30 September 2012

Breakfast: single serving of creamme of wheat and coffee.

 

Lunch: at Napolins at the Garden City Airport:

• home made rolls, hot from the over with butter
• spaghetti with meat sauce and meat balls
• a couple of glasses of iced water with a lot of ice...

Normally, I would have asked for "Diet Pepsi, no ice" but I have bladder problems today and didn't dare consume too many fluids before being on the road for over an hour getting home!

 

The food was excellent, the service quite nice and the view out the window very nice. It was worth pretending we had gone to Garden City solely to go to Sam's...

 

Dinner: Healthy Choice Sweet and Sour Chicken (Chicken Breast Fritter Chunks in Sweet & Sour Sauce over Whole Grain Rice and Broccoli) and iced water and later, popcorn.

29 September 2012

Breakfast: Kathie cooked the last of the bacon and I <s>boiled</s> fried two eggs in the hot grease. We were out of bread so I could not make toast and I didn't want to take the time to fry potatoes. Later, I had a third egg; I also have a couple of cups of coffee.

 

Snack: a chunk of dark chocolate and more coffee

 

Lunch: We went to the Knights of Columbus OctoberFest. There, I had:

• brat $2.50
• sauerkraut 50¢
• very large turkey leg $5.00
• potatoe casserole $2.50
• 2 cans of Diet Pepsi @ $1/can

We skipped the desert.

 

The brat and kraut were good as was the turkey leg (I ate part and Kathie finished it off when I was de-watering in the men's room) not too bad. The potatoe casserole was incredibly salty, probably an incentive for diners to drink a lot of beer...

 

Speaking of beer, they had a lot of "light" beer and only two brands that I would have considered almost true OctoberFest beers. Actually, they really didn't have any beers that could be considered "OctoberFest Beers" (i.e. no pumpkin beers or special autumn beers). Kathie declined to buy any and since I had to come to work a couple of hours after the OctoberFest, I had no intention of drinking anything alcoholic...

 

The entertainment consisted of an accordion player, a keyboard player (electronic organ) and drummer. The music was very well performed and they did a nice selection of songs.  It would have been nice to have been able to stay longer.

 

Dinner: the left over beef and (alas) pork stew from last night, with a 12 oz bottle of "Kroger HomeStyle Beef Gravy" added to maybe salvage the flavour...

 

This "Beef Gravy" improved the flavour.

 

I also had a couple of chocolate chip cookies. They were marked down from 75¢ to 50¢ and I suspect they may have been getting a bit long in the tooth.  However, the pull date was 15 Jan 13 so I guess they were just surplus inventory or stuff my coworkers were not buying...

Fwd: 28 September 2012

Breakfast: Cheerios and coffee

 

Lunch: at Sonic, where I ordered:

• a double hamburger without cheese; it came loaded with cheese
• french fries
• medium "Diet Coke", no ice (they actually left the ice out...

I ordered "extra catchup" and got 5 bags for both of us; the waitress went back and got several more bags of catchup when I asked for it. It would seem the catchup drought  continues at Sonic...

 

Snack: some vanilla pudding and dark chocolate and coffee (I guess I let hunger blind me to the remembrance of last night's evening blood score: 207)

 

Dinner: some home made stew made with beef stew meat, pork chops, potatoes, carrots and various seasonings. I realize now this is a bad combination; pork chops are fine as pork chops but I should not put them in my homemade stew. I will have plenty to polish off tomorrow night and the next night...

 

A little bit of dark chocolate as a post dinner snack.

 

 

 

28 September 2012

Breakfast: Cheerios and coffee

 

Lunch: at Sonic, where I ordered:

• a double hamburger without cheese; it came loaded with cheese
• french fries
• medium "Diet Coke", no ice (they actually left the ice out...

I ordered "extra catchup" and got 5 bags for both of us; the waitress went back and got several more bags of catchup when I asked for it. It would seem the catchup drought  continues at Sonic...

 

Snack: some vanilla pudding and dark chocolate and coffee (I guess I let hunger blind me to the remembrance of last night's evening blood score: 207)

 

A little bit of dark chocolate as a post dinner snack.

 

 

 

27 September 2012

Breakfast: Cheerios and coffee

 

Lunch: at a Mexican place for enchilada and burrito, rice and beans, "Diet Coke' and Flan plus iced water

 

Dinner: Healthy Choice Beef Pot Roast and iced water (plus a small piece of cake)

I was feeling ill in the afternoon and that may have jacked my blood sugar. I drank several glasses of water and then drank some more at home. I don't know if it dropped my blood sugar any but I sure did piss a lot...

AM 115  PM  207

26 September 2012

Breakfast: spoon sized shredd wheat, the small piece of steak and some of the baked potatoe left over from the other night and coffee

 

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown:

• country fried chicken
• mashed potatoes with white gravy
• corn
• a roll with butter and grape jelly and
• iced water

Snack: a small amount of ice creamme and coffee

 

Dinner: First, I had an apple. It was amazing how good this apple tasted but then, hunger is the best appitizer. Then, the main course: Marie Callender's Beef & Broccoli and iced water.

25 September 2012

Breakfast: cherrios and coffee

Lunch: the last of the left over beef stew, a couple of chocolate chip cookies and a can of PEPSI ZERO.

 Dinner: Roman noodles with two hot dogs, a chunk of dark chocolate and cold water.

AM 115   PM 138

24 Septembre 2012

Breakfast: spoon sized shredded wheat and coffee

 

Lunch: We went to King's Buffet and I had chicken, beef, rice, chocolate pudding and ice creamme plus two glasses of "Diet Pepsi"

 

Dinner: We went to "Bad Habits - Bar and Grill" where I had:

• salad with Thousand Island Dressing
• most of a 12 oz ribeye steak
• most of a baked potatoe
• a sllice of "Texas Toast" with honey and
• iced water

Snack: a gin-n-tonic

23 September 2012

_____Breakfast: creamme of wheat, toast and coffee
________Lunch:  minute steak, can of cream of chicken soup and a bottle of Diet Pepsi_______Dinner:  I made home made beef stew, Kathie toasted (in the over) left over hoggie rolls and had cold waterPre-Bed Snack: gin-n-tonic

22 September 2012

_____Breakfast:  Kathie's Big Breakfast:

• well cooked bacon
• scrambled eggs
• Serri Lee coffee cake and
• coffee

________Lunch: We went to Jimmy Johns. The food was good but we made the mistake of going to the drive up window. They gave me my potatoe chips something like an after thought and left off the onion and cheese on my wife's sandwich. She paid extra for the onion she didn't get...

I had a double roast beef, chips, and a "Diet Coke"

______Dinner:  A nice dinner of:

• fried salmon
• aspargius
• boiled potatoe and
• cold water

Pre-Bed Snack: a chunk of dark chocolate...

A Marine Corp Raisin Jack recipe

Here is a Raisin Jack recipe:

About This Recipe

"If you are in the Marines and being deployed, I just want to pass on the best darn recipe you'll ever see. First off tho you have to get in good graces with the ships cook cause you're going to need a few things from him. Actually "everything" except the water and sun. Some dude with a love for hooch made this during WWII and it's been pasted down through quite a few overseas trips. Just hang onto your cover when it's done."

Ingredients

• 1 (1 gallon) can white grapes
• 1 (1 gallon) can fruit cocktail
• 1 (1 gallon) can raisins
• 1 gallon fresh water

Directions

1. Place all of the ingredints in a Goverment issue 5-gallon water can.
2. Place on top of the canvas cover on a duece and a half or 5 ton truck.
3. Lash down tightly to avoid loosing.
4. Allow 3 days in the hot ocean sunlight and the motion of the sea waves to bring this recipe to a most delightful disaster.
5. Sip slowly when finished.
6. This may be shared with swabbies.

I am going to have to try this. I wonder if the white grapes should be crushed first? After all, the "grape goodness" is contained by the grape skin. When raisins swell up, the "raisin goodness" is contained by the raisin skins. The best you can say is this is fermented fruit cocktail with grapes and re-hydrated raisins floating in it.

 

21 September 2012

Breakfast: Cheerios and coffee

Lunch: at the Wyatt Earp street Pizza Hut for a salad, sausage pizza and vanilla pudding.

I don't like pizza with veggies on it and they did not have any pure meat pizza. So, I gripped to the manager. Several minutes later, he brought me a plate with two slices of sausage pizza. I had thought of bitching about this but this act of excellent service was simply unexpected and wonderful. So, what can I say but "the service was excellent!"  Later, he asked me how the pizza was so I honestly said "great".

Dinner: a can of Dillions beef stew and some Oreos and iced water. When I get home, I'll have some "Pink" for a belated dessert. ("Pink" is Pepto Bismol.)

A couple of hours after going to bed, I started coughing up globs of yellow crap and vomited. I then went back to bed and came down with a severe case of shivering. I had two blankets on me, asked my wife to turn the fan off and it took a very long time to warm back up. I also had very painful urination; I remembered dropping my "water pill" the previous morning and that probably screwed me up good. I was sick to around noon on Saturday... 

20 September 2012

Breakfast: creamme of wheat and coffee

Lunch:  We went to the newly opened Jimmy Johns. I had a #17, "Ultimate Porker" This was, to quote them: "Real applewood smoked ham and bacon with lettuce, tomato & mayo, what could be better"_The food was very good.

Snack:  After donating a pint of blood to the Red Cross, I had:

• ham sandwich
• chips
• little cookies
• coffee, iced water and canned orange juice

        Dinner:  Healthy Choice and iced water

Pre-Bed Snack:


Blood Sugar: AM 91  PM 99

19 September 2012

Breakfast: grits and not enough butter plus coffee

 

Lunch; at Casey's Cowtown, a large hamburger, fries and iced water

 

Dinner: can of Campbell's spaghetti and "meatballs" and iced water. I suspect this was a poor choice for a dinner as this meal was talking back to me a couple of hours after eating.

 

Some Oreos seemed to settle my stomach.

17 September 2012

Breakfast: Roman noodles and coffee

 

Lunch: at Cassa Alveriz for a cup of soup then enchilada, rice and beans, Sophahista with ice creamme and strawberries and "Diet Pepsi"

 

Dinner: Healthy Choice Meat Loaf with iced water

 

Some little Oreos...

16 September 2012

_____Breakfast: at the Tampa Bay Hyatt

• corned beef hash
• two eggs over medium
• two slices wheat toast and grape  jelly and
• coffee
• orange juice

________Lunch: at the Dallas Airport for

• a 25 oz draft LandShark
• 8 oz rib eye steak
• baked potatoe
• water

______
Dinner:  at the Pratt Rat KFC for:

• three piece - 2 breasts and wing
• corn
• potatoe "wedges"
• water 

Exceptionally good food and service: the Tampa Bay Hyatt Restaurant and the restaurant at the Dallas airport.

Bad food at the Pratt KFC and exceptionally poor service. My wife ordered original recipe and got dried out "extra crispy" (in hind sight, it might actually have been very dried out original recipe!). It was late evening and the KFC seemed to be understaffed and I think the clerk and overwhelmed manager meant well but the food was poor, the service was very bad. Of course, they were concentrating on the drive up customers vice us suckers waiting and waiting and waiting...

We wish we'd left and gone back to the McDonalds. We cerrtainly do not plan on going back there!

10 September 2012

Breakfast: cherios and coffee

Lunch: Jimmy Dean Breakfast Bowls BACON Eggs, Potatoes, Bacon and Cheddar Cheese and a can of PEPSI ZERO.

Dinner: over cooked skinless, boneless chicken,   boiled broccoli florets, and rice.

9 September 2012

Breakfast: peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich and coffee

 

Lunch: Ruben sandwich and half of one I shared with Kathis and cold water

 

Dinner: can of Healthy Choice chicken and noodle soup, a peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich and cold water

7 September 2012

_____Breakfast: We went to Inn Pancake House for

• pork gravy (SOS) on hash browns
• a small amount of scrambled eggs
• biscuit with grape jelly and
• lots of coffee (and iced water)

________Lunch: We went to King's Buffet and had various chicken and beef dishes with white rice, desert and two glasses of "Diet Pepsi"

_______Dinner: a can of Healthy Choice Chicken Noodle Soup and a peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich. For desert, a  Tillamook Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese sandwich

6 September 2012

_____Breakfast:  A McDonald's "Big Breakfast" of

• scrambled eggs
• sausage diskette
• coffee
• I didn't eat the potatoe thingie; it is in the refer

              Lunch: A Healthy Choice meatloaf meal and cold water

_______Dinner: We went to the Boot Hill Casino where I hoped for a small fillet. Instead, it was buffet and I had:

• a small amount of salmon
• a slice of roast beef
• a small amount of potato chunks
• several scrimp
• roll
• ice creamme with fudge sauce
• iced water

The service was fine but then, how much service is needed at a buffet? Anyway, our waitress kept the water glasses filled and there was not too much of a wait before the bar runner brought Kathie's glass of wine.

Pre-Bed Snack:  gin-n-tonic in a coffee cup

Update on my Boot Hill Casino diatribe:

Plus: They have opened up extra money losing opportunities slot machines

Negative: Just a couple...

• They renamed "Miss Kitty's Saloon" to "Wild Bill's Beer Bar"
• Sadly, "Bill's Bar" was not open (not that I would have ordered a LandShark on tap as I was designated driver)
• The apparently one-shot hot dog stand sits empty and unused at the entrance to the Casino. It was probably a promotion or a failed experiment. They should cart the poor damned thing off or use it. As it is, it just makes the place look a bit run down...
• They had "upgraded" the machines and we had to "get a star" on our user cards to use said cards. We also got free lanyards (whoopee!)

They had not done much to improve the place since the last time I commented on them; it has not gone down much. We had a new and fine waitress last night and the time before. The waiter who gave bad service in the past is still there. Maybe he needs the job? (I'm not rich either...)

This is an update to my first evaluation of the Boot Hill Casino Restaurant.

   Blood: AM 80  PM 150
Exercise: 30 minutes on the treadmill

Wisdom from Anthony Bourdain

"And if twenty-eight years in the restaurant business had taught me
anything at all, it was that if things look good today, they will most
assuredly turn to shit tomorrow."

Anthony Bourdain

"Medium Raw"

Anthony Bourdain "Medium Raw" (also Good vs Evil)

_____"There is no lying in the kitchen. And no god there, either. He couldn't help you anyway. You either can - or can't - chop an onion, shake a pan, keep up with the other cooks, replicate again and again, perfectly, the dishes that need to be done. No credential, no amount of bullshit, no well-formed sentences or pleas for mercy will change the basic facts. The kitchen is the last meritocracy - a world of absolutes; one knows without any ambiguity at the end of each day how one did. "Good" and "evil" are easily and instantly recognized for what they are. Good is a cook who shows up on time and does what he said yesterday he was going to do. Evil is a cook who's full of shit and doesn't or can't do what he said he was going to do. Good is a busy restaurant from which the customers go home happy and everybody makes money. Evil is a slow restaurant from which the cooks go home feeling depressed and ashamed.”
 

 This was copied from "Medium Raw" b y Anthony Bourdain and used in the spirit of fair usage. The man writes very well and what he has written here can apply to so many other aspects of life...

5 September 2012

_____Breakfast:  cheerios and coffee
_______Lunch:  at Casey's Cowtown where I had roast beef, mashed potatoes and brown gravy, a roll with grape jelly and iced water. Since I had to remind our rather new waitress that the roll came with dinner, this rates as average service. However, she brought the grape jelly I asked for so it wasn't too bad.

The food was quite good...

              Snack: a piece of the left over chocolate cake from yesterday at work

______Dinner:   I decided to go veggie (sort of)...

• large salad with tuna fish and Tillamook Extra Sharp Cheddar cheese
• an attempt at creamme of broccoli soup made from
  • boiled onion
  • boiled broccoli
  • which I blended in some water which I had already blended two chicken bouillon cubes
• I blended in some more Tillamook Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese into this
• and topped off with a splash of milk

It turned out well save for a bit of an unpleasant taste from the cheddar cheese in the soup. The cheese was great on the salad though...

Blood sugar before dinner: 120
Blood sugar about two hours after starting dinner: 126

So, I guess eating "veggie" can be good for me. Since I am writing this the morning after, I admit that I checked my blood sugar right after getting out of bed. It was quite low for me: 80. I guess "eating veggie" can be a little too good for me!

Maybe I don't need to go on injected crap quite so soon?

4 September 2012

_____Breakfast:   cheerios and coffee
________Lunch:  We had an office luncheon and I had:

• salad
• the main course, which was noodles with kind of spaghetti sauce
• two rolls, no butter
• piece of Cherri's homemade chocolate cake with vanilla ice creamme and Larry's homemade chocolate sauce and
• a bottle of Diet Pepsi

_______Dinner:  I made home made spaghetti sauce and should have done a much better job of draining the grease. that is, I should I put the hamburger in a strainer and ran hot water over it!

Any way, about an hour after going to bed, dinner came back up. This really upset Kathie, who threw a fit, slamming the bedroom door, and yelling at me "that's enough; you can quit vomiting now!" Somehow, I don't think my stomach really gives a shit about being ordered to "quit vomiting now".

She means well and worries about my health. She is also much more bothered by my "blowing chunks" than I am...

Labour Day 2012

___Breakfast: cherios and coffee

  ______Snack: some little sugar powder donuts (I had a touch of hypo...)

_______Lunch: bowl of Ramon a can of Pepsi One

_______Snack: an ice creamme bar

______Dinner: a nice home cooked meal of:

• two ears of corn on the cob
• big piece of steelhead trout
• broccoli florets
• cold water

Pre-Bed Snack:  a gin and tonic

2 September 2012

Breakfast: spoon sized Wheaties and coffee

 

Snack: several pieces of boiled chicken

 

Lunch: Kathie's boiled brats in mixture of cheap cooking beer, our only decent pepper from the garden, onions (alas, not from the garden) and cold water

 

Dinner: another boiled meal of:

• 2 ears corn on the cob
• boiled boneless skinned chicken
• piece of bread I buttered to smear said butter on the corn
• 1½ bottles of LandShark (I lost a ½ bottle when I bumped into the TV tray said beer was sitting on...)
• small glass of water

 

White House beer recipies

Two White House beer recipes

White House Honey Porter

Ingredients

• 2 (3.3 lb) cans light unhopped malt extract
• 3/4 lb Munich Malt (cracked)
• 1 lb crystal 20 malt (cracked)
• 6 oz black malt (cracked)
• 3 oz chocolate malt (cracked)
• 1 lb White House Honey
• 10 HBUs bittering hops
• 1/2 oz Hallertaur Aroma hops
• 1 pkg Nottingham dry yeast
• 3/4 cup corn sugar for bottling

Directions

1. In a 6 qt pot, add grains to 2.25 qts of 168˚ water. Mix well to bring temp down to 155˚. Steep on stovetop at 155˚ for 45 minutes. Meanwhile, bring 2 gallons of water to 165˚ in a 12 qt pot. Place strainer over, then pour and spoon all the grains and liquid in. Rinse with 2 gallons of 165˚ water. Let liquid drain through. Discard the grains and bring the liquid to a boil. Set aside.
2. Add the 2 cans of malt extract and honey into the pot. Stir well.
3. Boil for an hour. Add half of the bittering hops at the 15 minute mark, the other half at 30 minute mark, then the aroma hops at the 60 minute mark.
4. Set aside and let stand for 15 minutes.
5. Place 2 gallons of chilled water into the primary fermenter and add the hot wort into it. Top with more water to total 5 gallons if necessary. Place into an ice bath to cool down to 70-80˚.
6. Activate dry yeast in 1 cup of sterilized water at 75-90˚ for fifteen minutes. Pitch yeast into the fermenter. Fill airlock halfway with water. Ferment at room temp (64-68˚) for 3-4 days.
7. Siphon over to a secondary glass fermenter for another 4-7 days.
8. To bottle, make a priming syrup on the stove with 1 cup sterile water and 3/4 cup priming sugar, bring to a boil for five minutes. Pour the mixture into an empty bottling bucket. Siphon the beer from the fermenter over it. Distribute priming sugar evenly. Siphon into bottles and cap. Let sit for 1-2 weeks at 75˚.

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White House Honey Ale

Ingredients

• 2 (3.3 lb) cans light malt extract
• 1 lb light dried malt extract
• 12 oz crushed amber crystal malt
• 8 oz Biscuit Malt
• 1 lb White House Honey
• 1 1/2 oz Kent Goldings Hop Pellets
• 1 1/2 oz Fuggles Hop pellets
• 2 tsp gypsum
• 1 pkg Windsor dry ale yeast
• 3/4 cup corn sugar for priming

Directions

1. In an 12 qt pot, steep the grains in a hop bag in 1 1/2 gallons of sterile water at 155 degrees for half an hour. Remove the grains.
2. Add the 2 cans of the malt extract and the dried extract and bring to a boil.
3. For the first flavoring, add the 1 1/2 oz Kent Goldings and 2 tsp of gypsum. Boil for 45 minutes.
4. For the second flavoring, add the 1/2 oz Fuggles hop pellets at the last minute of the boil.
5. Add the honey and boil for 5 more minutes.
6. Add 2 gallons chilled sterile water into the primary fermenter and add the hot wort into it. Top with more water to total 5 gallons. There is no need to strain.
7. Pitch yeast when wort temperature is between 70-80˚. Fill airlock halfway with water.
8. Ferment at 68-72˚ for about seven days.
9. Rack to a secondary fermenter after five days and ferment for 14 more days.
10. To bottle, dissolve the corn sugar into 2 pints of boiling water for 15 minutes. Pour the mixture into an empty bottling bucket. Siphon the beer from the fermenter over it. Distribute priming sugar evenly. Siphon into bottles and cap. Let sit for 2 to 3 weeks at 75˚.

These are the two recipes in more accessible form. The pdf files are in "pretty print" form. Spell checker did not like some of the words in the recipes but screw spell checker! I presented the recipes are published and it is not up to me to "correct" any spelling "errors".

1 September 2012

______Breakfast: Cheerios and coffee

__________Snack:  left over ribs and some Oreos (it felt like hypoglycemia after the ribs...)

__________Lunch:  Ramon noodles and cold water

_________Dinner: An old fashioned mix of:



two ears of corn
chicken, boiled
Ramon noodles with the chopped up chicken
water
a bottle of LandShark



Pre-Bed Snack:

Anne Romney’s Welsh Skillet Cakes

___Anne Romney’s Welsh Skillet Cakes

Ingredients:

1 egg

1 1/4 cups currants

1/2 cup milk

3 1/2 cups flour

1 cup granulated sugar

2 tsp nutmeg

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 cup butter

Directions:

Beat the egg with the milk. Add currants. Sift all other dry ingredients together. Work butter into flour and mix until mealy. Pour milk and currants over flour and butter mixture all at once and mix well. Wrap in wax paper and chill for at least one hour.

Roll it a little less than half an inch thick — actually about 3/8 of an inch. You may think this is too precise, but it’s very important not to roll too thin.

Cut with cookie cutter. Cook on a pancake griddle greased with oil (325 degrees Fahrenheit) on both sides. Flip the cookies when you see they are shiny. Cook it for less time on the second side. Roll in granulated sugar and let cool.

Resist the urge to eat them right away out of the oven — these are the only cookies that taste better cooled.

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This recipe copied from an internet article, without permission. I used it in the "spirit of fair usage".

31 August 2012

Breakfast: cherrios and coffee

 

Lunch 1: popcorn at work

 

Lunch 2: I violated the rule of "never go shopping when you are hungry!" I went to Dillions to buy some hot dogs to have with Romin and ended up buying fresh bar-b-qued ribs. I took them home, had a couple of ribs and a packet of Romin....

 

Dinner: Healthy Choice, something with beef and I've forgotten what else...