Niles’s Aunt Claudia is in town, and we met her and her coworker at Revolution Brewing for dinner. I wasn’t crazy hungry, so I got the mussels, but they defeated me anyway. I think I managed to eat all but one. They were delicious! They have a more traditional mussels option too, but I picked the blue cheese and Fuji apples one, and I have no regrets.
You know, for someone who loves seafood as much as I do, I sure live far from any ocean. Sigh. Heavy, heavy sigh. Still, tonight’s mussels were fantastic.
I used to really dread going out to eat when I was trying to eat better or watch my weight, because it seemed so hard to eat out and eat healthy at the same time. But restaurants are getting better at offering healthier options, and I certainly have access to some of the best restaurants living where I do. Claudia got an amazing looking bowl of lentils and winter veggies, with asparagus, parsnip, and roasted carrot ginger sauce. I nearly got the goat cheese croquette arugula salad, but the mussels sounded better to me at the time. And sure, they’re in a tasty butter sauce with some blue cheese, but for the most part it’s just a bowl of low-fat, low-cholesterol protein, and the sauce is thin enough that you don’t eat much of it. I think my point is, there are always some healthier things to choose when you’re dining out.
Except at Applebee’s, apparently.
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You know where you can get seafood all.the.freakin.time? HERE!
Ha! Foul temptress, with your Maryland blue crabs! the lack of fresh seafood is my only beef with Chicago. As much as I’d love fresh mussels and scallops and shrimp all the time, I’d be sad to leave everything else. :)
Trust me. The rest of Baltimore isn’t worth it! :D
For Christmas one year, one of my student’s parents gave me a gift card to Applebee’s. I put off going there for a long time, mostly because I didn’t think they had much in the way of vegetarian food. Well, one day when Kyle and I were good and poor, I suggested we cash in on that gift card. Boy, did I ever regret doing that. Pretty much *everything* on their menu is deep fried, no flavor, and way too salty. I rolled out of there like a greasy bowling ball. Ugh. Never again.
That’s what I’ve heard!! I can’t remember the last time I saw an Applebee’s, much less ate at one, but I always figured they were pretty much comparable to Chili’s or TGIFriday’s or whatever… but a 1300 calorie salad, that’s just insanity.