Yesterday, I featured The Belmont Stakes, and specifically a special drink I named the Breezy White Belmont Jewel. To repeat, the ingredients.
And if you read that posting, these bottles (and the one with water representing ice from the freezer) are used at this Saratoga Springs racetrack in New York for their three featured cocktails. I did something different. I used all of them to create one grand drink.
You can't really see the whole meal, but the featured dishes are chicken katsu and o-toro sashimi. I yesterday indicated that the piece of fatty blue-fin tuna sold for $99/pound. The Breezy White Belmont Jewel was fabulous, and perfected my special luncheon.
My day began with breakfast at my computer to write this blog. That first breakfast photo is what I had today. The subsequent ones were for other days this week
That's all I have for breakfast, fruits and either yogurt or milk.
I'll today only focus on life at 15 Craigside, (that greenish window building to the extreme left) a seniors' community where I've lived for 12 years. Counting my 32 years next door at the 2101 Craigside condo (the tall one next to my present home), now 44 years on this corner of Nuuanu Avenue and Judd Street.
About food at 15 Craigside, there is a standard breakfast with a set menu for each day of the week, with a lot of options. The lunch and dinner meals are different daily, and repeat every five weeks. So there is a lot of variety. Yesterday, for example, we had:
- Lunch: Chicken Katsu
L.S. Grilled Chicken Sandwich w/ Lettuce, Tomato, and Onion
Vegetarian: Florentine Quesadilla
Soup of the Day: Split Pea
- Dinner: Roast Beef w/ Brown Gravy and Mashed Potatoes
L.S. Beef Stir Fry
Vegetarian: Eggplant Parmesan
Soup of the Day: Split Pea
Dessert: Banana Bread Pudding
- There is a full salad bar of perhaps twenty dishes.
- Don't want the above? You can order from the kitchen ox-tail soup with rice or ramen.
- Should you wish, there are always 3 kinds of ice cream.
- I would say that 75-90% of residents eat in the dining room 90% of time.
- I like to enhance my dishes, so I only go down for one meal a week for our Thursday night table. We also have a Tuesday night group that will return after all our upcoming trips. Otherwise, I pick-up food for $1.50/meal, which I do around 8 times/week. I shop for food at least once/week, which is a huge waste of money, but irrelevant at this stage of my life.
- I've lost track, but I think the non-refundable move-in price is around a half million dollars.
- Then, you will end up paying around $6000/month to cover living costs, for which you get:
- Lifetime care, even if you run out of money. But you won't because they won't let you in unless you are financially secure.
- A safe facility with guards, a lot of cameras and controlled (by apartment resident) air conditioning.
- Your apartment cleaned weekly, including bed-making with refreshed linen, plus new towels.
- Clinic.
- Wellness center.
- Theater.
- Solarium for entertainment.
- Around a dozen activities per day, especially exercise classes to keep you fit.
- A lot rainbows.
- A big negative for us is that you continue to pay the monthly fee even if you are away. Thus, on a two-month trip, our total cost not be here is around $24,000, or $12,000/person. Well, not totally accurate, for they reimburse around $200/month for being away. Kind of piddling, when a guest for meals here is charged around $30/meal.
Some activities at 15 Craigside.
Mel Aoki from our sister property, Arcadia, regularly comes by to host a karaoke night.
Back to food at 15 Craigside, there are a lot of complaints and dissatisfaction, but I still think that, because I like "local" food best, 15 Craigside is ideal for me. I only recently came to this conclusion after a lifetime of cruising and dining at the best restaurants in the world. A few of our meals during this cycle of five weeks.
Lau lau, chicken long rice and poke with hot sake watching sumo.
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