Went to Cracker Barrel for breakfast today. French toast, bacon, eggs with cheese and biscuits. All delicious, minus their gross orange juice (but you can't have it all, right?)

Manhattan/Brooklyn

-Sambal matah with Saltines
-Cherry cranberry juice
-French roast coffee?
-Beef patty
-Adjaruli khachapuri and khinkhali
-A couple bites of chocolate cake
-Tomatoes, Portuguese olive oil, cheddar, lebne, everything bagel
-Speculoos cream cookies
-Milk

One banana and 4oz 2% milk
One double meat at In-N-Out
Two thin slices of Oscar Meyer smoked ham
1/2 of a Nature Valley Sweet & Salty Almond granola bar
Beer

Sea Bass with a Mustard Hollandaise? Looks delicious whatever it was!:)

Thanks ... yes it was ...well guessed.

Made her a passion fruit and coconut muffin today!

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Let's see:

- Coffee and a granola bar on my way out of the house
- RDU Skyclub Breakfast of everything bagel with cream cheese coffee, juice, chocolate mini muffin, yogurt and Biscoff
- Crappy sandwich from a Charlie's Steakery at MSP with some snack basket items
- Delicious takeout from an Asian market in Seattle ate picnic style by Boeing Field during a long layover (sushi, chicken curry and Pass-O-Guava Juice)
- Chicken Terriyaki with rice as a DL Y meal, SEA-HKG (which is where I'm writing this from).

Whilst this was never going to be "pretty" it's the taste that matters, right? Toad in the Hole, onion gravy, bubble & squeak with some swede and carrot mash.

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My way of getting flavorful meat into spaghetti sauce lately is to buy a bag of frozen Italian-style meatballs, bake them in the oven, let them cool a bit, and then crush them into a some spaghetti sauce. So much easier and better tasting than browning beef or pork.

So that's what's for dinner tonight, spaghetti and meat sauce, but for lunch I just had several broken-up meatballs in a bowl of the sauce and grated Parmesan on top. Who needs pasta?

If you'd be interested in trying Indonesian food while in Hong Kong (c/o thousands of guest workers), check out Warung Chandra by the Indonesian Consulate in Causeway Bay. It may not be superlative in quality, but it's where I stop whenever Indonesia isn't on my East Asia trip itinerary.

Interesting thought, I'm staying the Conrad anyway so that's not too far. As for today:

- Breakfast: Conrad Lounge food including some really good fried noodles
- Lunch: Deep fried pork noodle soup, shrimp and lofah dumplings and mushroom dumplings at Din Tai Fung
- Dinner: Lemongrass chicken and noodles and chicken spring rolls at Noodle Mi

Sunday ... was a brunch with sausages, thick bacon, white pudding, spaghetti and mushrooms with rosti and egg ... and some Bredon Champagne ...

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Monday was some duck satay with peanut dip and some rustic salad ....

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..... and today was some Neapolitan pizza with salami, mushroom, red onion and mozzarella ....

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In need of comfort today, I'm taking off work, and for lunch I made the ultimate fallback comfort food lunch: a grilled cheese sandwich and Campbell's tomato soup with crushed-up crackers. It only differs from schoolday lunches Mom made for me in that Bozo Circus is no longer on the air and Mom never served gin & tonic.

Too much travel food. Started the day with a delicious buffet breakfast at the Conrad Hong Kong but that deteroated quickly into three Y meals on DL, some Skyclub food in SEA and now some pancakes at the SEA AS Boardroom.

Soon, another meal on DL (at least this will be an F meal) then whatever I decide on in Detroit.

Haven't used my cast iron Lodge grill pan for a while so last night it was medium rare sirloin steak, garlic & rosemary potato wedges, balsamic baked cherry tomatoes and peas.
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Never found a restaurant at DET that I would bother with but good beer can be had there.