Crabcake Sandiwich
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Showing posts with label salad. Show all posts
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
King's Contrivance
Today was lunch with AJ, after almost 2 months since the last time. (I don't care that we've seen each other at least 4-5 times in between, it doesn't count unless it's lunch, right, haha).
I had pitched Applebee's since TKN sent me the link to the 2 for 20 deal (E did too earlier that same day but via IM). Anyhow, AJ always has other plan on her mind. She calls at 12:15 as she's leaving campus to tell me it's Howard County's R-wk. Of course. LOL. So I'm googling as she drives. Apparently I mumble (what a surprise). I chose King's Contrivance because I recognized it from a list of 20-30 restaurants that were participating in R-wk. It's located close to her house so I figured it should work for both of us. The address is: 10150 Shaker Drive, Columbia, MD 21046.
Well, as it turns out, they only serve R-wk items for dinner. Fun. AJ said I'm putting a hole in her wallet...yes, I know. You're telling the person who ate out several times over the course of a few days...ha.
Anyways, on to the food. We both got Maryland Crab Soup. I was halfway through mine before I remembered to take pictures. So this is my half-eaten Maryland Crab Soup. I never had it before (yes, I was born in MD...your point?) and it tasted pretty good. It actually reminds of me of Vegetable Soup with pieces of crab thrown in them. Yes, that's what it looked like too since the crabs were on the bottom and pearly white, not like it had been cooked with in the soup. It was good though. I bit salty, but I think I like my soups light, not American style salty... It has assorted veggies: carrots, corn, beans, tomatoes, onions, cabbage (I think, I forget)...and whatever you can decipher from the picture. =)
Then I ordered a Jumbo Lump Crabcake with remoulade sauce, coleslaw and roasted Yukon gold potatoes. Let's start one by one. The crabcake was excellent. Actually it's about as good as G&M's crabcake, a bit smaller, but they have bigger chunks and not as many shells. The downside is this didn't taste as fresh, like it had been frozen for awhile, unlike G&M's who make them fresh. The remoulade sauce tasted like tartar sauce to me...It goes with seafood so it wasn't bad. The potatoes could've used some seasoning or ketchup, but the "tartar sauce" worked for me. And finally the "coleslaw." I forgot that was part of the entree and I told AJ it was a mix between salsa and coleslaw. It had a strange taste that I couldn't figure out. I kep picking at it and trying it various times. I couldn't get over the strange taste. The fact that coleslaw has tomatoes, spring onions and white onions baffle me... Overall I enjoyed it alot.
This was AJ's entree: Chesapeake Caesar Salad with shrimp, scallops and crab meat sauteed with Old Bay over a layer of romaine lettuce and tomatoes. The two things sticking out on the sides are napa (my guess)...AJ didn't like those. I've never had them raw like that so I wouldn't know. It looked pretty good, a very good assortment of seafood and on romaine vs some other strange veggie. I can't remember the last time I had caesar sauce, I just remember it's made from anchovies or something random like that. I'd say it was a good entree, AJ cleared her plate. (Sidenote: She will clean her plate regardless, but I trust her opinion since we seem to try/eat similar things - except the cheese thing).
Total Price: Soup $6 + Entree $17 + tax + tip = $29
AJ's salad and soup came to be the same price as well.
I had pitched Applebee's since TKN sent me the link to the 2 for 20 deal (E did too earlier that same day but via IM). Anyhow, AJ always has other plan on her mind. She calls at 12:15 as she's leaving campus to tell me it's Howard County's R-wk. Of course. LOL. So I'm googling as she drives. Apparently I mumble (what a surprise). I chose King's Contrivance because I recognized it from a list of 20-30 restaurants that were participating in R-wk. It's located close to her house so I figured it should work for both of us. The address is: 10150 Shaker Drive, Columbia, MD 21046.
Well, as it turns out, they only serve R-wk items for dinner. Fun. AJ said I'm putting a hole in her wallet...yes, I know. You're telling the person who ate out several times over the course of a few days...ha.
Anyways, on to the food. We both got Maryland Crab Soup. I was halfway through mine before I remembered to take pictures. So this is my half-eaten Maryland Crab Soup. I never had it before (yes, I was born in MD...your point?) and it tasted pretty good. It actually reminds of me of Vegetable Soup with pieces of crab thrown in them. Yes, that's what it looked like too since the crabs were on the bottom and pearly white, not like it had been cooked with in the soup. It was good though. I bit salty, but I think I like my soups light, not American style salty... It has assorted veggies: carrots, corn, beans, tomatoes, onions, cabbage (I think, I forget)...and whatever you can decipher from the picture. =)
Then I ordered a Jumbo Lump Crabcake with remoulade sauce, coleslaw and roasted Yukon gold potatoes. Let's start one by one. The crabcake was excellent. Actually it's about as good as G&M's crabcake, a bit smaller, but they have bigger chunks and not as many shells. The downside is this didn't taste as fresh, like it had been frozen for awhile, unlike G&M's who make them fresh. The remoulade sauce tasted like tartar sauce to me...It goes with seafood so it wasn't bad. The potatoes could've used some seasoning or ketchup, but the "tartar sauce" worked for me. And finally the "coleslaw." I forgot that was part of the entree and I told AJ it was a mix between salsa and coleslaw. It had a strange taste that I couldn't figure out. I kep picking at it and trying it various times. I couldn't get over the strange taste. The fact that coleslaw has tomatoes, spring onions and white onions baffle me... Overall I enjoyed it alot.
This was AJ's entree: Chesapeake Caesar Salad with shrimp, scallops and crab meat sauteed with Old Bay over a layer of romaine lettuce and tomatoes. The two things sticking out on the sides are napa (my guess)...AJ didn't like those. I've never had them raw like that so I wouldn't know. It looked pretty good, a very good assortment of seafood and on romaine vs some other strange veggie. I can't remember the last time I had caesar sauce, I just remember it's made from anchovies or something random like that. I'd say it was a good entree, AJ cleared her plate. (Sidenote: She will clean her plate regardless, but I trust her opinion since we seem to try/eat similar things - except the cheese thing).
Total Price: Soup $6 + Entree $17 + tax + tip = $29
AJ's salad and soup came to be the same price as well.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Olive Garden
I had two $25 gift cards my lead engineer gave me. Did I tell you she loves me? LOL. Anyways, she gave it to me in October (22nd I think) when we were editing our 600-page proposal. She gave me a thank you card and put the gift cards in it. It was very nice of her to do that, considering I was just doing my job and it was only my 2nd month working there. She loves me, period.
Anyhow, mom and I was near an Olive Garden last weekend but I didn't have it with me so I said I'd take her the next time I had it since I keep forgetting to use it. So we went today! We got there around 3:30 after shopping in the area for a bit. She was starving, I was all right. We got there and the lines were long! We got our blinker and was going to go to Safeway since they told us it would be a 35 minute wait. When we got to Safeway the thing started singing...we ran back and found out it does that when it's too far away. Ugh...we stuck around afraid to go back and miss the blinker blink. Anyway, waiting is boring so I'll spare you...we got seated around 4:15 or so.
I ordered hot water for the both of us. The appetizer was the Sicilian Scampi. Eight large shrimp sauteed in extra virgin olive oil with white wine, garlic and lemon over bruschetta-like bread. Spring onions, olives and tomatoes were sprinkled for color and texture. It was pretty good.
Mom wanted something seafood so I ordered Herb Grilled Salmon which came with steamed broccoli and red peppers. (A rather strange combination but I decided it was for color). The salmon was rather light, grilled in Italian herbs and extra virgin olive oil and topped with more herbs on the top. Pretty decent, a bit different from how we cook fish at home, but acceptable.
The last dish is the Mixed Grill. This had 2 skewers of grilled marinated steak and chicken with rosemary demi-glace, served with grilled zucchini and Tuscan potatoes. This didn't have a very strong flavor and was pretty good also.
Of course, being Olive Garden the entrees came with endless salad and breadsticks which Mom really loved. Mom and I both don't eat much cheese (though she'll eat it before I do) so we didn't put any extra on any of our food.
Total: 9.95 + 15.75 + 15.75 + tax = 43.94 + 8.06 tip = $52.00
/*FYI: I stole alot of the ingredient wording from Olive Garden's menu.*/
Anyhow, mom and I was near an Olive Garden last weekend but I didn't have it with me so I said I'd take her the next time I had it since I keep forgetting to use it. So we went today! We got there around 3:30 after shopping in the area for a bit. She was starving, I was all right. We got there and the lines were long! We got our blinker and was going to go to Safeway since they told us it would be a 35 minute wait. When we got to Safeway the thing started singing...we ran back and found out it does that when it's too far away. Ugh...we stuck around afraid to go back and miss the blinker blink. Anyway, waiting is boring so I'll spare you...we got seated around 4:15 or so.
I ordered hot water for the both of us. The appetizer was the Sicilian Scampi. Eight large shrimp sauteed in extra virgin olive oil with white wine, garlic and lemon over bruschetta-like bread. Spring onions, olives and tomatoes were sprinkled for color and texture. It was pretty good.
Mom wanted something seafood so I ordered Herb Grilled Salmon which came with steamed broccoli and red peppers. (A rather strange combination but I decided it was for color). The salmon was rather light, grilled in Italian herbs and extra virgin olive oil and topped with more herbs on the top. Pretty decent, a bit different from how we cook fish at home, but acceptable.
The last dish is the Mixed Grill. This had 2 skewers of grilled marinated steak and chicken with rosemary demi-glace, served with grilled zucchini and Tuscan potatoes. This didn't have a very strong flavor and was pretty good also.
Of course, being Olive Garden the entrees came with endless salad and breadsticks which Mom really loved. Mom and I both don't eat much cheese (though she'll eat it before I do) so we didn't put any extra on any of our food.
Total: 9.95 + 15.75 + 15.75 + tax = 43.94 + 8.06 tip = $52.00
/*FYI: I stole alot of the ingredient wording from Olive Garden's menu.*/
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