Jackpot Daddy: Birthday Dinner for Kelly at The Village Pub

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Birthday Dinner for Kelly at The Village Pub

It was my wife's birthday on Thursday and on her request we went out to dinner at The Village Pub in Woodside, CA. This has been one of our favorite restaurants for several years now and I am sure it is considered one of the best restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area.

THE VILLAGE PUB

On my birthday, I picked Giovanni's pizza. I had not eaten pizza for months since I had been eating a healthier diet. It was good, but if you compare our choices of birthday dinners, there's no doubt who is the classier person in this relationship.

Dinner was amazing. We both had the pumpkin soup and baked scallops for dinner. Our daughter had a roasted pork chop with cooked apples and of course plenty of homemade dinner rolls. Everything was memorable and it was really the first time we have taken our daughter to a nice restaurant and she really enjoyed it and ate something other than bread and pasta.

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Welcome to my cooking blog! :)

I didn't start this blog because I am a great cook... I am not.

I do "ok" in the kitchen. I can follow recipes. I have a sense of when things seem to be turning out or not. I can make adjustments on the fly sometimes to save a dish from turning into a bad meal. I do derive satisfaction from cooking a meal that turns out well and for me, a meal turns out well when its healthy and we enjoy eating the food and want more of it and it doesn't take me 3 hours to prepare.

I seem to be pretty lucky in picking dishes to make and having them turn out well and in being able to come up with things my 9 year old daughter will eat. That's how I earned the nickname, "Jackpot Daddy."

I started this blog because family dinners are important to me and making sure we have good food to eat and that we all sit down together for dinner at least four times per week is high on my list of priorities. This blog is a way to share that part of my life with people who know me and to help me keep track of what I have prepared for dinners in the past... very helpful when I am trying to think about what to make and when I made enchiladas last.

Family dinners were a part of my childhood. I think the family dinner is an important and valuable tradition. Its a regularly scheduled event in which we can be with each other as a family.

I generally cook 4 meals per week on Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday meals are designed to have leftovers for Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Sometimes we go out to dinner on Friday or Saturday but not often.