This week's food adventures actually started last Saturday.

We had dinner at Blue Pacific Sushi Grille. I admit I am not as familiar with Sushi and its variations, so hubby had to order. We got the Rainbow Sushi Combo (Rainbow maki, tuna nigiri and salmon nigiri) which at first I wasn't sure about. Within minutes I had to restrain myself from eating everything on the plate. Lovely stuff, that Sushi. It was served with slices of ginger and wasabi and the flavors blended well as you could hope.

I ordered the shimp satay and also some soba noodles to try them. Satay good, soba, not so much, as I didn't expect them to be cold. I am sure that I should have, but again, this is new territory for me, having only recently overcome my reluctancance to eat ahi tuna - which I now love.

Sunday we had lunch at Ruby Tuesday. I don't want to even talk about it, it was so depressing. In my part of the world, this is the crowded restaurant, because there are so few other choices. I will admit that I like their salad bar, but they have to stop burning crab cakes. Even Mojitos can't fix that.

We ate at home rest of the week... where we are currently drowning in Girl Scout cookies. Stan was only going to buy a few boxes, then came home with 24. I am not making this up.

So here we are on another Saturday, and though chain restaurants are not usually my first choice, tonight we went to Houlihans, which I do really like. As always ordered too much...

Started with the bruchetta, great flavor profiles with the olives and goat cheese... Also got tuna wontons (yum!), and fish tacos (messy!). Stan ordered ribs with shrimp, french onion soup (salty, too much cooking wine + salt?) and the "crispy prosciutto flatbread pizza" which I also liked. "Would we like to consider dessert?" (Even though we just shoved 50% of dinner into take home boxes? Ummmn, yeah! He got what would usually be called apple pie ala mode (but they call the "big yum") and I got creme brulee (don't look for appropriate accent marks because it is late and I don't feel like looking them up) - you know perfectly well that I mean custard w/burned sugar. Maybe not authentic, but it's nice and I like it.

Just noticed that I feel like I could nosh a little... I don't think midnight is too late for leftovers, do you?