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There were some real heavy thinkers at the Thai restaurant tonight. I was trying to enjoy my Pad Thai and do some reading. They were changing lives:

“Believing that God doesn’t exist because his followers do bad things is like…” [pause while dude realizes he has to actually come up with something] “…believing skateboards don’t exist because there are bikes.”

Well, count me as a believer. In skateboards. But not bikes.

Tags: bike, food, God, pad thai, restaurant, skateboard, thai

To read about the previous Secret Date Night, go here.

This time, I was the recipient of Secret Date Night, so that was awesome.

We began Saturday evening at Fritti. To start, we ordered the Calamari Fritti, which was light and crispy and delicious. There were super large tentacle clusters and perfectly tender rings. Really delicious. For my main I had the Frutti di Mare. It’s a cheeseless pizza topped with shrimp, scallops, calamari, and mussels. It was a little watery, most likely due to the water content of the seafood and the lack of cheese, but I loved it. Lori had the Crudo e Rucola, a pizza topped with arugula and prosciutto. Again, so good.

After dinner we headed across the street to Dad’s Garage for a performance of Song of the Living Dead. It’s a musical about love and zombies. The show was great — funny, bloody and totally inappropriate at times. Pretty much everything you’d expect. And who would have guessed that zombies could dance? If you get a chance to see this, you should. I had so much fun.

It’s awesome to have someone that knows me so well and can plan a perfect evening like this. I’m very lucky.

Tags: calamari, dad's garage, fritti, musical, pizza, secret date night, song of the living dead, zombie

We were making a giant salad last night, and wanted to add hard boiled eggs. Since I’ve never made hard boiled eggs before, I figured some Internet research was appropriate. But, what I found was that there are many different “perfect” methods. One thing I read even said you could bake them in the oven for 30 minutes. Hard baked eggs? Whatever. Here’s what worked for me.

1. Place the eggs into a pan and fill it with water, covering the eggs by 1 inch(ish).
2. Put the pan over the heat and bring it to a full boil. I did this with the lid on.
3. When you achieve the boil, turn the heat off and let the eggs sit in the pan with the hot ass water for 12 minutes, covered.
4. After the time is up, run cold water over the eggs until they are coolish.
5. Eat. Enjoy.

The yolks were bright yellow, not green/grey at all and the whites were soft and not rubbery. Delicious.

Tags: cooking, dinner, egg, food, hard boiled

Here’s what’s been going on, in an unordered list:

• We had a very successful APWBWGTTD event on Tuesday night. There were old people there. There were new people there. I’d say most people had fun. Photos.
• Lori and I went to see The Shins last night. We had excellent seats and they sounded great live. One of the best sounding live shows I’ve ever been to, I’d say. Plus they played Sea Legs, so I was happy.
• New SDXE stuff was deployed.

I guess that’s it.

Saturday night Lori took me on a romantic date to Wisteria. It was awesome.

We started the night with Kobe Beef Carpaccio. I’ve never had carpaccio, but wanted to try it after seeing Alton Brown make it, and it was as good as I expected with some mixed greens and shaved parmesan. For my meal I had the Grilled Center Cut Beef Tenderloin with fancy Mac n’ Cheese. I loved it so much I made funny faces while eating it. It might just be the best piece of cow I’ve ever eaten. If you enjoy cow, get this. Lori had the special of the day, Cajun Fried Catfish which tasted nice as well. For dessert, we split some sorbet (mango, strawberry and blackberry flavors) that was also great.

I would eat here again and go on another romantic date with Lori, if she ever wanted to invite me in the future.

I love broccoli and I like cauliflower, so I figured that I’d at least really like broccoflower. Because (love + like)/2 = really like. Mathy.

Anyway, I was wandering around the produce section and thought I’d like to try something new. Broccoflower it was. I wasn’t really sure how to prepare it, but figured the Internet would contain the recipes needed to save the day. And it did. The most delicious sounding one was curry roasted broccoflower, so it won. I think I used a little too much lemon juice, but it was still really good. To me, the broccoflower tasted and had the texture of cauliflower more than broccoli.

Lori added some curry chicken with rice and we had a meal full of goodness. We’re really kicking ass in the kitchen. It’s fun.

Tonight is grilled grouper with green beans and maybe a salad.