10 September 2010

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: the left over half of dinner from last nigth: the (roughly) half double whopper, some fries and coffee

Lunch 2: some of the left over Chinese chicken from the other night and more coffee

Dinner: Since the Dodge City Lions Club came in second place in the Salvation Army bell ringing this past Thanksgiving and Christmas, we were invited to a celebration dinner. This was held at the Elks Club (just south of Beeson) but the Elks have folded. So, it was held at Fort Dodge. The meal consisted of:

• a small bowl of salad with a zingy dressing
• well cooked roast beef
• mashed potatoes
  
• brown gravy
• an excellent roll
• a chunk of a nice marble cake

This meal was, to quote Anthony Bourdain, "made with love".

It was excellent!

Two hours after dinner, I did my Friday "two-hours-after-eating-blood-check" and got a score of 206!  This is horrible but I am getting used to horrible results. As my wife said "you ate the cake..."  Yup, guilty as charged!

She offered me a gin-n-tonic, which was too strong but what I needed...

9 September 2010

Breakfast: oatmeal (fresh made!) and coffee

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown: steak sandwich, fries and iced water.  The service was fine!

Dinner:  Kathie called Appleby's "Curbside Service" to order take away but got put on terminal hold. After 3 minutes on hold, she hung up and went to Burger King. (I'd have to say the Appleby's service was not fine!)

For dinner, she brought me a double whopper and fries. I was feeling ill and ate about half of it. The next morning, about 4:20, I checked my blood sugar and it was 159! Ah, I am so going to be going on Levemir after I bomb the A1C test in November  :-[ (November is when I get my annual VA checkup...)  I am going to power up the movie camera and have Kathie film my first self stabbing; how am I going to tell my relatives I've finally lost the battle against the needle?)

8 September 2010

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Snack: a piece of choclate cake left over from yesterday's office luncheon (I guess there is a reason I should not drop my breakfast off in the office refer at 5 am; there might be the remnants of someone's luncheon... :-)

Lunch: will be at Casey's Cowtown

Dinner: will

7 September 2010

_____Breakfast: From Burger King, a big omelet sandwich, tater tots, coffee
________Lunch: We went to the new Italian Restaurant on Front Street, in the old camera store. I had

• two slices of bread and butter
• spaghetti with a spicy tomato sauce with meat
• two glasses of "Diet Coke"

There was a  problem in that the kitchen sent out the wrong food so we had to send the plates back for the real food. We liked the waitress; she was at "Vernon's Place" and then the "Hitching Post" and is now here. I handed the tip to her and said "this tip is for you and not the cooks". She nodded and stashed the tiip.

_____ Dinner: Homemade boiled roast beef with potatoes and carrots and water.

I had browned beef bones yesterday and took a shot at making brown gravy. It was a total flop...

6 September 2010

_____Breakfast: 
________Lunch: KFC for chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy and desert and 2 glasses of Diet Pepsi
_______Dinner: a nice little TV dinner
Pre-Bed Snack: gin-n-tonic

5 September 2010

Breakfast:  We went to Mike Casey's "Casey's Cowtown" for breakfast. I had

• 2 eggs over medium
• a thin ham "steak"
• hash browns
• 2 slices of whole wheat toast
• coffee
• iced water

The food was fine, the service adequate.

Lunch: Kathie made baked chicken with dressing and aspargius; I had cold water and later some coffee.

Snack: I had an irrestible craving for something decadent and got myself a medium choclate Frosty from Wendys. It was good...

Dinner: I had a Healthy Choice Classic Meat Load (Meat loaf with Rich Brown Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Sweet Corn Blend & Apple Cranberry Multigrain Crisp) and a couple of little Oreo cookies. I found these cookies going thru my junk bag

Then, I had a bag of popcorn.

Feeling decadent, I had an ice creamme sandwich.

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A note on service: I have not been thrilled with the restaurant service lately.

 You should not have to flag down a waitress to get a drink refill.

You should not be handed your bill before you are offered the chance to order desert. In fact, if a restaurant offers desert, you should be asked if you want any. Now, speaking as a diabetic, I should not have desert and I suppose the "wait staff" is doing me a favour. However, since they don't know of my health concerns, I think the "wait staff" apparently are simply not interested in doing further business with me/us after we've finished the meal.  Thus, they lose a sale and get a smaller tip.

The service in Dodge City has simply been poor; sadly, this is no change from what it has been for perhaps 10 - 14 years...

4 September 2010

Breakfast: a double portion of creamme of wheat (what I normally think of as being one serving!), two slices of sour dough toast and coffee

Lunch: We went to the Boot Hill Casino for lunch. There, I had:

• a meat and veggie soup. The meat might have been beef but it and the soup tasted like it should have been a shoulder of ham soup
• a 14 oz charcoal cooked rib eye (good but I'm not used to charcoal cooked steak)
• a baked potatoe
• two little rolls
• split a "Suicide by Choalate" cake with Kathie
• two glasses of "Diet Pepsi"

We got good service and the waitress made a fine effort to remember what I like to drink with lunch ("Diet Pepsi, no ice"). She didn't remember it all but that is fine; she made the effort!

Post-lunch, I had some more coffee (actually, about a ½ cup) and not quite that much before going to work in the late afternoon.

Dinner: After the bigness of my lunch, I had a Healthy Choice meal for dinner: Beef Pot Roast (Roasted Beef with Cabernet Gravy, Carrots, Red Potatoes & Apple Cranberry Mutigrain Crisp) and iced water

3 September 2010

Breakfast: about 1 cup (the last of) my homemade beef stew from this past weekend, a peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich and coffee

Lunch: We went to the "North" Pizza Hut. I went inside expected

1. the buffet line to be anemic
2. service to be poor
3. have to go to the counter to get a refill of my soft drink.

Given these exceptions, I was "disappointed" by:

"Disappointment #1": There actually had a fine selection of items and enough stuff to make a decent salad.

"Disappointment #2": There was only one waitress working the place so I really didn't expect much service. When I went to get some desert, the waitress hustled over with a pitcher of "Diet Pepsi" and filled my glass as I put some apple pie pizza on my plate.

I shouldn't refer to these two good items as "Disappointments" but then my sense of humour sometimes isn't the best... ;-)

The food selection was actually quite good and the service quite adequate and better than we've gotten the last several times we've gone to Pizza Hut.

For lunch, I had:

• salad with "bacon", cheddar cheese and Thousand Island dressing
• piece of pepperoni pizza
• piece of hamburger pizza
• piece of apple pie pizza
• some noddle stuff with red sauce
• a piece of sticky pastry
• the aforementioned glasses (2) of "Diet Pepsi"

Dinner: A Healthy Choice Classic Meat Loaf (Meat Loaf with Rich Brown Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Sweet Corn Blend & Apple Cranberry Multigrain Crisp) and iced water

2 September 2010

Breakfast: some corn beef hash, two fried/scrambled eggs and coffee

Lunch: at the new Mexican place in what used to be Mike Casey's 2^nd place: an "open face" taco, two items wrapped in dough, great re-fried beans and rice. I also had two "Diet Cokes" without ice; I would have ordered a desert but the waitress dropped our bill off without asking "would you folks like desert"? I took this as a strong hint: don't order desert!  So, I did not order desert.

There were only two waitress in the place and service was quite slow. When I finally got "our" waitress' attention and asked for a refill, she said :"oh, you want a refill"? "No, I just like waving my glass in the air!" Actually, I said "yes".

Well, yet another place in Dodge City with decent food and not so good service. This seems to be a pattern...

Snack: I had some orange sherbet and coffee; tomorrow, I will not drink coffee after 1 pm. I suspect that has been upsetting my stomach in the late afternoon lately.

Dinner: I had the rest of the left over stew and iced water. Afterward, I felt sick to my stomach and am wondering why I seem to have stomach problems a lot lately...

1 September 2010

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: a steak sandwich, french fries and iced water at Casey's Cowtown
I don't know what set it off but I was reasonably sick to the stomach after lunch. Now, at 9:23 pm, I'm fairly over whatever it was...

Dinner: left over beef stew (from day before yesterday) and iced water

31 August 2010

Breakfast: I put the required amount of water for a double serving of grits into a small sauce pan, brought the water to a boil, dropped in two eggs and waited till the eggs were fairly well cooked (cooked a poached eggs) and then added the grits. I put some spread (not butter) and a pinch of red peppers in with the raw grits and cooked this mess as if it were grits. This and coffee made for a fine, if seldom, meal.

Lunch: two bierocks and a bag of cheezets and water.

Dinner: home made beef stew, some garlic bread and a MGD beer.

my recipe collection

A bad day of pork chop cooking or "I filled the house with smoke..."

Aunt Noreme's sour creamme coffee cake recipie

Basic white sauce

cornbread recipie

A great choclate pudding recipe

Choclate liquor

Dad's marinade recipe

Diabetic Forecast tomator soup recipie

Diabetic's choclate pudding

My Mother's all meat" meal. Something she did not let my brothers and I try and which she claimed to not remember decades later. (I believed her.)

Tuna noodle casserol

Choclate Liquor Recipe

1½ cup Sugar
¾ cup Water
3 cups Vodka
5 tablespoons Unsweetened cocoa
1 each Vanilla bean, split

Combine sugar and water in small saucepan; cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until mixture boils. Reduce heat to low; simmer, stirring occasionally, until sugar has completely dissolved. Remove from heat; cool to room temperature. Measure 1 cup of the mixture; combine with vodka, cocoa and vanilla bean in clean 2-quart glass container. Cover tightly; keep in cool dark place for 14 days, shaking thoroughly every 2 days. Strain liqueur through dampened coffee filter paper into clean glass container. (Change filter paper in mid-process or, if necessary, let drip overnight as cocoa residue is very thick.) Repeat straining process if residue remains. Remove vanilla bean. Cover tightly; let liqueur age in cool, dark place for at least 1 month. About 1 quart. 

From: Hershey's Chocolate Treasury Submitted By PAT STOCKETT On 04-07-95

19 August 2010

_____Breakfast:

• scrambled eggs (2)
• grits
• slice of sour dough toast with peanut butter and grape jelly
• coffee
  

________Lunch: the very rest of yesterday's lunch
_______Dinner: from Applebys:

• 12 oz rib eye steak
• baked potatoe
• we split a desert of ice creamme and whipped creamme on a very large chocolate chip cookie

Pre-Bed Snack:

My Dad's birthday or 28 August 2010

_____Breakfast: We went to the Boot Hill Casino for

• scrambled eggs
• SOS on hash browns
• bisqujit with grape jelly
• 3 big strawberries
• a couple of chunks of mellon
• coffee

I think we've been here too often as I've gotten a bit tired of the food...

________Lunch: From Walmart

• "Chinese" orange chicken
• Chicken chunks
• potatoe wedges

_______Dinner:  some left overs from lunch
 
Pre-Bed Snack: a double gin-n-tonic and a single gin-n-tonicv

NOT FOR MY WIFE'S EYES or Honey, I burned the pork choips

http://dying-by-fork.blogspot.com/2008/11/14-november-2008.html

NOT FOR MY WIFE'S EYES

    There was a bit of a problem with boiling the pork chops [on 14 November 2008].

    I had worked the 4 am to noon shift and was very tired. So, after I put the pork chops on hot, to bring the water to a boil for a few minutes, I sat down by the computer and zoned out. I completely forgot the boiling water, which I had planned on reducing to a simmer after a few minutes.

    I didn't remember them until the house was filled with dense smoke and the smoke detector went off. I checked the pork chops and the bottoms were burnt black, while the top was seriously overcooked.

    The important thing is the house was filled with smoke and it was November. The good think is that it was a nice day and when I opened the window in the main bedroom; both my cats went up onto it. I then turned the fans on in both bathrooms and over the stove. I also opened both the front and back doors and started waiting for the house to air out.

    It took almost three hours before the house stopped smelling like smoke. I waited a bit longer and then shut the windows, the doors and turned the fans off.

    When Kathie got home, she mentioned how smoky the house was. I didn't have the nerve to tell her what happened [and that the house had been a lot worst earlier].

Text in black is from my initial reporting of the event and text in blue is from 28 August 2010.

27 August 2010

My pre-breakfast score was 202!

Breakfast: cheerios and coffee

Lunch: a bowl of chicken noodle soup (from Quinox) and small bag of potatoe chips and a medium "Diet Pepsi"

I was feeling ill at noon so I didn't go beyond the soup; now, I'm feeling very hungry (it is 7:16 pm) and looking forward to my dinner...

Dinner: a homemade "treat" of:

• boiled pork chops
• boiled potatoes
• sour kraut

and iced water

I scored 149

Snack: I've been eying the "Dove SILKY SMOOTH DARK CHOCOLATE" bar in the work freezer for some time. Since no one has eaten it, I finally convinced myself that it was one I put there a year or so ago.

26 August 2010

Breakfast: cherrieos and coffee

Lunch: various at PIzza Hut: a couple of pieces of pizza, desert pizza, cottage cheese and salad and the "Diet Pepsi, no ice" (I ordered) and the "Diet Pepsi, lots of ice" (which I got when I finally waved down the waitress for a refill). We had the misfortune to get the side of the PH that apparently was not assigned a waitress...

Dinner: Healthy Choice Beef pot Roast (roasted beef with Cabernet Gravy, Carrots, Red Potatoes & Apple Cranberry Multigrain Crisp) and iced water

Desert: the choclate chip cookie left over from last night...

25 August 2010

Breakfast: the left over bacon from yesterday between two slices of sour dough toast (didn't taste like the pan...) and a bowl of cheerios. The bacon must have been fine since my dog ate his "tithe" without complaint; that is, I doubt he even chewed it!

I felt reasonably horrible after the milk with breakfast and then walking on the treadmill and lifting weights. There must be something going around.

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown, a little steak sandwich and french fries plus one glass of iced water.

Desert: I had a small container of chocolate ice creamme (and my dog got his "tithe" as well... ;-)  )

Dinner:  Kroger "healthy meals made simple" lemon herb chicken with brown rice (boneless chicken breast with rib meat in a light lemon herb sauce) with iced water

This tasted good but definitely not good enough to have again. The lemon was too strong and it actually tasted too sweet; what a surprise given that "sugar" is listed as the 4^th ingredient.

Snack: a choclate chip cookie; I left the other for tomorrow night...

24 August 2010

Breakfast: using my cast iron fry pan, I

• fried bacon
• cooked two eggs in the fat
• toasted two slices of sour dough bread
• made bad instant coffee

My stomach was upset afterward which makes me wonder if there is something with the fry pan that upsets my stomach (which never happens if I let the good cooked on it set in the refer) or if it simply was the amount of grease on the bacon...

Lunch: We went to Sonic and I ordered:

• double hamburger with no cheese
• french fries
• medium "Diet Pepsi" with no ice

They confirmed that I did not want cheese.  Not only did my burger come with cheese slathering the meat, both patties  looked like they had been dipped in cheese sauce. Mine appeared to have more cheese than my wife's burger and she asked for cheese...

Pre-dinner blues: I have a slight headache, slight nausea and pangs of hunger and this matches what Wikipedia had for hyperglycemia.  What a surprise!  =-O

Dinner: A TV dinner, Maríe Callender's Country Fried Beef Steak, with mashed potatoes, gravy and glazed carrots and iced water