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I may never eat again.
We went into the city yesterday, to have dinner at this place where they bring around about a gajillion kinds of meat and they just keep bringing it until you explode. Not a huge draw for me, but they did have a decent salad bar and also there were mashed potatoes and fried bananas YUM. Plus, we had dessert.
Actually, at one point one of the waitstaff dropped a glass and it shattered into a kajillion pieces and about six people swooped in and cleared our entire table and reset it in under a minute and a half. It was like being in a racecar pit. Crazy.
So, then the glass-dropping guy spent the rest of the time we were there falling all over himself to get us anything we needed. Like we were going to be very angry about the dropping of a glass? Clearly, he had never met us before. If we got angry over things like that, we would all be furious ALL THE TIME.
Anyway, they gave us dessert free to make up for the glass incident. Woo, dessert!
At one point Lynn was all, "We'll have to take you to Maggiano's sometime to pay you all back for taking us here!" (Maggiano's is this fantastic Italian place where, if you go with a big group, they just bring you food until you explode. You may be sensing a theme in our culinary choices. May I remind you that I have two younger brothers? Alright then.). Ian responded, with a hint of panic, "Not tonight!" Which, if you know Ian, for him to complain about too much food? Let me put it this way: The only other time I have heard him say he was full was on Thanksgiving a few years ago after we'd all just eaten a huge Thanksgiving dinner. Before which, Ian had gone to his girlfriend's house and eaten a huge Thanksgiving dinner. What I'm trying to say is, the boy enjoys food.
So what did we do today, after everyone practically ate their weight yesterday? We had a barbeque. With potato salad. And cake.
Oh, my gosh. The cake. Was ridiculous. I made it, right, since I'm the baker. It was lemon. And then I went to frost it and my mom was all, "I have new frosting! With coconut in it! Use it!" so I did and things went horribly wrong. First, part of the bottom layer of the cake fell apart. Whatever, I put it back together. But this frosting was just too thick to really spread around, so it tore up the cake some more and I had to use almost all of it just to paste the layers together. So then I put the top layer on, and somehow it was much, much smaller than the bottom layer, so I had a crazy bottom-heavy cake, which would be hard to frost under the best circumstances! Let alone with this frosting! (I think the coconut frosting was so much denser than usual frosting that it weighed down the bottom layer, causing it to stick out like crazy all over the place. That's my theory, anyway.) Plus, the frosting was almost gone. So I had to get out MORE frosting, but we didn't have regular vanilla, all we had was French vanilla, which is kind of yellowish? So I used the weird yellow frosting to cover the top and to try to do the sides, which was hard because they were at two different levels, and then I dumped coconut on top.
It looked like an alien.
But everyone still ate it! And it's almost all gone.
I may never eat again.
We went into the city yesterday, to have dinner at this place where they bring around about a gajillion kinds of meat and they just keep bringing it until you explode. Not a huge draw for me, but they did have a decent salad bar and also there were mashed potatoes and fried bananas YUM. Plus, we had dessert.
Actually, at one point one of the waitstaff dropped a glass and it shattered into a kajillion pieces and about six people swooped in and cleared our entire table and reset it in under a minute and a half. It was like being in a racecar pit. Crazy.
So, then the glass-dropping guy spent the rest of the time we were there falling all over himself to get us anything we needed. Like we were going to be very angry about the dropping of a glass? Clearly, he had never met us before. If we got angry over things like that, we would all be furious ALL THE TIME.
Anyway, they gave us dessert free to make up for the glass incident. Woo, dessert!
At one point Lynn was all, "We'll have to take you to Maggiano's sometime to pay you all back for taking us here!" (Maggiano's is this fantastic Italian place where, if you go with a big group, they just bring you food until you explode. You may be sensing a theme in our culinary choices. May I remind you that I have two younger brothers? Alright then.). Ian responded, with a hint of panic, "Not tonight!" Which, if you know Ian, for him to complain about too much food? Let me put it this way: The only other time I have heard him say he was full was on Thanksgiving a few years ago after we'd all just eaten a huge Thanksgiving dinner. Before which, Ian had gone to his girlfriend's house and eaten a huge Thanksgiving dinner. What I'm trying to say is, the boy enjoys food.
So what did we do today, after everyone practically ate their weight yesterday? We had a barbeque. With potato salad. And cake.
Oh, my gosh. The cake. Was ridiculous. I made it, right, since I'm the baker. It was lemon. And then I went to frost it and my mom was all, "I have new frosting! With coconut in it! Use it!" so I did and things went horribly wrong. First, part of the bottom layer of the cake fell apart. Whatever, I put it back together. But this frosting was just too thick to really spread around, so it tore up the cake some more and I had to use almost all of it just to paste the layers together. So then I put the top layer on, and somehow it was much, much smaller than the bottom layer, so I had a crazy bottom-heavy cake, which would be hard to frost under the best circumstances! Let alone with this frosting! (I think the coconut frosting was so much denser than usual frosting that it weighed down the bottom layer, causing it to stick out like crazy all over the place. That's my theory, anyway.) Plus, the frosting was almost gone. So I had to get out MORE frosting, but we didn't have regular vanilla, all we had was French vanilla, which is kind of yellowish? So I used the weird yellow frosting to cover the top and to try to do the sides, which was hard because they were at two different levels, and then I dumped coconut on top.
It looked like an alien.
But everyone still ate it! And it's almost all gone.
I may never eat again.