Yesterday was Son #1's birthday. 16. Wow. Could I possibly have a 16-year-old?
Anyway, like MM said, I've been a slacker. It's tough to keep up -- So much to eat, so little time to blog. There's so much I haven't blogged about - like the beef recall/slaughterhouse problems, my continuted and expanded hate of chemicals in food, my new calling of helping revamp some school lunch programs, my trip to Marakai, my disgust of canned cream of chicken soup, the discovery of veggies at Sprouts having no taste, my sprained ankle right before Easter preparations, Alton Brown's homemade cottage cheese, should I go on?
So regarding son's birthday and my renewed disgust of any meat that's not organic and Kosher, we let him choose the restaurant for his birthday dinner. Claim Jumper. He's a carnivore. Of course, he's 16 and he plays volleyball for 3 hours every day. Ever since Claim Jumper (CJ) was built many years ago, not 3/4 of a mile from our house (we drive by it several times a day) we have been able to observe the clientele quite regularly. Now, if you don't know CJ, it is primarily a steak place with HUGE servings. I mean huge, huge like one entree could feed my whole family huge. The baked potato is the size of a watermelon. The chocolate eclair is dessert for 6. So too is the clientele. HUGE. It's weird to me. How do these large people find places like this? Do they know? We haven't eaten there since the week they opened. Back then our kids were under 5 and they could eat what they wanted and were only charged something like 5cents for every pound they weighed. Great deal when your kid weighs 45lbs! So flash forward to last night. We ate some good food. Son's burger was a delicious heart attack. My seemingly harmless rotisserie chicken, grilled asparagus and baked sweet potato I'm sure was much more fat and calories than I could have dreamed. There was 2, yes 2, huge scoops of butter on the baked sweet potato. And then about a 1/4 cup of brown sugar. I removed them both. Son was happy with the dinner, that's what matters, it was his night. I did like the food, but next time I know to ask for certain things left off. If there is a next time. Is the clientele huge before they become regulars, or not till after?
1 comment:
good job with the blog update. I knew you could do it.
Seriously reading my friends blogs is the best way to keep up with their daily life.
Its been 13 years since I left CA and I still miss all my friends. Sure we have friends here, but its not the same. So Thank you Thank you for writing.
Your good at keeping in touch. We should start an LMU blog. We could just cut and paste our regular updates onto one sight and see what's happening with everyone. What do you think? If you got emails I could set it up.
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