Chef Boy am I Hungry!

Last night my girlfriend and I redeemed a Groupon for Addie’s restaurant. Little did we know - it was Sunday night family dinner at Addie’s.

We had a taste of so much! Take these treats for example:

• Fried chicken
• Tri-tip
• Pan fried trout
• Candied carrots
• Mashed potatoes
• Fried okra
• Salads
• Blueberry and peach cobbler

I had never been to a meal like this before, but both my girlfiend and I really enjoyed it immensely!

If you haven’t been to Addie’s, I suggest giving it a try. It is located on the Rockville Pike, just over the border from Bethesda, in Maryland. The prices are around average or slightly above average for a solid restaurant.

Personally, I would not drop almost $100 for a knife to slice my bread, because that would mean that I would have to have some really delicious bread to slice!

Sure, I truly enjoy Spring Mill bread, but they can slice it for me. Its expensive, but it is delicious.

Shun Knives

Apparently, however, there are some people who will drop some serious dough on a bread knife! Amazon has a Shun bread knife on sale for $90, marked down from $160!

This must be an incredible knife, it has twelve positive reviews:

They have another one for $135, marked down from $175:

If I had enough money to buy a Shun knife, I’d probably start with a standard chef’s knife, like this one:

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Well, I’m convinced. Shun knives must be truly awesome. When I become a multi-millionaire, I’ll buy one. Maybe two, or three…

Thanks to a restaurant.com coupon, I gave this place a try. It was just OK, but I’ll go back next month too - because there were some definite pluses. There was one piece of sushi I hadn’t tried before - uni - that I ordered by accident that was very good. Haha.

I also tried their spicy tuna roll which I will skip next time. Actually next time I will stick with nigiri sushi - tuna, yellowtail (theirs was great), but no salmon. I accidentally ordered smoked salmon and it was just not what I expected.

Their unagi (what I meant to order instead of uni) was very good too. I ordered only one because I had ordered so much other stuff.

I also bought an order of toro for $8 - it was OK, but not worth it.

I’m going to buy these kitchen tools, which, thankfully, are all part of a four-for-three promotion, so I’ll get one free: chopper, teapot, tray, mortal & pestle.

The human-powered chopper is actually really awesome - it chops surprisingly well. I do wish it were higher quality though - I feel like it will only last a few years.

I also recently bought some Emergen-C from Amazon; it has lots of vitamin C and some other vitamins and minerals too - I like it!