You Ate What...?

We took a quick trip to Tulsa to introduce our daughter to marine life at the Oklahoma Aquarium. In planning this trip (and realizing I hadn't posted on here in ages, we looked for a unique restaurant in the area. We found KAI Burmese Restaurant that serves food from Myanmar (formerly Burma) in Southeast Asia. Much of it is influenced by the surrounding cultures (China, India, Thailand, etc.). We ordered a lot of food, wanting to get a good feel for the type of cuisine. Appetizers: Tea leaf salad - super good, both adults liked it and the tomatoes were a thumbs up for the preschooler. Pickled or marinated tea leaves, shredded cabbage, sliced tomatoes, peanuts, crunchy soy nuts, sesame seeds, a bit of spice, and a well-seasoned dressing. I promise, under all the crunchy stuff there really are veggies Yellow something, orange something, and black something....vegetables, apparently  Tempura vegetables - the sauce was really tasty according to the husband, all vegetab...

It's a busy time in our year, right before the holidays. My husband's working long hours, and my job as an elementary school speech-language pathologist means that my students are wound up for the break. So, my husband asked me to meet him after working late for dinner. As I arrived, I started looking for places to go, somewhere we had never been that had decent reviews. Up popped "Mama Sinmi's Chop House." It's a West African restaurant in OKC, situated right next to the East African restaurant "Queen of Sheba." We'd never gone to either one, so it was an interesting idea. Think breadsticks/chips/tortillas, we got this before we ordered We were greeted by one of the owners who gave us our menus and some water. We did our usual looking at the menu, glances at each other, and then finally asking what the other person was going to get. I think the owner by this time knew we were first-timers, though she asked to make sure. After talking with ...

One day a few months ago I was really hungry around breakfast time. John and I had been a little testy and we decided to have a nice breakfast out. It was therapeutic, as meals with loved ones often can be. We went to Cattleman's Steakhouse in the Stockyards of OKC. Cattleman's has some seriously delicious food....it's a steakhouse in a stockyards, how much more "local" can you get? They also serve breakfast. Steakhouse breakfast....awesome, just awesome. We are obviously adventurous eaters and there is always something a little odd. Weird Thing We Ate: Lamb Fries with Cocktail Sauce These are also called Rocky Mountain Oysters. They are also not everyone's cup of tea. They are slightly slimy, but in cocktail sauce most anything tastes good. Otherwise they are decent. There are a ton of other things we would probably get there instead of these, but they were a good novelty item and definitely a more Oklahoman dish than most we have tried before.