I’ve been gone so long it’s starting to look like I never eat, which is not far from the truth lol. I’m so dead broke (and kind of far from anywhere but franchises) that it makes me wonder if I’ll ever have something decent to post here. However, pretending these chains are as fun for everyone else to read as it is for this poor girl who’s just now able to visit these places is part of what keeps me actually blogging.

Granted, I do need a new camera but we’ll just pretend, once again, that the truth is how I see it and I actually have one. And now I shall LOL out loud.

But I have a treat for you guys, and it’s not one of my silly chicken dishes or my blurry pictures, oh no! It’s a link to one of my favorite food blogs in which you get to relive a bit of Travel Channel fun when Off The Broiler went to White Manna with Anthony Bourdain of No Reservations fame. How frigging cool is that?

So, I hate Missouri. I’ve lived here awhile and I’m still not used to it – the insane weather, the mega swarms of insects, and worst of all, there’s nothing to do so I end up working 24/7. What I wouldn’t give to go back to Southern California, even just for a few days. I miss the laid back atmosphere of Anaheim and Oceanside, the ocean, the theme parks and the restaurants in San Diego.

There are no restaurants out here, for the most part, that you can be seated in and have a four star meal. In fact, I don’t believe I’ve ever seen one in the county, and there are definately none in town. I’m tired of fast food or no food, and I wish there were a way to find great dining out here, sort of like the service they’ve got set up over at CafeSanDiego.com. They’ve got a website set up to help you find great San Diego dining, on which you can find great places to eat via their search function, on which you can narrow your search for a restaurant on search terms as specific as neighborhood, cuisine and even atmosphere.

The nice part about this San Diego dining guide is that you can search for coupons if you’re broke like I am, and because of that I thoroughly plan to use the site once I’m in a position to go back to California, since Laota and I have already planned to move out there as soon as we’re financially capable of doing so, and using coupons for, say, African cuisine would be a great way to celebrate us being back in our home state!