out and about chocolate cake
Mar. 1st, 2010 02:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serynWe went out for the "weekend". We had a special occasion dinner. We've got so many of those "saved up" that I never feel any guilt for suggesting it when we're somewhere to splurge... but in this case it actually was the occasion itself.
1) If you're listed in the bed&breakfast guide, you either have to serve breakfast or there should be large warnings plastered on your website.
2) If you're listed as having an on-site restaurant, then it needs to be open for breakfast or large warnings plastered on your hotel website.
2a) If you're listed as having a restaurant, but it is closed 3 days per week, then you need to SAY SO. Preferably there should also be a listing of nearby food places and the distances if they are more than 5 miles away to the nearest one.
In case you cannot tell, the b&b we stayed at, which said it had a restaurant on site (and we ate dinner there) did not have breakfast and the restaurant was closed. It was about 15 miles to the nearest breakfast place but it took about 35 minutes to drive there because the road map was laid out by dropping cooked spaghetti onto it.
But mostly I want to know why all chocolate desserts are horrendous when eaten in restaurants? I have not had a chocolate cake out that was not dry and chalky and bitter.... even cakemix makes better chocolate cake. I can make fancy chocolate cake at home and get something a dozen times superior to cakemix. So what is the deal with professional cooks who just suck at chocolate desserts?
I slept really really really badly. The bed was topped with one of those memory foam mattress pads and everywhere my body touched it, it got hot. I was roasting hot, but the room itself was almost too cold. I tried removing my pajamas but that just put more skin heat into the foam. I didn't sleep at all the night before because my SO had put no effort into finding a place for our trip and no effort into finding anything to do or anywhere to eat. So now I feel worn to a nub.
I would also like to know why there is full cell coverage in the Swiss Alps but less than an hour from a major city there were zero bars for 2 major carriers. And it wasn't that there was a hill and coverage was spotty.
It was a good trip. A mostly nice drive except for the part right here... the first 5 miles on the freeway were the worst part of the whole drive and they took about 25 minutes.
I really like the wordpress.com future posting scheduler. I was able to set a bunch of pictures to post while I was gone. But I wasn't able to see comments until I got back into town because of the stupid cell coverage.
1) If you're listed in the bed&breakfast guide, you either have to serve breakfast or there should be large warnings plastered on your website.
2) If you're listed as having an on-site restaurant, then it needs to be open for breakfast or large warnings plastered on your hotel website.
2a) If you're listed as having a restaurant, but it is closed 3 days per week, then you need to SAY SO. Preferably there should also be a listing of nearby food places and the distances if they are more than 5 miles away to the nearest one.
In case you cannot tell, the b&b we stayed at, which said it had a restaurant on site (and we ate dinner there) did not have breakfast and the restaurant was closed. It was about 15 miles to the nearest breakfast place but it took about 35 minutes to drive there because the road map was laid out by dropping cooked spaghetti onto it.
But mostly I want to know why all chocolate desserts are horrendous when eaten in restaurants? I have not had a chocolate cake out that was not dry and chalky and bitter.... even cakemix makes better chocolate cake. I can make fancy chocolate cake at home and get something a dozen times superior to cakemix. So what is the deal with professional cooks who just suck at chocolate desserts?
I slept really really really badly. The bed was topped with one of those memory foam mattress pads and everywhere my body touched it, it got hot. I was roasting hot, but the room itself was almost too cold. I tried removing my pajamas but that just put more skin heat into the foam. I didn't sleep at all the night before because my SO had put no effort into finding a place for our trip and no effort into finding anything to do or anywhere to eat. So now I feel worn to a nub.
I would also like to know why there is full cell coverage in the Swiss Alps but less than an hour from a major city there were zero bars for 2 major carriers. And it wasn't that there was a hill and coverage was spotty.
It was a good trip. A mostly nice drive except for the part right here... the first 5 miles on the freeway were the worst part of the whole drive and they took about 25 minutes.
I really like the wordpress.com future posting scheduler. I was able to set a bunch of pictures to post while I was gone. But I wasn't able to see comments until I got back into town because of the stupid cell coverage.
