Don't tell me people are picking up this paper to see what I am eating this week. I talked to Bob who picks up his Gazette at Mayberry's restaurant and he said several people were talking about the day old, cold, Chinese food column.

 

I did get several e-mails people telling me how to microwave Chinese. They said get a spray bottle give it a nice mist and heat on high for three minutes. Haven't tried it yet but sounds like a good suggestion.

 

When is the last time you make Cream of Wheat? Me too. I read if you eat oatmeal everyday it will lower your cholesterol. So I thought I would make some oatmeal. Of course I go to the shelf and all we have is Cream of Wheat. So you put three little spoonfuls in a half a cup of milk, nuke it for one minute and stir.

 

I stirred it and it still looked like milk. How is this going to thicken up? I stirred and stirred, put it in for another minute and darn if it didn't thicken right up. Though didn't taste near as good as my kids Cookie Crisp cereal. Which is really mini chocolate chip cookies in a bowl of milk.

 

What we eat, what we should eat, and what we want to eat, that is the question. Don Shula was a famous football coach for the Miami Dolphins who liked to eat steak. Now days Mr. Shula is famous for his nation wide chain of steak house restaurants. We have a Shula's on Big Beaver, east of I-75 in the Troy Marriott Hotel. They are famous for the 48 ounce Certified Angus Beef porterhouse ($69.95), that stands close to 4 inches thick.

 

Diners who finish it become members of the 48-Oz Club, 2500 people have finished that piece of meat at the Troy location alone. Menus are hand painted on regulation footballs, each personally autographed by the coach. Servers bring them to the table on real kicking tees. The word is lunch menu is a good deal and the 22-ounce cowboy steak, a bone-in rib eye, is by far the best-tasting steak in the house.

 

My band has been very busy Tuesdays we play the Wayne Road Pub in Westland. Wednesdays Silky's in Kiernan's Steak House, West Dearborn. Thursdays John Cowleys in Farmington. Fridays Tita Si Filipino and American restaurant in Garden City, in the K mart shopping center. Saturday the Gallic Irish American League, in Detroit just west it the old Tiger Stadium. You can always call the Benny and the Jets Band hot line for directions and more information 313 730 1627.

 

Last week we played at the Jeff and the Atlantic's reunion, held at the old Wayne Ford Civic Center in Westland. What a great time was had by all. Probably 500 people danced and reminisced the night away. Highlights included many of the original Atlantics performing on stage with people like Cathy Garcia, Ronda Koch, Dennis Charles, Candy Foster, Rocky Barra and Gino Washington. Gino had the hit record "Gino is a Coward" back in the 60s. Jeff and his band played the back up on that recording. Former Atlantic drummers Dave Berryhill now plays in the Over Easy band. Harry Rodman in the Bluescasters. Bass Player Mike Fisher has a son in a band called Crop Circle. They have a great new CD see it via www.croprock.com.