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[littlelotte]

Somebody slap me. Every day I realize how much more of a food/restaurant/liquor snob I become with every day that passes.

And on that note...a couple things I mentioned to our neighbors/Dan while we were out to eat tonight:

-I would have been better off ordering a Grey Goose martini than the specially named Grey Goose martini that DID NOT taste like Grey Goose at all (though the bleu cheese stuffed olives were yummy...but DAMNIT there were TWO of them in the martini and an even number of olives in a martini is bad luck). Damn everywhere for not serving my gin *pouts*

-Go out to eat on a Monday or Tuesday night (that's when all the serious food people go out). Never go out to eat on a Friday or Saturday night because the atmosphere is suddenly destroyed by the rest of the world going out to eat. Mondays and Tuesdays are the slowest nights so you get the best atmosphere, the best service, the best food, etc.

That's all of Lindsay's food rants for tonight, but it's more than I often post, so...enjoy and learn. And, Amanda? Apparently one of the cooks at Dan's restaurant used to work at Food Dance and it is cream they use in their scrambled eggs. I knew that was the only way they could be as creamy and as rich and as fluffy as they were...I'm getting decent at this identification stuff! Maybe there's hope for me in the kitchen after all! Nah...but it's cool that I can tell stuff like that.

...and now I sleep. I have the next two days off!

Comments

[realcdaae.livejournal.com]

Now you've made me hungry.

I want to try that gin, but goddamn I hate websites that blare music at me when I'm listening to my own music on iTunes.

[littlelotte.livejournal.com]

You'll never go back. It's unline any gin I've ever had before. It doesn't taste anything like any gin you've had before, yet you can tell it's gin. It's wonderful.

[littlelotte.livejournal.com]

...also, I came across a martini recipe that involves absinthe. I immediately thought of you.

[realcdaae.livejournal.com]

Please share! I shall get a bottle of Hendrick's when I next see it somewhere.

[littlelotte.livejournal.com]

Here ya go...

An Absinthe martini uses 2oz of gin, 1/2oz dry vermouth and 1/8oz Absinthe in the usual way. No garnish is specified, but a neatly trimmed piece of glace Angelica has been used

[peazgrl1545.livejournal.com]

where'd you get bleu cheese olives? those are delish!

[littlelotte.livejournal.com]

Fandangos. But, damnit, I realize just how much of a martini snob you have to be to order one at any restaurant I've ever been to. Of course, I'd never actually ordered a martini in a restaurant before. Now I know exactly what I'd order...a Bombay Sapphire martini, dry, not shaken. Probably naked.

[littlelotte.livejournal.com]

Naked because water belongs in neither gin nor vodka.

[peazgrl1545.livejournal.com]

I have just been educated. Thank you! :)

[spherulitic.livejournal.com]

Restaurant snob, eh?

I'll have to drag you to Denny's at 12:30 am on a Saturday night, and we'll see what kind of snob you are then. Hehehe...

[littlelotte.livejournal.com]

I don't exactly hold chain restaurants like that to my "snob" standards :-P I prefer Steak n Shake at 12:30 in the morning, though, myself. Or, since it's a Saturday night, Crow's Nest will be open.

[realcdaae.livejournal.com]

I cannot eat at Denny's. I cannot eat at places where there's so much salt and fat in the food I feel ill afterwards, lol.