Stalking Danny McBride Part 2

Dear Food Diary,

So I continued stalking Danny McBride this weekend.  This time my stalking brought me to some place fancy, a wine bar called Kybecca.  I went there and had the house sparkling.  It was French, I think that means it was good.  Yeah I don't know much about wine.   But I will say if you want to feel extra fancy I recommend ordering their Artisanal Cheese Tray (a selection of cheeses) and the Charcuteries Tray (which is a selection of meats.) I also recommend the Lobster Spring Rolls which were the best spring rolls I've ever had.  Whatever you're looking for, you're sure to find something interesting.  Among their daily specials there was even spam and alligator among the ingredients.  If you are looking for a place to impress a date, Kybecca is definately the place to go.  I for one not only enjoyed myself, but I also found amusement from the thought that Danny McBride has actually frequented this restaurant.  I couldn't help but picture his character Kenny Powers from East Bound and Down taking his wife to dinner there. Oh, and I ended up with leftovers.  I enjoyed eating my leftover cheeses.  Though the blue cheese was a little strong for me.  But tasted great when I mixed it with some beef flavored Top Ramen noodles.  Top Ramen should make a steak and blue cheese flavored variety.

Anyway, thanks for reading my food diary.  This is the girl who ate Fredericksburg saying don't judge me.

Stalking Danny McBride - Part 1

WTF?!

Dear Food Diary,
I went on an adventure today.  I decided to start stalking Danny McBride.  It wasn't my fault.  I didn't come up with the idea on my own.  My boyfriend suggested it.  See Danny McBride is from Fredericksburg.  And my boyfriend came across a list of Danny McBride's favorite places to eat in his home town.  So my plan is to eat at all of them, one by one.  The next time you come to back home Danny, no matter where you eat, you'll feel my presence.  Oh you want to have some thai food from your favorite Fredericksburg Thai restaurant, the Bangkok Cafe?  Did you feel something when you walked in?  Know what that feeling is?  It's my presence.  Oh yes, it's there.

My presence is waiting for you Danny

And now for the food portion of our program.  I tried a few things from the Bangkok Cafe.  I tried their Wonton Soup, their Fresh Rolls, their Crispy Tofu Tod, and their Duck Wontons for appetizers.  It was all good but let me take a minute to describe the duck wontons properly to you.  If a serving of regular wontons had it's unborn baby genetically modified to be a super soldier in a Chinese food army, I believe this is what it would taste like.  To put it more simply they are exactly like regular won tons, only better.  For the entree I had the Bangkok Cafe Chicken, which was half a chicken specially marinated in Thai herb and garlic, served with sweet chili sauce.  It was delicious.  It was like they took the best roast chicken dish and the best roast duck dish and those had a baby that was roast perfection.

Basically there was a lot of baby having going on during my meal and it was scrumptious.


Once again, thanks for the reading my food diary.  This the girl who ate Fredericksburg saying, don't judge me.

Low Calorie Foods for the Fast Foodie

The Girl Who Ate Fredericksburg's

Top 10 Fast Foods 

All Under 450 Calories

Tasty fast food for those of us that don't want a salad but also don't want to feel guilty...

Sonic- Classic Grilled Chicken Sandwich - 450 calories

Chick Fil-a - Chargrilled Chicken Club - 430 calories

Hardees - Original Turkey Burger - 390 calories

Wendy's - Ultimate Chicken Grill - 370 calories

Burger King - Single Stacker Burger King - 370 calories

Kentucky Fried Chicken - Wedges - 290 calories

Arby's - Jr Bacon Cheddar Melt - 280calories

Mcdonald's - Ranch Grilled Snack Wrap - 270 calories

Dairy Queen - Butterscotch Dilly Bar - 200 calories

Taco Bell - Nacho Cheese Dorito Supreme Taco - 200 calories

Joe's Crab Shack

Dear Food Diary,

Today my boyfriend gave me crabs.  And not just me, my brothers too.  That's right we went to Joe's Crab Shack in Central Park.  The atmosphere was great.  There are fish hanging from the ceiling and funny signs hanging on the walls.  The food is pricey (what seafood restaurant isn't?) but delicious.  For our appetizers we had the stuffed clam shells and the sampler which came with crispy calamari, great balls of fire (Joe's version of jalapeno poppers,) and a crab dip with chips.  For an entree my boyfriend tried the classic steampot, which included crab legs, shrimp, smoked sausage, corn and potatoes for 23.49.  He let me try all of it.  Even the potatoes were good.





For my entree, I had the moonshine punch and a shark bite.  If you order a moonshine you get to keep the mason jar it comes in.  By the time I left the signs were even funnier and I had even bought a t-shirt that says "Got Crabs?"

Anyway, thanks for reading my food diary.  Once again this is the girl who ate Fredericksburg saying, don't judge me.   

The Cold War is Over

Attention All Girl Who Ate Fredericksburg Readers:

I Got My Sugar Cone!

Cold Stone sent me an e-mail with a five dollar e-gift card and then by signing up to the My Cold Stone Club I got a buy one get one free coupon.  So that's right, 10 dollars worth of ice cream for free.  The best part is a representative of the company told me that I could have my sugar cone as long as they put it on top my Cheese Cake Fantasy.  That's cheese cake flavored ice cream mixed on a cold stone with graham cracker crust crumbs, blue berries, and strawberries.  It makes me want more just typing about it.  Some people would say I'm silly for going to war over a sugar cone.  Maybe those people would say I was crazy when I told my boyfriend that I wasn't leaving Cold Stone today without my sugar cone and he might have to bail me out of jail.  Those people might be right, but those people would have missed out on a very tasty treat.

Once again this is girl who ate Fredericksburg saying, don't judge me.

Food Superstitions

In honor of Halloween the girl who ate Fredericksburg has compiled a list of Food Superstitions

1. If you're eating noodles you should never cut them.  Long noodles represent long life and cutting them means you are cutting life short.  So manners aside go ahead and slurp those noodles up.

2. When you have tea, only one person should do the pouring.  If a second person shares the task it's bad luck.

3. If you want someone to fall in love with you, forget jewelry.  Give them an orange.

4. Never hand spicy food directly to someone because it will bring discord into your relationship.  Instead place it on the table in front of them so they can pick it up.

5. If you're making a cake for Christmas, make sure everyone has a turn mixing the batter otherwise it's bad luck.  This is especially important for the single people in the family, if they don't take part they will remain unattached for another whole year.

6.  If you borrow a dish you should never return it empty.  Any good cooks out there want to borrow some of my dishes?

7.  We all know that it's bad luck to spill salt accidentally.  The remedy being to throw it over left shoulder to hit the devil in the eye.  But did you know that if you want to get rid of an unwanted visitor all you have to do is sprinkle salt behind them?  And I bet they'll leave even quicker if they see you following them around doing it. 

8.  A Russian superstition says that if you someone finishes your unfinished food they will be able to know your thoughts.  Maybe that's why I make my family share bites of their food with me.  "Come on, I just want to know what you're thinking."  "I'm thinking you better keep you're hands off my food."

9.  I partly knew this one... breaking the wishbone... If you cook a turkey, two people can make a wish and break the wishbone.  Whoever gets the biggest piece gets their wish.  But here's the part I never knew.  You have to use only your pinkies to break it.

 And finally, someone try this and tell me if it works..

10.  If an unmarried woman combs her hair on Halloween night while looking in the mirror and eating an apple... she will see the reflection of her future husband over her left shoulder.

Happy Halloween everyone... Once again this is the girl who ate Fredericksburg.  Thanks for reading my list of superstitions.  But remember, I didn't come up with these.  So don't judge me.

Arby's

Dear Food Diary,

Tonight I had to go to Arby's.  I joined the League of Brisket on Arby's website and in order to earn enough points to get the Arby's League of Brisket baseball cap I had to do a bunch of tasks.  I had to follow Arby's on twitter and like them on facebook.  Then I had to get an instagram account so I could send them a picture of an Arby's sign, a picture of an Arby's receipt, and a picture of me eating their new Brisket sandwich.  Now honestly I was married and I don't think my husband even did that much to win my hand in marriage.  And I had decided to do it all for a baseball cap just so I could help promote Arby's new sandwich.

So long story short, I tried the Brisket sandwich.  When I got it, it looked like a squashed baby version of the sandwich in the picture.  I was very disappointed until I tasted it.  And, well you can see from the picture I quickly changed my mind about the sandwich.  It was a delicious combination of ingredients.  The slow smoked beef brisket, the smoked Gouda cheese, the crispy onions, all very yummy.  I'm really glad I tried it.  Now I only have one issue.  After all that I did, the website didn't give me all my points.  And not only that, but I added it up and even if they did give me all my points I still won't have enough to get my hat.  So now I'm going to ask all of you for a favor.  All of my followers, all ten of you.  If you agree with me that I deserve an Arby's hat write on Arby's twitter page, write on their facebook page.  Heck tell everyone you know.  Tell people on the street, that the girl who ate Fredericksburg deserves an Arby's League of Brisket Hat.

Thanks for your support and thanks for reading my food diary.  Once again this is the girl who ate Fredericksburg saying "don't judge me."

Red Lobster

Dear Food Diary,

I went to crabfest at Red Lobster.  One doesn't go to Red Lobster unless they're there to get their butter on.  So, I tried the Snow Crab and Crab Butter Shrimp.  And then, cause salad don't go with butter ya'll, I had the lady bring me a cup of the Crab and Corn Chowder instead.  But, I also tried the Lobster Bisque.  Personally, after trying them both, I thought the Lobster Bisque was better.  It was just really flavorful and salty but in a yummy way.  I also tried the Wood-Grilled Peppercorn Sirloin and Shrimp which was good and just as expected, which is another way of saying not quite adventurous enough for my taste.  When you get an entree you have a choice of side dishes.  I chose the Creamy Langostino Lobster Mashed Potatoes for a four dollar up charge.  I have to say it was no where near worth it.  It was average mashed potatoes with a little seafood on top.  Since I was bombarded with so many yummy flavors, those potatoes really fell short.  If you plan on going to Red Lobster soon I recommend you try the Lobster Crab and Seafood stuffed mushrooms though.  They currently have a coupon on the Red Lobster website that gives you this cheesy yummy deliciousness for free as long as you order two entrees.  Lastly I recommend you try the Berry Mango Daiquiri.  I swear to the Top Ramen, you will think you've gone on vacation.  Overall my visit to Red Lobster was exactly what I was expecting, great service and a wonderful meal.  I wasn't sure at first about ordering the snow crabs because I honestly don't have much experience cracking open crabs.  But by the end of my meal I was eating them like a champ.  I put down the little metal cracker thingy and just started tearing the legs open with my teeth. That's right.  Like Champ ya'll.

Anyway thanks for reading my food diary.  Once again, this is the girl who ate Fredericksburg saying "don't judge me."

 

Cold Stone

Dear Food Diary,

Today Cold Stone declared war on the girl who ate Fredericksburg.  What happened?  I'll tell you what happened.  I made a simple request.  I asked for their Oreo Creme Filling ice cream mixed with Oreo cookie crumbs on a sugar cone.   I noticed as the girl was preparing it she put it on a large waffle cone.  Waffle cones aren't sweet.  So I said, "excuse me is that a sugar cone?"  She said it was not, because sugar cones are only for children.  Can you believe that?  I said "but that waffle cone isn't sweet, is it?"  She said it wasn't.  So since it wasn't what I wanted, and it would cost extra, I asked her to just give it to me in a cup.  So I got my ice cream in a cup, not a sugar cone.  Because again that's only for children.  But as I ate my delicious ice cream I couldn't completely enjoy it.  Even when my boyfriend gave me a taste of his S'more Camp Fire Classic, which was also delicious, it didn't make me feel any better.  I still want my sugar cone.    I didn't want this war.  This is like Pearl Harbor, if Cold Stone was the Japanese and lack of sugar cones was death.  I was dragged into this battle but I shall not be content until I get my sugar cone.  It this blog undignified?  Perhaps, but dignity goes out the window where sugar cones are involved.  But Cold Stone if you're reading my blog I am perfectly willing to bury the hatchet if you just give me sugar cone.

Thanks for reading my food diary.  Once again this is the girl who ate Fredericksburg saying don't judge me.  Give me my sugar cone.   

Buffalo Wild Wings

I was pretty scared before the challenge.

Here I am, having signed the consent form.

Dear Food Diary,

I did the Buffalo Wild Wing challenge today.  Twelve of their hottest wings in 6 minutes.  And you aren't allowed to drink anything or even wipe your mouth with a napkin.  I trained for a week by eating as much spicy food as I could get my hands on.  The day of the challenge I felt as prepared as i could be.  I didn't even brush teeth this morning in the hopes that a little morning mouth funk would protect my mouth.  Don't judge me, I had a challenge to win.  When I finally arrived I have to admit that I was a lot scared.  They even make you sign a waiver.  In case injury or even death.  They made it clear that if you vomited you would be disqualified.  I have to admit that during the course of the competition that became a real possibility.  But the worst part of the competition wasn't the spiciness.  It was the temperature of the wings.  All the food BWWs serves is piping hot.  Normally that's a good thing.  Unless you have to woof the food down in 6 minutes.  More than once I had to spit the piping hot chewed up wings back into my hand, blow on it, and stick it back in my mouth.  Yeah it was a pretty revolting picture.  It came down to the wire and I almost didn't finish in time.  But in the end the lady conducting the competition said those words I was waiting to hear "Ok, I'll give it to you."  Now if I had to watch that whole scene unfold as a nonparticipant, I would have totally been grossed out.  However, one of the customers who had to see the spectacle came and patted me on back and said "Good Job."  All in all, I wouldn't wish this competition on my worst enemy but it was certainly an experience.

So anyway, thanks for reading my food blog.  Once again this is the girl who ate Fredericksburg saying don't judge me.  Unless of course I'm in a Buffalo Wild Wings Competition and there's a t-shirt to be won, in that case, judge away.

Clearwater Grill

Dear Food Diary,

Tonight I went to a bar in Locust Grove.  Let me rephrase that.  I went to "the" bar in Locust Grove.  There isn't a whole lot in Locust Grove.  But anyway I had a great time.  The atmosphere was fun.  They played Cupid Shuffle.  I danced.  Oh yes. I danced.  I danced like I've never danced before.  Seriously I'm sure it looked like I've never danced before in my whole life.  And it wasn't just because of the Bloody Marys I was drinking.  I know you're probably wondering why a 33 year old woman is ordering an old man drink.  You see, I'm in training.  I'm going to do the Buffalo Wild Wing challenge so I've been trying to eat lots of spicy food the last couple days to build up my tolerance.  But that's for my next blog.  Anyway I didn't order any food at Clear Water.  It was almost 11 o'clock so I assumed their kitchen was closed.  I did however find some fried calamari on one of the tables.  Some guy at the bar told me they were at least two hours old.  But I thought they tasted fine.  If you happen to be in Locust Grove on a Friday night, as I was, I recommend you stop at Clearwater.  You might even make a new friend or two.  There was guy at the bar with a shirt that said "P*ssy, the most expensive thing you'll ever eat" and even he had some girls flirting with him.

Anyway, thanks for reading my food diary.  This is the girl who ate Fredericksburg saying don't judge me.

Burger King

Dear Diary,

Today I blind folded my boyfriend.  I made him try the new Satisfries from Burger King.  At the same time I made him try regular Burger King fries as well as McDonald's fries.  The results were that, aside from the different shape of the Satisfries, he couldn't tell the difference.  And me?  Well I actually preferred the Satisfries to the regular shoe string variety.  And according to Burger King they're 40% less fat and 30% less calories than... wait for it... McDonald's fries.  Apparently even regular Burger King fries are lower in calories and fat than McDonalds's.    So after 10 years of research Burger King has finally given America what they want.  An excuse to visit both Burger King and McDonald's in one day.  By the way, aside from three orders of fries I also tried the Angry Whopper.  It was spicy, greasy awesomeness.  Seriously I want another one, right now.

Anyway, thanks for reading my food diary.  Once again I'm the girl who ate Fredericksburg saying, don't judge me.