Monday, February 09, 2004
I am beginning to feel a certain frustration here and that frustration has everything to do with dinner. In Brooklyn, we could make dinner every few days and the other days hit the restaurant circuit that was on our street.
The choices were: Chinese, Thai, Japanese, Indian, Italian, Mexican, Middle-Eastern and they all delivered and were relatively inexpensive, except for sushi and that's a good thing (beware cheap sushi).
In Dallas, we had essentially a one-stop shop of take home and that was Eat-Zi's. We could choose from salads, sandwiches, kebabs, full meals even. Or we could go to the numerous restaurants that we all within a few minutes from our place.
However in Joensuu, the choices are less than stellar. Let's see on the way home we have pizza (and not very good pizza) and that's about it. Which means that every night we have to go to the store, which is easier said than done, figure out what the hell we want to eat and then cook. You know, if we had a car at our disposal this wouldn't be quite the same pain in the ass as it is now. Hell, even a bicycle would make it easier. But have you looked outside lately? It ain't bicycle weather and probably won't be for another 6-8 weeks.
Sometimes I just wish we could pick up 2 wonton soups and some steamed veggie dumplings and maybe an egg-roll. Or maybe get home and call the Thai restaurant to come and deliver the fresh spring rolls and peanut chicken. Or run to the Italian store across the street and get some manacotti and puttanesca. Hell, if the pizza place by us had anything resembling good pizza on their menu, that would at least be a step in the right direction.
So after all this, the question still remains, what do I want for dinner tonight?
By the way, I have just added a comments section to the blog. I am not really adept with html programming and have no idea how well this is going to work. There are places for your name, email address and URL page. These are not necessary to fill out if you want to leave a comment and not have your email address advertised to just anyone. So feel free to comment and let me know what you think.
The choices were: Chinese, Thai, Japanese, Indian, Italian, Mexican, Middle-Eastern and they all delivered and were relatively inexpensive, except for sushi and that's a good thing (beware cheap sushi).
In Dallas, we had essentially a one-stop shop of take home and that was Eat-Zi's. We could choose from salads, sandwiches, kebabs, full meals even. Or we could go to the numerous restaurants that we all within a few minutes from our place.
However in Joensuu, the choices are less than stellar. Let's see on the way home we have pizza (and not very good pizza) and that's about it. Which means that every night we have to go to the store, which is easier said than done, figure out what the hell we want to eat and then cook. You know, if we had a car at our disposal this wouldn't be quite the same pain in the ass as it is now. Hell, even a bicycle would make it easier. But have you looked outside lately? It ain't bicycle weather and probably won't be for another 6-8 weeks.
Sometimes I just wish we could pick up 2 wonton soups and some steamed veggie dumplings and maybe an egg-roll. Or maybe get home and call the Thai restaurant to come and deliver the fresh spring rolls and peanut chicken. Or run to the Italian store across the street and get some manacotti and puttanesca. Hell, if the pizza place by us had anything resembling good pizza on their menu, that would at least be a step in the right direction.
So after all this, the question still remains, what do I want for dinner tonight?
By the way, I have just added a comments section to the blog. I am not really adept with html programming and have no idea how well this is going to work. There are places for your name, email address and URL page. These are not necessary to fill out if you want to leave a comment and not have your email address advertised to just anyone. So feel free to comment and let me know what you think.
// posted by Howard @ 2:33 PM 
