New Year's Eve

Undisclosed Walnut Creek location

Some people like to get dressed up and go out for New Year's Eve, and we might even want to do that sometime, but really no one wants to be the designated driver. So house party it is!

We headed to Walnut Creek for a fabulous spread of food and copious amounts of champagne, sangria and beer. The best part was a cheese fountain. You read it correctly... Cheese Fountain!

Someone opened a bottle of champagne and instead of the usual "pop!" there was a shy little "pthhhbbp" which we deemed queefish. By the way QUEEF has been deemed the word of 2010 to replace douchebag. We've had a good run douchbag, but now you're a queef.

And at midnight, we had our traditional Baby New Year to ride in the new year. 2010 saw the plastic pants filled with money to bring us good fortune.

Happy New Year everyone!

Merry Christmas!

Much like the post Drink with Your Family Day 2009 (otherwise known as Thanksgiving), this is a food porn post...just lots of pictures of the meals Drunks had for Christmas & Christmas Eve. It was another Drink with Your Family week so here goes.

Merry Christmas, by the way...

Prime rib & Yorkshire pudding
Microgreen salad with crab, avocado & heirloom tomatoes

Shim's dinner - more prime rib...

Scribby's meal - even more prime rib...

The roast beast.

Jarla's dessert. "Snowballs" that were supposed to be covered in coconut. Mom didn't have coconut so declared "This year our balls are naked." Priceless!

Jarla's ham dinner

Best salad ever! Candlestick salad is just so very phallic, in an accidental kind of way!

Our Christmas Eve meal of shabu shabu

Seventh Annual Drinky Christmas

Undisclosed Cameron Park Location

If you don't know what we do for Drinky Christmas, please read Sixth Annual Drinky Christmas post.

This year was just like all years: craps load of fun!

We had a 15 litre keg of wine, gift exchange that is brilliant, pink elephant gift exchange, 3 dogs & 3 kids, two types of fondue, chocolate fountain, and hours and hours of fun.

We were having too much fun to write in the journal, take pictures or remember what happened. That's all I got. Hope you Christmas parties are half as fun!

Boxing Donkey

Boxing Donkey
300 Lincoln Street
Roseville, CA 95678
(916) 797-3665

Sometime we can be creatures of habit. Last year we went to the Boxing Donkey as a warm up for our Annual Drinky Christmas and we did the same this year! We had a couple of drop in drunks show their faces which is always nice and the Canadian girlfriend of Bumpy as well!

It was pretty quiet and we were half the crowd with about a dozen drunks attending. Took over the corner table and points beyond. Their happy hour goes all the way to 8pm, so it's a nice time to try their apps. The Irish egg rolls are this weird deep fried corned beef & cabbage concoction that is quite tasty! The mac 'n cheese is always a clear winner.

Our server Mallory was great, even convinced her to take a picture with NakedBob. Here is her entry into the journal.

"May you have lager for your belly,

a warm pillow for your head.

May you be forty years in heaven,

before the devil knows you're dead."

Nicely done.

Yes, in the women's bathroom there are bunches of framed photos of phallic figures.

Magpie Catering & Cafe

Magpie Catering & Cafe
1409 R Street
Sacramento, CA 95811
(916) 452-7594

Woot! It's my birthday! We came to Magpie back in August of this year and we loved it. For the basic rundown, read the previous post. Usually we don't visit a place more than once in a year and very rarely within a few months. But what the hell - I got to pick so we came back.

Started off with the grilled artichoke again. That and a glass of $6 Barbera is my happy place! We took over a large section of the restaurant with our 15 people and just sort of table hopped o keep up with folks. Had a couple of first timers that were introduced as, " They're snarky. You'll like them. They drink!" - so true. They were a great addition!

Absolutely everything ordered was freaky tasty! The owner Ed, brought out some apps for us to try including a really delish baked squash & pumpkin dip served with crispy dark pita. Also had some kaffir lime beer that was good, but I can't remember what it was.

I swear they add crack to everything they make because it's all so good. Trout fettuccine, PEI mussels, winter veggie panini, mac 'n cheese with brussel sprouts, blue cheese & bacon, and once again the carrot cake cookie is perfection.

As a treat, Ed brought out some ice cream that he was experimenting with for us to try. Indian spices, saffron & pistachio. It was really interesting, almost cloyingly flavored on first taste (a lot like saffron or rose water ice cream), but it really developed in the second taste and was just irresistible on the third. Everyone finished theirs off.

Once again, Sluggy hit one out of the park with my birthday puppet, glasses and everything! She is a genius.

Journal tidbits:
"My mom had a Chanukah bush" - YourMom, the newcomer

Chicago Fire - Folsom

Chicago Fire
614 Sutter Street
Folsom, CA 95630-2573
(916) 353-0140

The birthday of Mr. Chem was a lovely evening out at the Folsom version of Chicago Fire. We have been here a lot...

Crabby's birthday August 2009
Nairb's birthday April 2009
Crabby's birthday August 2008

Can you tell boys like pizza? I can't really argue because their thin crust and stuffed pizza are really delicious. Salads are tasting, nice beer & wine selection and a kick ass artichoke that has been soaked in butter and Parmesan cheese...can't really be bad, right?

Mr. Chem was nice enough to ask for donations to Toys for Tots in lieu of gifts. Hence the wooden train set in the photo below. There was a whole SmartCar trunk full of gifts that were donated! But those Superman undies were all his!

Journal tidbit:
"NakedBob knows that a stranger is just a person he hasn't frightened yet."

Drink With Your Family Day 2009

We reject the name Thanksgiving and rename it "Drink with your family day"! Mostly because it's always on a Thursday and we should be drinking...but we're stuck with our family.

This year, I assigned the drunks homework. Submit a picture of their meal/drink/whathaveyou. You can tell they were all good students because they promptly starting texting and emailing around noon. Well done. Gold stars for all!

We hope you had a lovely day drinking with your family. We sure did!

Nairb's fine meal.


...and leftovers...

Shooter's fancy-schmancy spread.

The Slug & Crab family Thanksgiving including cranberry log.

Jarla's perfect gravy moat.

The wine challange.

Scribby & RobotGoBen's first dinner.

Scribby & RobotGoBen's second dinner, notice the smaller size.

Scribby's delicious coffee from Bloom Coffee in Roseville to start the day

Shim & Caddy's yummy spread.

Naked Bob's famous Thanksgiving burrito...he brings his own torillas.

Buckhorn Grill - Sacramento

Buckhorn Grill
1801 L St
Sacramento, CA 95811-4110
(916) 446-3757

MEAT!! MEAT!! MEAT!!

That's what we were hoping for at Buckhorn and they delivered. But let's step back a bit to start.

We had a full house with all the regulars, a reappearing Sluggy, Dr. Smooth & Bump. One was on semester break, one left the kids at home and the other crash his car to pieces. We're glad they came!

Tis' the season, next week is Drink with your family day, we picked names for our Drinky Christmas secret Santa and all that jazz.

Oh yeah. We ate a lot of prime rib and it was good! Their veggies on the side included pumpkin, squash, bell pepper, onion & zucchini - way better than most bland side veggies. Small but nice selection of beer & wine and a larger selection of foods than you would expect. The walk up and order model helps keep the cost reasonable and the staff are friendly.

Overall, nice place to get a nice meal without a lot of fuss or trouble. Aces. Oh, and spend the rest of your saved money at Ginger Elizabeth Chocolates next door - pure, chocolate bliss.