Gyros, Gyros on the wall...

This past weekend Jeremy was visiting, and in talking it came out that he had never eaten gyros before. So, being the Chicagoland area, we have LOTS of choices for Greek food. Sooooooo we went to a delicious hotdog stand. Nicky's Red Hots in Naperville. Nicky's Red Hots. They have gyros, hotdogs, ribs, all kinds of delicious fare. I hadn't been there in YEARS but it did not disappoint. At all. I had a gyro. It was so good and oniony and tziki saucey. It was a success and Jer totally liked it. Mmmm now I'm hungry again.....

 Jeremy had the Naperville Steak Sandwich, which had BBQ sauce, onions and mozzarella on it. Pretty tasty, and though I would never *choose* a steak sandwich, it was really good. The meat was super thin, which I like.

 

We also got fries and jalepeño poppers. The poppers had cheese on the inside and I did not take a picture and I don't know why. I was tired this weekend. Probably also because I accidentally dragged poor Jeremy on a five plus mile walk. We were going to "get coffee" which we TOTALLY DID. And just walked a bunch more. Oops. Sorry. 

 

I also did a BOATLOAD of cooking this weekend only half of which, I kind of took pictures of. 

I first made these copycat Cinnabon Cinnamon Rolls  which I did not take a photo of. Then I made this Summer Gnocchi Skillet and I grilled four ears of corn for it. I think it made the difference. I took a picture of my leftovers at work on Monday sooooo sorry about that....

 

Yeah, that doesn't look appetizing. It was really good though. I also made a baked mac n cheese where I made up the recipe and sort of copied Reef. And I took this super dark photo of it because I was tired. 

 

My kids told me it was "one of the best batches of Mac n cheese I have ever made". That's pretty good for them. Then they complained I have them too much to eat. Oh well. Lastly, I made Pumpkin Pie Cupcakes, which, if you like pumpkin pie, these are like baby ones with no crust. I took a stupid picture of one before Gav stole it and ate it in two seconds. I will absolutely make them again. 

 

Overall, a good weekend of eating. And now I'm still so, so tired. Ha! More home cooking coming up today!!