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King Davids Restaurant Review

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I am a very spot orientated person.  Certain restaurants for me just jive and I could be a regular there forever.  That being said, I don’t do many restaurant reviews or recommendations but when I do (insert meme here) you know I’ve probably been there a lot and absolutely love it.

In Syracuse, NY there is such a place, a Greek Restaurant called King Davids.  First and foremost, I love Greek food (if you want to know the key to my heart outside of pancakes…there you go).  I think it’s especially delicious…I like gyro meat, I like dolmades and grape leaves as well as pita bread and that could be why I’m a bit biased.  Although it’s about an hour from my house, it’s always worth the drive.  I consider myself a restaurant foodie.  I’ll drive hours on hours for good food because I can’t cook.  Considering I go to Syracuse a lot anyways…I normally just stop there.

You would never suspect how good it is and honestly the first time I walked in I was like erm…okay then.  The food, however, has never disappointed me.   The service is always extremely quick.  I’ve been served my food within 15 minutes of arriving there several times and it’s never crowded.

Remember when I got this Greek salad?

Oh and the portions are huge too.

Oh and the portions are huge too.

Pita and Feta Cheese?

pitabreadfetacheese

And these dolmades?

dolmades

Gyro wrap…yes please?

Ignore this this terrible photo. But do enjoy the gyro wrap with french fries.

Ignore this this terrible photo. But do enjoy the gyro wrap with french fries.

Oh and the Red Velvet cake that several bloggers lusted over came from there too…

We also split Red Velvet Cake

So if you ever come to the Syracuse area, know that is restaurant is the LOLZ approved.  Also know if you want to drive me there…well I will never complain.

Questions for you:

Do you like Greek Food?

Are you a regular anywhere?

WIAW with the Parents

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I never really intend for my blog to be have very many whiney posts but it is realistic updates  of what is going on in my life, whether it’s pancakes, running or life in general.  There haven’t been a lot of life in general posts because quite frankly I haven’t had a lot to report.  I’m boring…sue me.  I don’t have a lot of friends…sue me.   I don’t go out binge drinking with undergradates that I’m trying to teach them alternatives to that culture…sue me.  What am I going to recap each weekend…hanging out and eating popcorn while gossiping on a Friday night with my housemate?  I know it probably thrills you.  I can’t say it’s completely being busys fault but I can say that I haven’t really made the biggest effort to stay busy

I just quite frankly don’t care and I don’t plan to stay in the arctic tundra for my entire life.  I really love my job (and educating students…that’s a post in itself) but outside of that…I don’t know.   Long story short, I’m in a bit of a funk.

So yes, this WIAW with my parents has kind of turned into a bit of a life update which I’m fine with.  As long as I attach a photo of ice cream, I’ll get everyone to just comment on how good ice cream is right?  Moving on, I think part of the reason that I’ve had a hard time here is that the town itself is not runner friendly.

My dad: I don't want that specialty crap. I just want plain vanilla ice cream...I'll be bold and go with a cone.

My dad: I don’t want that specialty crap. I just want plain vanilla ice cream…I’ll be bold and go with a cone.

Not runner friendly meaning the terrain and packed snow make it impossible to run outside.  There aren’t many people that run…in Syracuse sure but that is 45 minutes away and if I plan to never eat again I guess I could make that drive everyday.  Plus it’s obviously just a touch to cold to be outdoors anyways…Running isn’t my whole life though and that’s fine.  I can mindlessly watch TV.

We also split Red Velvet Cake

We also split Red Velvet Cake

While I’ve made great friends, most of my friends aren’t here.  Though I’m not really sure where they are.  Who exactly am I considering my friends that aren’t here, my family and Tim?  I mean I guess both technically are.

Greek food is the key to my heart

Greek food is the key to my heart

For me personally, I find February to be an overall funky month.  Last year at this time I was just recovering from a broken arm.  We did have a warmer winter last year (compared to the winter 2 years ago when it was -30 quite a few times (good thing my hair froze multiple times to and from swim practice) This year it’s much more snowy and winter like but at least not that cold.   Some people might enjoy the winter I’m not one of them…I just find February a month to get through.  Though it’s the shortest month, it sure feels like the longest.

hotel coffee

hotel coffee

hotel waffle

hotel waffle

Here is some food because I did title it a WIAW post with my parents:

Cat fish.

Cat fish.

Finally, I’m taking requests for more main girl videos so feel free to comment here, email or tweet me ideas.

Question for you:

What month is the hardest for you to get through?

Do you have a handful of closer friends or a bunch of good friends? 

WIAW: Before Regionals

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As much as I want to say that I went out of way to eat well for my race last weekend, I don’t tell dirty lies.  I always get a lot of questions about how I eat before races, I had a good idea I was running on Saturday but not a good idea about how well I would do…ect.  So to be honest nutrition prerace wasn’t at the top of my thoughts as it sometimes is for bigger races.

The day before  I was a tad nervous, considering I didn’t really have the best base going into this race.  Or anything really.  But that is beside the point.

I had whip cream with a side of ice cream, Thursday night.

I seriously think I like whip cream more then ice cream.

Friday night dinner (since it was travel), I went to the salad bar at Wegmans.  Contrary to many people’s popular belief, you do not need to carb load for a 5k…or 6k.  As long as I didn’t have some huge steak the night before, I’d be fine.  But I do credit this salad to being one of the best I’ve ever made but that could be because it probably had roughly 1000 calories between the cheeses, marinated olives and whatever else I throw in there.

If there is anything that remains constant in my nutritious training cycle is my far too much count of coffee. I didn’t have the luxury of going to a gas station but was able to get about 24 ounces of cream…I mean hotel coffee. 

I had bought several French toast bagels from Wegmans and had one with one of those individual almond butter packets.  I was not about to buy a whole container of PB for one bagel and especially because I somehow accumulated about 5 jars.  (If you know me, you know I enjoy PB  but I’m not obsessed…these 5 containers will probably last me an entire year no joke).

French toast bagels are my fav

Then insert the race here.

After the race and cooldown, I had a container of protein pudding.  I seriously love this stuff too, it is extremely pricey so I don’t buy it a lot.  I do, however, treat myself to it.

My protein stash…the pudding is in the circular containers…I somehow accumulated the other bars

This isn’t an off the wall before/after race post (or you ate that beforehand, oh my stars!) but to be honest I didn’t pay entirely too much to my nutrition as I would for a race that I had been training for if that makes sense.  I hope to have more when I’m running more consistently.

And, of course, if you want to link up to another PMB tomorrow (which you should).  Here is the photo!

Questions for you: Favorite pre/post race foods?

WIAW: Never Eating At Home

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So let’s take a moment to catch up with my recent eats.  I haven’t been eating at home for dinner very often the last week because well, my parents have wanted to go out most of the time.  I mentioned a while ago, but my parents love to eat out.  That’s fine with me because I hate cooking.  I never really have too much of a problem finding things that I like at places they go either (mainly because the only food I don’t care for is Thai…I got sick once afterwords…so never again).

Let me preface this by saying, I didn’t say I’m the most healthy eater outer.  ;)

This is by far one of my favorite salads ever: I went online to look at nutrition information and found out it’s a 1000 cal+ salad…oopsies I don’t carezies

Titled “The lox flower” It’s a bunch of lox (salmon) rolled into a flower shape.

Love me some salmon+goat cheese.

Cat fish.

 

I love me some froyo as well. :-)

As you can see-I tend toward a lot of fish when I eat out.  I just tend to a lot of fish actually…maybe I’m just fishy.  ;

So not that I really mind either way-I enjoy eating out. 

Question for you: Do you eat out a lot? What is your favorite restaurant?   

741 Miles Of Date

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I enjoy traveling with the parents.  We never really get anywhere too quickly but more often than not take the scenic route.  Anyways I really do enjoy it.  As some of you know, I drove the entire distance back to upstate last weekend (following my parents). 

So Friday morning, we began the drive.  I drove my baby girl ie: Lorraine.  Our first point of interest was shopping in Washington DC.  Dad says my GPA earned me the trip.  He kids-we would have stopped anyways.

I bought some new Nike Frees.  I am getting out of Newton’s and these have worked well for me thus far.  (the whopping 10 miles or so I’ve put on them).  (I’m going to write a review in a few more weeks).

I also bought some casual shirts and such.  My real girl style in Upstate is as follows: cami, long sleeve shirt, black leggings, and scarf.  Good thing I have about 1000 different types of each article so I can claim to be a real girl all the time.

Moving on. 

I also got some over the knee riding boots from Nine West.  Love them.

love them already.

The remainder of that nights drive was uneventful. 

We ended up stopping around 6 but not eating until 8:30.  That was certainly a change because I’m forever eating at 5:00pm or so.   We found some cute little diner and I ordered a greek omelet. 

Their desserts were just too good to pass up so I ended up getting a triple fatty mc fat fat. (I proceeded to ask the waitress if she would rename it to that. She didn’t believe that I would even eat half of it. Rude.).My parents then proceeded to tell me this is why they couldn't take me out in public.

It was a neopolitan cake with 3 scoops of vanilla ice-cream.  I’m pretty sure it was made for about 5 people to eat.

Or my belly because I ate the entire thing.

In the morning I did a short elliptical workout, had some delicious hotel breakfast and proceeded to get on the road.

Boring car ride, lots of snow…sing a long.  The usual.

My first real snow!

Then 741 miles later, I got to my destination in Upstate.  My parents wanted to eat at the local Greek and Italian restaurant.  Of course I agreed-I love me some greek food.   (I just realized Greek food two days in a row.  WIN).

Giant greek salad!

After that (and it was pretty late) I ended up falling asleep and getting a lovely 12 hours of sleep.  That was certainly needed in my life and prepared me for my week back of classes (that I somewhat hoped would never come eh?).

Question for you:

1.       Do you like traveling?

2.       What is your favorite type of food?