• @ebrantner Congrats! in reply to ebrantner #
• Cooked the steelhead trout tonight with an orange shallot sauce. Turned out well but I need to cut the sweetness a little next time. #
• RT @patricknorton: “FCC opens up a can of regulatory whoop ass on Broadband… hope Comcast enjoyed that court win: http://bit.ly/9DCnje" #
• Tonight I went to one carnival for dinner and another carnival for dessert. Fine dining it’s not, but sure is good. #
• Went to Ninety Nine for dinner. Both the food and service were mediocre at best. #
• Don’t forget to put out non-perishable food for your mailman to collect today. No he’s not hungry, the USPS is collecting for the needy. #
• Got up extra early this morning to get stuck with a needle. The weekend can only get better from here! #
• The bloodletting is done & I stayed conscious. Now back to my regularly scheduled weekend. #

• Just got back from @longwoodgardens. 235,000 tulips are quite a site! Took over 300 pictures. Hope there’s a few keepers in there. #
• Just had a great dinner at Nunzio’s in Collingswood. Highly recommend it. They even have carpaccio. http://bit.ly/cWsZsX #
• and the towel catalog has grown again! http://bit.ly/32PTIn #
• @kfc_colonel Just tried the Double Down sandwich. Delicious! Finally a sandwich sans bread. Should make it a permanent menu item. #
• RT @awanj: “Turn your trash into treasure for our animals! http://bit.ly/bcSb1K" – Easy way to help. Donate stuff you’d normally throw away. #
• Finally getting a haircut. Trying to minimize my chance of being mistaken for a large shaggy dog. #
• Just stopped at what I thought was a farmer’s market. Turned out to be an environmental fair. Big fail. What a disappointment. #

• http://twitpic.com/k5kt6 – The Pub is still one of the best restaurants around. Truly one of a kind. #

• 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 #

• 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. #

• 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? #

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.

A real sign that New Orleans is getting back on it’s feet after the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina is that Emeril Lagasse’s restaurants have announced an reopening schedule. The first one will reopen in December.

Check out the details here.

I just read in the Emerils Blog that Jesse James (of Monster Garage on Discovery Channel and proprietor of West Coast Choppers) is opening a burger joint in Long Beach, CA. To answer the obvious questions, yes the burgers will be shaped like iron crosses and yes the waitresses will all have tattoos. It will be called Cisco Burgers.