25 September 2011

Breakfast: two orders of home made SOS on fresh baked biscuits, sausage patty with orange juice and fresh brewed coffee.

The Santa Fe Trail Association symposium sponsored a trail breakfast. This was a couple, re-enactments, who go around the country with a cattle drive cook wagon and cook food in the old style. That is, the hamburger and sausage were cooked over a wood fire and then the SOS was cooked over one of the two wood fires. I had SOS on biscuits at Burger King yesterday and barely finished it; this SOS on biscuits was so good I went back for seconds!

There was just something about eating food cooked over a wood fire in an outdoors setting that was so much nicer than Burger King.

Lunch: We went to Montana Mikes and I had:

• we split an order of onion rings (actually, the order came so close to our meals coming out that we took nearly all of the onion rings home with us...)
• salad with French Dressing (I had ordered Thousand Island...)
• a rib eye steak medium rare (I had ordered medium...)
• baked potato with everything on it (this came along just fine!)
• rolls and butter (I used about ½ of one to sop up meat juices) and
  
• a glass of "Diet Pepsi", no ice The first glass was fine. Then, I asked for a refill and it came back very weak; they were basically running out of syrup and the waitress said "we're out of syrup"...

We asked and they actually had all the ingredients for the "Mudslide" desert (i.e. brownie, ice creamme, whipped creamme, fudge syrup and - what a waste! - a cherry) today. The pity is they had all the ingredients and that both of us were stuffed and could not have eaten this desert. This is the first time in many years they have had everything as well as the brownies not being burnt!

Dinner: a box of marie Callender's Meat Lasagna and iced water plus a small Oreo cookie. (I will have something better for dinner tomorrow night...)
Then, several  more as post dinner snacks...