A brief culinary visit to Seaford, Delaware

     For the past twenty years my mother has lived in Seaford, Delaware, a town of 6,000 where the closest movie theater and meaningful shopping are thirty miles away.
        So what do the citizens of Seaford do for entertainment? 
        Well, as there are probably close to a dozen cozy little restaurants and diners around town,  I'm guessing that they eat.  In any case, that's what we do when we go to visit my mother and my brother's family in Seaford.  We all eat.
        During our visit to my mother last week Tom, my mom and I were able to sample several places of local culinary interest :
   Friday afternoon we had lunch at the popular Stargate Diner:

        Where my mom had a bowl of the lobster bisque and Tom and I opted for the crab cake over macaroni and cheese:

        Which I should have resisted with my mac and cheese addiction, right?   In truth, I found this macaroni and cheese to be just so-so, or maybe it was that I was still craving my fake Noodles & Company kind.  The crab cake was awesome, though.
        That evening we were invited to my brother Jim's house:

 Right to Left: My mom, Jim's wife Theresa, Jim and Theresa's daughter Cassie, Tom

Where Jim made pasta with olive oil, shrimp, garlic, spinach and red peppers and his secret ingredient: a hunk of cream cheese stirred in at the end.  Was it good?  OMG, was it!!! Cassie made a chocolate cake for dessert. (See Cassie's cake on the table in the background?)  Was the chocolate cake good?  The chocolate lovers amongst us attested that it was downright yummy, which was attested to by the fact that there was little left by the end of the evening.

We ate on the porch. 

The next day my niece Sarah, her husband Bob and their baby Charlie came from out of town for a visit so my mom ordered taco chicken salads from the local Mexican Restaurant, Plaza Tapatia:

Fran setting out the chicken taco salads.  They were delicious, fresh, topped with avocado and sour cream,  the chicken was tasty and plentiful, and the shells were light and crispy.

    For dinner that night after all the company had left Tom, my mom and I went back to the Stargate.  I had a huge Greek salad, which was nicely presented, fresh and really good, my mom had a ham and cheese omlette and Tom had penne pasta with meatballs which he declared to be decidedly mediocre.  I'm starting to wonder if pasta might not be the Stargate's forte.
    However against one of walls inside the Stargate is this plaque which I liked:

        SoI do believe at the Stargate they're doing their best, even with the so-so pasta dishes.  

    On Sunday morning after church we went out  for breakfast at Pizza King, another popular diner that isn't known for it's pizza.  I'm not even sure they make pizza there.  I don't know, maybe they do. 

But if you really want good pizza in Seaford the place to go is Sal's, the local Italian eatery:

   

    Sunday was the last day of our visit, and as my mom had a hankering to go to the movies (as did I, but then  I always have a hankering to go to the movies), that afternoon we drove the 30 miles to the movie theater in Salisbury, Maryland and saw "Million Dollar Arm" - a really good movie.                      Afterwards we had dinner at the Salisbury Red Lobster:

    And I guess everybody knows what Red Lobster food is like, right?