Ratatouille

christmas day, the 25th, me, my wife and my mom decided to have dinner out. we found ourselves walking the area of greenbelt 3. there were not a lot of people around so it was really easy to go around. we decided to have dinner at one of our favorite restaurants in greenbelt 3: cascada. they have really great food; pasta, salads (not that i enjoy salads), steak and ribs too. we ordered vongole pasta and baby back ribs for me and my wife while mom had vegetable salad (she was getting tired of eating meat almost all throughout the holidays).

as we were enjoying our meal, at a table across us, a mouse came taking a stroll underneath it. it almost freaked out my wife. mom didn't see it right away since her eyesight wasn't that good. it didn't even seem afraid to walk around as there were not too many diners during the time. the mouse continued to move from under one table to another for a few seconds. finally when i couldn't stand it anymore, i motioned to the waiter and as he approached, i used my lips to point out to him the location of our friendly rodent. when the waiter saw it, he bowed to me in apology and made his way toward remy (that was the name of the lead mouse character in pixar's recent film "ratatouille"). as soon as remy saw the waiter coming toward him, he scampered away and disappeared.

after what happened, i realized, if cascada had a mouse running around the dining area, what more inside the kitchen? they did have good food but was their kitchen sanitary enough? after all, there was a mouse and who knows how many more there were inside. this was going to be the last time we were dining there at cascada. ratatouille anyone?

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In 'N Out

me and my wife were on the way home last night and we were so hungry. we couldn't decide on what to get ourselves until we passed by a restaurant called in 'n out located within the greenhills area. they served really good steak there, at least that's what some of our friends told us. so we decided to give it a try since we really couldn't even think of getting home and cooking our dinner for another hour or so. their t-bone steak was priced really reasonably, Php99 only. of course when it was time to pay up we didn't know that tax was not included (great). it was finally served to us after 20 minutes. it was pretty good! it was just a bit hard on some parts but the tender parts were really juicy. i recommend it if you find one of their branches.

Dinner Date

i had dinner with my wife last friday. it has been a while since we have had a date. we decided to go to one of our favorite dining spots: cascada. when we got there, it was just as always, a lot of people and the waiters were almost running all over the place. we were even able to get our favorite table, the one in the middle in line with the side.

usually, when we eat there, 99.999% of the time especially when i'm really hungry, i order my favorite steak and eggs. if you're wondering what this is, it's really just a glorified serving of beef "tapa", "sinangag" and scrambled eggs. i think the word "tapsilog" would be more accurate. but that night, my wife was able to convince me to order something different. so i had something like pork tenderloin "something" (i couldn't remember what it was called!) while my wife had chicken fillet with red wine pasta. we also had our favorite cream of spinach soup (and now who says that i don't eat vegetables?) and we topped it off with the best tasting sans rival i have ever tasted! yum yum! just writing all this down is making me hungry.

after our wonderful dinner, we got home and watched a few episodes of 24 as usual. there weren't any good movies out at the time so watching 24 was the best thing to do. maybe the next time we go on a date, we can catch a film to make it complete.

It's The End of the Week!

i am so happy that it's a friday today! i've just been so out of shape this past week that all i can think of is sleeping through the entire morning tomorrow. i told you that those long sessions of watching 24 were going to catch up on me. at least it was fun.

me and my wife are also planning on having a good dinner tonight, someplace special. ever since we got married, we seldom go out for dinner on weekends so technically it's a date. maybe we'll have our favorite: chinese food. we both love chinese food. you can never go wrong with chinese food. then again, maybe something a bit more sophisticated, whatever that may be. i usually don't get my fill with "sophisticated" though. it just looks good but they seldom satisfy my appetite as i really like stuffing my face when i eat.

still, it's the "going-to-sleep-and-waking-up-really-late-in-the-morning" part that i'm looking forward to. thank GOD for weekends.