We tried out Five Guys burger place. Interesting features: free peanuts, lots of loud employees, and very expensive burgers. The burgers weren’t bad, but weren’t worth what you pay. The Cajun fries were overseasoned and kinda hard and chewy. Go to Fuddrucker’s instead. This must be one of those chains that people are crazy about because it was where they used to live.
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Vanessa invented steak served with rice cooked in coconut milk and pineapples. Well, I dunno if she invented it, but it’s not bad!
We figured out how to eat at Sadie’s pretty cheaply. Get the small nachos. It’s big enough to feed 2 adults and 2 little kids, and is about $8. I’d hate to see the large!
Evin and family came through town the other day and kindly took us to Annapurna’s. It’s a kinda veggie/gluten-free/hippie Indian food restaurant. I liked the chai and some of the food. But it seems like the concessions they have to make to gluten-free kinda ruin some of the more traditional dishes. Apparently, I loves me some gluten. Anyway, it was great fun to go there with them and we found a great portabello sammich.
On the 4th of July, we drove out into the desert and a trail to the top of some volcanic rock hills. Nice view of the city out there. Saw a millipede and tarantula. Later watched fireworks…big displays as well as illegal displays all over the neighborhood. The legal fireworks these days in a city are just sad. Would you like a fountain, a fountain, or a fountain? How about a fountain? You can’t bomb ant dens with a fountain!
I’m looking for a tall mountain bike with disc brakes so I went shopping yesterday. There’s a new Trek store on Menaul. They seem to have a good range of prices…from 200 something to the thousands. More importantly, they have a good range of sizes in store…including the elusive extra large ones.
Sean and I took a bike ride out into the desert yesterday and finally found a route without sand. The sand sucks the fun away, you see. We found where they’re piling all the volcanic rocks from all of the new development out in the desert…as well as some illegal dumping.
Extremetech has a nice article right now on building gaming PCs for various budgets. The Radeon HD 5770 sounds like it’s the card to get at the moment…if I could get myself to trust AMD’s video drivers.
The other day, Vanessa and I went to Taj Palace on Eubank…probably the best Indian food we’ve ever had. We were kinda disappointed when we saw sopapillas where the naan usually is. (eh?) But then they brought supa garlic naan to the table.  It were quite tasty.
Someone got a cake for a party that wasn’t really eaten so they gave it to us. It was a supa chocolate cake from Flying Star. They said it was a $50 cake. I can’t imagine paying $50 for a cake unless it’s for a wedding. What was it like? Have you ever seen a Boa Constrictor on a nature show swallowing an egg? It’s like that…thick and heavy with lots of rich icing…so you better have something to drink standing by.
It seems like more and more, I’ll be eating something and I’ll think…”this is missing something…Sriracha.” I dump it on the food and it tastes better, no matter what. PRO: best-tasting hot sauce ever. CON: that tiny cap clogs after a while…you squeeze the bottle harder and harder until it suddenly sprays all over your clothes and stains them with little red dots.
We went to Fastino’s for dinner last night. Â East-side Italian fast food place run by the Saggio’s people. Â Prices are high for what you get. Â $3 for a slice of cheese pizza…with no combo pizza option anywhere in sight. Â Anyway, it’s good food, I guess. Â The most interesting part is the bright red and yellow color of the little building.
I like fake foods much of the time. Â Corn syrup-based honey and maple syrup instead of the real thing, pasteurized milk instead of fresh, Jello cheesecake over the real thing…and I don’t know what the real version of Cheetohs would be…I don’t think there is one.
A friend recently bought some ginger beer that he decided he hated. He passed the remainder to us and we decided we hated it too. What to do with the remainder? Vanessa used it in combination with several other things to marinate some beef. Not bad!
Ah, finally a doughnut place on the east side of Albuquerque. Donut Mart recently opened up on Indian School and Juan Tabo. The doughnuts are light and tasty…not to mention cheaper (and closer) than Dunkin Doughnuts. I heartily endorse them doughnuts. Try the Boston Cream!
