Zanata - Rockwall

The wifey and me are all churchified. You would know that if you have read the blog much. We go to The First Fried Chicken Eating Mostly Non-Denomination Somewhat Baptist Church. We call it CLife for short. We are part of a group of adults who gather once a week to try to cleanup the act of us rednecks and get us more like Christ. Which you know God parted the red sea and Jesus turned water into wine, but cleaning up a redneck takes more than a few minutes. Not everyone in the group is redneck, so I have some work to do also. The wife of the leader of our group determined that us guys were taking our favorite gal to a group Valentines dinner. That is a sure fire way for the wifeys to get a good meal, when you put peer pressure on the other wives. Us guys, we are just casualties. The head wife decided that we would go to Zanata's for dinner the night after Valentines. So we did the tarantella to Zanata's in Rockwall.

Zanata's is a high cotton Italian restaurant. I found that I needed a semi-smart phone so that I could Google the names of the different items in each entre. Most of this is stuff I have never heard of. This is not home of redneck cooking. Our kind of good food is like the Chuck wagon cook in the movie City Slickers said, "the food is brown, hot and plenty of it". The place is decorated nicely. There are some wall decorations that have been hung by a redneck, so I was very proud.

The wifey ordered a Supremo Pizza for us to share. This is sausage, pepperoni,  olives, onions and barking cat farms bell pepper. I don't really know what barking cat farms is , but the name is just fine in redneckville, it's a plus. I am not sure what happened to our pizza, but the crust was the soggiest I have ever had. The toppings were mighty good. I checked out the pizza of the other folk around me and their pizza was not soggy. So I guess the cat does more than bark. Overall, this was pretty good pizza.

Then the wives decided we were getting dessert. Of course I went along. The wifey ordered Pistachio gelato. She thought she was getting pistachio cheesecake. I didn't look at the menu, but gelato should have been an effective clue. Gelato for all of my redneck brethren is fancied up ice cream. Mitcho has a long history eating ice cream, so this was a good. The gelato had a great flavor.

Overall, this was a fun evening of corrupting friends and eating some good food.

Note: The federales are stirring up trouble, so I am going to have to hunker down and hide out for the next 6 to 8 weeks. So it may be a while till I write my next blog. Happy eating.

Givem a 8.0098146

Mitcho
©2017

Romans 3:23 – For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God

Romans 6:23 – For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

John 3:16 – For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him may have eternal life.

Jesus Christ is my Lord and Saviour

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Alligator Cafe - Casa Linda Valentines

Nothing is too good for my sweetie. So you know, on Valentines it is nothing but the best. The wifey picked the Alligator Café for Dinner. She is a good redneck wife. So we did the alligator dance to Casa Linda. The Alligator Café bills itself as a Cajun restaurant. The restaurant is decorated as part of Nawlin's. So interesting at least.  When you think Cajun you think spicey and there are no limits. So we are in for a treat, at least we think we are.

Being a high quality redneck, I spent my childhood days fishing in the creek and down by the dam. We caught plenty of mud cat, but we never had shrimp, alligator, or any of the other exotic seafood items. So today, I am pretty much catfish. Cause, you know, I know catfish.

Of course I ordered the catfish dinner. Two large planks of catfish, fries and hush puppies (I call em shut up doggies). We were expecting the catfish to be spicey, this is supposed to be Cajun. No, not gonna do it. This is just plain catfish. It was breaded decently, the fish tasted a little fishy, but not as bad as those mudcats of my youth. NOT A DROP OF SPICE. Come on, what is it with these Cajun restaurants in the Metromess. Go to the spice store and load up before you call yourself Cajun. The fries were pretty normal. They had a very small amount of spice sprinkled on them, but you couldn't taste it. There was one fry that got about 90% of the spice and that one fry was pretty good. The hushpuppies were pretty good.

So bottom line, this is just a basic restaurant with a great name. Givem a 6.851.

Mitcho
©2017

Romans 3:23 – For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God

Romans 6:23 – For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

John 3:16 – For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him may have eternal life.

Jesus Christ is my Lord and Saviour

Babb Bros BBQ & Blues - Cake Bar Trinity Groves

Over the last 6 weeks I have worked my fingers to the bone. I mean I feel like a rented mule. However, I got some slack tonight so I decided it was time to kick my heels up and let my long hair down.. Our kids have been talking about Trinity Groves for the last year or so. We had never ventured there, so I asked the wifey to google it and see if there was something we would want to do. Her report back was BBQ & Blues. Say no more we got our boogey on. So we did the skanking on to Trinity Groves. Now parking is a problem, so if you figure it out, give me a shout.

By the time we got there Mike Babb & Friends were already playing. These guys were tight. Memphis & Nawlins don't have anything on these guys. They were two thumbs up good (I only have two thumbs). Chuck, BB and Stevie Ray would be proud of hearing these guys. They could really bang out the blues. They also encourage rug cutting. So if you got a special gal like I do, you could show her your moves. I don't have any, so I am a spectator. These guys really put on a good show. They interacted with the audience and just wanted to have fun. There is a watering hole here, but it really isn't prominent and you don't see much liquid refreshments.

This ain't no sissy French food (pardon my French to all of my readers in France and I have a decent number of readers in France). This is Texas man food. After a full day of punching cattle you don't want a soufflé, you want massive quantities of beef and sides.

So we did our normal BBQ thang. We get a two meat plate with brisket and sausage. Tonight we added bbq beans and onion straws. The brisket was lean, very tender and had a nice smoked flavor. This is top notch q here. The sausage had a nice spicey flavor also. On a roll. The bbq beans were the only weakness for the whole night. These were basically pork & beans. I need more spicey flavor than that. Then onion straws were just like I like em. This is some good luvin here.

So after we had eaten and listened to music for awhile, the wifey went over to the Cake Bar across the way and bought us each a piece of cake and brought them back to Babb's. No reason to give up listening to good music. I doubt that they really like other food brought in, but nobody said anything (of course I tipped the band enough for them to overlook my short comings). My piece of cake was Red Velvet cake. This thang was the size of a 10 gallion hat. Now in France that is amazingly big. In Texas it is just pretty good size. Great flavor and the icy was real yummy. Good idea wifey.

This was a good evening. Gonna go back. So if you like BBQ and the blues, then grab up your friends and head down to Trinity Groves. If you don't like BBQ and the blues, then go back to Illinois.

Given Babb Bros a 9.675810!
Given Cake Bar 9.255

Mitcho
©2017

Romans 3:23 – For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God

Romans 6:23 – For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

John 3:16 – For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him may have eternal life.

Jesus Christ is my Lord and Saviour