Lucky’s<\/a> out in KS for a little lunch.\u00a0 That’s not really where we intended to go;\u00a0 We thought there was a Barley’s out that way.\u00a0 Upon our arrival, a check of the Garmin showed Barley’s wasn’t even close to there, so we scrapped that plan and just went with Lucky’s.\u00a0 Good enough;\u00a0 Solid hamburger and plenty of football games on.\u00a0 We loitered there for a while, then headed on to our intended destination, the Price Chopper just north of there on Roe.\u00a0 Why did we drive that far just to go a Price Chopper?\u00a0 Well it’s a “special” Price Chopper, if there is such a thing.\u00a0 They sort of cater to the Hispanic community, and as such they have all kinds of ingredients that you won’t find at, say, the Wornall location.\u00a0 It was well worth the trip, just for the meat counter alone.\u00a0 We were on a mission to make some carne asada, so we interrogated the meat-counter guy for a while.\u00a0 As it turned out they had a sale on some flank steak that they had pre-marinaded for just such a purpose, so we picked up some of that.\u00a0 We wanted to try our own marinade too though, so we got some thin-shaved sirloin as well.\u00a0 Then we headed over to the deli counter to beat them up for tamale technique, and bought a dozen fresh tortillas.\u00a0 All that chit-chat wore me out, so then we headed back home to lay down for a bit.\u00a0 Around 7:00 or so, we rallied and went out to dinner with the Martins.\u00a0 We had a gift certificate for El Patron down on Southwest Boulevard, so we decided to try it out.\u00a0 Well worth the drive;\u00a0 As a matter of fact I had the carne asada, just so I could have something to compare our upcoming experiment to.\u00a0 As we were driving home, one of our (much younger) friends called and was headed to the Brooksider, so we veered off and went to meet her there.\u00a0 Being after 9:00, of course we didn’t know anybody else there, and the doorman had the gall to try and charge us a cover.\u00a0 Donette berated the poor kid with her “Do you know who we are???” speech, but he was unmoved.\u00a0 Eventually we headed up to the front door where the commoners enter, and found one of the managers, who waved us on in.\u00a0 We pretty much said hi to our friend, stood around for about a 1\/2 hour, and then continued home.<\/p>\nSunday was an afternoon of football watching from the couch.\u00a0 Prepare to see that sentence copy\/pasted in for the next few months, I don’t forsee a lot changing.\u00a0 I did spend several hours whipping up a big pot of BBQ Gumbo, which came out rather well if I do say so my darn self.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My record of “Busy, Lame, Busy, Lame…” weekends has continued.\u00a0 Either I am too old to physically handle two party weekends in a row, or I just don’t have that much to do.\u00a0 Friday sort of set the tone;\u00a0 I was going to drop by happy hour and see what was going on, but ended […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}