A Great Place To Stuff Your Face

My roommate's sister is in town for a few days, and last night we all went to dinner. Now, I'm not really much of a "foodie" (or much of a person who likes the term "foodie"), so I kind of left the restaurant decisions up to Rose and Molly, who both work at nice restaurants and can tell the difference between foie gras and a pile of poop. (I do realize that using the word poop in a restaurant "review" may not be the best idea. But, oh well. Poop.)

So, Rose suggested Little Dishes, a place in our neighborhood that she'd been to before and liked. Well, it was delicious. Comfortable, unpretentious atmosphere, and a friendly, knowledgeable (and kinda cute?) server.

We ate:

• Cheese Plate - three cheeses with house-made fig & almond cake
• Hen of the Woods Mushroom Salad - arugula, radicchio and Uplands Pleasant Ridge cheese
• Cream of Parsnip Soup w/ Bacon and Apple
• Prosciutto Americano - with Macintosh apple, Bayley Hazen Blue cheese & Pine nut salad
• Pan Roasted Duck Breast - with sautéed broccoli rabe & fresh plum & red wine veal sauce
• Mac & Cheese - cheddar, parmesan, gruyere & breadcrumb topping
• Caramel Bread Pudding - with roasted pecans

Yum! It was just the right amount of food, because most of them were, you know, little dishes. With a bottle of Rioja, we got out of there for about $60 each. Which is a lot, and I normally never spend that much on food, but it felt really worth it and I definitely recommend you go for a special occasion or something. Or, a regular occasion if you're rich. In which case, you have to take me.

Bone app a teet.

Little Dishes

Never, Ever Diet

As those of you who know me or are close enough to smell me are aware, I basically eat two foods: cheese and potatoes. Be they fried, melted, mashed, or pumped into my veins with an IV, I just can’t get enough of them. Thank god they’re both really, really good for you. Now, cheese is usually cheese. Served just as is. But, there are many things to do with the potato! Which is why I found this list of mashed potato recipes so important and hungry-making.

Most importantly, there is something called the Mashed Potato Taco. It is likely a harbinger of the Rapture and I would very much like to eat it. So please make some and email one to me.

We're able to do that now, right?

Enjoy.

Top 11 Mashed Potato Recipes [AOL]

P.S. This post also brings up the deeper, darker, more urgent question of why I am constantly on AOL.com, but I’ll save that explanation for another post.