Silver Diner

My blog is still as undiscovered as ever, but that doesn't mean it doesn't deserve a good update! WHOA! A sudden Buncha Crunch craving just punched me really hard in the face. But I don't have any... and if I did I probably wouldn't eat it.

Anyway, picture time. Mmm a visit to the Silver Diner (there have been MANY, but not since I've gotten into my food photography craze). Here is the yum-yum chicken noodle soup with lemonade (that somehow tastes even better here, although it's just Minute Maid Light).

It may not look like much, but trust me—delicious!!

And then here is what I ordered... I'm not sure what the hell was going through my brain ordering breaded and fried chicken tenders with breaded and fried onion rings. I think I was suffering from "not-really-sure-what-I-want" syndrome and got confused.

Oh my god!! I LOVE their honey mustard too!! Jeez.

I just liked the composition of the above pic. That's my dad eating his BLT ^_^.

I wasn't too hungry for dessert, so my friend let me have the tumbler thingy that they put the excess milkshake in. Whatever it's called. It was the Peppermint Patty shake.

I still think their new menus are blasphemous, but we had fun crossword-racing. I won (but only slightly). I think we found the same last word o_o.

Done for the night! More sometime when it's not so late.

Japanese and Cake

Aaahhh!! My blog is never gonna catch up to my life!!

Mom frosted this cake. And then I decorated it. I was actually disappointed with the end result, but the candles made it look a little better. I need to find some better way to decorate cakes... cuz a plain cake isn't quite as fun/tasty. But my decoratin' skillz are lame.

Candle forest...

And finally, I give you Sakura Japanese Steakhouse! Pretty much it's a hibachi grill place, but they supposedly also have a sushi bar. The outside of this one in Laurel was really pretty awesome. It looked like a Japanese.. diner.. though, lol. But the designs were really interesting. The hibachi meal consists of: Shoyu Onion Soup, Sakura Salad, assorted vegetables, steamed or fried rice, your choice of appetizer (chicken livers/sauteed mushrooms/teppanyaki shrimp flambe), and an entree (veggies/chicken/steak/various seafoods/some combination of the former).

Shoyu Onion Soup

Fairly good.

Sakura Salad

I really like their dressing, but they drowned the salad in it. Anyway, it's pretty much a salad of greens with tasty salad sauce.

Assorted Veggies
I was gonna take a picture of the mushrooms but I felt bashful about taking pics at first.

Sesame Chicken

So I was overall unenthused.. I think cuz this had recently opened in Laurel. Maybe it'll improve.

I was most excited to go back to the house and have CAAAAAAAAAKE!!!! The recipe was some random one online that my mom chose. With chocolate frosting.

Uh... that's basically it! Look, leftovers:

The rice and bean sprouts seemed to get even better overnight lol. But the chicken got worse (drier). Boooo.

This is how much cake WE had left!

Mata ne!!

Macaroni and Cheese

Today, mostly due to guilt of not posting (not that anyone reads this thing) I'm going to do an update. Short or extensive? Just food pictures or events too? I'm not really sure yet. Anything could happen!

Thankfully, my picture folders are well-organized and help me stay on track.

Let's start out with Macaroni and Cheese!

I never eat my mom's recipe without peas!! Is that odd?

^click for recipe^

Virgin Fest

Ok, I'm a little too tired to focus on all this picture mayhem—trying to multi-task between uploading to Webshots, posting them here, and uploading (in an organized fashion) to Facebook. But I'll blog real quick on the Virgin Festival. The pictures are the best part anyway...

First, after a lot of mayhem, we went to eat at Chipotle! I got a burrito bol. When we finally got to Virgin Fest, we occupied ourselves for a while. We saw this most hideous piece of "art" ever.

Then we saw some random people on a random contraption, but the best part of that was the band playing by them: The Grandfathers. I don't remember how they sounded, but I think pretty good? That's my go-to description.

And they had these cool huge balloons.

And then we saw The Smashing Pumpkins XD!! I got a bit of video, but this was the best picture I took =/.

Oki, exhausted. Konbanwa!

Hershey's Chocolate World

Sorry about that epic 3 day hiatus. So.. I've been pretty busy (in terms of my life, not a normal person's) and when I haven't been off doing things I'm just too lazy and worn out to blog. Firstly, continuing with the Hershey Park weekend...

We rode the chocolate tour thing, which included artificial chocolate scent, fake factory setups, and singing cows. Definitely reminiscent of a Disney dark ride lol. But also these cool candy banners! I took pics of other similar things, but they're not really worth sharing. The "Kissables" were our "free samples" cuz it's not like they've been around for almost 2 years. And they tasted crappy, too. The coating was all thick and bleh. Even the chocolate itself was... whatever. I generally boycott them anyway because my friend choked on some. My chocolate haul (right) consisted of: a small milk chocolate Scharffen Berger bar, Dagoba chai organic chocolate bar, Hershey's antioxidant milk chocolate, Reese's Caramel Peanut Butter Cups, Caramel Kit Kat, a Hershey's S'mores bar, Elvis Peanut Butter & Banana Creme Cups, a York Peppermint Patty, Hershey's Caramel Milk Chocolate sticks, Hershey's Organic Milk Chocolate, and (not pictured) Hershey's chocolate truffles kisses.

Eventually we went home. We stopped at Subway, and I got this sub! It doesn't look like much (hard to get a good pic), but it had some muchness: Honey Oat bread with turkey breast, provolone cheese, tomatoes, black olives, lettuce, and honey mustard.

Ah, yes. This is flavored water my sister picked up in Wal-Mart. She let me try one of each. I still have yet to. Except I had a sip of her Berry Pomegranate, which was nice enough.

Hershey Park (part two)

THAT'S what's for dinner at Hershey Park! Hah. Well, dessert. Um, so my sister and I rode some rollercoasters and pretty much any other rides we felt like and eventually we got to the ferris wheel.

We also did some DDR at the arcade and when we were leaving we got this Citrus-Lime Aquafina Wellness Water (or whatever it's called) but it was freakin' $3.50 (the 50 cents thanks to the credit card charge that it doesn't tell you about), and we pressed the Berry-Pomegranate button but it gave us the wrong one!!!! Gaarrrrgggh. Now I give you Roller Cowster.

Can't stop blogging. Want to, but can't. Well that was about the end of the evening (Sir Cowster), so I'll continue with Saturday's events.

We had the "Continental Breakfast" at the Best Western we stayed at, but it should've been called the Crappy Breakfast. I mean, y'know. Best Western food. Weird egg squares, Raisin Bran, cheap coffee. I don't want to know how they made those eggs.

So when we were driving around (we went by a local Wal-Mart to look for Rice Krispies Treats Cereal) we saw a lot of Hershey scenery: rollercoasters, landmarks, and those nifty streetlamps shaped like Kisses.

I'll save the Chocolate World part for even later! Yay.

Hershey Park (part one)

I'm here today to pursue my efforts to catch up! Right now I'm eating a Hershey's Extra Dark Pure Espresso chocolate square. It's very good. It actually has the little coffee bits that it advertises, however it still wasn't how I imagined. There are a lot of tiny, almost grainy bits, rather than a few bigger pieces. Which is fine, except it really was kind of unpleasant to chew sometimes. But still chocolatey good!! It reminded me of a Java Chip Frappuccino... kinda. Well, I was gonna say it reminded me of a Starbucks Hot Chocolate, but that's not even coffee.. O_o.

So, continuing with my Hershey Park extravaganza...

This bear looked so sad!! It must be tied up so those little plush-cuddling hooligans (kids) don't steal it. Or those big nasty guys that are, naturally, going to steal it and sell on ebay.

And then there was lunch... The wrap my mom and I split was SOGGY. Yes, SO SOGGY!!! Just because it's a Chicken Salad Wrap doesn't mean it has to be drenched with dressing and wrapped in a flimsy tortilla. It was stupid. The chips sucked too, but I still ate about half of 'em cuz that's what I do. The pink is a little off-putting too, right?

So after lunch and between riding rollercoasters we decided to visit ZooAmerica, which is basically Hershey Park's little zoo. They had a good amount of animals, but nothing too wild. They had this elk!

And a bunch of ducks (they know where to get food).

After ZooAmerica and losing some more brain cells on rollercoasters (including the best one there—STORM RUNNER), we went to check into our hotel and wind down a bit. This included Cherry Coke, Starbursts, and everyone taking their blood pressure for fun. Apparently I'm barely living.

After the hotel break we went to Chocolate World to get some chow before my parents went to their Josh Groban concert. My mom got, well...

Can you believe it? That looks awesome. My sister and I shared this fruit cup:

It's time for my Gilmore Girls and Quizno's salad blog break. But I'll be back!! Then you can see what we ate when we got back to the park, which defeated the virtue of our fruit cup choice.

I'm Lazy

I love how when my life isn't very exciting I feel like blogging like once (maybe twice) a day, but as soon as I have more interesting things to blog about I just don't wanna! ~_~

I guess because then the task seems so daunting... or it seems like a chore, rather than "I feel like blogging.. lemme take a picture of my turkey burger." lol. Whoa! I just realized that's kinda how I feel about food sometimes. I sometimes force myself to eat certain things, either because I just decide to eat it because I can (or haven't already consumed a crapload of sugar), or because it's going stale or whatever. I hate when eating feels forced. That's how I feel with leftovers and too many baked goods, even when they're something I'd normally enjoy just fine.

Actually, I just polished off some Strawberry Pocky cuz I decided I'd allow myself that and Starbucks today. But I did enjoy it, they're yummy!!

So... it's been a long last few days. Friday and Saturday I went to Hershey, then Sunday was Virgin Festival. I can't believe so much happened just last weekend—it feels kind of surreal now O_o. Let's start on Friday morning! I had to drag my ass out of bed at like 5:45am. I only got like 4 hours of sleep... SO we stopped at Starbucks!!

Early morning... atmosphere?

Tall Light Caramel Frappuccino

Hm.. actually, I'm way too lazy to write any more at the moment, so I'll tell the part where we get to Hershey 'n stuff later. 'Til then!