Whew....what a quick week!

Man did the week go by quick as did today!  I've basically watched the Food Network all day today, which was pretty awesome if I may say so myself.  The just announced the winner of the Next Food Network Star and I'm kinda underwhelmed by the winner Damaris (or however you spell it).  I mean I guess I just like the Pie Guy, Rodney better and that's probably why but still, I didn't think she had the chemistry with the camera like the other guys.  Good luck to her and we'll see how her show goes once it comes on TV.

Now on is Cut-Throat Kitchen with my favorite guy Alton Brown.  It's a new show and looks kinda like Chopped so far; however they give you cash to "sabotage" the other contestants and their dishes.  So far one person got dealt with a packaged Boar's Head Turkey breast while another can only use pocket knife and nothing else.  It's pretty crazy so far.

Well as for the week we had some good dinners at home, along with some good dinners out with friends and an awesome concert up at the casino.  We started the week of with a semi-special dinner of Filet Mignon and some garlic butter sauteed langostines.  I really wanted to get two small lobster tails, but I was going to be gone for a chunk of the day with hockey and didn't want to get live ones to just kinda sit around and I didn't have time to cook them before I left.  So I went with a smaller version which was just as good. 

Monday night was supposed to be Sweet and Sour Chicken over brown rice, however the genius I am forgot to get pineapple when I was at the grocery store, so instead I did some teriyaki chicken with peppers and onions over the rice.  I love cooking Chinese food and over the last week I was able to print out all my other Chinese recipes and get them in a nice organized binder.

Finally the last at home cooked dinner was BBQ and Slaw Pita Pockets!  Erin pretty much cooked this one for me since I wanted to cook the pork very slow and break it down with a fork to shred it up nicely.  I also wanted to make my own BBQ sauce, but that didn't happen either, so it was some lower sugar store bought Jack Daniels sauce.  The dish came out very nice; the sweetness of the bbq sauce, with the crunch and acidity from the slaw.  And we have a ton left over.  This morning I did BBQ pork and eggs in a pita pocket!

Good food all around I do have to say!  Friday I was casino bound to check out Avenged Sevenfold with Mikey at the MGM Grand Theater.  Great show, I wish they would of had an opening act or played longer but what can you do, still an awesome time and our seats were fantastic.  That night we ate at the Scorpion Bar where I had some chicken enchiladas which were amazing!  This place (other than Burkes) is my favorite place to eat at the casino by far.  A few pictures of the concert will be below.  Saturday we had a hockey game and it was awesome...because we only at 4 skaters.  Iron man hockey sucks!  Needless to say we lost the game, I was absolutely drained from the game and didn't want to move at all.  However the one bright spot was being able to see my little cousins, niece and nephew (whatever it is, I'm not good at that stuff coming from a small family) who came to my gamed and cheered me and my team on the entire time!  So happy to see them.

Finally that night we went out to dinner with Coleen and Mike to Prime 16 in Orange.  Mainly a burger place with a LARGE assortment of beer the food was very good.  Chipotle Agave wings to start the night off, then Erin and I split our burgers.  I ordered the turkey burger on multigrain bread topped with goat cheese and sauteed onions while Erin got the Cowboy burger with Canadian bacon and a fried egg on top.  Both were extremely tasty; the beef was so delicate that it almost melted in your mouth upon each bite and the goat cheese was a very nice addition on the turkey.

Well that's it for tonight...I will write more this week hopefully, but only so many hours in the day once I get home from work.  Ugh...between cooking dinner, trying to workout, relaxing, prepping for the next day, writing in my blog and jeez, whatever else I usually do there is no time.  Night all!