Category: Food

Thanksgiving

mike d. 4 Comments Blogpost, Food

Thanksgiving at the House of DiDonato is such a pleasure. It’s like a 96 hour marathon of sleeping and binging on foodstuffs. The highlight of the weekend’s eating was a new Mac & Cheese recipe that Mom D made for us. It’s called:

Smack Yo Mamma Mac and Cheese

This recipe was a finalist on ABC’s Good Morning America for best Mac and Cheese. It was claimed to be so delicious that you would go home and smack yo mamma and demand an answer to why her Mac and Cheese wasn’t as good as this Mac and Cheese.

The dish lived up to its reputation. Thankfully, I did not have to Smack Mom D because she did, in fact, make this mac and cheese for us. Thanks Mom D!

Here’s a link to the recipe!

Unbelievably Oblivious!

mike d. 6 Comments Blogpost, Food

I have been driving the exact same commute every weekday for the past eight and a half years.

With 50 work weeks (less 2w vacation) subtract about 7 weeks per year for business travel… that’s 43 weeks. At 5 days a week that 215 days per year. That’s about 1,800 trips to work.

And I just noticed that there’s a cheese shop one street over called “The Cheese Shop”

Whattt?! How did I miss this?!

Kimchi

mike d. 5 Comments Blogpost, Food, travel, Work

Of all the foods I’ve tried, it is Korean cuisine that I can’t yet appreciate.

I am currently working on the South East end of the Korean peninsula about a four hour drive from Seoul. A typical lunch for the workers here consists of a pile of white sticky rice, various vegetables covered in brine and hot chili peppers, kimchi, a meat and a soup. It’s that brine-esque, pickled vegetable stuff that I haven’t yet learned to love. and it is EVERYWHERE. 50% of most meal options are sprinkled with hot&spicy ocean flavor spices.

Yesterday, the Koreans that I’m working with requested a pizza party. So we bought them Pizzas from their favorite locale: Dominoes.

Korean Dominoes should be classified as local cuisine. Two of the pizzas had mayonaise on them, another had shrimp and unidentified yellow cubes. Squash? I’m not sure. You’d think I would be all over that mayo pizza, but I couldn’t move myself to try it.

I will be here until the 28th.