Day 20: A new level of old

Breakfast: strawberries and pineapple

Lunch: Beef stir fry and pineapple

Trader Joe's lean stew meat
red and yellow bell peppers (2 each)
1 red onion
butter
crushed garlic
Trader Joe's limeade
salt and pepper


This meal is super easy. Heat up a pan and melt some butter in the bottom. Add the garlic (however much you want depending on how strong of garlic flavor you want) and let them heat up. Add the meat and pour a bit of limeade over it. While them meat is cooking, dice the peppers and the onion. When the meat is almost done, add the onion and cook for a few more minutes, then add the peppers and cook for a few minutes more. Season with salt and pepper.

Pre-dinner: fancy cheese and an iced mocha

I went on a fancy cheese date with this lovely lady this afternoon. I'm saying it's OK because, technically, it was kinda like an appetizer to our cheat dinner. The Cheese Shop is amazing. I have no idea what we were actually eating. It's the kind of place where they rattle off all these cool names and terms and you just nod your head and say OK like you understand when really you are totally lost. But I do know that was wonderful. And of course, it had to be finished off with an iced mocha from Portola Coffee Lab.

Dinner: Black Angus Campfire Feast

We have officially reached a new level of old. We went to Black Angus. On a date. With a coupon we got in the mail. And we liked it. In fact, we looked forward to it all week. I'd love to say that was because of the date part of this, but I'm pretty sure it was also due to the coupon plastered on our fridge all week. We have sunk to a new level of parental old-ness.

I'd like to point out how proud this coupon is to inform you that you will be spending LESS THAN $20 PER PERSON. As in, you're only spending $19 dollars and 99 and a half cents. That half cent is apparently the kicker. Honestly, it's right there on the coupon. Who can pass that up?

To be honest, after eating two little pieces of that delicious bread, I was pretty much full. Could have gone home and called it a night. But that bread was followed with a sampler platter (yes, we got a sampler platter. shut up.) of fried zucchini, potato skins, buffalo chicken and shrimp. Which was followed by a Ribeye steak with garlic mashed potatoes and broccoli with cheese. Which would have been followed by a dessert; but by that point we were both already feeling like we were going to burst. So we got a cheesecake to go and brought it home for Andy's dad, who was at home searching the house for stuffed rats with Uriah.

We have seriously reached a new level of old. And I can't say I don't like it.

Back on the wagon tomorrow.