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Boca Club News, Page 19

The Good Life: Dining, Drinks, Destinations

Dining Out: Hungry Al’s Food Curiosities

By Alan Serinsky of Bocaire Just Thinking…. tables. “Are you ready to order” should really be reserved
Country Club. Hungry Al’s love WHY....are waiters now starting to give us a choice for the diner counter!
for food started very young. between the sizes of wine pours. Six ounces seems like a WHY...does a waiter need to take your glass or cup from
Never satisfied with his Mom’s shot glass to me. the table for a simple refill of iced tea or another glass of
dishes, he started to cook his WHY...do we have to watch a bartender measuring the wine? Is a new glass that hard to obtain?
way through her “Betty Crocker flow of wine into glasses like a chemist calibrating to a WHY....do waiters have to speak so fast when reciting
Cookbook.” During the years precise centimeter of an etched line? the daily menu specials to your table?
to follow he spent many hours WHY…do waiters think it’s normal to short you the WHY....do some waiters or bartenders have the
working in restaurants, both as server and cook, attending change left on your cash payment? It’s “non cents” for tendency to be half-listening to your conversation? To me
cooking classes and traveling the world in an effort to them to decide! it’s like being invited to a party without any invitation.
expand his palette. As a professional writer, Hungry Al WHY...are we now being offered an array of olive Please stop!
offers his perspective on current food trends and guides oils infused with every extract known to mankind? What WHY....do people sitting at a crowded bar always leave
you through your local restaurant options. happened to the good old standard cold-pressed virgin one seat empty to the right or left of them? Are they really
Food For Thought: Since Hungry Al is traveling Italian variety? that claustrophobic?
again I thought it would be a great time to leave you with WHY....do restauranteurs think we enjoy surgically WHY…do restaurants believe it’s fair to have a “skinny
this little list of food frustrations and dining observations knifing a pat-of-butter out of a tiny, wrapped piece of foil? menu” so they can charge you the same fare for less food?
that have been building up for a while. Maybe you have WHY...is it so hard for waiters to greet our table with a
experienced or questioned some of them yourself. nice “hello” or “welcome” greeting as they approach our Dining Out on page 20
Second Helpings: A Favorite Recipe from the

Past Pages of Boca Club News… Sweet ‘n Salty Trash

Yes, yes, of course...you have made all 2 cups Crushed Pretzels
your New Year’s resolutions about eating more 2 cups Mini Marshmallows
healthfully and all that, and that’s certainly a wise 2 cups Crushed Potato Chips
decision. But here is your opportunity to have
one last splurge! A really special taste treat for Directions:
yourself, your loved ones and friends...a sweet 1. Melt Chocolate over a double boiler or in microwave
start for 2024. at 50% power.
Yield: ½ Sheet Tray 2. Pour over all the mixed filling ingredients, and mix well
until everything is coated evenly.
Ingredients: 3. Spread mixture onto a lined sheet tray and allow to cool.
2 lbs. 3 ozs. Dark Chocolate (Coating) 4. Cut in desired sized pieces once set.
2 cups Mini M&Ms
2 cups Salted Peanuts
2 cups Crushed Oreos