100 Things 1: Dinner at Sun Breads Bakery
I think I've hit upon what I'd like to blog about for the 100 things challenge. I've picked #56 on this list: 100 Things I Tried for the First Time. I've officially contracted for the challenge here.
I chose this because 1) I'd really like to do the challenge, to spark more blog entries; 2) I've been thinking I need to find something new to absorb my energy, now that I've stopped doing karate. And what better way to find something than to try a lot of new things? 3) temperamentally, I tend to be rather a stick-in-the-mud. I tend to go back to the same restaurants over and over and order the same favorite dish over and over. I need to stretch myself 4) I think this is an important thing to be mindful about as I age. I don't want my world to get smaller as I get older. That's one thing I admire a great deal about my own parents: they're always willing to try new things (this is a couple in their 80s who just got back from a trip to the Dominican Republic where they were installing bios sand filters to give the people down there clean drinking water.
Coincidentally, last night when trying to come up with something to do on my Friday night out, I was feeling fretful about doing the same old same old. I was determined to find a new restaurant. It took awhile of poking around on Google maps, but I eventually found a restaurant near my old dojo that has just added a dinner menu. I've stopped there to pick up coffee and pastries a couple times, but this was the first time I had the opportunity to try dinner there. So this will be my first 100 things entry: Dinner at Sun Street Breads.
The space is quite lovely, and they have seating outside, too, although last night I chose to sit inside. Disconcertingly, it's also the former site of our Snyders drugstore, so whenever I go up to the counter I always feel like I should be ordering a prescription.
I was seated immediately, and the service was very friendly. I ordered the 'Latin Cowboy' - steak, arugula, peppers, chimichurri sauce on toasted baguette. I chose a side salad. It was very simple, just romaine with a nice rather sweet vinaigrette. Since this place is also a bakery, breads are the star of much of the menu. The sandwich was good, albeit slightly awkward: a bit too tough to use a knife and fork, and slightly too big to pick up and take a chomp from it without stretching the jaws really REALLY wide. But it was tasty--the meat nicely rare.
Well, that was easy, and not too far out of my comfort zone. Leave me a suggestion if you have any ideas for what I might do for future entries.
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I chose this because 1) I'd really like to do the challenge, to spark more blog entries; 2) I've been thinking I need to find something new to absorb my energy, now that I've stopped doing karate. And what better way to find something than to try a lot of new things? 3) temperamentally, I tend to be rather a stick-in-the-mud. I tend to go back to the same restaurants over and over and order the same favorite dish over and over. I need to stretch myself 4) I think this is an important thing to be mindful about as I age. I don't want my world to get smaller as I get older. That's one thing I admire a great deal about my own parents: they're always willing to try new things (this is a couple in their 80s who just got back from a trip to the Dominican Republic where they were installing bios sand filters to give the people down there clean drinking water.
Coincidentally, last night when trying to come up with something to do on my Friday night out, I was feeling fretful about doing the same old same old. I was determined to find a new restaurant. It took awhile of poking around on Google maps, but I eventually found a restaurant near my old dojo that has just added a dinner menu. I've stopped there to pick up coffee and pastries a couple times, but this was the first time I had the opportunity to try dinner there. So this will be my first 100 things entry: Dinner at Sun Street Breads.
The space is quite lovely, and they have seating outside, too, although last night I chose to sit inside. Disconcertingly, it's also the former site of our Snyders drugstore, so whenever I go up to the counter I always feel like I should be ordering a prescription.
I was seated immediately, and the service was very friendly. I ordered the 'Latin Cowboy' - steak, arugula, peppers, chimichurri sauce on toasted baguette. I chose a side salad. It was very simple, just romaine with a nice rather sweet vinaigrette. Since this place is also a bakery, breads are the star of much of the menu. The sandwich was good, albeit slightly awkward: a bit too tough to use a knife and fork, and slightly too big to pick up and take a chomp from it without stretching the jaws really REALLY wide. But it was tasty--the meat nicely rare.
Well, that was easy, and not too far out of my comfort zone. Leave me a suggestion if you have any ideas for what I might do for future entries.
{Take the 100 Things challenge!}
This entry was originally posted at http://pegkerr.dreamwidth.org/1607293.html. There are
comments on the post.