Lucas Blackwood » Food

Frozen Pizza

Lucas — Sun, 30 May 2010 22:27:15 +0000

I am a pizza fan. I could eat pizza, pepperoni please, seven days a week. It used to be that pizza was a cheap meal but those days seemed to be long gone. So it is nice to see the pizza wars that are going on with the several large pizza chains that are here in town.

As far a frozen pizza goes, ugh……………..

Iced Tea

Lucas — Tue, 11 May 2010 22:24:54 +0000

I don’t know what I’d be drinking if we didn’t have iced tea. I was brought up on iced tea and have always preferred tea over coffee. I’m real glad that McDonalds has some great sweet iced tea on the dollar menu. That’s a bargin, with free refills to boot.

What’s for Lunch?

Lucas — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:35:01 +0000

I’m bored with burgers. I need something for lunch that is fast, inexpensive, tastes good and is healthy. I’m sick of the same old, same old. Any ideas?

Donuts

Lucas — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:00:03 +0000

Probably the worst thing you can eat for breakfast is a food that is mostly white flour, fat, and sugar. But one of the most popular breakfast foods is a donut.

So what caused this contradiction? Why did people start thinking that eating donuts was a good way to start the day?

Happy Indy Day

Lucas — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:53:01 +0000

Today is Independence Day! I’m always glad for the 4th of July, we get a three day weekend and an excuse to get together with friends and family and cook burgers on the grill! And then later we go to see the local fire department’s fireworks show. It’s always fun to go there because we bring chairs and blankets and picnic snacks and end up running into people we know and have a good time visiting there too. What makes it better is that the fire department often arranges to have some entertainment going on before the fireworks; a local band plays a couple of sets, there are refreshment stands, face painting for the kids. There is a carnival type atmosphere and the fireworks show is always a good one!

The Golden Corral – a great all you can eat buffet

Lucas — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:14:38 +0000

The Golden Corral restaurant is one of my very favorite restaurants. It is an all you can eat buffet restaurant that actually has food you want to eat! I’ve been to restaurants that advertise that they have an all you can eat buffet but when you get up to the buffet table you find only five or six items, mostly cheap fillers like macaroni and cheese or spaghetti. The Golden Corral restaurant has no options except all you can eat, and their buffet tables include several types of chicken, several types of beef, several types of fish, a lot of different veggies and fruits, shrimp, and lots of different desserts too.

My wife really likes their yeast dinner rolls that they bring to your table. I know they keep bringing them endlessly, hoping to fill you up on them, but they really are good! We know that the rolls they bring to our table have to be thrown away if we don’t eat them, so my wife brings an extra large purse with her and a large gallon size zipper style plastic storage bag with her so when we are finished eating if there are any dinner rolls left over that we didn’t eat she can bring them home with us. We don’t think that is stealing because we didn’t ASK for the rolls, they just keep bringing them! She doesn’t keep slipping rolls in her purse continuously, she just puts the leftovers in after the meal. And we know they will just get tossed out when we leave if we don’t take them. So we take them and eat them the next day. They are almost as good reheated in the microwave the next day if you wrap them in a paper towel and nuke them for ten seconds.

Not too bad

Lucas — Sat, 02 May 2009 13:20:45 +0000

Tonight we were all feeling too lazy to cook, so we decided to cook up the DiGiorno’s frozen pizza we have had in the freezer for a couple of weeks. It was the rising crust three meat pizza. I had my doubts about whether or not I would like it, but I have to tell you that it was really very good. So good in fact that I’ve put it on the shopping list to buy more. And chances are pretty good that we’ll be eating that pizza a lot more in the future instead of going to the pizza restaurant that costs double the amount that the frozen pizza cost!

I’ve tried their thin crispy crust pizza and didn’t like it at all, so I’m really glad I like their rising crust pizza! It’s nice to know I can have a few of them in the freezer for future times we don’t feel like cooking anything complicated!

Company is coming

Lucas — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 13:16:52 +0000

This afternoon we are expecting a lot of company. My wife’s side of the family is coming over for a “family day” reunion type of afternoon/evening meal. We are expecting about twelve people to come over, everyone is supposed to bring some kind of food to share with everyone else. They are supposed to start arriving around 3pm today and leave around 8pm.

So my wife is running around the house trying to get the house “company ready.” I’m going to go outside and mow the lawn and hide in the garage as much as possible so she doesn’t ask me to do anything inside the house to help.

Good time for Easter

Lucas — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:06:39 +0000

Well we got up early and went to church, dressed in our Easter Best clothes. Then we went to my uncle’s house for the family Easter celebration. They held a big Easter Egg hunt for all of the kids out in the big back wooded yard. There must have been a hundred eggs! Afterwards we ate a huge dinner, the main meat being a large spiral cut honey ham. It was delicious! After dinner, all of the family musicians pulled out their instruments and jammed for hours while the children danced to the music. It was a great party!

Eating out tonight

Lucas — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 23:21:01 +0000

Tonight we’re going to eat out – one of my favorite chain restaurants – Applebee’s. A lot of people look down their noses at Applebee’s , but I really like their barbeque riblets a lot. In fact, when I go to Applebee’s, if they tell me they are sold out of their riblets, I don’t order something else, I leave the restaurant and go eat somewhere else! So, I look forward to the chance to eat there when I can! We’re going to try to get there as close to 5pm as possible, to beat the big dinner crowd.