Summer Fun

This past Sunday, H and I ventured into North Kansas City to sample some grub off of a group of food trucks. For a $15 ticket you could try three things from any of the seven trucks that were on site.

H's first taste from KC Pinoy. Chicken adobo (thighs marinated in vinegar, garlic, soy sauce),
flower-cut carrots, and rice. The chicken was melt-in-your-mouth good, and it came with this sauce
on top that added just a bit of tang. It set the bar pretty high for the rest of the trucks.  

My first taste  from Plantain District. Cubano sandwich (pork, ham, swiss cheese, thin-sliced
pickles, secret green sauce) with plantain chips. The sandwich was absolutely divine, and
the plantain chips were perfectly fried. Would order again and again. 

After our first two samplings (lunch portions, really, but I'm not complaining), we took a walk around the park where the food trucks were located. The walking trail around Macken Park takes you just over a mile to complete, and it's made out of some bouncy material that must be heaven for runners. We made one lap and headed back to the trucks for round two.

H's next order from Helen's on Wheels. H is always on the lookout for a good Cuban sandwich.
He said this one was okay, but it doesn't compete with Velvet Taco's Cuban taco.
Proving that the best foods are taco-based. 

My second sample was from Booyah. Grilled chicken with a curry sauce, coleslaw, and rice.
The chicken was good, but didn't beat out the competition that day.
The coleslaw was nice and fresh. 

H and I used our last ticket punch on the same truck, CoffeCakeKC. We were both stuffed,
so we didn't mind that the portion size was pretty small compared to the other trucks 
(strawberry smoothie and a tiny cupcake). H had the red velvet cupcake (divine!) 
while I had the pink champagne cupcake (average). 

There was also a food truck with burgers, but if I'm going to get something from a food truck, it's not going to be a burger. And there was an ice cream truck, which I suppose technically counts as a food truck, but it didn't hold much interest for me.

H and I will sit outside on the weekends and play card games, enjoying the beautiful weather Kansas City tends to have. We'll play cribbage, gin, ... okay, just those two games. But it's nice to just play a card game and be outside.

This weekend we came up with what we're calling Texas Cribbage. It's the two-player version of the game, except you're dealt twelve cards and have to discard four into the crib.  The card playing portion is the same (points for 15, 31, pairs, runs, etc.), and counting your hands and the crib are the same, although you do run into extravagant runs and multiple fifteen-two scenarios.

The one other mechanic we changed was how to determine the winner. I suppose you could up the final win total from 120 points to 240, but it's easy to reach that within two hands.  Instead, whoever is ahead by 50 points when it's not their crib is declared the winner (since the crib is an obvious points advantage).  I just won a game with a 9, 10, two Jacks, three Queens, and two Kings. Counting up the points on that hand was a doozy.

Hope all of you are having a restful Memorial Day weekend. I can't wait for these next four work days to go flying by so we can get to another two days off.