foodie*

I might be redundant about this but...
I LOVE Food!


So here is a lil taste of what I had today.
I went out tonight for a dear friend's birthday at Baton Rouge.  I have only been there once before and could not recall how the experience was.  This one I will remember though, because it was quite a delicious one =)


The setting of Baton Rouge has set the mood with the very dim lighting.  The structure of the interior as well as the furniture make me feel like there should be a live band and an open floor for those who want to dance to the music.  Might be weird...but when I think about the set up...that's what I think of hahaha.


As well it was quite loud when we were there so it became difficult at times to hear what someone was saying.
I took a few photos so that you can share in the experience to some extent. 


Baton Rouge Mardi Gras Prix Fixe Menu
Appetizer - Jambalaya Cajun Soup
Main / Entree - BBQ Pork Back ribs

Going clockwise: Juicy fall-right-off the bone pork ribs, delicious sweet potato fries, one of the best coleslaw I've had, and the sauce which I used for the fries. 

The portions are pretty generous...which is never a bad thing =)

Dessert - Bourbon Banana Bread

Bourbon Banana Bread (left), Key Lime Divine (right)

+ also got a the "Baton Rouge" burger

(I didn't eat this all to myself... =))
One thing I will say though, the dessert was not good at all.  We had a taste of 4 different types of desserts they offered, and none impressed me.

This is the picture of the other two desserts we tried.  (They brought it out for the birthday boy, and some of us think that these are just left over pieces hahaha.)

Tomorrow...or I guess really today, is Superbowl Sunday! So I've decided to have a few friends over to watch the game.  I'll be preparing crispy juicy wings with a lil spice as well as blue cheese sauce and nachos "the works".  I'm at least hoping that this will all turn out well since it's my first time trying the chicken wing recipe =).  I already did the prep work for the wings, and I was going to record the whole process from start til game time but I forgot to for tonight.  I'm going to update with pictures and the recipe I followed. 


I'm looking forward to the outcome of tomorrow's cooking session! =) haha.
Hope you are too~

The Start of Casual Fridays

It's pretty late, but I was hoping to start this yesterday so I'm already a day behind.


There are 3 things that I will be sharing here for the most part:
1. Food: I absolutely love food.  I love to try new foods and wish I had some more time to spare to try cooking more varieties of foods other than pasta, fried rice, and chicken.  I might post some recipes or share some restaurants I enjoyed...I'm not that much of a food critic since I LOVE food and eat almost anything (yes there a few items that I do not like to eat....one of those are dates).
2. Sports: I absolutely love sports.  I love to play sports, watch sports, hear about sports even though I don't follow a specific sport, I still learn a lot just by listening to my boyfriend and friends conversations of the game that was on last night.
3. Random interesting things: I guess this can be pretty general since it could mean anything and everything.  I do want to try and keep it interesting though.


I'll start off by a "FOOD for thought".
Recently I tried this place called Steve's.  It's fairly new since the last time I drove by it was a Korean restaurant and now it's a breakfast place (well for the most part...they do serve other foods like sandwiches and such).  Now the last place I went to for breakfast (I don't know if I should mention the name so I will not), I did not have a good experience and I had such high hopes for this place.  One: the wait for the food was very long and for breakfast food it shouldn't take that much time to make...at least not 30mins! Second: the portions were very small.  Third: the toast (which came out last) was something I was looking forward to since the main food was disappointing and how can toast go wrong?  Well it went wrong.  It seemed as though they took once slice and made it into 4 pieces unlike most places they take 2 slices and cut it in half.  On top of that, it wasn't even toasted much.  It was the worst toast.  I don't normally complain too much about food cause like I said I eat pretty much anything. But this breakfast was the worst breakfast I've ever had.  I figured that the dessert had to be at least good since they are known for their funnel cakes.  It turned out okay (was good) but Paramount Canada's Wonderland still has better funnel cakes.  Overall I would not go there again. I think they should have done a better marketing job since it was the "Grand Opening".  They could have done a promotion such as a certain discount off for the first week or so (maybe something like if a you bring in the flyer you get --% off your bill).  That could bring in more traffic and people wouldn't be so disappointed since they didn't pay for the full price, which means that customer might visit again.  Just a suggestion.
Anyhow I went off to a slight tangent as I was starting off with Steve's.  They had pretty good portions and the poutine was DELICIOUS! The whole meal was pretty good, but that poutine stood out.  It was so good. 


Well there is my thought on a good and not as good breakfast place.  There are other mentionable restaurants but it is kind of late and it's an early day for me.


Goodnight =)