Tonight we went to the chiropractor. Since I don't get off work until 5:30pm, that means we arrive just before 6pm and don't get done until about 6:15. Too late to go home and fix a meal considering we go to bed at 9pm. Both of us have GERD so we have to stop eating at 7pm.
We headed over to Gateway market to get something to take home. They have great food and the menu changes just often enough to squash boredom.
Plus they have a hot bar, several soup choices and very yummy hummus along with the bonus of a grocery store setting. Oh and did I mention the onsite wood-burning oven that turns out very yummy bread and bakery items?
So we pull up in the parking lot and apparently a huge portion of Des Moines read our minds before we thought it and beat us there. Dang! No parking spaces means a very busy kitchen and a lot of sitting around before we get the yummy food.
So we headed for Kentucky Fried Chicken. Okay (rolling my eyes), I get there is NO comparison but it was on the way home and the clock was ticking.
We pull into the drive-thru (I refuse to go in, walking on greasy floors is not very appetizing to me), there is this youngish (looks 16 probably 20) girl, alone in a car with hips. The darned thing had wide flared fenders over the wheel wells and looked like a sexy woman with hips. Probably nicer hips than the skinny little blond in the car.
Anyway, she was alone in the car and took a full three minutes to make up her mind about what to order. That was annoying, how much can a skinny little girl in a car with hips eat? And the clock was ticking.
Then she started the car and the sexy deep-throated purr convinced me that those were hips and not fender flares. Anyway, our turn at the menu and we decided to get a family meal so we can get the free cake. We decided on lemon cake and tried to order the ten piece meal. Even told them what sides we wanted, they didn't have to ask. But, it turns out, you cannot have strips or boneless breasts with regular chicken in a family meal.
Don't ask me! I saw it on TV too, but they said no. So we decided to go to Arby's. Their drive-thru was not busy and it was boring. No cars with hips. But they do have that new brisket sandwich, smoked for 13 hours.
I have an issue with brisket. It needs to be tender. Period. Not chewy. Been to BBQ joints here in town multiple times and it is always hit and miss. Hard to look at a chunk of red glistening beef and tell if that one will be tender or tell if the cooking apparatus will do its job without the issues that sometimes produce mistakes that just plain taste delicious.
Anyway, Arby's new brisket sandwich. Tender, delicious. Nice, soft but not too soft bun with smoked gouda and crispy onion strings with a little bit of mayo and a nice portion of BBQ sauce. Really well balanced and just the right amount of smoke flavor.
I'm goin back for another one but not tonight, it's almost nine and my bed is calling.
joella
