Sunday, September 11, 2011

hot! Hot! HOT!!!!! The Breakfast Bandit is cooking......LITERALLY :(

This week the air conditioning went out in the house after have more than sixty days of 100+ degree temperatures in the DFW Texas area. It has literally been the most miserable summer of my life. You can barely get from the front door of your house to the care without beads of sweat starting to run down your back. I mean it has been bad people. The terrible, horrible, no good very bad summer of 2011. Blah. 

So with the air conditioning down this weekend, we packed up a bag and the dog and went to stay at a hotel for the night. CJ was not very happy to have to leave his home but he was ecstatic to get out of the heat and into a nice cool air-conditioned hotel room. With this series of events I didn't have much time to do breakfast for everyone this week, so mom and I went to IHOP for breakfast this week.


So we started our adventure off to the International House of Pancakes. We had to make a pit stop back to the house to drop off CJ, which didn't make him very happy because he had to go back into a hot house. I opened some windows for him and left him with a bowl full of ice cubes and headed to a cooler climate. 

I made it to IHOP and mom was already there with a table waiting for me. She could not bare the heat, and it was starting to really make everyone in the house quite unbearable. We had already lived with the air barely running for about two weeks already. Anyway, enough complaining, back to breakfast. 

I can imagine what you all are thinking, IHOP, really? And I know it really isn't anything special, but they have been doing this for a long time and most of there offerings are good, not to mention that the strawberry syrup is the BEST. Mom ordered one of the special meals that they had running at the time, which came with a doughnut style apple fritter covered in a caramel apple syrup and whip cream. It was delicious, like, warm doughnut, melt in your mouth delicious.



I had the chicken fried steak with the hash browns, over easy eggs and a WAFFLE :) I mixed together my eggs and hash browns letting them absorb all of the yolks and then covered them in my favorite cholula hot sauce. By the way, you did read that right, at the international house of PANCAKES ........ I had a WAFFLE :) I just had to be a little different, and I had been craving a waffle for a while. I was really surprised to see that they even served waffles, but I sure did enjoy it covered in that delicious strawberry syrup. It was yummmy :)
So we got to have a little holiday adventure, because later that day when I went back to meet the A/C guy and he was unable to fix it, he said that he would come back the next morning to work on it, and long story short, it was labor day weekend and he didn't return until Tuesday morning. So it was a hot weekend, but thank the lord it cooled off on Sunday and Monday, because it was devastatingly hot.

Enjoy your week everyone and remember take time to wake up slow and enjoy breakfast.

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