Getting back in the game

Once upon a time, I used to blog. Many of my blog posts were of  food and restaurants. Then came baby, life, work, all the other things that had always been there but felt more difficult to deal with, and there went my time, patience, and hoseleh to blog. Plus, when I do get to go out and eat, my hands are kind of busy with you know who...


One of the reasons we don't eat out as often

 After a busy week for both of us,  Cary was asked to be a part of a project with some friends. This meant Layla and I would be alone most of Saturday. So we went to Home Depot (because we're moving next month!), Mom's house, then Aunties house, then to a small shop that does interesting things with succulents and wood and other interesting pieces of furniture and accents.  That was a pain; Layla asleep, stroller didn't fit in store, had to put it back in the car, all with Layla asleep, lots of transfers to carseat, carried her limp/sweaty/sleeping body throughout the store, all by myself. Needless to say, by the time Cary got home, I was beat. I told him to go out with Layla and leave me at home to veg out. He insisted we go out together all three of us. Reluctantly I agreed, and we tried this little burger and beer joint called Stout. 

This was the IOS 3am chicken burger. Sort of Greek themed. It came with fries inside the burger.
Love that. Really yummy and perfectly filling.

They had this giant oven baked pretzel that Layla liked. She loved the fries of course. We each got beers we never tried before. Cary got the Italian themed burger, it had prosciutto in the form of bacon bits, mozzarella, nummy.



Mmmm, more french fries? more french fries?

 Despite a rough start, Layla was great. She stayed in her stroller the whole time watching Elmo on Cary's phone. She had a bite of my burger meat, some pretzel and a bunch of fries. Not the balanced meal that I would prefer for her to have, but Mommy and Daddy got to chill out and unwind a bit.

We were leaving Stout to go back to the car and this young, punky tatooed couple that were walking in front of us, turned and shouted to their friends behind us that they would be right back in 20 minutes....after they f@$ked. Then the guy, sort of embarrassed points out that there's a little kid right there, and the girl apologizes for cursing in front of Layla. We were laughing at all of it because we saw it coming.

The little strip mall type corner that Stout was located in is pretty cool. Next door is a hookah lounge, and next door to that is another bar/restaurant that offered sausages and other yummies on the menu. At the opposite corner is Big Wangs, which is a sports bar with wangs...um, I mean wings. Chicken wings. It's just off Sunset between Ivar and Cahuenga near cool newish shopping and art space.  It's still gritty and not polished, so we were the only ones there with a stroller.  No other kids around. Cary prefers this. Not that we have anything against fellow parents and families. But he likes that we will venture out and try new places. Just like in the old days. Maybe I'll start blogging more too.