What I CRAVE

My earlier post "My Starbucks" I talked about going to well to Starbucks to has some delicious coffee and to people watch.  Well the place I chose to go to Starbucks was the Mall of  America it has two of them besides if I wanted to go walk around and it was a great place to choose.

When I got to the MOA I was hungry so I thought maybe I would go to Chipotle, instead I walked past a restaurant called CRAVE.  I have been to CRAVE many times since I have friends who work there a few servers and a chef who was my executive chef while I was the sous chef at OM restaurant, which later I became executive chef of.

I made the decision to go to CRAVE since they have a great small plates happy hour from 3pm to 6pm.  What a great choice it was the Kogi Beef tacos were delicious with a side of beer, I ended up having to sets of those tacos, one set being comped.  I got to talk with Amanda one of the friends I talked about and Jaime Sierra the Chef I mentioned.

Here's some photos.

Beer and Kogi Beef Tacos

Close-up of Tacos

My Starbucks

I have tweeted about it and blogged about Starbucks often and here I go again.

I have a huge passion about Starbucks I think about sitting at the stores and having a delicious dark roast all the time.  Is that insane and obsessive I even get upset when people talk down about Starbucks, so don't talk down about them in my presence please.

Today I need to go off and spend some time there people watching.  MMMMM Starbucks coffee.

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I Love a Great Gyro

I had a craving today and that craving was a gyro (yeer-oh) a great place to go just happens to be in the neighborhood walking distance (big smile on my face).  The place is call Gyropolis I actually go quite a bit however today I thought I would share a picture and a bit more.  Here's the local Urbanspoon rating 96%.  I give it 100% for my satisfaction factor. 

@Mnmissy and my Beef Stew ( @epwait )

@Mnmissy and I made Beef Stew tonight. This makes a large batch of stew

2 onions quartered
2 pints mushrooms we actuall bought pre-sliced
4 lbs of stew beef cubes
2 bottles of beer your favorite type, I like a dark ale.
1 lb carrots cubed or thick sliced
6 large potatoes
1 cup water
1 can diced tomato
1 tsp dry mustard
3 tbsp of catchup yes it's a surprise.
1 tsp chili sauce if you love heat add a bit more you will love it.
Salt & pepper to taste

Open Faced Caprese Sandwich.

I love mozzarella, tomato, basil and balsamic the classic caprese salad. I just wanted it a bit hardier one day so I made this on ciabatta.

Three Citrus Spicy Shrimp Pasta

Was hungry and all I had was an orange, lemon and a lime. I had shrimp in the freezer and pasta in the cupboard. Grab the pepper flakes, sugar and salt & pepper with butter and a touch of EVOO. Squeezed all the juices from the fruit into the bowl added salt & pepper, sugar, pepper flakes then marinated the shrimp for about 10 minutes. I poured the marinade into a sauté pan reduce the marinade to a nice citrus sauce. Realized I had some artichokes and threw them and the shrimp in to sauté with EVOO and butter and a pinch of s&p. Then the pasta I had cooked during the marinading then added the sauce. It was so good.

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Eric Wait https://www.advocare.com/09102943/

Dinner Tonight: Steak Sandwich with Cucumber, Ginger Salad, and Black Chile Mayonnaise

Dinner Tonight: Steak Sandwich with Cucumber, Ginger Salad, and Black Chile Mayonnaise
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Eric Wait

https://www.advocare.com/09102943/