Monthly Archives: February 2022
Au Contraire . . .
One thing great about Grimaldi’s leftovers is that they’re just as good the second day heated up in our convection oven. A delicious dinner tonight.
After my blog post a few days ago about Kroger’s Pharmacy Plan and GoodRX, a couple of our readers ask about GoodRX’s competitor, SingleCare. Well, I’ve not checked recently, but when it first came out a few years ago, I compared them with GoodRX and found in every case, GoodRX was cheaper, and in some cases, a lot cheaper.
Maybe it’s because of all the bucks SingleCare is paying Martin Sheen to be their spokesman.
But check out the apps for yourself and compare.
A couple of weeks ago I announced that though we would still continue to live in it, our America Eagle RV had essentially ‘aged out’, and at 23 years old, we would no longer be RV’ing in it.
But several of our readers expressed disappointment that we wouldn’t be blogging about our travels and restaurant stops any more.
Well, au contraire!
Just as an example, since our last RV trip in April 2019, we’ve spent a month in Europe, a week in NYC at Christmas, a week in Branson at Christmas, and two weeks on the road from Houston to Illinois and Alabama and back. And we’ve got another two week trip scheduled for the Memorial Day this summer.
And we had two Alaskan cruises cancelled out from under us in the last 18 months.
So we’ve not stopped traveling. We’re just not traveling by RV anymore.
And of course we haven’t stopped eating either.
So stay tuned.
Thought For The Day:
SEE NO EVIL. HEAR NO EVIL. SPEAK NO EVIL.
Of course, that leaves DO NO EVIL wide open.
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Just The Bear Facts . . .
Well, we got our Grimaldi’s fix today and it was just as delicious as always. And we got a bonus.
We started out with a small Spinach Salad,
with Baby Spinach, Red Onions, Cherry Tomatoes, Bacon, Crumbled Gorgonzola Cheese and Balsamic Vinaigrette Dressing. Really good.
One note about Grimaldi’s salads, unless there’s more than four of you, don’t order a large salad. The small one will easily feed four people, or two servings each, in our case.
We ordered a medium, or 16” The Don pizza, which comes with Italian Sausage, Pepperoni, and Meatballs. To which we added Bacon, Mushrooms, and Jalapenos.
The bonus I mentioned is that though we ordered the 16” size, we were served the 18” size by mistake. One of the managers bought it out and told us about the mistake, and that of course we would still only be charged for the 16” one. Nice.
She also told us to let her know if the crust was too blackened on the edges. We told that wasn’t possible, and it would be fine. And it was.
In fact the burnt/blackened edges are what makes the pizza crust so good. We never have any pizza ‘bones’ left over.
And even better, we had half the pizza left over for tomorrow’s supper.
Finishing up, we shared a slice of their Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cheesecake.
Really, really, really good.
So good in fact that as your forks are dueling over the last bites, you seriously regret sharing the slice to start with. It was that good.
One caveat about visiting a Grimaldi’s in the afternoon, it’s probably a good idea to call ahead and find out when they restoke their oven. As I’ve mentioned before, Grimaldi’s ovens are coal-fired, and must be shut down for an hour every day to clean out the cinders and then add fresh coal and restart them.
Seems like every Grimaldi’s does this at a slightly different time, in our case it was 2:45 to 3:45. But if you get there at the wrong time, you may have a wait.
But it will be worth it.
Afterwards we made a WalMart stop, and coming out, we saw this guy. Don’t know if he was getting a jump on Valentine’s Day, or had really screwed up and was trying to dig himself out of the mess he’d gotten into.
Hope it worked out for him.
Thought For The Day:
Mirrors don’t lie. And lucky for most of us, they don’t laugh either.
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