You Are What You Eat: January 30 through February 10
I continue to catch up. The interval includes my first travel of the year.
[1] I ate out nine times. However, six of those times were during my trip, and as noted in my resolutions this year, eating out while traveling doesn't count toward the totals.
- I was in Philadelphia for the Super Bowl party. In addition a meal in the airport en route and the usual two diners we always hit on Saturday and Sunday for breakfast, my sister and I had a snack and a lunch while we roamed Philadelphia on Friday 1/31. Most notably, Mike and Helene joined us for a fancy dinner at Amada, which is a tapas place. Most of the tapas was very good. I actually had a restaurant dessert there in direct contravention of my resolutions. Ironically it was probably the least interesting part of the meal.
- Due to the painting, M and I were without a kitchen on 2/4 and 2/5. This meant we had dinner at Deagan's and Bomba. Neither were with friends, so technically I took a resolution hit there since we ate out twice in one week. On the other hand, you try cooking in a kitchen that's in the middle of a paint job.
- On Monday 2/10, M's mother was here, and we got a pizza from Angelo's. I'm unilaterally counting family as friends.
So I had to make a few decisions because of this and a dinner we had at family back in January. As such, if I am eating at a party at somebody's house, any food like pizza ordered from take out does not count toward the restaurant total. Store bought desserts are case by case; but generally permissible. Looking at the family dinner, it would have been extremely rude to say no during a sit down meal, but at the Super Bowl weekend events I could have avoided the pop and store bought desserts pretty easily since it was buffet style. So I'm counting the latter as a small hit.
Restaurant Stats
Just Me and M, or Just Me (non-concert, non-ballgame, non-travel): 4 (+2)
-- Twice in a Week Resolution Breaker: 1 (+1)
With Friends/Family (non-concert, non-ballgame): 5 (+1)
Concert/Ball-game drinks: 3 (+0)
Travel: 6 (+6)
People over for food: 3 (+0)
[2] I made no new recipes, so the total stays at 11.
[1] I ate out nine times. However, six of those times were during my trip, and as noted in my resolutions this year, eating out while traveling doesn't count toward the totals.
- I was in Philadelphia for the Super Bowl party. In addition a meal in the airport en route and the usual two diners we always hit on Saturday and Sunday for breakfast, my sister and I had a snack and a lunch while we roamed Philadelphia on Friday 1/31. Most notably, Mike and Helene joined us for a fancy dinner at Amada, which is a tapas place. Most of the tapas was very good. I actually had a restaurant dessert there in direct contravention of my resolutions. Ironically it was probably the least interesting part of the meal.
- Due to the painting, M and I were without a kitchen on 2/4 and 2/5. This meant we had dinner at Deagan's and Bomba. Neither were with friends, so technically I took a resolution hit there since we ate out twice in one week. On the other hand, you try cooking in a kitchen that's in the middle of a paint job.
- On Monday 2/10, M's mother was here, and we got a pizza from Angelo's. I'm unilaterally counting family as friends.
So I had to make a few decisions because of this and a dinner we had at family back in January. As such, if I am eating at a party at somebody's house, any food like pizza ordered from take out does not count toward the restaurant total. Store bought desserts are case by case; but generally permissible. Looking at the family dinner, it would have been extremely rude to say no during a sit down meal, but at the Super Bowl weekend events I could have avoided the pop and store bought desserts pretty easily since it was buffet style. So I'm counting the latter as a small hit.
Restaurant Stats
Just Me and M, or Just Me (non-concert, non-ballgame, non-travel): 4 (+2)
-- Twice in a Week Resolution Breaker: 1 (+1)
With Friends/Family (non-concert, non-ballgame): 5 (+1)
Concert/Ball-game drinks: 3 (+0)
Travel: 6 (+6)
People over for food: 3 (+0)
[2] I made no new recipes, so the total stays at 11.