DH arrived in Philly today - ate at Chili's tonight. Help, I have to send a list of where to eat

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to those stupid guys or else I am going to make myself sick. They are staying right there by the Reading Terminal Market. He did grab lunch at the Dutch something or another place we ate at last time and loved. Of course I drug him to Le Bec Fin last time and I can just about guarantee these guys won't be heading there. I think they want good local food but more of an average Joe everyday type food and cost. Any suggestions please? He always makes me so mad doing this when he travels. Lucky devil gets to travel while I am stuck here and Iwant to live (or eat) vicariously through him.

 
Right in Reading Terminal Market---Di Nic's

Fuggitabout da cheezesteak at Pat or Gino's--the roast pork sandwich with broccoli rabe and sharp provolone is one of the single best sandwiches I have ever had. Worth a trip to Philly merely for stopping by Dinic's.

It's early and I haven't had my coffee yet, so I will think of more shortly.

 
Sorry I can't be of help Missy. I don't go into town that much and am not too

familiar with the Reading Terminal Market area.

Just Jim's Steaks on South Street and Downey's Pub at Front & South Streets, but that's a hike.

 
We go twice a year to Center City and always seem to eat at great places.

I am not the one who chooses or make the reservations so I can't remember the names! I do know that all the Starr restaurants are good, some a a bit pricy. The two we have been to recently are:

The Continental-trendy, tapas style, staff is fabulous and helpful to pick out enough food for the table, back room is quite-front room is loud

Alma de Cuba-Cuban food-delicious!

A quick walk from the Center City Marriot is McCormick and Schmick famous for its seafood, always delicious.

Philly has many BYOB restaurants which I find very interesting. Many small owner/chef type places which can be very good. There is a great Mexican place also a quick walk from the Marriott, its BYOB and cash only, no reservations and really good (can't remember the name) and a dive type place about 12 blocks walk that is Greek food and really good. I will try to get you some more names today!

 
I used to bring Delilah's beef ribs on the plane back to FL for Lar.

Could be a good comparison to TN ribs? They have a stand right in the Reading Terminal--although I used to get mine at the train terminal near the Univ of PA.

Of course, this was before she was on FoodTV and published a book and appeared on Oprah and with Bobby Flay and Good Morning America, etc, etc, etc.

 
So I tell him I emailed him the list, he doesn't log on and calls me

So I am sitting here reading them names, descriptions, locations, looking them up on maps to see which way they need to walk. That's it, I'm getting a GPS for him and preprogramming it with all the restaurants and such!

And I am sitting here waiting while they rush my uncle's wife up from Mississippi to the emergency room here to see her specialist and ordering Papa John's pizza cause I have no desire to cook or even warm anything at this point. I took a vacation day to enjoy time to myself and planned a trip up to Broadbent hams in KY and that all got blown to you know where an back when I got the call from mom..... I took a short nap while ago knowing that when they get here - probably around 9 or 10 at best, we'll be at the hospital for hours. At least the doctor has already sent her files to the emergency room and ordered some test for them to start while they call him in. So much for my weekend.... Country Ham Festival is tomorrow (I am on a real pig kick right now), was going to make some of that candied bacon toffee with the bacon I was going to get at Broadbents. Was going to go relax on the deck at Arrington Vineyards tomorrow afternoon after hitting the Country Ham Festival.

 
6 Hrs in the ER on a Fri nite/Sat morn - wasn't like on tv....

As I sat there waiting while they ran ever concievable test on my uncle's wife I kept finding myself bored and thinking where is all the excitement that I see on TV? After all it's a Friday night. I kept telling myself that once we hit midnight it would change but it didn't really. No one running in screaming and crying. And dang it, wouldn't you know it, the ambulances bring their fun through another door! No Code this or Code that, only an announcement about doing something until the copier/fax was fixed - did this really merit an announcement on the PA system to everyone in the ER and ER waiting area?

However, there was one guy that came it that was rather 'strange' - almost zombie like with his hand wrapped in a rag. When he came out of triage, they had replaced the rag with a piece of guaze and he must have had something pretty bad done to the very top of his hand so for a while I sat there and wondered what this strange man's story was. He was rather like Anthony Perkins in Psycho only taller and older.

And then a little comedy and a touch of gore. This couple came in, young twenties, almosted dazed. At firstI thought she had a really bad nose bleed until I realized from her nose down to the bottom of her chin was completely 'skinned'. And the guy had several spots on one side of his face that were bleeding as well as his arm and hand. But they only sought treatment for her. After triage they sat on the opposite side of the room. OH - forgot to mention - she was tall and thin, dressed in a long shirt with a VERY short pleated skirt, those black knee high stocking things and high heels. The smallest wrong move and she was flashing everyone and by this time the waiting room was starting to fill up. I'm sure "Anthony Perkins" got a good shot! She would get up and get down and crawl under the water fountain. Go sit down and then go back and crawl under the water fountain. And go up and show the lady at the front desk her lip/mouth and such and say "Is this going to be a lot of surgery?" or some variation of that over and over. Finally I figured out what the heck she was doing crawling under the water fountain - it was a plug in water fountain so she was using the plug to charger her phone or iPod or something. Finally I think she saw several of us having a hard time holding back the laughter at her crawling under the water fountain and other antics so they went and sat outside. This one sweet girl there with her father went out for a smoke and the girl asked her for a light so she asked them what happened and they said they were both drunk and fell - stoned is more like it. But she sat there trying to smoke with her face all busted up - her teeth were pushed back an inch or more the sweet girl said.

 
Thanks - update on her, including the power of your recipes!

We finally left around 4am. They found nothing except anemia and slight dehydration meaning that her Wegener's must be 'active' again causing more damage to her organs and making it hard for her to breath.

We stopped at a Waffle House near my house and it was full. We sat down at a dirty table and finally got the waitress' attention to bus it. She removed the dishes and came back AFTER rinsing the removed dishes and wiped the table down with a dirty rag and then deliberately threw it on the floor. When I finally got her attention again and asked her to wipe it again since it was still dirty and you know what she did? She picked up the rag off the floor. I said under my breath "I can't believe you are really going to do that" and she heard me and said she would get another rag and proceeded to go talk about us to one of the other waiters and play with her ticket book. We got up and left. They settled for leftovers.

Good news is that she hasn't eaten three bites of anything and kept it down for over a week - UNTIL she got to my house! She ate a small bowl of my pappa e pomodoro soup and kept it down. She ate another larger bowl for lunch today with her medicines. By late afternoon she was feeling and acting remarkably better so we took a very slow venture to the Country Ham Festival. She had to sit down a few times but had a sorgum sucker, sampled some ham, ate a good bit of a blooming onion and then ate an ear of roasted corn when we got home. She's eaten more since 4am this morning they said than she eating all total in almost two weeks.

She smelled some turnip greens at the festival but they were out. As luck would have it, I decided to buy a bunch of them as well as a bunch of kale when I picked up my CSA share so I have the greens on to cook all night. I can't remember who posted it here for me, think Michael in Phoenix, but I'll make another soup with the Kale. And I'll figure out what to do with Tatsoi - my first time to use it but it was in my box. So that should help with the anemia. I'll probably roast the butternut squash and maybe if any is left, turn it into a soup to send home with her.

We were talking about recipes and her daughter pulled out her book that she had written down all the recipes she loves and uses and there was Gretchen's Sausage and Corn Chowder I had given her. She always loves my soups when she visits and loved that one so much she called me a couple of weeks later having to have it faxed to her. But she also mentioned she loves egg custard and I do too. I'm thinking I might run to a friends and get some fresh eggs from him tomorrow to make some - his eggs are so fresh and rich! I'll have her at least nurished before she heads home. And send them home with more simple recipes to make for her.

Anyway - when you doubt the power of food, just remember things like this.

 
Hang in there Missy. Sometimes life just doesn't go the way you planned.

It's great that you can adapt to changes. My one suggestion, is to have an emergency boredom kit. I keep in my car an embroidery project that I am working on. I take it whenever I get my oil changed or any car related time consuming event. I have one wall hanging that is just from having cars repaired. To me, hell is being stuck in a car dealership with nothng to do but watch Oprah. Acckkkkkkkkkkkkkk! I keep some sort of project always in my car that I can work on.

 
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