• Made a delicious seafood stew today using bloody mary mix as the base. Pretty spicy but very good. Gotta love crockpot cooking! #

• Chefs are tweeting out entire recipes? I never thought of that. Interesting idea. #food #
• @BrentSpiner I never would’ve guessed morality tale either. I learned Twitter makes a great story telling medium. I kept checking 4 more. in reply to BrentSpiner #
• I don’t really see the average person ever calling the Sears Tower by any other name.http://bit.ly/yBR9p #searstower #
• Ruby Tuesday has a surprisingly good salad bar. It rivals Charlie Browns. #
• Is Jimmy Fallon really doing a sketch that’s just a big commercial for Bing.com? I’m sure Google is running scared. Yeah right. LOL #

Apparently today is International Sushi Day. It sounds like a made-up holiday to me but do you really need an excuse to eat sushi? So go out and get yourself some tuna maki or something. Just watch the wasabe.

• Practicing my Asian cooking and making a chicken stir fry. #
• The irony is overwhelming. I’m sitting here cleaning out and disposing of my old cassette collection while listening to my iPod. #

• Hiliarious piece from The Onion – Franz Kafka International Airport - http://bit.ly/2SrdbJ #
• Sugar-free peeps FTW! I can finally eat Peeps again even if they don’t actually taste much like the real thing. http://bit.ly/c6gO #

• Spent the day making corned beef and cabbage and the evening eating it. Happy Saint Patrick’s Day a few days early! #
• Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! Listening to Irish music all over today. Comcast ch. 401 at home, XM ch. 15 in the car, iPod at work. #
• Nobody beats Buca di Beppo’s tiramisu. Even a diabetic can’t resist its rummy goodness.http://bit.ly/B4bZH #
• 35 degrees and snowing. This is my kind of Spring! #

• Dinner tonight at the new BBQ place in Bellmawr. Food was really good.http://www.smokendudesbbq.com #
• Sitting in Wachovia bank. Now I remember why I do all my real banking online. #

• Why yes, adding a 10-20 kb digital signature to every e-mail will fill up my Inbox 10x faster. Ugh. #
• Made a delicious linguine with clam sauce tonight. I need to get back to cooking more often. #

• It’s totally impossible to walk into Trader Joe’s and buy only the one item you went in for. Cheese curds anyone? How about wheat croissant? #
• RT @levarburton: seriously moving forward with an idea for a new version of a Reading Rainbow like show. Webisodes for adults. – how cool! #

• @levarburton I’d definately subscribe in reply to levarburton #

• I’m not sure how much I’m going to be posting to this but slowly getting it set up with my phone, blog, etc. #
• This is a test post to see if my blog interface is working. Nothing to see here. Go over to http://www.michaelgatti.com/blog to see if it worked. #
• Yet another test. This one to see if my posts from my cell work. You’ll see a real post from me eventually! #
• Never liked Bob Evans. Went back again because they gave us free coupons after bad service. Food still stinks. Guess I learned my lesson. #
• Why is the lure of CVS ExtraBucks so irresistible? #

We all know what Thanksgiving dinner means. It means cooking a turkey, some stuffing, a variety of vegetables, probably some sweet potatoes and biscuits. Oh and don’t forget the cranberry sauce. Dessert brings pumpkin pie and maybe some egg nog to start off the holiday season.

You’ve eaten this combination every year of your life but do you know why? Check out this article on CNN to learn more about this holiday tradition.

Happy Thanksgiving!

A few posts ago I promised a brief review of the restaurant that I went to in Lancaster last weekend. The restaurant was an Amish buffet called The Family Cupboard. You can also order meals, but we went for the buffet. Most buffets are basically a smorgasbord of mediocre food. We were leery that this would be the same. We had picked it out randomly from the Internet.

When we walked in and saw that there was a fair number of Amish/Mennonite folks eating there, we became more confident that the food would be good. As it turns out, it was really good. I went back for three plates plus dessert. There was a delicious meatloaf, buttered noodles that were clearly homemade and definately from a PA Dutch/German recipe. These sat alongside glazed ham, stuffing and seafood, pasta lima beans and on and on. The salad bar was your usual salad bar. I was glad to see it was all fresh and crispy, but what really made it special was a delicious house dressing.

For dessert, there was Turkey Hill ice cream as well as an assortment of desserts, but but what really caught my attention was the pies. I had a piece of pecan pie (my favorite) which wasn’t so great, but I went back for another piece and selected shoo-fly pie. It was delicious!

You can view their menu and get directions at FamilyCupboard.com.

Here in New Jersey when we think of a delicious breakfast, the mind immediately conjures images of a diner. I’m particular partial to a bacon and cheese omelet, with hash browns, some toast and a bottomless cup of diner coffee. However, sometimes you don’t have time to spend in a diner. That’s where my second favorite breakfast place comes into play. I like just about anything from McDonald’s breakfast menu, but the item that most people associate with McDonald’s breakfast is the Egg McMuffin. It was created by Herb Peterson in 1972. After 36 years and more sandwiches sold than he ever imagined, I’m sure, Herb passed away at the age or 89.

Some people’s legacy is on a headstone, Herb’s will live on on the McDonald’s menu board.

Read his obituary on CNN.

I think the post title really says it all. What else can I say, really?

Check it out at the Emeril Blog.

I enjoy trying new restaurants. Just last night I had a delicious dinner place that appeared pretty rough from the outside but had delicious food. However, I’m not sure I’d make it past the “front door” of the restaurant in this article from the Daily Mail. You are surved dinner while sitting at a table which is suspended 150 off the ground. It hangs off the boom of a crane. You and 21 other folks site with nothing but air under your feet as you eat a gourment meal.

The reporter who wrote the article couldn’t even bring herself to eat because of the height issue. There’s a good chance I’d have the same problem!