Who’s with me?!

Seriously, I know the entire world is going through very hard times right now. There is no place to escape and seek refug from this crazy virus…. Other than your own home BUT I’m over it! You feel me?!

I’ve always considered myself a homebody. I mean, I love food shopping and go to several different grocery stores on any given weekend as well as my produce co-op every other Saturday, making dinner plans with our best friends or just dragging my husband or one of my boys out to a new place to eat that I’d been wanting to try for the past week. Or a coffee shop I read about earlier in the week! And I loved knowing I could come home and prepare a new dish I found on Instagram, because I love cooking, I love my house… my foundation, my safe space. But now days, it kind of feels like I’m on house arrest…. You still feel me, right?!

Coming up with new, creative and satisfying meals has been a true challenge. I am sure you’ll all agree with me on this! I truly miss calling in a pizza order! Don’t we all?! I feel like I’ve cooked my bajllionth socially distanced family dinner, and it’s only been a few weeks! I miss someone else cooking for me and cleaning up after me!!

I feel for the hard working restaurant staff that had to temporarily sacrifice their livelihood until this pandemic blows over. I can’t imagine how scary their world is right now. But my heart is with them and I can’t wait to sit in the dining rooms of all my favorite local restaurants when this is all over! I’m dreaming of Jesse’s Steak and Seafood’s queen cut prime rib dinner! Pizza Rock for a heaping plate full of the Marty Salad is just a fantasy! Romano’s 1977 Restaurant for the Chicken Souvlaki Platter sounds like heaven! I miss the big heaping basket full of warm tortilla chips and savory salsa from Sabor a Mexico or Mi Casa (both my favorites)! I’d kill for a chili dog from Campbell’s Dairyland with a soft serve cone chaser! Ahhhh, a fresh bagel with a schmere of veggie cream cheese! I can’t tell you what I’d for anything from Yummy House….

I know the restaurant industry is doing what they can but this is such a heart breaking scenerio.

Even if I can’t sit in Bahamas Bucks right now and watch my kids beat me at Uno, as I lick the shaved ice syrup running down my hand… I know I’m blessed to have the memory!

I miss you restaurant world! We all do! Stay safe out there, we need you!!!!