It started off with the plane food, KLM/Delta like to keep you well fed, peanuts, pretzels, pasta, pizza and ice cream were on the menu across. But it didn't stop there, upon my arrival my Dad picked me up and dragged me to Duncan Donuts so coffee was none stop and then after a trip around the area we stopped at one of my favorite sub shops, Hill Top. I had a cheese steak sub (I take mine with provolone cheese, lettuce and mayo)I could barely finish it but god it was good.
Dad made me breakfast on Saturday, toast, bacon (American style and crispy) and scrambled eggs. Then we were off to the Smithsonian Air and Space museum in Chantilly Virginia. After looking at all of the amazing planes and space craft we decided to have lunch in the building classic American - MacDonald's, I had to have a strawberry milkshake with my burger and fries. Dinner however was beyond me macaroni and cheese (Dad has upgraded to Velveta), peas and American baked beans (these have brown sugar and what I believe was onion) with a hot dog - which wasn't even chopped up! I couldn't eat it all, I stayed it safe with the mac and cheese and peas.
Sunday's breakfast at Denny's, I had french toast, bacon with scrambled eggs. We went to the Baltimore Street Car Museum where we got to ride on old street cars. Then we went to a place called Valley View farms they have an awesome Christmas display that they put up every year. Dinner was Campbell's chicken and dumpling soup with ritz crackers. Thankfully my Dad's girlfriend realised by this point that I wasn't a huge eater and only had a small bowl. I made sure that desert was worthy however, and I purchased a raspberry crumb cake from Weber's Cider Farm. I also purchased a jar of apple butter and a half gallon of apple cider (this is the American version) we had it hot and it was so very good for a cold day!
Monday meant it was time to hit Chicago! It started with breakfast at the Bongo room where I had two red velvet pancakes with vanilla sauce. We walked around Chicago, went to the Field Museum and Chicago Institute of art. Dinner was chicken enchilada's. At Miller's I started with a Budweiser and followed with two pints of some beer called flywheel. I was also introduced to chocolate bars with bacon, if you haven't tried this you really should - it's deep fried awesome without the deep frying.
Tuesday started at Yolk where I had cinnamon roll french toast... it was awesome. I arrived back in Maryland and had an hour trip to Cambridge where my aunt and uncle live and they had a thanksgiving dinner, turkey, sweet potatoes with apples, green beans, fresh bread, apple sauce followed by pumpkin pie!
Wednesday started with frittata which is a lot of eggs, milk, cheese and chopped up sausages. We went to Delaware to the outlet center as stuff is cheaper and you don't pay sales tax. I went a little crazy on Halloween stuff. Dinner was steak, fries and salad at Outback Steak house. I've never ordered a steak before so it was an experience.
Thursday was pancakes made by my uncle (sadly not from scratch but Aunt Jemima does well as a substitute), we spent the day out in the middle of no where however these places normally have the best food and we had Crab Imperial at a place called Old Salties I had mine with coleslaw and a birch beer. The coleslaw was amazing!
Friday saw another batch of frittata and Cinnamon bread, we walked around Cambridge a lot and dinner was at a place called Jimmy & Sooks (the names of male and female crabs)where I had a crab cake sandwich, cream of crab soup and fries. It was beyond good, the fries at this place are second to none. We had a pit stop at the local grocery store so I could pick up some old bay seasoning and I spied Bergers Cookies, which are an old favorite and I'm not sure if they are sold outside of Baltimore - they're basically a vanilla wafer with a slab of chocolate fudge on top! We took a break later in the afternoon and made an apple pie before we went to see my uncles band play at a local school. I got teary eyed when they played The Star Spangled Banner.
Saturday was Belgian waffles made again by my uncle and dinner after a walk around the Crownsville Rennancace festival was at Mikes Crab house where I had crab stuffed shrimp with fries and cole slaw. The crab stuffed shrimp was amazing. I have to say the food available at the ren fest when from typical to insane. Turkey legs, cheesecake on a stick, crab meat pretzels, large dill pickles, pizza, chili, crab cake sandwiches, roasted anything, peanuts and sugar coated almonds...apple dumplings with vanilla ice cream.
I followed up the day having a load of stuff I really shouldn't have marshmallow and cherry snow cone, donuts (honey glazed), pumpkin spiced lattes, UTZ potato chips, mint chocolate chip ice cream (it's green) and candies.
Sunday started off with pilsbury cinnamon rolls and bacon. At Atlanta airport I had another cheese steak sub this time including fried onions and twizzlers!
The food on the flight home wasn't that great, pasta and an egg sandwich but it was nice to be back to smaller fare. Dinner was two slices of toast with a liberal amount of apple butter on top (I was really surprised a glass jar made it through but it did).
My first full day back in the UK I had two crumpets with peanut butter, coffee, apple cider and chicken and chips with gravy. I waited until I was so hungry I felt it, something I missed in the past 10 days!
