I don't know about you guys

but eating food with my hands is just gross. Ok you wanna hear about my meal last night? I went out with my 2 girl friends. We met waaaaaaaaaaaaay back when our kids started Kindergarten in the school system in town. Now are kids are in college - but I know I already went on about that. Anyhoo...last night we decided to get together to trade stories about our kids and catch up. My friends chose an ETHIOPIAN restaurant for our dinner out. I had no idea what Ethiopian food is so I looked it up online. Lemme tell you (sorry girls if you are reading this ) it was NOT GOOD - in my opinion. In fact, it was down right GROSS! Do you know that we were offered NO PLATES or SILVERWARE. ICK! Now I don't mind eating with my hands ... a hamburger, french fries - those types of foods. But what we got was this fermented, cold, wet whimp "bread" with different slop set atop of it. I'm still kicking myself for forgetting to take my camera out of my purse to snap a few photos. I'm sure you can't even picture/fathom these eating conditions. Ok hmmmm, let me see here, we ordered these lentils that were steamed with garlic and lemon. So I rip off my piece of whimpy wet bread, and pull some lentils out of the bowl and try and squeeze this mess together and into my mouth. Most of the lentils landed on the tablecloth and my lap - with a few in my mouth. So think of the taste, sour bread and acid lentils - YUMMY -- ("Please sir, may I have some more?" )That was from the movie Oliver in case you all forgot. OK back to the meal. So this is how the meal went, rip off a piece of gross wet bread, grab some slop, roll and jam in my mouth. I gave up after a while besides which the taste was not good. Dessert time... DESSERT TIME! I'm thinking what could an ETHIOPIAN dessert be???? Our choices were, Carrot Cake, Baklava, and Chocolate Cake. I found this so strange but thrilled because I had to get the icky taste off my mouth! I chose carrot cake and lucky for me the piece was a HUNK! I glommed it all down! so that my friends was my review on Ethiopian food. I can tell you, I won't be going back any time soon.

Right now I'm watching the MASTERS on the TV my Dad bought us. Sounds cliche, but the picture is so darn great, I feel like I'm there! I also had to reserve my seat so I could watch. The boys in this house are very pushy!

That's all for now. Got a turkey and stuffing in the oven. I need some good old American Food for tonight!

Best,

Jane