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Food

Starbucks On A Saturday Morning

It’s a new tradition on a Saturday morning. I pulled in to the narrow and sloped parking lot of Starbucks in Florida City Florida, and I approached the front door of the joint. All of the windows were soaking wet with thick condensation, and there’s a valid reason for that. It’s frigid inside – in the low-to-mid-60s !  It hits you as soon as you enter the unmistakable atmosphere of ‘Yuppieness’. It’s like a cold front at the door – so refreshing on the other side.

TODAY I ordered something new. I went with the Caramel Macchiato. I actually had this all planned out last night. That Starbucks menu board is just so menacing to me. I’m still an amateur customer. If famed Chicago Bears Tight End & Head Coach Mike Ditka were around then I’d just let him choose my coffee of the day (blatant “Kicking & Screaming” reference), but since that option is not on the table I have to go online the night before and pick and choose my beverage.

Caramel Macchiato

I also ordered the Black Forest Ham, Egg, & Cheddar Sandwich. It was delicious, and it was the perfect complement to my Caramel Macchiato.

Be sure to join me next Saturday morning for another exciting edition of ‘Starbucks On A Saturday Morning’ – right here on ‘The Major’s Life Blog’. It’s all good !

The Major … OUT !

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Food God Philosophy

The Fortune Cookie Message Of The Week Club

Loyal blog fan Ela recently filed an informal complaint with ‘The Fortune Cookie Message Of The Week Club’ Board Of Directors stating that this week’s earlier fortune cookie message was essentially null and void due to the fact that it came from a web site (gasp !) rather than from an actual fortune cookie that was received by me in an actual Chinese restaurant.

Point well taken. Lesson learned.

TODAY was a do-over. I ate Lunch at Homestead’s finest place for gourmet Chinese food – wok-cooked and served fast. I’m referring of course to the Panda Express.

OK club members. Here’s the real deal for this week. It’s an actual fortune cookie message from an actual fortune cookie that I ate at the conclusion of my delicious meal today.

‘Through greater effort and hard work a precious dream comes true.’

Well actually my precious dream is my current Life, and it didn’t require much effort or hard work to get here. All I had to do was to wake up, be born again, and there He was – patiently waiting for me after all of these years. He guided me onto this fantastic journey, told me to face forward, and follow Him. I did. I do. It just keeps getting better !

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Food

Casavana Cuban Cuisine: Revisited

Casavana recently got a nice write-up within the ‘Business Monday’ section of The Miami Herald, and I am proud to mention it here on my blog as a nice way to support the new restaurant, my rapidly growing hometown, and this hot blog.

My initial December 01ST 2007 blog entry on Casavana is the most popular single-entry blog entry in the short history of this blog with new views daily ever since then. The search engines are going crazy sending web traffic to this blog in response to those who are in need of more information about this place.

I’ve heard so many rave reviews about it, and I am so determined to get there myself to experience the fine cuisine and then write my own rave review of it.

Someone wanted directions to Casavana from up north, so here you go. Take Florida’s Turnpike south to Exit 2 (Campbell Drive). Bear right onto Campbell Drive. Pass underneath the Turnpike. Make a right at the first traffic light (onto SW 152ND Avenue / NE 28TH Avenue), and you will see Casavana on your left-hand side at the far-right-hand-end of the Oasis Plaza.

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Food

The Fortune Cookie Message Of The Week Club

TODAY I picked-up Lunch at the new China Yan take-out restaurant in Homestead’s Oasis Plaza – the same one that Casavana Cuban Cuisine is located in. (I adore mentioning Casavana in my blogs as often as possible because it brings in the heavy traffic. There goes another 50 hits !)

I got the Beef & Broccoli with the Won Ton Soup. The meal was made for one with a hearty appetite (that’s me), and it was quite good. Despite the nearly 45 minutes from the time that I picked it up to the time that I arrived back at my desk at work (because of the MASSIVE gridlock that I ranted about in my previous blog entry) the food and the soup was still piping HOT !

The only negative regarding this meal was the lack of a fortune cookie !  (I didn’t notice that until I got back to my desk.)

Since I received no fortune cookie, and bonafide club members worldwide are getting restless I have pulled a fortune cookie message from weirdfortunecookies.com.

‘A smile is your personal welcome mat.’  🙂

How true !