T Stands for a Spontaneous Evening Out

Hi everyone. Happy new week to you, and Happy first T day over at Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog for August also.

    A few Sundays ago my husband and I were up at the lake where my Mother-In-Law's house is. One of my husband's sisters was there, along with her husband, one of her daughters, and that daughter's new fiance. The couple got engaged back over the 4th of July weekend, which was exciting but also one of those engagements where the couple hadn't been dating all that long (at least as far as the family standards go) so  many of us hadn't gotten to know him (the fiance) very well. 

    Around 4 PM the niece says she's going to try to get reservations at a restaurant in town called East of Suez.    Do my husband and I want to join the rest of them? I love the food at this place, but my husband, not so much. (There's more to that story coming up later in the post.) My hubby is a sweetie and says he'll go for me, so the niece gets the only available reservation which is at 5:15. That means swimming time is just about over as we need to get ourselves together and get going.

     Here we are at the restaurant before dinner.

    This restaurant doesn't serve alcohol, but you can bring your own. Since we hadn't expected to be going out to dinner, my husband had only brought 2 beers with him up to the lake in the cooler. That was so we could each have one in the afternoon, which we did.  We didn't have time to run to the store, so my mother-in-law's liquor cabinet was raided. All of the liquors were old, which we could tell by the ridiculously inexpensive prices still on the bottles. 😏 My MIL is now in a memory care assisted living, and since she won't miss the alcohol, doing this means it is one less thing that needs to be cleaned out in the process of getting her house ready to be a summer rental for hopefully next year. 

      There was a partially filled bottle of rum, and the restaurant served a tropical fruit juice blend, and the two made the perfect warm summer evening mix which my husband and I each had.

Ha-ha. The hubby liked his.

     East of Suez is only open from late May until early September.  Back in the 1960's when the restaurant originally opened, you could only go on  summer weekends, as the owners drove up from New York City with their weekend food supplies. Then it became so successful that it went to be open more days for the summer. I believe the original owners have now passed, but since the building isn't winterized and is still just an old fashioned camp, the season isn't very long. 

     I haven't been there in probably close to 10 years, and the base menu hadn't changed at all. There are 5 things on it, all foods from various Asian countries. They do have a supplemental menu that does change depending on what is available. I knew what I wanted for dinner before I even got to the restaurant., because I wanted something on the original menu.

     All meals start with a small not so exciting green salad. However, the peanut dressing was amazing.

And my dinner choice was Thai red curry with shrimp, which was huge (I had left overs ❤) and really as delicious as I remembered it being last time I was there.

     My husband had some kind of ribs, which were also yummy. In fact, he devoured them and said it was one of the best meals he's had in a long time. He even ate the garlic rice, and strangely my husband won't eat rice.

    We all had to tease him because the last time we went, he had fabulous lamb chops. So good we had to go back again that summer while they were still on the menu. Funny how he never wants to eat there but yet 2 of his most memorable meals out were there. Grin. Let's see if he suggests we go back sometime before they close in another month. 😏 

     And back to the niece and her new fiance. We all had some good laughs, and we got to know him a little bit. He seems like a nice guy, and I hope they will be happy together. But her mom still insists the wedding needs to wait for at least a year. 😏 

     Now that you might be hungry (because I am and want another bowl of my Thai red curry ha ha) have a great T day and week ahead!