Several months ago we thought that we’d celebrate our anniversary with a trip to Taos, a place that we love. Dale took off vacation days so that we could be gone 10 days and we thought that we’d even make a quick stop in Okla. in order for me to do a little more oral history with a great uncle.
About 2 weeks ago we looked over the budget and decided that this year was, once again, not the year to make a trip to Taos... We decided to just go to Harris Ranch overnight, a restaurant associated with a feedlot. The meat is very high quality. We thought that we’d take the RV so that we could drink some of our good red wine and some champagne with our meal.
On Thurs I’d been out to a couple of places and later I couldn’t find my phone. After a major search I called Verizon and we determined that someone else had my phone. Then on Friday we found the lock on the truck had been punched in and later that evening we heard on the news that vehicles had been broken into at Toy’s R Us, where I’d been. I had to order a new phone.
On Saturday our electricity went out in the two bathrooms and our bedroom so we called an electrician. We called the guy only to find out that he couldn’t come out until Tuesday, our anniversary.
On Tuesday, after the electrician left we thought that we’d try to salvage our anniversary. I suggested that we go out for dessert then pick up some take out for dinner and come home to eat so we could still drink some great wine. We could dress up a little and still feel as if we’d done something.
After much thought we decided to go to a Mediterranean restaurant, Café Med. This is a place that is not the fanciest but is quite a bit more upscale than most here in Bakersfield.
We dressed up in better than normal clothes, I wearing a new short dress from my nieces shop with tights and boots; feeling very good with my thinner figure. We got to the restaurant and were seated; tables had white cloth tablecloths and white napkins. We were feeling very glamorous!
We told the waiter that we really only wanted dessert so he brought the desert menu to us. We ordered a chocolate decadent cake and an order of the crème Brule with the thought that we’d then share. I ordered Turkish coffee which was served with a real Turkish coffee pot which looked to be very old and felt so authentic. Dale had a latte with his desert.
As we were finishing our dessert the set up person brought pita bread and Turkish salad, this is the equivalent to bread and butter in most places. Now Turkish salad is a tomato based dip spiced with jalapeño peppers. We first told the guy to take it away but then decided that we’d eat it after we finished our dessert. After savoring the wonderful desserts we ate the bread and salad and it was great.
What we learned is this: we will eat the dessert first then eat the meal. We will take most of the meal home anyway and usually are way to full for much desert. So if we eat our dessert first then we can savor it to the fullest and enjoy the entire portion rather than just stuffing it in. After all life is short so what better than to Eat Dessert.
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