SoCS November 10, 2018
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “mean(s).” Use it with or without the “s,” any way you’d like. – Linda G. Hill
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My husband and I eat simple meals with fruit and vegetables plus eggs for brunch; and for dinner, have salmon instead of eggs. That means we eat basically the same thing every day.
Friday evening is our regular night out at a local steak house Cedar Creek. He orders the same thing every time – prime rib steak, 18 oz cooked medium well, French fries, green vegetables, house salad and horseradish for the steak. He makes it clear to the server that the horseradish must be fresh to a point it clears his sinuses. The same server waits on us for more than a year, so he knows exactly what my hubby wants. Sometimes the server is rotated to the patio section and we prefer to stay inside.
I may eat 2 oz of meat now and then. When eating at home, a large plate of plain broccoli stir-fried with olive oil, a bit of salt and pepper serves me well. It’s hard for me to find a large portion of vegetables in American restaurants. At this restaurant, I order the Brown Derby Cobb Salad with romaine lettuce, small cubes of turkey, tomatoes, bacon, blue cheese crumble, broiled eggs and avocado.
The avocados must not be in the best reason. When I ordered the same salad last week, I got brown avocado slides. After asking for fresh ones a couple time, the server brought a new avocado cut in halves in front of me and it was brown.
Last night I tried a different salad – the curried chicken salad on a half papaya served with fruit. There was onions in the salad and my stomach doesn’t like the onions. The server said the salad is premixed, so I tried anyway. Half way through eating, my stomach told me it was not good.
I’ll go back to order the Brown Derby Cobb salad hoping the avocado is green instead of brown.
The Showers of Blessings 
I am not a fan of salads at restaurants. I prefer to make and eat my own salads. When we go out I particularly like a fiery prawn pasta. Delicious.
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I can make salad at home. It costs five times more at the restaurant for the service (and overhead). I could order fish or prawn next time.
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You’re making me hungry Miriam!! We’ve been to Cedar Creek a couple of time lately for Happy Hour on the patio. Nice way to spend a warm evening! Hope the avocados improve- the ones at the grocery store haven’t been that great either. hugs friend!
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I wonder if the season is over for avocado. We eat avocado every day. It seems to help me with the dry skin from chemo. When will you be back?
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Hi MIriam– coming home on Saturday. Ani & Brian & kids are coming down with me. And then we all go to Ojai for Thanksgiving with the whole family. Can’t wait! Happy Thanksgiving to you all MIriam! xo
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I’m so happy to hear that your whole family will be together this Thanksgiving. Lynton’s whole family will be there also. We see some people once a year!! ❤
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Love this salad Miriam, looks yummy. Was it the one with the onion?
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No, this one doesn’t have onions. This is the one I order all the time. I shouldn’t change something I like. ❤
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Great post Miriam, it made me hungry 💜💜
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Thank you, Willow. I’ll order the Cobb salad next week. ❤ ❤
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Best to have what you know 😀
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You’re exactly right, Willow. 🙂
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I find it amazing that a restaurant would buy premixed salads to serve. I am a fresh food freak but will tolerate some types of beer battered chips lol
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Yes, Brain, I couldn’t finish the salad, brought the leftover home and I asked my husband to eat it. If he didn’t, it wouldn’t go to my stomach either.
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The salad looks yummy! Thanks for sharing, Miriam. 😀
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You’re welcome, Linda!! 🙂
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The salad looks delicious! I’ve been off red meat for so long that those steaks don’t even appeal anymore…
Have a great weekend!
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I’m not officially off read meat but I hardly eat meat of any kind. I don’t eat too much and I need a lot of fiber to be regular so I pay more attention to fiber. Have a wonderful weekend! 🙂
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The salad looks yummy. 18 oz steak, wow, I can eat 4 oz my limit max…😊. Lovely write Miriam.
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Thank you, Hélène. He is 6′ 4″ still working out so he could burn that much fuel. Thank you for reading. 🙂 🙂 Have a wonderful weekend. It’s a long weekend here, some people have Monday off. 🙂
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Same here, Monday is a holiday. 🙂
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Oh, it makes sense. We’re neighbors. 🙂 When I was working, the neighboring school district worked on the school calendar because some kids go to elementary schools in one district and other kids from the same family go to another district for high school. 🙂
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Government is off, yet other businesses will open at 12:30 P.M.
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Yes, businesses don’t get paid for holidays, so I understand. 🙂
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You are like me..never tire of same foods. Easier for me as no need to think…automatic! Like you, I appreciate same staff server as they know what we want, how we want and that extra attention!😉
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Yes, exactly, Garfield. When I ordered something different, he asked, “Are you sure?” several times. There are only a few things I want to eat so I don’t mind eating the same thing. I’m glad you feel the same way. 🙂 🙂
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I know…and it is good they keep re-asking till I realise..yup I don’t want it. 🤣
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I know, it happened to me. 🙂
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