Key West Style Cuban Chicken Soft Taco

3 different styles mixed into one meal. Doesn't sound good, but it was. First time I saw the marinade in the store. I figured I would give it a shot and grill up some chicken that had soaked in it. In trying to figure out something different with the chicken I looked in the fridge and came up with the soft taco idea. I fixed up some red beans and rice, along with some corn, to go as sides for this meal. A little melted cheese and some caramelized onion topped off these tacos. Nothing else was needed on these bad boys as they were excellent as is.

Polka Dot Pig Gastro Pub in Augusta

This is a new restaurant in Augusta that has been open for a month. We decided to give it a shot and it was pretty good. We started off with a White Pizza and an order of Duck Empanadas as our apps. The white pizza is fire cooked with 5 different cheeses, fresh basil, and a garlic pesto. The empanadas were filled with duck, roasted black cherries, and crumbles of goat cheese. Both apps were very good and I would gladly eat them both again. For my main course I got the Chipotle Braised Beef Short Ribs with Jalapeno Mac-n-Cheese and Roasted Corn with Green Chilies. The short ribs were perfect. The mac-n-cheese was different and was on fire with every bite. Not really my cup of tea, but it wasn't horrible. Still, I would have been much happier with the old standard mac-n-cheese. All in all, they have a lot of different tastes on the menu and I would gladly go back. Hopefully though they will have things flowing better and get kinks worked out while shaking off the new restaurant rust. They only had 1 high chair for the entire restaurant (not good with as many tables as they have). Also, our apps came out within 10 min of ordering. We didn't get out main dishes for another 45 min. It was worth the wait, but it shouldn't have taken that long.

Lunch at Magnolia's in Charleston

Charleston SC is full of great food, but when you are wanting some great food in a causal uptown environment you go to Magnolia's. We started off with the massive plate of Housemade Potato Chips. These chips are covered with warm and gooey crumbled blue cheese and scallions. For my main course I got the Parmesan Crusted Flounder. This was served over Carolina rice and creek shrimp purloo with sweet corn, tomato and asparagus salad, lump crab and a lemon beurre blanc. It was a nice treat to find the rice and shrimp under the corn salad. I highly recommend this restaurant or one of their other 2 sister restaurants on your next trip to Charleston.

http://www.magnolias-blossom-cypress.com/

burger corn sweet potato fries

Wife made a nice lil dinner few nights ago. These were some local grass fed burgers we tried our hardest to ruin by putting them on shitty tasting buns. (I had one sans bun for lunch the next day and it had way more swagger).

sorta disclaimer: this is actually my wifes plate. She was impressed with how it looked so she pic'd it. I didn't have any corn because I could take or leave corn unless it's some fire roasted stuff or rolled in mayo and whatever the hell else mexicans roll their corn in.

Low Country Boil in Shellman Bluff

Just a little thing we threw together tonight on this new beast of a grill while this monster of a storm rolled through. The last pic is a panoramic shot I took while standing on the back porch during the storm.

Super Bowl Grub....

The spread included: Pulled Pork, BBQ Chicken , Artichoke Dip, Buffalo Chicken Salad Dip, Corn & Black Bean Salsa, Fried Mac-n-Cheese, Cookies, Brownies, Veggies, Grilled Corn on the Cob and lots of beer, wine, and booze.

tv dinner