I didn't eat anywhere new and interesting last week, but I ate at my usual places that I go to pretty much on a weekly basis now. I'm running out of restaurants to write about so I'm going to have to have a change of pace this week by hitting a few new places so I can put some original content here. In the mean time I thought I would give people an idea of how many normal meals I actually eat in a week, by summing up my week of meals. It seems from peoples emails, that they think I only eat at formal dinner places like Palena and Komi and that I never eat at little old wholes, or let alone my own home.

Sunday
We went to to visit my Aunt and Uncle at the Maryland Shore for the weekend, and on Sunday they prepared us a great meal with London Broil, sweet corn, a couple great Cabernets. My Uncle and Aunt retired there about 5 year ago, and this was the first time we were able to get over there to visit them -- I think mostly because crossing the Bay Bridge just scares me.

Monday
I was back at work after vacation and my lunch was a pathetic chicken salad sandwich from the office deli that I could barely finish. Let me just say that when the chicken looks like and has the consistency of beef, that you should probably stop eating. I worked late, and by the time I got home, there was only time to stick a couple steaks on the skillet after a 15 minute marinade in some salt, pepper, extra virgin olive oil, and balsamic vinegar. Not quite Rays the Steaks, but also not quite bad.

Tuesday
I was so busy at work that I had to skip lunch. I worked late again and on the way home in the car I ordered some delivery from Heritage India in Glover Park. I must order deliver from then at least once a week and they know my address and credit card by heart. Paneer Shashlik and Chicken Tikka for me and some paneer Makhani for Amy.

Wednesday
The night before, I made some chicken salad with some leftover rotisserie chicken and that was my lunch. I actually got out of work at a decent time that day, and I was able to see Noah a little before bed time. We made some veggie burgers for dinner and they were pretty bland. I really need to go to the grocery store to stock up on the essentials so I can start cooking some decent meals. We broke out a bottle of Ridge Zinfandel to make up for the lackluster meal.

Thursday
A complete blur.

Friday
Finally something to talk about. I skipped lunch, and maybe had a Snickers out of the vending machine...oh wait. I stopped at Subway and had one of those new cajun roast chicken sandwiches. It was probably the worst thing I've eaten in a while with chicken that was gristly and barely edible. Maybe I ate half of it, back at the office, I don't know really. It didn't really matter much though because we had plans for a big dinner with some friends. The original plan for dinner was to go to the Nats game and hit Sonoma afterwards, but my baby sitter turned out to not be available and the game got rained out. Instead, we went to Rays the Steaks for dinner. Amy and I shared the Chateubriand for two, which came out rare although we'd ordered it medium-rare. Oh well, if we haven't learned by now to order our steaks there a little more done than we're used to by now, I don't think we're ever going to learn. Amy just ate the the more well done edges and I ate the rare parts. I actually prefer it like that, but Amy can't stand the texture of rare meat.

Saturday
We we planning to go to 2Amys for lunch. For some reason, we didn't get out of the condo until 2:30 PM, so I guess you can just call it a late lunch/early dinner. It was unfashionably cool at 2Amys and I found out from talking to the people at the bar that they replaced the AC system. Thank God! Food was awesome as usual, and I took some pix of some of the food we ate. Things haven't changed much at 2Amys and Scott is still serving up some great food from the bar menu. After eating some meatballs, eggplant, tomato and smoked mozzarella, and capicola, we ordered one of the special pizzas with the 2Amys sausage, yellow sauce, fontina cheese, and leeks.