20 March 2018

_____Breakfast:   3 little pancakes

               *  mashed potatoes and milk to make potatoe soup

               *  coffee

         Snack: creamme Bavarian

__ ______Lunch: *  Arbys chicken stripes, 

                *  onion rings and 

                *  a Diet Pepsi... 

         Snack: creamme Bavarian

__ _____Dinner: We went to the Boot Hill Casino for Italian night

                *  Caesar Salad

                *  spaghetti with steak chunks

                *  toasted bread and olive oil dip

                *  vanilla ice creamme, fudge and brownie

                *  glass of White Zin and 

                *  iced water 

 Pre-Bed Snack:  gin-n-tonic

AM 69 PM 133

The Caesar Salad had an interesting flavour and I suspect this was what upset my stomach. At the time, I wished I could have sampled the salad and then not eaten it. To quote Vir Coto:

"But it tastes so great going down. Coming up again, it's not so terrific, but-" 

Christmas 2017

____Breakfast: Kathie's Big Breakfast of

               * coffee cake

               * well cooked fried bacon

               * coffee

_____ __Lunch: We had lunch at the Boot Hill Casino Restaurant

               * salad

               * mashed potatoes and brown gravy

               * 2 slices well cooked beef

               * 2 chicken wings

               * Crescent and butter

               * various deserts and

               * water and best of all:

               * glass of White Zin 

_____ _Dinner: a couple of chunks of homemade beer bread


Pre-Bed Snack: small piece of chocolate

Day That Will Live In Infamy

Wednesday, 7 December 2016

Breakfast: left over rice pilaf and coffee

Lunch: At DCCC, for salad, sausage, french fries, chocolate ice creamme and “Diet Pepsi”
 
Dinner: We went to the Boot Hill Casino and I had

• Salad
• Cup of chicken soup
• Most of a 12oz prime rib
• Most of a double baked potatoe
• Fresh baked bread and garlic butter
• Chocolate brownie
• Two 16 oz glasses of Stella

It was all good!

8 July 2014

Breakfast: big bowl of spoon sized shredded wheat and coffee

Lunch: Jimmy Dean® Breakfast Bowl Sausage & Gravy (Potatoes, Eggs, Country Gravy, Sausage & Cheddar Cheese), a couple of chunks of dark chocolate and a can of Pepsi One.

Snack:  piece of dark chocolate

Dinner:  We went to the Boothill Casino Restaurant and I had:

• salad with a bowl of beef soup
• most of a 12 oz steak
• garlic mashed potatoes
• part of a white brownie, ice creamme and whipped creamme desert
• iced water

U1V0 (V0 or vomiting zero times is what I like to report!)  AM 95  PM 110

5 October 2013 or Day Five of Congress Not Doing Their Fucking Jobs!

_____Breakfast:  I cooked:

• two stripes of bacon
• two eggs boiled in bacon fat
• two slices of sour dough toast
• coffee

________Lunch: large hamburger and bottle of Diet Pepsi
                            a big slice of home made bread made with homemade cheese whey
                            a homemade soup of potatoe, whey, milk and flour

Crusty Bread (simplysogood) found on Facebook

3 cups unbleached all purpose flour
1 3/4 teaspoons salt
1/2 teaspoon Instant or Rapid-rise yeast
1 1/2 cups water

In a large mixing bowl, whisk together flour, salt and yeast. Add water and mix until a shaggy mixture forms. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and set aside for 12 - 18 hours. Overnight works great. Heat oven to 450 degrees. When the oven has reached 450 degrees place a cast iron pot with a lid in the oven and heat the pot for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, pour dough onto a heavily floured surface and shape into a ball. Cover with plastic wrap and let set while the pot is heating. Remove hot pot from the oven and drop in the dough. Cover and return to oven for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes remove the lid and bake an additional 15 minutes. Remove bread from oven and place on a cooling rack to cool.

_______Dinner: Being the day before our Anniversary, we went to the Boot Hill Casino Restaurant for dinner and had:

• salad (they brought the salad plates to the table)
• soup (they brought the soup bowl to the table but it took a while)
• excellent prime rib
• good baked potatoe
• 2 bottles of Corina beer

The food was good and the service was simply poor. We had to wait several minutes before a waitress wondered over (actually, Kathie flagged her down) and the service during the meal was spotty at best). Sure, our waitress eventually came by to see if we wanted another round of drinks but it took too long.)

This is a Saturday that I have the morning off. Before the bullshit shutdown, we would have decided to go to Inn Pancake House or IHOP for  breakfast. Instead, we are husbanding our money and Kathie had a couple of English Muffins and I cooked my breakfast.

This is day 5 of Congress fucking off not working to solve the Nation's Problems!

Congress! Start doing your damned jobs!

I stand corrected. According to the TV, they are working but are they getting any work done? A rodent running on a wheel is in motion but it isn't going anywhere...

10 June 2013

_____Breakfast:  several stripes of bacon, two eggs boiled in said bacon, two slices of sour dough toast and coffee

________Lunch: a Healthy Choice meatloaf dinner and water
 
_______Dinner:   at the Casino, salad, excellent prime rib, baked potatoe with butter, sour creamme and cottage cheese and 2 bottles of Bud...
 
Pre-Bed Snack: a cookie from the casino and a couple of chunks of dark chocolate

24 November 2012 (updated)

Subject: 24 November 2012

Breakfast: spoon sized shredded wheat and coffee

Snack: a couple of little Oreos and (more) coffee...

Lunch: the leftover roast beef and potatoes and a can of Pepsi Zero (definitely an acquired taste!)

Dinner:  Well, it won't be fancy like  and won't have  or even .  Oh, well

Snack: We went to a truly outstanding movie, "Skyfall" and split popcorn and "Diet Pepsi". The critics say that "Skyfall" is the best "Bond Movie ever" and I agree!  It simply was outstanding!

We went to the Boot Hill Casino Restaurant and I had:

• a salad
• a small cup of veggie soup
• a "classic" roast beef, potatoes, carrots and onions dinner with basically raw cauliflower and broccoli. I drank iced water.
• We split a slice of chocolate for desert. Our waitress put two scoops of vanilla ice creamme on the plate and that went down well.  

 The food was good and the service well above average.

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

22 July 2012

Breakfast: microwaved grits (which turned out pretty bad) and butter plus coffee

       Snack: some spoon sized shredded wheat

       Lunch:  We went to the Boot Hill Casino Restaurant and I  had:

• several teaspoons of chili
• cooked spaghetti and sauce
• sauteed ham,
• sauteed garlic,
• sauteed noodles
• and white sauce

• two rolls with butter
• an overcooked and low on meat chicken back
• a potatoe casserole
• vanilla ice creamme with chocolate syrup

I was rather pissed off because the chef went straight to the white sauce without telling me he had red sauce in a lidded pan. I had ham because they did not offer hamburger or even Italian sausage.The food turned out well but I would have been happier with red sauce and browned hamburger.

I went to the "Player Desk" to bitch about this. They told me to go talk to the restaurant. This is bullshit! You would think a "Player Desk" would talk with the restaurant on behalf of the customer. Apparently, they don't agree...

I don't like the way the Casino runs the restaurant. We had to pay for the buffet in advance; this was too much like a quick food place! Kathie had to pay for her glass of white wine and I had to pay for my "Diet Pepsi" in advance!  I could have gotten a "Diet Pepsi" for free on the casino floor but I don't think I could have taken it into the restaurant.

The Casino Restaurant no longer has breakfast buffet so my breakfast club members card is useless. They no longer have lunch off the menu, you must take a buffet lunch or go to the snack bar. As a side note, they replaced a craps table, at the entrance to the casino, with a hot dog stand.

This ain't no shit!  They really did put in a hog dog stand; it totally lacks class.

       Dinner:  a can of Healthy Choice chicken and rice soup (definitely emergency rations) and a peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich and a glass of cold water.

A couple of hours after going to bed, I "came down with: vomiting. I don't what I ate but Kathie thinks it was some sliced turkey as she wasn't feeling very well herself. This had the main result of screwing up my sleep and causing me to make a couple of errors at work. This reminds me of what Vir Cotto said:

"...it tastes so great going down. Coming up again, it's not so terrific, but-""

12 December 2011

Breakfast: left over spaghetti and coffee


Lunch:   Healthy Choice fish, rice, broccoli florets and apple desert and  water


Dinner:  We went to the Boot Hill Casino Restaurant and I had:

• salad
• a small bowl of potatoe soup
• an 8oz prime rib (medium)
• baked potatoe
• a roll and butter
• and split a small piece of chocolate cake with Kathie

There were some problems:

1. They ran out of the good rolls and when Kathie asked about the rolls that were supposed to come with the meal, they brought out a couple of Dillions rolls and the explanation of how they ran out; they could have brought out the good rolls when the next batch was ready but they did not.
2. We had to ask for desert as they brought the bill without bothering to ask if we wanted desert. Sadly, the service was indifferent. The best service in town is at Mirah Hills, a somewhat expensive steak place with great food and the second best is at a breakfast buffet place; they do a great job of filling coffee and water. Our waitress did not come around to refill my water glass or ask if Kathie wanted another red wine.

In the old days, they would come around and ask if we wanted desert. We went to a very, very nice place in New Jersey once and enjoyed watching the waitress come by with a large cart of sample deserts for us to chose from.  This is something that should be done locally. Our waitress did not come around to refill my water glass or ask if Kathie wanted another red wine.

Thanksgiving Day

_____Breakfast: bowl of cheerios and coffee

I was feeling very hungry and physically weak just before noon. This could only mean the paradox of hypoglycemia. This is a paradox because I am on pills that can lead to this. It also means that I am slightly safer from the  threats of high blood sugar and might even live longer than my Father did (68)

                Snack: a couple of chunks of dark chocolate and a large tablespoon of peanut butter
________Lunch: at the Boot Hill Casino restaurant:

• salad
• small cup of "Texas Chilli
• slice of ham
• slices of roast beef
• slices of turkey loaf
• mashed potatoes
• turkey gravy
• excellent corn casserole
• small slice of chocolate cake
• small slice of pumpkin pie
• "Diet Pepsi"

We went to the Boot Hill Casino for Thanksgiving Dinner. We normally simply walk in and go straight to the restaurant desk. But today, we had to wait perhaps 20 minutes for so; it at least gave me time for a toilette break, which I needed after the coffee I had drank earlier!

When we were seated, we were fortunate enough to be at the back of the seating area, with a very clear view of the buffet area. This meant that we could see how many people were waiting in line. There were a lot of them! 

I got my salad first because salad comes before the main course and because there wasn't much of a line. I also grabbed a small slice of chocolate cake. (I was thinking of that hypoglycemia and the  fear they might have run out of chocolate cake; as it turned out, they had not!) Our waiter came over to ask us what we wanted to drink; he  "hunted" us down in the  salad line to ask this. Now, that is great service! 

After getting down with my salad, I got another salad plate and got a couple of slices of well cooked roast beef and one slice of ham; the waiting lines were still long and  I really wanted some meat!

When the line had finally disappeared, Kathie told me "go get lunch before the line is back". I was starting to feel full but took her advise. This was wise as the line immediately built behind me. They screwed up the layout of food or we were going ass backwards. I got my mashed potatoes and corn casserole before the ham and turkey. I had to break into the line to get turkey gravy but I apologized but got my gravy. The meal was fine and I took a slice of pumpkin pie as well. 

They gave out free "Diet Pepsi" but didn't offer to sell Kathie a glass of Marlow. She was a little pissed...

_______Dinner: A very simple meal of a bowl of Healthy Choice chicken noodle soup and a peanut butter and grape jelly on sour dough bread.

17 July 2010

Breakfast: at the Boot Hill Casino, buffet with:

1. SOS on hash brown potatoes
2. coffee
3. disketts of sausage
4. ice water
5. some well done bacon
6. more coffee
7. bisquit with strawberry jelly (they didn't have grape)
8. and yet some more coffee...

The food was quite good and the service quite adequate.

While gambling playing the penny slots, a glass of "Diet Pepsi"...

Lunch: hot dogs and iced water

28 December 2009

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: this was so unmemorable that I didn't remember the next evening...

Dinner: At the resteraunt at the Boot Hill Casino:

1. a veggie soup
2. salad
3. 14 oz Ribeye steak (a bit tough and overcooked)
4. a baked potatoe that felt cold enough that we thought it had been taken straight out of the refrigerator
5. mashed potatoes and brown gravy
6. two rolls
   
7. iced water
8. and a great choclate cake!

Pre-Bed Snack:gin and tonic

First of all, we had a great waiter at the Boot Hill Restuarant! He was a young fellow who did a fine job and earned his tip!

We ordered the 14oz Ribeye steak with baked potatoes and water. It took a long time for the meal to come. In fact, our waiter dropped by the table, appologized for the wait and went back to the kitchen to check on our meal.

A couple of minutes later, a runner brought the food out, our waiter gave us the plates and we were ready to go.

Kathie took a small bite out of her potatoe and said "this potatoe is cold".

I touched my potatoe and sure enough, it felt as cold as if it had just came out of the refrigerator. I was pissed off!

We called the waiter over, told him both potatoes were cold (I repeated what I'd said about it feeling like it just came from the refrigerator) and he took the plates back to the kitchen.

Our waiter came back and said "it will take 20 minutes to cook more potatoes.

I said "put them in the microwave oven".

He said they could not and asked if we wanted mashed potatoes and brown gravy. We agreed to this.

No manager came around to appologize for the cold baked potatoes and in fact, we didn't see a manager at all!

I suppose the focus at Boot Hill Casino has been on the gambling and not the food. Well, I'm not much on gambling but do like a nice meal.

Last night was the third time we've eatten at the Boot Hill Casino and the first two time were excellent! We have heard people bitching about bad food at the BH Casino and we thought they had to be wrong.

It now appears the quality has moved downhill since the BHC restaurant opened and that has only been 11 days!

The last time we went to the Dodge City Applebys, we had very poor service and haven't gone back since (this visit was around 10 December 2009).