Lunch Divas

April 14, 2011

My best friend sent me a Facebook message inviting me to check out a new pizzeria, Deco Pizzeria. She read a great review in the news paper then looked it up on Facebook and every one commented how great it was. One review where the owners were interviewed stated that there was an hour wait for diner the previous week. So we made plans to check out this pizzeria. We were really excited to try this Italian food being Italian is our favorite. When we got there it was packed. Good thing right, normally the more people the better the food.  The food was disgusting, the service was non-existent. We had such a horrible experienced we ended up not eating the food and going to get a pizza at Chicago's Pizza. On our way to Chicago's I came up with the idea to start a Facebook page called Food Divas where we would try different restaurants (some of our faves too) and write our own reviews. Telling our friends the truth... according to the Divas! While setting up our new email address Food Divas was an already used screen name so we changed it to Lunch Divas. We are going to try to make our own logo. We shall see how that goes. 

 Here is our first review of Deco Pizzeria:

Diva #1: After reading so many rave reviews both on here and thru the web, I was very excited to try out this place with a friend. Sadly, we left the establishment more than dissatisfied. For starters, the service from the staff was terrible. And then the menu options we ordered weren't worth the price. I ordered the spaghetti and meatballs with traditional tomato sauce. The meatballs I had to pay extra were so tiny, they certainly didn't merit the extra charge. And as far as flavor goes there wasn't any. All you could taste was beef. The supposed traditional sauce was so spicy it almost bordered on being a marina sauce. The supposed garlic bread that came on the side was the saddest garlic bread ever. It was more like over-buttered soft bread that just added to my cholesterol. I've never been so disappointed in a meal before. I could easily name off 5 alternative places I could receive great food for the same price I spent on attempting to eat this crap. And that's just pathetic.

Diva #2: I ordered the Angel Hair pasta with the spicy Cajun sauce with 6 shrimp (also paid extra). The spicy Cajun sauce was not spice as a matter of fact if was flavorless. I had to add salt and still didn't eat it. The Cajun sauce also had mushrooms chopped into it. I do not like mushrooms so it would be nice to know ahead of time about them in my meal. I paid $2.75 for 5 (not 6) small salad shrimps, ridiculous. The garlic bread was soggy with butter and tasted of pure garlic. Gross! The best thing I ordered was the Sprite!!!
We both ordered a slice of combo pizza. The slice was so oily, crunchy, a bit burned, and didn't taste good overall. Diva #2 said it tasted like rubber, not exactly how you want your pizza to taste.
We ended up going down Chicago's Pizza and ordered a large 2-topping pizza for $6.99. It was amazing!!!

More reviews will be posted to Facebook. Out of our bad experience a great new joint venture was born. 

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Movie-Book Club

So my best friends and I started a movie-book club. The idea is that we read book that will be made into books and then have a dinner party & then go see the movie. The dinner party is themed around the book. Here are some parties we have had:

Movie Poster

Book Cover

The Twilight Party was a huge shindig at my best friends house. She planned the whole party. 

Movie Poster

Book Cover

For the Eat, Pray, Love party three of us picked a country from the book and made a dish from that country. I chose Italy, my fave country ever! Then the my other friend brought desert from each country. 

We had a great time but none of  us liked the book or the movie. 

Movie Poster

Book Cover

We let this one slip through the crack. We didn't have a dinner party and we didn't see the movie.

 I don't even know if the girls read the book.

Movie Poster

Book Cover

I already read the book and the girls are reading it but for this book we have 2 new members my sister, and my best friends future sister-in-law. So our movie-book club has grown to 6 members!!!

Asian Celebration!

April 10, 2011

     My best friends and I have themed parties every so often. It was my turn to host a party and I chose an Asian theme. 

   I had been planning this party for my friends about 7 years ago; 2 of which were at this party. I had purchased all of the dinner ware and gift bag items as well as most of the decor. 

   I loved the dinner ware I had purchased. The black chopsticks were not easy to use and the soup spoons were to big. But it was a nice touch.

   My mom and I designed and made the table cloth for the main table, the cake table, and runners for the living room tables.  

   I wish the chairs would have been black. My original plan was to have the table raise a little bit off 

the floor and we would sit on decorative pillows. But with my sister and best friend being pregnant I didn't think it was such a great idea. plus my hips have still been hurting too much on some days. 

   I went to an Oriental store and found Asian candy to have on the living room tables and also for the gift bag. I loved the idea that they had the Asian writing on the wrappers. 

   My mom and I also made a Japanese cherry blossom tree. My hibiscus tree froze this winter so we used it for the cherry blossom tree. We made the flowers out of pink tissue paper and hot glued them to the branches of the tree. 

Practice Cake

   Mom and I had gone to a cake shop to have a cake made. While at the shop we came up with a design for the cake. I wanted the Asian fan I made for the invitation to be the cake topper and also incorporate the green of the dinner ware. They quoted me $60 for an 8" cake. We thought it was way to much. So We made our own cake. The weekend before the party I made marshmallow fondant and made the practice cake. Its as easy as Buddy makes it look on the Cake Boss. 

Official Cake for the party

The official cake turned out much better than the practice cake. The fan on top was identical to the fan invite. The invite was three pages that fanned out, the white page contained the writing with the party details. I loved the invite I made. I didn't take a picture of it, I guess I could because it was a cool invite, if I do say so myself. 

   Back to the cake on the front was Asian writing that meant "friendship" which I thought was perfect for this party since it was for my best friends.

   I forgot to take a picture of all the food I ordered for the party. The menu consisted of:

- Sweet & Sour Pork

- Kung-Pao Chicken

- Triple Delight

- Broccoli & Beef

- Lo-Mien Noodles

- Egg Drop Soup

- Fried Rice

- Pork Egg Rolls

- Spring Rolls

The food was amazing! We go to an Asian Resturant called Pengs. Normally it is closed on Sundays but the owner Mary has become a friend to us (we have been going there for at least 9 years) and agreed to make the food fresh for us on Sunday. She is amazing!!!

I am blessed to have such great friends and it was an honor to have my girls over for a dinner party. The thing that made me happiest was that my sister also joined us for the first time and then also joined our movie/book club. Great times with great friends making lasting memories!!!!! I LOVE YA'LL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Forever & A Day!!!

Wow it really has been forever and a day since I've blogged. What can I say so much has happened in the last few months. Lets see where to start...

Well my sister & best friend are both pregnant!!! I'm really excited but its a bitter sweet feeling. I can't have children so this is the closest I'll get to being a mom, I'm an Auntie!!! I am very excited but at the same time it hurts for me to shop & look at baby things. Knowing I'll never have this experience. I'll never feel a baby growing in me. I'll never shop for baby things I want for my little one. So shopping for my sisters & best friends baby if fun but it is also extremely hard. I have had a lump in my throat every time I see baby things. Or even when I'm in the same room and her them talking about the baby. I hate being like this. I don't want to be jealous of them or make them feel bad but my heart breaks a little more every time. All I can do is be a great Auntie to both little baby's.

My best friend is having a boy,Julian. He will be born in July. Mt sister is due in October but we still don't know the sex of the baby. This is an exciting new chapter for these two loving women. I pray God blesses them both and helps guide them to be wonder mothers to amazing children. But this is a chapter in my life that will never be written and I need to learn to be ok with that. God help me too!!!!