It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. It's a great post to organise yourself. It's an opportunity to visit and comment, and er... add to that ever growing TBR pile! So welcome in everyone. This meme started with J Kaye's Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from
Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the
Book Date. And here we are!
I have been so lazy this week in my reading life! I wish I could blame it on work or family or whatever else that's going on in real life, but the truth is that, it's all just me.
As much as I hate to admit it, sometimes you DO need a break from the things that you love. And it's not even because I'm reading anything that I'm not enjoying. I've just been finding other things I got more interested in doing.
Yeah, I know. The blasphemy of it all!
Anyway...
Meanwhile, the weekend could have made up for my lack of reading... but lots of activity made it a bit impossible, so I can kind of blame family stuff for the lack of reading over the weekend. Unfortunately, that doesn't really explain the rest of the week.
My brother's birthday was on Saturday, so the family decided to take a road trip to visit him and celebrate. A three hour trip later, and we all joined together for a late lunch wherein I tried NOT to eat too much since my brother had said something about sushi for dinner. We actually didn't get into KC until later than we'd expected, and then ended up waiting a good thirty minutes to an hour before lunch was served.
We went to a bar and grill called The Yard House, where they had a LOT of beers on tap to choose from. There was a room, or rather a whole hallway, of beer kegs by the entrance for the pleasure of viewing, and they were all connected to the bar via lines running along the ceiling inside metal box tunnels. And while I'm not really a big fan of beer, I've found myself drawn to the more roasty ones lately. So I got myself the Boulder Shake Chocolate Porter. My youngest brother had wanted to order something called a Rogue Hazelnut Brown Nectar, but they were out of that--so sad, because it actually sounded kind of tasty, and I was going to try to steal a sip from my brother.
Anyway, as you can see from the photos above, my meal included two appetizers: a Korean BBQ boneless wing platter, and some pork lumpia. The boneless wings really just tasted more like a spicy sweet and sour chicken with a slight hint of Korean BBQ, and came with a weird sauce that may or may not have been some sort of mustardy mayo... maybe. And the pork lumpia wasn't really much to write home about. They were good, but the real star of the entire show was the creamy truffle dipping sauce that my pork lumpia appetizer came with. It came with a sweet chili sauce as well, but really, who cared about that one in the face of that creamy truffle sauce that tasted all sorts of wonderful, so much so that I started dipping my brother's fries in it just to use it all up, then requested another ramekin for the rest of the fries on my parents' meal?
I was fawning over it so much that everyone at the table just started making fun of me, and my mom even looked up a recipe only to find out how expensive a bottle of truffle oil was.
I don't have more pictures, if only because this KC road trip isn't something new for us--we visit on a regular basis. Even sushi dinner is quite typical... and also I didn't really enjoy the sushi dinner that night as much as I did my appetizer lunch. Which is sad because I love sushi, but this place my brother took us to wasn't that great, in my opinion.
All-in-all, it was a nice weekend trip, and I look forward to another one. I've been wanting to check out the Brazilian steakhouse in KC, called Fogo de Chão; my family just needs to psychologically prepare themselves for the onslaught of all you can eat meat, apparently.
What I Read Last Week
What I'm Currently Reading
What I'm Planning to Read Next
Other Plans On the Blog
I've got two series reviews ready to push out as soon as I finish reading the last of Jill Shalvis's Animal Magnetism and Kylie Brant's Tremaine Traditions. They'll be out at some point the week after, if not this week. Meanwhile, with March coming around the corner, I get to pick another Reading Assignment book, and I chose Kylie Brant's Pretty Girls Dancing, which I've been wanting to read since the beginning of the year when it came out.
Meanwhile, I've got one review I'm going to give a quick edit to, and then it'll get posted either today or tomorrow.
That's pretty much it for now.
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