Last night was my 10th anniversary. We have plans later this summer, so I was just going to fix my wife's favorite meal: Chicken and dumplings. I wanted it to be a surprise, so I thawed the chicken out on Monday, hid it in the fridge before she got home, boiled it on Tuesday, and then hid the shredded chicken and broth in various places around the fridge. She never noticed. She was completely surprised to come home and find me dropping dumplings into boiling broth.
Halfway through boiling the dumplings, and 15 minutes from adding the chicken, the power went out due to a thunderstorm. We gave it until 7:30 and then decided we needed to go out to eat in order to get our daughter to bed at a semi-decent time.
So, off to Johnny Carino's we went.
I had their combo platter, spaghetti with marinara, lasagna, and chicken parmesan. Combined with bread and a salad it was way too much food, so I only ate the spaghetti and saved the rest to use for my next couple of lunches.
@Chrunch Houston, Manwich is not sloppy joe, I don't care what they say.
Does it at least look similar?
I'm in the process of eating these... nothing too spectacular, but this is the first food I've ever grown myself
The white chillies are from my first chilli plant... my workmate ordered some seeds on eBay from a chap in India, and these are the resulting chillies (although they are probably not quite ready for eating yet). The red one is from another plant I have grown in the last year, but I couldn't remember from which type of chilli I took the seeds... apparently it's a Scotch Bonnet, so it should really pack a punch!
Congrats. My garden is coming along nicely. My tomatoes have a lot of fruit that is going to be ready in a week or two. My banana pepper has a couple near ready to pick and my pepperoncini has a couple that still need a couple of weeks.
Banana pepper on the left and pepperoncini on the right. The pepperoncini was planted three weeks later, but I put a banana peel in with its roots. It grew almost twice as fast as the other pepper plant and is now the bigger of the two.
First banana peppers. Thyme, chives and rosemary planted around it.
First pepperoncini. Dill, chives, sage, and cilantro planted around it. In the background you can see basil that is planted around the tomato plant.