eat it every single day.

4) Best restaurant deal or bargain that you've found
I just found a restaurant that has flounder for $6.95 on Tuesdays. I have to see if its any good.

5) What's your comfort food?
I love a good open faced roast beef sandwich. With gravy on the fries too.

bethsmiles

1) Ice cream - what do you always order?
I prefer frozen yoygurt and I love vanilla, some people thinks it boring but its just so good

2) All time best meal you ever ate?
Hmmm...thats a hard one. I really really love just a good burger. There is a place in my hometown that makes the BEST BBQ Bacon Cheese Burger. Its amazing!

3) What is your BF/FI/DH's favorite meal that you make?  Does he make a meal you love?
I make spicy chicken fajitas and he LOVES them. Pretty much anything BF makes is amazing. He is a FANTASTIC cook. Everyone always tells him he should've gone to cullinary school and become a chef.

4) Best restaurant deal or bargain that you've found
We just went out to pizza with a couple of friends last weekend where the pizza was really good and insanely inexpensive.

5) What's your comfort food?
Hmm...i love doughnuts. they don't fit into my diet at all but I'm addicted to them. I'm sad I can't have them anymore.

luvdncn90

1) Ice cream - what do you always order? Chocolate chip cookie dough...mmmmm

2) All time best meal you ever ate? BF took me to The Melting Pot for our 1 year anniversary and it was seriously amazing. Although I will say the dessert was the best part. Chocolate brownies and Strawberries dipped in white and milk chocolate fondue.....I just died and went to heave.

3) What is your BF/FI/DH's favorite meal that you make?  Does he make a meal you love? He's a big fan of my Chicken enchiladas and my chicken in general. He's so adorable when he cooks but not a lot of it is edible  He tries though!

4) Best restaurant deal or bargain that you've found? This little chinese place in his hometown. They have the best Chinese and it's so cheap!

5) What's your comfort food? Anything chocolate. I am a big sweets fan.