Sharing and Caring: The Food Game

Fey and I tried something fun yesterday while in Louisville. We had a set amount of money to spend for lunch and supper (not a lot, btw), and we decided to play a game Fey thought up. Here are the rules:

1. We must stop at a restaurant we've never visited before.
   
2. It cannot be part of a chain.
   
3. It cannot be "planned" - we have to see it and stop.
   
4. We must order one item on the menu (water--no tea or soda).
   
5. We must split this item between us (difficult, considering I don't eat meat or cheese).
   
6. We cannot "settle" on an item--we must both want it.

This was surprisingly difficult, but we wound up having a great time. The winners of our scavenger hunt were:

• Red Pepper: A Chinese restaurant on Frankfurt Avenue, where we split Sizzling Rice Soup with Seafood for Two.
  
• Adrienne & Co. Bakery Cafe: This was across the river in Jeffersonville, IN. We split a ginormous blueberry scone.
  
• Bucks: The most expensive restaurant on the trip. We split Maryland Crab Cakes.

We had no luck at Brendan's Irish Pub, where we couldn't find anything but water to agree on (although we may return when we don't have to split anything). Finally, after all this driving, we decided to chuck the game and get a real supper. Happily, we still had enough in our spending budget to go to Shalimar, where I once again proved I'm the spice wimp of all time by ordering baby food. Actually, I got egg pulao ("as mild as humanly possible"), which might as well be baby food. It was delish and I had enough to take home for lunch today. Fey got the non-vegetarian sampler tray ("moderately spicy" because she's a show-off), which she loved.

And guess what? With all that, we still came in on budget.

We rock so very much.