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.

Grilled Cheese & Beer Night!

Undisclosed Roseville Location

This is a good one, go ahead and steal it!

All you have to do is invite people over and have them bring their booze, a cheese or some bread and set up a few George Forman grills or panini makers if you are fancy.

Put everything out on plates. Go! The trick here is that it's not your American cheese/wonder bread sandwich. We had a spread of mustard cheddar, blue, feta, brie, fontina, mimolette and more. Breads were sourdough wheat walnut, multigrain, sourdough, foccacia, rosemary and others. Also a selection of mustards, avocados, onions, salami, tomatoes and pears.

You could spend all night trying the different combinations and that just what we did! We were down some sick folks, but we polished off the food just fine with a healthy dose of beer and wine.

I'm slipping into a food coma again just remembering it.

Hmmmmm, cheesey.....

Mongolian BBQ & the Almond Tree

Mongolian BBQ
214 Harding Blvd
Roseville, CA 95678
(916) 783-1433‎

Almond Tree
214 Harding Blvd
Roseville, CA 95678
(916) 782-5052

The outing will never win the swanky award but it will win the super yummy and slightly divey award which is just fine with us! First, how can you not like Mongolian BBQ? Put whatever you like in a bowl and they cook it for you. Girls got multiple fortunes (6 for Jarla, 7 for TheJenny).

Second, how can you not love a little time at a dark, divey bar? The key here is to order simple. Beer or a two ingredient mixed drink and you should be fine and drunk. Anything more fancy and you really are just in the wrong place. The serve is sassy with a side of nice and the karaoke is always going.

Now truth be told, I wasn't there that night - but really, I know how this one goes. Drunks, add your 2 cents and photos to prove you were there...

I was busy getting a cocktail napkin signed for us by Betty White - Golden Girls actress and saucy-mouthed comedian. She rocks!