The One Hundred and Seventy First...

Number One Hundred and Seventy One:

WRIR 97.3 studios, Lunch, Cafe Ole, Burrito

Coming into the WRIR 97.3 studios to do my mic managing shift for the Spring Fund Drive a few minutes early not only meant getting my stuff together and prepping, but also enjoying one of the many fine meals offered at the station over the course of the Drive. This time it was Cafe Ole, burritos and chips available. Yum.

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Richmond has been a great musical town for as long as I can remember, and this radio station reflects this. Not only do we have people from the older scene, but new people as well. And it is not just about music, news and talk kicks much ass as well. So, keep this thing rolling and DONATE!

I managed this 'stache during my shift on the microphone during the 80s show hosted by Bil L. and P-Swann. Solid!

Radiostache!

The One Hundred Seventieth...

Number One Hundred and Seventy:

Tastebuds American Bistro, Dinner, Sliced Sirloin with Blue Cheese Red Bliss Potato Cake, Haricot Vert & Smoked Tomato-Red Wine Sauce

Yes, this meal is worth mentioning in its entirety. I really like ALL the places to eat in Northside pretty much equally, but some days you just really LOVE places. Tonight was right on with Tastebuds. Such a great restaurant. Go, really, I recommend it.

I called around 5:30 to see if we could get a table at short notice, they recommend reservations on the weekends. Andrew, the owner, answered. This place is family run and the waitstaff is awesome and friendly. I asked if we could still land a table, he said it would be fine and that it wouldn't be too busy tonight because of the Nascar races going on. No one would want to venture Northside as a result. I told him I live Northside, so I wasn't afraid. He laughed and recognized my name. We have spoken many times before, usually me having a beer waiting at the bar for my pizza order, so we have gotten to know each other fairly well. He loves WRIR on Sundays, even contributed dinner for this coming Sunday for the Spring Fund Drive, so good on him! (BTW, this is the portion of the blog when you shuffle your ass to wrir.org and CONTRIBUTE to some independent free radio! Please help support radio that is independent, local and cares!)

Anyway, we arrive and have a terrific dinner, familiar setting and staff and food and just great tasting, perfect for a Friday evening. Plus, the place actually started filling up, despite the rednecks trying to thwart off local eating! Yay!

Tastebudstache!

The One Hundred and Sixty Ninth...

Number One Hundred and Sixty Nine:

Home, Dinner, Leftover Full Key

After failed negotiations with the teen over where to go OUT to eat, she settled on biking to Subway, I had leftover Full Key, watching the Walking Dead AMC series based on the pretty cool graphic novel series. Worked out pretty well I'd say!

ZOMBIE!

The One Hundred and Sixty Eighth...

Number One Hundred and Sixty Eight:

Riverbound Cafe, Lunch, Burger

Home of the lighthouse motif.

The One Hundred and Sixty Seventh,,,

Number One Hundred and Sixty Seven:

Home, Dinner, Greek chicken wrap

After putting together an IKEA nightstand, which we always do a two step forward, one back about once, it was time to grill up some chicken for dinner.

The recipe, well sort of:

- Marinade chicken in a bit of olive oil, oregano, cracked pepper, sea salt, and feta.

- add onion, green pepper, mushroom.

Grill it! Well, the chicken first, then throw in the vegetables.

Lisa, who made the hard dish, made some tzatzki, which is awesome.

1 cuke grated, dried a little with a towel

A little more than a cup of greek yogurt

small clove of garlic, stir and let set for a few minutes. Hey, maybe while you're grilling!

Then heat up some flatbread of some kind, like they make gyros with, or whatever the ones they sell at IKEA, and you are ready to make your wrap. Mmmm! It's the tzatzki that makes it so good on a warm day.

Tzatzkistache!

The One Hundred and Sixty Sixth...

Number One Hundred and Sixty Six:

Panera Bread, Lunch, 1/2 Sandwich 1/2 Salad

Panera Bread, pretty much your plethora of sandwiches, salads, soups. You have to wonder how much of this stuff, like the soup, comes from some can or big bag 'o lettuce, or if they actually make it fresh there. Either way, there might be a lot of lunches here in the future. I am thinking about doing a thing called Summer of Salad for lunches. Hopefully to maybe drop a pound or two, but also because "Summer of Salad" sounds kind of funny...

The One Hundred and Sixty Fifth...

Number One Hundred and Sixty Five:

Full Key Restaurant, Dinner, Chicken Peking

Being Easter Sunday, every place we hoped and planned on going to pick up a pizza pie were close. Full Key? Open! They have a lobster tank, you can pick your lobster, then feel weird about it.