26 January 2014

Breakfast: "French Stew #2" over store bought mashed potatoes and coffee

This recipe, which I remember from a cook book, is as follows:

Place a layer of stew meat on the bottom of a covered pan. Slice an onion and layer it above the stew meat and then covered the onion with flour. Repeat this until the pan is full or until you run out of stew meat. Put a half tea cup of cheap red wine on the top of this. (The original called for water not red wine.) Cook over a low to medium heat for a couple of hours. Stir well and serve over mashed potatoes. (I don't recall what was called for in the original recipe but this is how I recall my Mother serving a similar stew when I was a teenager.)

Snack: 6 little Oreo cookies and more coffee

 Lunch: We went to the local Montana Mike and I ordered:

• salad with French dressing
• Fillet Mignon
• mashed potatoes with brown gravy
• Diet Pepsi with no ice

We ordered and started waiting and waiting and waiting and finally asked a passing waitress:
"Where are the rolls?"
"The kitchen is behind and we'll bring them out as soon as we can."
I mentioned "passing waitress" as we had not seen "our" waiter in a while. Finally, a senior waitress told us:
"Your main courses will be out in about 3 minutes."
We replied "We haven't had our salads yet."
"Oh, what did you want."
When she brought the salads out I said "we haven't seen our waiter in a while."
"He has gotten behind."This senior waitress brought out food out and "our" waiter wandered by to ask "do you need anything.""No", we replied. By that time, the senior waitress had done this boy's job and done it quite well!

There were some problems with the food:

• Kathie had asked "our" waiter for extra Ranch Dressing with her sandwich and we had to ask the food runner to bring out some more.
• My fillet was a bit tough and
• the mashed potatoes much more chunky that I expect

On the plus side, the senior waitress refilled my "Diet Pepsi no ice" without me asking.
On the negative side, "our" waiter charged us for two soft drinks when we'd ordered only one soft drink...
We tipped but not as much as usual and handed the senior waitress a tip, in cash, and told her this is for you only!

Snack; chunk of dark chocolate

 Dinner: Healthy Choice chicken and noodles and for desert, a WalMart no sugar little apple "pie", with some vanilla ice creamme added.

BOTTOM LINE:  Montana Mikes has lost us as customers for weeks if not a couple of months!

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