Just Another Waste of Space

Alright, I think I may have mentioned Mimi’s before when I went with Kadie but I feel I must mention yet again my awesome visit to this great place.

After really craving some Fazolli’s, not being able to find my wallet, then finally finding my wallet Adam and I took off to Knoxville for food.  Instead of going to Fazolli’s we went to Mimi’s Cafe in Turkey Creek and I’m pretty sure I can speak for Adam when I say we made a good choice.

The first thing we saw when we entered around 9PM was a huge plate of all the deserts they have… and man they all looked amazing.  We were seated by the manager who then sent the server to us.  Our server was very friendly and gave great suggestions for starters, main course, and dessert.

Since last night was the end of Mimi’s “Seasonal” menu Adam and I both decided to get the Lamb Shank and a starter of Fried Pickles.  The pickles are pretty much what you would expect, breaded slices of dill pickle that was dropped in a fryer with some ranch and thousand island dressing for dip.  The lamb was sooo yummy and just fell right off the bone it was beyond amazing.  It did come with broiled asparagus which wasn’t bad, but it is asparagus which I don’t really like so I tossed mine over to Adam.

At the end of our meal we had to give in and get some dessert (it was yummy when I went with Kadie so I really couldn’t turn it away this time).  Instead of getting the “Trio” dessert I got the full brownie and Adam had the Bread Pudding.  As you can see from the picture above the brownie is HUGE!  I actually couldn’t eat all of it and took half of it home to eat (as I’m writing this even).

As if that wasn’t a great visit the Manager came over to our table and gave us 4 rather large muffins to try out and suggested we visit more often.  We actually got the first muffin from the new “Seasonal” batch that starts today!

Oh, as a side note: Mimi’s Closes at 10PM on Wed and we were there well after close (I think it was about 10:30 when we left)  So we were those guys and they still gave us great service and let us leave with some extra awesome treats.

So a quick Merry Christmas to everyone (though it’s a bit late).   I got to spend my Christmas at my Mom’s with her boyfriend, my sister and my brother in law.  We had a pretty good time, the typical talking, eating, watching movies, opening of gifts visit you would expect from a family visit on Christmas.

One of my gifts was a Panini Grill, and I’ve been enjoying it quite a bit.  I’ve made a few sandwiches pictured above because well.. I was excited.  It’s super easy to use and clean and makes amazingly yummy food.  With a quick warm up time of a minute I’m able to plug it in, make my sandwich, and toss it on the grill.  Close the lid and come back in about 2 minutes to a nice grilled sandwich.

If you guys eat panini’s or have any ideas for some stuffings leave me some comments and I’ll try ‘em out.

I was pleasantly surprised today by the Management of my apartment complex today!   They came a knocking right at 1:00pm and had a lovely pizza in hand ready to give to me.

Yeah, that’s right, I gots free pizza from my apartment managers!  Now I’m sure you are all wondering “How did he manage that?”.  Well, the answer is simple.  I lived here for about a year now and offered to continue to stay for about another year.  This quickly prompted them to congradulate/thank me by giving me peace offerings.  What better peace offering could there be for a male in his early 20′s than free pizza?

Well, now that I’m done being that geeky kid in movies that blogs about every moment of his life I shall now eat my new found peace offering and start up Season 1 of Lost.

The other day I decided to make some Pasta Salad since I had a Betty Crocker box that pretty much does all the work for you.  I made it and it was yummy (pictured below).  If you haven’t tried this yet… you should.   It is as simple as boiling the noodles and mixing water, oil, and a packet together.  Seriously, anyone could do this.

Later the same day I made a much less impressive noodle dish.  RAMEN.  Yeah, you know the stuff, pretty yummy and only cost 14 cents for a case.   Anyway, I got distracted by Fable while I was waiting for my noodle to cook.  I waited so long in fact that I turned them into a noodle patty.  Looked like a huge rice-cake that was made out of noodles. (Yeah.. I grabbed a picture of this too )

I figured I would show you guys both my failure and my success.  I figure they cancel eachother out and I’m back to normal.