It is getting expensive to eat at Outback. The salads are smaller than what they use to be. But I love those cheese fries.

Tonight is my youngest daughter's birthday, and she invited four of her friends over. We're taking them out for Chinese food, and then back here for cake.

Happy Bday to little Miss Babe (oh boy, that didn't sound right).

I had a big lunch at the Amish market, so dinner tonight is an afterthought. I'll pick up pizza for the kids.

What's the deal with the Amish and telephones? How do you call in your order?

Little Babette is the correct term.

Happy Birthday to her!

Happy Birthday Little Babette.

Chinese food...then cake?

Chinese food and a giant chocolate chip cookie cake. Thanks for the good wishes. My baby is 14 now. How the heck is that possible??

To you're baby girl SB.



Tell me about it! I wish I knew the answer. How is it possible that my babygirl is getting married next Spring? Where has the time gone?

SB, make sure that you give my niece a nice big hug from her uncle for her birthday!

Same here SB

Centi Anni

The Chinese food has been eaten, the cookie cake devoured, and the girls finally left. One of the mothers and I shared a glass of wine when she picked her daughter up. It was quite nice. Babette had a great birthday and gets to celebrate it twice more. Mr. Babe is taking her to visit her paternal grandmother on Sunday. On Monday, my cousin is flying in from Partinico and we'll be having a cake then, too.

Spoiled brat.

on another note:

Tonight I had a Italian Sub with 2x the meat

Well, Outback wasn't too bad. I had an ahi-tuna salad, then the Melbourne porterhouse. We got the obligatory bloomin' onion and cheese fries for the table. All in all, a decent meal. But Babe is right, for a chain they really got a bit pricey.

Crab linguine!

Sloppy Joes and french fries.

That sounds great, Mig.

Italian Beef Tips in a Tomato Gravy, and Green Bean Casserole

Grilling some Brats

Homemade pizza and leftover ziti.

With friends over last night, we had roast beef, garlic mashed potatoes, chicken francaise, carrots , ziti, and we ordered a couple of pizzas.

Last night's dinner was awesome. Wait this is for tonight, should I make a different thread?

My wife made her own sauce and boiled some mini farfalle pasta. Holy shit it was good. I saved the leftover sauce.

Tonight i will be having bacon,sauasage,eggs and chips!

If I had that for dinner, I might not eat for the rest of the week!

It was quite a few people. The pizzas were for some of the younger kids.

But actually yesterday I decided to take off a few pounds, and had a slice of roast beeg, a salad, and green beans. Turkey sandwich on oat nut bread for lunch and oatmeal for breakfast.

I'm cutting back on beer too for a bit.

I hate men, simply for the fact that you could eat all that, cut back on beer, and damned if you won't lose weight!!!

My cousin and her husband are visiting from Sicily. My mother treated us all out to dinner last night and the food was really great. The owner of this restaurant is Sicilian, and they were very happy to have another person to speak with!

We started with a cold antipasto and some bruschetta, then pasta in a fresh tomato sauce, a choice of chicken saltimbocca, steak or stuffed salmon, and we finished with trays of cookies and canolli. I felt like a stuffed pig.

We took them shopping yesterday and wanted to treat them for lunch. They said that they wanted hamburgers. I wanted to at least take them to a Friday's, but they insisted on McDonald's!

Barbecued rib steaks (blood rare, Miggie ), baked potatoes, spinach with garlic and olive oil and a mixed green salad with crumbled gorgonzola cheese.

MOO!!!

ugh, rare? gorgonzola?

I had spaghetti-o's!

Last night we had tomato and mozarella pasta bake!

Tonight we are having a pot roast with various veggies. The joint of beef is in the slow cooker,driving me and the dog wild

Uhm, when you actually have a meal outside of the midwest, at a restaurant that doesn't use a coloring book and crayons as a table setting, you'll be entitled to an opinion.