Mellie Dee

Tandoori Grill | Katy, Texas

March 14, 2020 by Mellie Dee Leave a Comment

I finally found an Indian place comparable to Bombay Grill that delivers, Tandoori Grill. Friday, for lunch, I ordered lamb samosas, chicken vindaloo, chana masala, aloo Gobi, garlic naan and papadum. Their spice level is actually not bad and actually have spicer options than what I chose. This place has better naan and they don’t skimp out on the rice unlike Bombay Grill so that’s a big plus!

With Coronavirus panic I joked I am fine as long as I got one of my favourite snacks, lentil chips. Winner here as Whole Foods delivered a couple bags of this as well as popcorn.

June has been craving hot pot so we went and bought a bunch of vegetables today and had a small party with just us gals. It’s a much simpler meal than our usual hot pot and we were perfectly okay with it.

I had plans today but other than Rocky’s liver check the rest got cancelled. I’m not angry though since I got to cuddle this little baby practically all day. He rarely sleeps on me like this so I had to cherish it. He also needs a haircut.

What have you been binging on? I need recommendations since I’ve watched a lot and need new ones since I’ll be working from home starting Monday.

A Little Too Much Wine

March 10, 2020 by Mellie Dee Leave a Comment

Chicken Dinner at Mallory's | JJ & Jacob & Mellie Dee

Cancelled meetings and meetings that take way shorter of a time than usual made for a great day. I left for Mallory’s in record time. She made us a chicken dinner with pilaf and corn. I call this white people food and I don’t mind it one bit.

I was able to get JJ to take fake naps which was calming. And he loved the Frozen favour bag I brought back for him from Emmy’s party.

I did however drink a little too much wine mixed with not enough sleep. I knocked out for a short bit after John got back. Whoops.

I came home to Rosanna & Duy’s wedding invite! I’m excited and need to take that Monday off. One and only wedding this year and I’m surprisingly okay with it. I’m wedding out from the past decade filled with them.

At Home Seafood Boil Cheat

March 8, 2020 by Mellie Dee Leave a Comment

The drive was pretty brutal since I slept super late and woke up quite early. I came home and pretty much did nothing.

I did make a delicious dinner though! I used the extra seafood boil sauce we bought and froze. Shrimp, octopus, potatoes, jalapeno sausage, mushrooms and corn. Freaking spicy but delicious.

I need to learn how to make the sauce the way restaurants do so I don’t have to go out for it ever again! Patsy makes pretty good sauce so I need to reach out to her to share it with me.

We celebrated Gordon’s Birthday today. Since Coronavirus is going a little crazy and Grandma can easily get it, we decided to do dinner at Kenny’s instead. Good food, great sweets.

I love when Rizzo sleeps so peacefully. Love him so much.

2020 | Emmy’s 3rd Birthday

March 7, 2020 by Mellie Dee Leave a Comment

Thursday’s work was literally meetings to where I felt I was dying. I tried so hard to leave early but I failed and ended up not leaving the office until 5pm. Once I got home, I jumped into the car with the my parents an June and headed to Dallas. Rizzo got his own seat this time. He usually stays in his cage. It was creepy how he kept staring at me the whole drive. He did manage to sleep for a bit though.

Wu Wei Din Chinese Cuisine | Plano, Texas | DoorDash

On the drive, I ordered Wu Wei Din Chinese Cuisine from DoorDash. This is just some of it. Delicious as usual.

Everyone was still awake, along with Emmy when we got there. She stayed up with us until almost 2am as we all got ready for the party. We screamed happy birthday to her when the clock turned to midnight. She loved putting things around Rizzo’s neck and played with June most of the time until we were somewhat up to par with the decorations. As everyone slept, I signed on and worked for a bit and finished the reunion episode of Love is Blind.

2020 | Emmy’s 3rd Birthday | Mellie Dee & Emmy | Ukulele

When we woke up I gave Emmy her present. A ukulele. Sadly, I ordered black and the orange came instead but I wanted her to know I gave her this present so we opened it up, strummed a few chords, and packed it back up. Her actual one should come tomorrow but I won’t be here to teach her.

June and I went and ran some errands then had lunch. We decided on Manna Shabu for our own hot pot buffet. This was a pretty awesome place that gave us different Korean style pancakes to eat while we waited for our food to heat up. Great selection of foods to get and lots of different sauce choices which is rare at many hot pot places. Overall, great experience.

We walked around for a bit then went and picked up drinks from Zero Degrees. I also got June a garlic noodle in case there wasn’t anything for her to eat tonight.

2020 | Emmy's 3rd Birthday | Decorations

We played with Emmy for a bit and got her to take a nap. I worked for a bit, took a super quick nap and continued to help decorate. This is Emmy’s unamused look with the fact that she had to sit there, not able to eat the goodies on the table.

So much food and sweets for the birthday girl. The cake is crazy awesome. Everything is edible!

Emmy and the other kids made wands. She loved hers and I can’t get over her dress!

2020 | Emmy’s 3rd Birthday | Mellie Dee & Jenny Soju

I finally got to see Jenny again and we knocked back a few shots with the group, took a selfie per usual and sent it over to Travis.

It’s been a long day. Tomorrow, we head back to Houston. Whomp.

El Kourmet | Panntea | Katy, Texas

February 29, 2020 by Mellie Dee Leave a Comment

Salim always joked about having to pack an overnight bag and get a hotel whenever he makes a trip to visit me in Katy.

He committed to making that drive today and noticed just how far I trek every time I used to go out there for work, happy hours with ex-coworkers, or any hangouts with him I did.

He said he’ll do better in making our hangouts more equal but we’ll see it to believe it.

He came to my house and I drove us to El Kourmet. He’s from Venezuela and I was told by my Venezuelan friends, this was the best. We ordered arepas and tequenos. Tequenos are like mozzarella sticks, but better. And the arepas were so freaking delicious. I want to come back and try the empanadas. He also ordered Maltin soda. Thankful we only got one since it was so sweet. It reminded him of home so I guess it did it’s thing.

We stopped by at Mallory’s to drop off her keys she left in my car. JJ was so dang sweet. He jumped into my arms and gave me so many kisses.

Salim and I went on our merry way to our next destination for boba which has become a thing of tradition everytime we hangout. I chose Panntea since I’ve never been and if didn’t dissapoint. He got the regular Royal Milk Tea and I got the Matcha Brown Sugar Milk Tea. He liked mine more than his and I’d have to agree. We also ordered spicy popcorn chicken and a eel onigiri. both pretty good but nothing to rave about.

We went to HMart after hoping to find durian for him to try. He said he’s smelled it before and thought it smelled really good. We didn’t find the durian but found jackfruit and now that he things about it, he thinks the person trying to sell him durian lied and it was actually jackfruit.

When we bid our farewells, we talked about having to go back to El Kourmet for empanadas, get Crawfish, and durian. Not sure when our next hangout is but I’m already ready to eat!

I took a nice nap and did some side projects before I made dinner. Mum got me a nice piece of steak and I paired it with roasted asparagus and broccoli. This is probably one of the best steaks I’ve ever made. Getting better every time!

More side projects and Gotham before bed. Night world!