What’s for dinner tonite!

[ShhhhhDougsHere]

@SenorNoob I agree @Uncle Gump does have a way with food.

I still wish he had a spare room I could move into and become his food compactor for all is leftovers.

Welcome to TheRangerStation @Gunfighter97

I figured there's no need to post pictures of my dinner tonight.

I'm eating cold Hotdogs with a glass of milk and some cashews on the side.

 

[ShhhhhDougsHere]

Now I'm beating a Hershey's bar with almonds in it.

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

Using a stick?

 

[Curious Hound]

Now I'm beating a Hershey's bar with almonds in it.

That's chocolate abuse.

 

[ShhhhhDougsHere]

That's autocorrect spelling.
I originally wrote eating a Hershey's bar with almonds.
Then autocorrect spelling took over and you see the results.

 

[JoshT]

No pictures, ate at the DC Hard Rock Cafe for lunch, the Tupelo Chicken. Then got roasted chicken with slaw and Amish potato salad from the Safeway down the road from the hotel for supper.

Sad to say, but the meal from Safeway was better. Maybe a burger from Hard Rock would have been better, but I wasn't in the mood for a burger. Might give it a second chance before I head back home.

 

[ShhhhhDougsHere]

Thanks for the heads up on the food at the DC Hard Rock Cafe.

Happy travels.

 

[JoshT]

Thanks for the heads up on the food at the DC Hard Rock Cafe.

Happy travels.

It wasn't terrible, but should have been a lot better for the price. "Tupelo Chicken" is fried chicken tenders, and honestly they could have come out of the freezer section of your local cheap grocery store. Chicken was edible, the fries and what ever the add on "spicy shrimp" were good. Might have been biased due to my mood, since I had been on my feet too long and way overloaded on people at the Natural History Museum.

I think tomorrow's lunch will be Lincoln's Waffle Shop. Small diner type place right across the street from the Ford Theater (which is next door to Hard Rock) and beside the Petersen house. Plan is to do Ford's Theater tour in the morning, eat dinner, then have tickets for Air and Space museum at noon. Not sure what to do about supper. Want something good, but also don't want fancy dining or to pay $50 for a meal and that appears to be easy to do here.

If all else fails, I found the local McDonalds on the way back to the hotel today. .

 

[ShhhhhDougsHere]

@JoshT
Sounds like a good plan to me.
The best part of your latest post is that you acknowledge you may be biased because of other things that was happening in your life at the time.

Being down to earth enough to know when you might not be at your best and admit it to yourself and everyone else is always a good thing in my opinion.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Chicken California. Shredded chicken with grilled onions and provolone cheese with a shot of Ranch on a toasted hoagie roll. I didn’t make this one, my buddy Paul did for his cookout last night. I will be trying this out on my own I’m sure

 

[Uncle Gump]

Sadly... most restaurant food... chain type restaurants... is pretty bad any more. Also way to expensive.

At dinner the other night... my mom looked at my wife and said "you do know how good you have it don't you"? To which she replied... "hell yes I do momma... pass me the green beans with bacon please".

Mom then said... since I got here on father's day... you've cooked every night except three.

We ordered Chinese one night. It's kinda... meh... but the best or small town has. Then I mentioned chicken fried steak... mom took us to Cracker Barrel. My plate was awful. There is no steak to it anymore. Some thin pressed out burger patty that surely arrives breaded and frozen. Hash brown casserole was inedible. I'd guess the fried apples are dumped from a can and nuked too. I really wanted to tell them but didn't. Then another night we went and tried pancake breakfast for dinner at the same Cracker Barrel. For sure... worse then chicken fried steak a couple weeks prior. Flecks of burnt something all over my pancakes... and some country ham I wouldn't even take home to feed my dog.

Spoke to the manager this time and said never again would i come there. Said to me while taking my money... that she was sorry about my experience and hoped I had a better day.

My mom told me on the ride home she now knows she can never take me out for dinner.

I honestly cook dinner over 300 nights a year. I don't mind... it's just better and far better for you.

 

[Gunfighter97]

Resort town near where I live has a lot of restaurants that are either 6/5 stars or terrible depending on what you order. One pizza place has an amazingly well prepped pepperoni and olive pizza. The other place, the same pizza is terrible, but their meat lover pizza is to die for. I dont get it.

There is one place tucked away that has the best fries in town, and its not even a competition. They're horrendously expensive. I went there once with the intent to splurge. I ordered their signature burger, less produce, upgraded to a double with extra cheese, further upgraded to elk patties. The burger was over $50. Yes it came with a drink, and a side of their amazing fries.

After gorging myself for half an hour, and making it all disapear, I contemplated the value of what I had just consumed. The fires, manifique. The burger was not the best I have ever had, but was undeniably a five star, gourmet burger. Top ten for sure. I had no complaints. It even came with a wood scewer to aid in eating such a jaw stretcher special (which was a thoughtful touch, it was not pictured on the menue and another normal burger I saw served did not have one). It came with as much water as I could wash it all down with and just enough of their fries to leave me wanting a quarter serving more. Which was annoying.

Thats about all I can say against it. Was it worth the near $60 bill? Yes, though I'd say they command and earn their price. Would I eat there every day? Lets just say if I were one of the money bags types that lives there, I'd be built like a world record pumpkin and not a rake handle.

 

[Uncle Gump]

I'm not sure about $60 for a burger and fries.

I'm no authority on dining out though. I get fine enough dining right out of my own kitchen.

 

[Gunfighter97]

I'm not sure about $60 for a burger and fries.

I'm no authority on dining out though. I get fine enough dining right out of my own kitchen.

I agree, and neither am I. Whenever I travel I typically order the same exact build of burger every dinner from different places and compare to past experiences for fun. I have had better for far less. The only "pass" I will give them is that the entire resort town is crackhead expensive. They're one of the few actually trying to earn it though, and when your choice is a $60 gormet burger, expensive mediocre fast food or a free roadside pinecone. . . Well. . . The smell alone eventually sperates you from your coin.

 

[JoshT]

Didn't Make it to the Lincoln Waffle House or Ford's Theater today.

Did eat at a more "local" place for lunch. Hamilton's Bar & Grill. Kind of in an alley way. It's a street, but definitely has the looks of a back alley, just off of the National Mall. Simple burger and fries, but it was worth the cost and finding the hole in the wall.

Got fancy for supper. Went down to the Warf and ate at Gordan Ramsey's...

Not Hell's Kitchen, that was across the street. While I did glance at the menu, you wouldn't get me in there if you were paying. There's a Gordan Ramsey's Fish & Chips on the other side of the road, well more of a walk path. Got "Gordon's Combo" which is shrimp, chicken, fish, and "chips". Shrimp and fries were good. The Chicken batter wasn't my style, had something mixed in with the batter, but wasn't bad. Fish didn't have much going for it, that could be because it chased the chicken down.

Sorry, no pics. I like eating food too much to look at it and take a picture.