Normas Cafe - Oak Cliff

As you know we go to The First Fried Chicken Eaten Mostly Non-Denominational somewhat Baptist Church. Our church has a policy to not have church services on the last Sunday of each year. So they are turning all of the rednecks loose on all the other surrounding churches. There may be a game plan there. As for the wifey and me, we have been long time friends with Pastor and Sister Smith at Bibleway Baptist Church in East Oak Cliff. We believe and support in the ministry of the Smith's to East Oak Cliff.

Since we were in Oak Cliff, we decided to eat lunch in Oak Cliff. The wifey presented a number of possibilities but Norma's was on the list, so none of the other choices were given any consideration. Besides, if you claim to be from Dallas, you have eaten at Norma's. Till now the wifey has been a Dallas wannabee, but now she is legit. As for me, my dad took me here back when I was a teenager. You know when the paint on the walls were new and the pictures were current events. So if your birth certificate says you were born in Dallas and you haven't eaten at Norma's, you need to go there to complete the process and be a real Dallasite. The other place every Dallasite should eat at at least once is on the east side of Dallas and is the Circle Grill, but that is for a different blog.

Norma's is small building that they have crammed into it the maximum number of booths. There are even booths in the area where the waitresses get coffee, tea, cokes, etc. I mean they have maximized every foot. They have been there since 1956. The parking is even smaller. But God was on our side this trip, as a car pulled out from right in front as we drove up. So recognizing God's grace we took the spot.

This is the queen of home cooking. All the home cooking classics and PIE.

The wifey got the chicken fried steak and gave good marks to the breading which is a must. The meat was a little tougher than it should be, but she thought it was pretty good overall.

I went for the Frito Pie. You have to be from Texas to really appreciate Frito Pie. Frito's, chili, onion, jalapeno's, cheese, etc. How can you go wrong. Man this was some good grub. The chili had a very good flavor, not Wick Fowler good, but Good. It needed more onion, but you know Mitcho really likes the onion. I will be making a return engagement to get me some more Frito Pie.

They also brought us rolls and cornbread. Man the cornbread was grandma good. The rolls were very tasty also.

Now for PIE. I went for the cherry pie. This was about as good a cherry pie as I have ever eaten. The wifey went for chocolate & peanut butter pie. It was gone before I realized she was eating it. I didn't ask but it had to be a Good.

Givem a 8.42385744

Happy New Year

Mitcho
©2018

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

Please attend church with me next Sunday. Where ever you are, go to the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwas2xFpEStMd06-59ggY7g

The Gristmill Restaurant & Gruene Hall, Greene, Tx.

There are a few places inTexas that every self respecting multi generation Texan should see before going to heaven. On my list are Terlingua, Lueckenbach, Cadillac Ranch and Greene Hall. Go to Terlingua during the chili cook off. Call Willie's bail bondsman and find the next time Willie will walk into Lueckenbach. Buy 3 cans of spray paint to take to the Cadillac Ranch. Finally put your dancing shoes on before you go to Greene Hall. I can't do the Texas Two Step. I do the Mitcho seven step. I step on six other people's feet and my own.

Our friends told us we had to go to The Grist Mill Restaurant to eat. So we did. When we put our name on the list they said it would be10 to 15 minute wait. What they really meant was get a hotel room, you are going to be here a while. On the second day they again said it would be 10 to 15 minutes wait. Who are they kidding? On the third day Jesus rose from the grave and at the end of the day we got a table. I was tired, frustrated and no longer Hungary. We decided to split the chicken fried steak and pinto beans. The chicken fried steak was decent but far from the best I have eaten. The pinto beans were doctored up nicely, so a good.
 NOTE: The Gristmill is on the Guadalupe river so in the summer time it is probably a pretty place, but in winter after dark it might as well be the Trinity River.

The manager did comp us our ice teas, but too little too late. I would give the food a 7.1437, but after the wait they get a 3.5.

Next we went to Greene Hall, the oldest dance hall in Texas. The buildings looks like most of it is from the late 1800's. There is an add on the wall for the Ford Dealership and the phone number is "61". Pool tables in the back, dance floor and bar. Overall this is a neat place to see. I hear there is no air conditioning and there is very little heat. Don't come here hungary, this is a watering hole only. Normally the music is country, but tonight's band was The Aaron Stephens Band and they play rock and soul. They were really good. We had a great time here. I couldn't get the wifey to leave. Grab you up your favorite gal or your sister and get down to Greene Hall, you won't regret it.

Given a 9.0

Mitcho
©2018

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

Shady's Burgers and Bruhaha - Custer Rd in Richardson

Today Sax Man/Bean Counter had another one of those days celebrating his breakout from his mother. I know this can't be right because his advertised age is less than mine. So his math must be messed up.

We always let our kiddos pick the hole in a wall they want to grab grub in. SM/BC is known for picking out of the normal places. That's one of the reasons we like him. Shady's Burger is in a residential part of Custer Rd. Other than the shopping area Shady's is in, there isn't any retail in this area. So it is out of the way.  The place is decorated like a 50's cafe. I know because I was in cafes in the 50's. Not many tables here so pick a slow night to pull up here.

Tonight the Richardson Community Chorale was having a fund raiser here tonight. They were getting a cut of every check that gave the cashier one of their cards. So there was this pushy lady passing out cards to everyone that walked in. I told her that if she wanted me to use her card, they had to let me sing a solo. She wasn't sure what the correct answer to that was. The correct answer if you know my singing ability is NO, NO, NO, please NO!!!! Being the occasionally nice guy I am I gave the cashier the card anyway.

This joint has a wide variety of burgers, sandwiches, salads, sides, etc. If you want a weird burger, you can get one here. Not this redneck. I stick to the Texas proven meats pig and cow. Of course Yardbird gets in there also. But tonight it was all about the pig and cow. So I ordered the Bacon BBQ burger. You can't go wrong with bacon, grilled burger and BBQ sauce. I am guessing this is a half pound burger. Lots of burger here. The meat patty had a good flavor, the BBQ sauce was spicy with a little sweetness, and of course bacon, bacon and bacon. This is a good burger.

Since there were 7 of us, we also ordered half the sides on the menu. We started with fried pickles. These were a hit to the whole family. Our report varies from as good as Razzoo's Fried Pickles (the king of fried pickles) and just almost as good as Razzoo's. They serve these on a shallow pan that is about 8 inches wide and 16 inches long. So they are not stacked on each other, the are spread out. Good move here.

We also ordered Cheese Fries with bacon. Yes, more bacon. These were served on the shallow pan like the Fried Pickles which makes these better than Snuffers. Yea, Snuffers you have been pushed out to provide for your self.

To round out the meal, we ordered onion rings. Actually with all the hits so far, I couldn't believe that they missed it with the onion rings. These rings are 2 to 3 inches tall and the breading is very greasy like my hair in the 60's. I said the 60's not now, so stop it. The breading also just wouldn't stay on the rings. It all tasted good, but it just wasn't near as good as many other places I have grabbed grub in. Sorry Shady's but get to work on the onion rings.

Overall, this was a very good find. We will be gathering both of our friends and heading back someday for some more good fixins.

Givem a 8.65789120

MItcho
©2018

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

Fletcher's Corny Dog Vs. State Fair Frozen Corny Dogs

It is State Fair of Texas time around these parts. 3  of our grands were out of school last Monday for Fair Day. The wifey guilted me into taking CBoss, Cool Hand, and Lil Darlin to the fair. As far as I am concerned the fair has only one attraction for me. FLETCHER'S CORNY DOGS.  So this year, I spent $15.00 to park, $28.00 to get into the park (2 geezer tickets) and $36.00 at Fletcher's to get my one Fletcher's Corny Dog and a drink. I also spent another $35.00 at the pizza stand for the non-conformists of the group. In the State of Texas Fletcher's is the real deal. At the Fletcher's stand, there were 8 or 9 lines about 50 yards long each just to get their annual fix of a Corny Dog. These things are so popular they should be illegal. 

The crust is very tasty. It is so good, you don't even pay attention to the condition of the dog in the middle. This here is some sweet luvin'.

Over the last few months, the wifey has gone full social on me. She is into arranging Block Parties for the neighbors on our street. This is a big deal. To have one, you have to have a signature from every resident on the block. Many of our neighbors just don't answer their door. This makes it pretty tough to get their signature. But the crazy lady from the corner will bug them till  they answer the door and sign the form. For our fall block party we decided that the State Fair would be our theme. Like we needed a theme to gather up and eat way too much food. On the menu was State Fair Corny Dogs, Cotton Candy, Popcorn, Triple Chocolate Cake, several kinds of cookies, more chips than Willie Nelson could eat after a concert.

We arranged to have a cotton candy machine and a neighbor bought the ingredients and supplies to make 25 or 30 bags of cotton candy. Note, this makes a huge mess in the kitchen!!!!!!!! I didn't eat any of the CC but they were all grabbed up and some of the kiddos ate multiple bags. Parents you are welcome for the over active kiddos for the next few hours.

The popcorn was just bigtime grocery store popcorn that we bagged into smaller bags. Yes, this is a legal activity as long as it is popcorn!!!!

One of the neighby's baked a Triple Chocolate Cake. Man oh man. One round of chocolate makes for some mighty good cake. Double Chocolate will almost electrocute you it is so sweet. Triple Chocolate is almost heaven. Man one piece of cake and my diet for the whole week is blown. But man that was some cake.

There also were several versions of homemade cookies that were really great.

We had bought a Sams box of chips, which is a bunch of chips. Lays at their finest.

I decided to deep fry the State Fair Corny Dogs. I drug out the ole deep fryer,filled er up with oil, fired it up and deep fried over 60 dogs. Like Fletchies Dogs, the State Fair Doggies were very tasty. The crust makes the day. Once again, it is so good you forget the fact that you would never buy the weiner.

After consulting with my neighbor associates, we have concluded that State Fair Corny Dogs are JUST AS GOOD AS Fletchies Doggies. YIPPER you heard me correctly. Our conclusion is that it is all in the deep frying. So the next time you have a hankering for a Corny Dog in the fall, you can either decide to pay $114.00 for one Fletchies or you can go to Sam's and buy 34 State Fair doggies for $10.66 and about $4.00 for oil. or .43 per doggies.

The next time you go crazy for a Fletchies, think back to Mitcho's very valuable advice and just slither over to Sams and buy a box of State Fair doggies. Grab up some oil, Throw a party for the 10 best buds you have. Get silly on corny dogs with your best buds for about $14.00 instead of $114.00 with a couple of friends. Remember it is all about the deep frying. For the $100.00 you save on the first craving, with that $100.00 you can buy a good deep fryer and have a weeks running money left over.

Givem both 8.468749453

Mitcho
©2018

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

Please attend church with me next Sunday. Where ever you are, go to the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwas2xFpEStMd06-59ggY7g

B B King's - Memphis

If you have read my blog, you know that as a kid I spent a lot of time in the crick. So as an adult our entertainment is hiking in the woods. The wifey and me went just east of Dallas to Tennessee to do some hiking to waterfalls. You will be glad to know that on the very first hike of the week, I fell into the river after trying to tightrope on rocks across the river. At the end of the first day we caught some youngsters jumping from the top of a waterfall. That is some good redneck fun rat there.

The last night of the trip we slipped into Memphis to Beale Street. As an upstanding redneck I have a love for good music. Now admittedly most of my redneck posse are into country and western or blue grass. For this here redneck though it is the blues and rock N roll. I have heard for years about Beale Street in Memphis but I have never been there. I figured it was a variation of Bourbon St in Nawlins (New Orleans). Wrong. Beale Street was rather tame and overrun with adults drawing social security checks. The night we were there they had a car show that had everything from the 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's and some newer. Every model of the muscle car years of about '68 to '72 was property represented here.

We had decided in advance to have dinner at B B Kings. Hopefully you have some knowledge of B B King, one of the greatest blues players of all time. We saw B B King in concert in Dallas 4 or 5 years ago and it was one of the best shows I have ever seen. So lot of respect here for B B. It is only right that we tear it up in his club. For starters the house band, the King B's indicated they were world famous and it was going to be a great show. As for myself, I had never heard of them. I was really surprised, these guys were really good. They played Motown music from one end of Motown to the other.

Since our main reason to be there was to listen to music, we figured out how to eat in courses so that we would be there for a good while. So we started off ordering fried pickles. I have eaten fried pickles in many restaurants over the last 10 years. As I have indicated in the past, all fried pickles are judged by how they compare to Razzoo's. Razzoo's is the bomb. B B Kings' pickles were a very close 2nd place. Man these were some good pickles.

After a while we ordered a sausage and cheese plate. The sausage was some really good sausage. The cheese was cheddar and pepper jack. You can't go wrong with either type of cheese. Finally the plate had banana peppers. These were the best banana peppers I had ever eaten. Man they were some good luvin'.

Finally the wifey requested that we go for the Brownie-Ice Cream Tower. Brownie, Ice Cream, Whipping Cream, and chocolate drizzle. How can you go wrong. I heard that this was a really great dessert. The wifey went at this dish with a madness. I got a few bites, but the tower was a trench in just a couple of minutes.

No smoking, the waiters were very friendly and efficient (and we were drinking our required ice tea), great food, great music. This was some good times. I don't know when but I will be going back to Memphis. Next time we will order two Brownie-Ice Cream Towers, 1.5 for the wifey and .5 for me.

Givem an 9.578946

Mitcho
©2018

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

NOTE: My research indicated that Memphis was one of the highest crime cities in the US. However, we walked 6 blocks down Main St from the Hotel to Beale St and felt very safe. Beale St itself was very safe. So grab some buddies and head out to Memphis.

Please attend church with me next Sunday. Where ever you are, go to the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwas2xFpEStMd06-59ggY7g

Buttermilk's - Canton

It's Labor Day weekend, so if you call in sick on Friday, it's a 4 day weekend. Being a long weekend it is time to get out of the city and kick up our heels redneck style. I don't claim to be the smartest rock in the creek. We take off to Grand Saline which is good redneck country, but we go eat lunch in Canton. Three weeks out of the month, Canton is good redneck territory. However, the first Monday of each month it is invaded by all these uppity, putting on the ritz kind of women. I mean thousands of them. The home base at lunch time for all these girlies is Buttermilk's. So what am I doing there? I am there because I got two of those girlies with me.

Buttermilk's puts on like it is fine dining, but the menu is loaded with chicken fried steak, fried bologna, fried green tomatoes, etc. so a good redneck can get some vittles here.

The last time I was here I had the fried bologna, so I ciphered that I should try something different. I ordered the Jalapeño Cheese Burger with Fried Pickles. The burger was some mighty fine grubbing. The Fried Pickles needed more breading and more spices. They were pretty good, but I have been to Razzoos which has the best. The girlies got homemade chips and homemade sweet potatoe fries which both looked good.

Overall givem a 8.32454322!

Mitcho

©2018

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

The Fish Place - Pecan Gap, TX

Being a bonafide redneck, you know I have folk down in East Texas. My folk down in East Texas have raved about how good the catfish is at Pecan Gap. If they thought any higher of it, you would think it was God's catfish. Of course since God is more concerned about "the lesser of these", God's catfish probably is the mud cat down at the creek.

Mitcho knows catfish. I have been to Miller Grove, Pine Mills, The Feed Sack (Windom), Vaughans (Tyler), Vaughans (Lake Bob Sandlin), The Fish Net (Caddo Valley, Ar.) and many other so called prestigious catfish joints. My resume and waistline are both pretty good. So Mitcho is a bonafide catfish expert.

After a great deal of pestering, I finally gave in and we did the Fish Tail over to Pecan Gap. This place is pretty hard to find. You go to the center of the city and the only place that has cars parked everywhere for a block or two around it is the place. Kind of cute rustic.

This is one of those all you can eat buffets. That is always a positive. Mitcho is a big fan of no limits. So for $12.00 (seniors) and $15.00 (youngsters), you can eat all the food you want and drink all the tea you can drink (the fish do need to float).

No ordering here, grab a plate and start piling it on. The first food bar is salad. Why. I mean really, Why??? The next one it gets serious. Catfish, spicy catfish, fries, jalitos, hush puppies (aka shut up doggies), baked potato (I refer you to WHY), shrimp, fried shrimp, and BEANS.

Mitcho loaded up on the spicy fish, BEANS, shut up doggies, jalitos, etc.

The spicy fish is pretty good. One of the best of the joints listed above. But the real deal is at the bottom of this blog. It was a little spicy, but it could have used quite a bit more spice.

The shut up doggies were the pretty normal hush puppy, but I like the normal hush puppy, so it was a good.

The fries, were fries.

The jalitos were real good this evening, I will let you know about tomorrow.

The BEANS were some of the best beans I have eaten in a long while (since the last time I went to Vaughans). Pecan Gap beats Vaughans on fish, but nobody beats Vaughans on beans. They must have a good amount of chili powder in them. Pecan Gap's beans has some chili powder, but not enough to be the best.

Did I mention cobbler. I went to the cobbler bar and there was peach cobbler and blueberry cobbler. I had a hard time picking one, so I just took one of each. Only the right thing to do. Good call. This is some mighty good cobbler right here.

Top it all off, the folk paid for the meal and you know we always like a free meal.

Overall,   this is some good vittles. If you are ever in North East Texas on a Friday or Saturday evening, grab some buddies and go fishin in Pecan Gap.

Givem a 8.68798797

The real deal for catfish bar none is Doe Belly's in Forney and Kaufman. Mitcho has on give two 10's on the blog and Doe Belly's is one of the 10's. Yum Yum.


Mitcho
©2018

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

Please attend church with me next Sunday. Where ever you are, go to the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwas2xFpEStMd06-59ggY7g

Tacos Y Vino -Bishop Arts District / Texas Theatre

Dinner tonight was at Tacos Y Vino in the Bishop Arts District. Details to follow after the story. The wifey and me being big music fans (blues, rock N roll, Jazz, etc.) we are constantly searching for music events in North Texas. In the wifey's recent search she found that the Texas Theatre was debuting "From Nowhere the Story of the Vaughan Brothers". This is a film of the history of Stevie Ray Vaughan and his older brother Jimmy Vaughan. If you know blues music you know Stevie Ray, one of the best that have ever picked the strings. We did the Jive over to Oak Cliff for a night of entertainment. I was later advised that I had taken her on a date. That detail was not disclosed until the evening was over.

The Texas Theatre is on Jefferson Blvd in Oak Cliff (Dallas). It opened in 1931 and till about the late 60;s or early 70's, Jefferson Blvd was one of the most affluent shopping areas in Dallas. Of course everyone that knows anything about Dallas, knows Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested in the Texas Theatre on that November day in 1963. The theatre today has been refurbished and looks very nice and pretty good size. They apparently show a wide mixture of entertainment. Check em out.

If you know the wifey and me, you also know we like food. So the wifey searches on the Texas Theatre website which lists the 10 best restaurants near the theatre. So she reviews the offerings of all 10 and decides the feed trough for us tonight is Tacos Y Vino.

Now for the rest of the story:

So we parked near the theatre and then walked the .4 of mile to 8th St to Tacos Y Vino. This is in an old house that has been remodeled into a restaurant. Back in the day, I bet this was a pretty nice crib. This place is an upper casual to an upscale feed joint. White napkins, fancy tables, different looking glasses, etc. Not exactly the kind of place you would expect this highly respected redneck to grab grub in. The wait staff was very attentive and helpful, with some good personality. Of course the wifey and me are tea totallers, so the wine part didn't do us much good, however, we did go for the pineapple tea.  Very different, but good. We started the meal with the tamale bites which were unreal. Can't describe them, but get you some. The waiter also highly recommended the jalapeno bites. So we will have to try them next time. The wifey and me both ordered Barbacoa Tacos. This is 3 street tacos with barbacoa meat and who knows what else, some kind of cheese, sauces, etc. The tacos were really good. The General Manager David, even followed us out the door at the end because he had not had a chance to talk to us before we left. Now that's concern about the customer's experience. 

I know that some of you readers from time to time take off your redneck clothes and put on some citified duds and slide over to The Bishop Arts District. When you do, you need to checkout Tacos Y Vino and maybe the Texas Theatre. 

Giv'em an 8.845646444

MItcho
©2018

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 

Please attend church with me next Sunday. Where ever you are, go to the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwas2xFpEStMd06-59ggY7g

Mitcho's Sausage Foil Wrap

This last weekend I attended a redneck board of directors meeting down at Cedar Creek Lake. We had a large gathering of redneck types and wannabees. Of course we got a place with a swimming pool so that all the rednecks in training would have something to do and to stay out of both of my hairs that are left.

A redneck board of directors meeting is basically food, naps, food, naps, repeat. I look forward to these events. Being the head redneck I spent the weekend fixin grub for every occasion. Of course some of the redneck wannabees were watching what ingredients I was using very closely. They probably have never hung out at the creek and caught crawdads, mud cat, water moccasins, and other delicacies of the crick. 

Of course being close to July 4th we had to shoot fireworks. Next time we will call the volunteer fire department ahead of time. Doing the tap dance on a fire is not as much fun as it once was.

Now to the review. I had done some research and decided I would try a sausage foil pack. For years I have been making hamburger foil packs, but never sausage. First of all, I spent the week before researching where I could get some quality sausage. My first thought was driving to West, Texas to the Czeck Stop, but I just didn't have the time. I have a qualified friend on Face the Nation (aka Facebook) that recommends Hirsch's Meat Market in Plano, but just didn't have the time to drive that far. So I was hung to grocery store sausage. After my research I went with Kountry Boys Sausage at Kroger. Great choice, this was some good sausage right out of the package. Pretty spicey!!!
Me and my redneck assistants prepared a smorgasbord of extras to throw in the foil pack. Nothing was moving, this time. We had red potatoes, onion, bell pepper, edamame, green beans, green chile's, carrots, corn on the cob, and plenty of cheese. So I loaded up my foil pack with all of the goodies and then it came to the spice section. I piled on some Italian Season, Paprika, Onion powder, Garlic Salt, and if you like some Tabasco sauce to taste. The more spices you throw on, the better it will get. Throw the foil in the oven at 450 to 500 and cook for about 40 minutes. Man oh man, this is some really fine grub right here. All of my redneck buddies gave my new concoction two thumbs up (assuming they still have both thumbs).

Givin Mitcho's Sausage Foil Wrap a 9.878797

Mitcho
©2018

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

Please attend church with me next Sunday. Where ever you are, go to the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwas2xFpEStMd06-59ggY7g

Bankhead Brewing Company - Downtown Rowlett

Here we go again. You know the wifey and me attend church at The First Fried Chicken Eaten Mostly Non-Denominational Somewhat Baptist Church. We are involved in a community group (aka Sunday School Class). From time to time the wives connive for us guys to take them out to eat at a nice joint.  Now I am not talking about a run down picnic table at the edge of the creek where you have had great success catching crawdads. This is real fancy. Being fine Bible toting folk(or phone with a Bible app, go figure), we show up much more regular when there is food involved than just plain ole food from the Bible. 

The wifies had conspired to get a dinner at Bankhead Brewing Company. So the wifey and me did the Sardinia over to Rowlett. Bankhead Brewing Company is apparently an upper class watering hole and restaurant. We squatted on the patio (almost creekside good), so we never saw what the inside was all about.

Some of the ingredients on the menu are not in the Webster's Redneck version. Just what is mascarpone, gorgonzola, pomtoms, speck, soppressata, etc. Where's the crawdad, brim, squirrel, rabbit, red beans, and other fine quality redneck grub????

When my time to order came about, the pressure was on. I finally settled on the Carnivore of Love PIzza. Like a buzzard, this guy is a major league Carnivore. All options of road kill are appreciated. This concoction had meatballs, sausage, pancetta, speck, jalapeno's and aged provolone. So just what is speck. I am thinking it is a pinch of some good loving spices. Nope. It is a smoked pork concoction. Meatballs, I am thinking the spaghetti and meatballs type of thingy. I may have been right, but they were sliced very thin and not doctored up with some good sauce. In spite of it all, and realizing that I really don't understand what I just ate, this isn't a bad pizza. Not Pizza Getti quality, but not bad.

To top things off, our good friend LB was having their 85th birthday, so we had birthday cake from Nothing Bundt cakes. Now this was a good. I was very proud of the wifey, there was a large chunk of icing in the middle. She badgered our designated cake cutter about getting that piece that she wound up with one major clump of icing. Now that's good for her diet.

Good times, good friends and pretty good food.

Give'm a 7.8914348

Mitcho
©2018

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

Please attend church with me next Sunday. Where ever you are, go to the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwas2xFpEStMd06-59ggY7g

Tolbert's - Grapevine

A yahoo named Frank Tolbert and this other rascal named Wick Fowler started a minor little Chili cook-off down yunder in a God forsaken place called Terlingua. This little gathering of redneck Texans has grown into a World Class Chili Cook-off which draws yahoos from all over the world. This feller aka Frank Tolbert opened a Chili restaurant in this tiny little hamlet called Dallas a few years back. After a number of years, his family decided to move the eatery to Grapevine. Today, Tolbert's is a restaurant, Chili Bar and watering hole. They also have live music most every night.

The wifey and me recently went to a concert at the Dallas Zoo (also visited some of my cousins, you know monkeys, gorillas, etc.). The band that was playing was purtin good. So the wifey decided to find out where they were playing next. Their website indicated they were playing tonight at Tolbert's. Rocker's go figure. So the wifey got all excited and decided that I wanted to drive clear across the world in the worst traffic in the US to see this little band. Of course, they were not playing at Tolbert's tonight, but another band we knew nothing about was playing. Because the wifey had already gotten excited about being seen on the town with me, she decided we would do dinner at Tolbert's tonight. She just knows she hit the home run when she got the right to hang out with this good looking devil (mostly devil). 

So we did the skip da loo to Grapevine. Actually traffic was not all that bad.

Tolbert's is an upper class type joint where most of the patrons are dressed up kinda nice (at least they are dressed). So when I enter in my dress T-Shirt with a real classy saying on it, they gave me the stink eye. Then they seat us at the very back table in a corner away from everything else. The waitress after one look was in no hurry to take care of our culinary needs. Then I ordered my Diet Coke and there goes any chance of a large bar tab, so her expectations went in the dumper from there.

As I mentioned this joint indicates it might know something about goooooood chili, so I was thinking and dreaming about chili all the way over there. As we went in, the wifey informed me that she had decided we were ordering 1 order of fajitas and share them. There goes my chili. So some day I will have to sneak over there by myself and test the chili out. I will get back to you. We also ordered chips and salsa.

The salsa was some of the best spiced up salsa I have had in a long time. This was a good. The chips were pretty normal. The fajitas, tortillas, rice, beans, set-up etc was pretty good. Not the best, yet I would go at'em again if I wasn't allowed to have chili.

After dinner I went for cobbler and ice cream. This was apple cobble and vanilla ice cream. The ice cream was not Blue Bell, but it was pretty good. The cobber was real good. Topped off the meal nicely.

The band wasn't as good as the last time we was there, or the band at the zoo, but for a Tuesday night it was a pretty good rock band.

For all you guys from Skeeterville, Mr. Inez Band is playing here June 14. See ya there, or your square.

Overall a fun night with good eaten, give'm a 8.51467874.

Mitcho
©2018

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

Please attend church with me next Sunday. Where ever you are, go to the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwas2xFpEStMd06-59ggY7g

Los Agaves 5 - Aarkadelphia

For the past several months, I have been way to close to the revenuers and corporate types. The wifey expressed recently that I was losing some of my redneckism. Now that is serious. She prescribed that we spend some time in Arkansas. You know you can get a year's supply in a 3 day weekend. So off we go to one of our favorite hangouts, Lake DeGray. Why did God put such a beautiful lake in Arkansas and this isn't the only one? So we did the Red River Jig to Lake DeGray. I didn't get around to going to Walmart this time, but you can learn a lifetime of Wisdom in an Arkansas Walmart. So we hung in most of our usual haunts this time around, but after reviewing Trip-you-up-Advisor.com I noticed a Mexican food place was the highest ranked restaurant in Arkadelphia with no really bad reviews. So being somewhat Tex-Mex the only right thing to do was to check it out, knowing that basically Mexican food doesn't exist outside of Texas. So off to Los Agaves we go.

This restaurant is very near downtown. It is in a fairly old building, but they have decorated it up nicely. You know this is a very nice place for Arkadelphia standards as it must have been prom night and they were all here for dinner. They seated us immediately and we had chips and salsa before we got seated good. That's a plus. The chips had a little better flavor than most Tex-Mex places. The best part about the salsa was that it came in a bottle, so you could refill your own bowl as many times as you wanted, which I did. At first the salsa tasted like tomato soup, but by the 3rd bowl it had a pretty decent taste.

It came time to order and we went for the combo fajitas, beef and chicken. My goodness, we ordered for one and that one must be a bigun. This was a very large plate of beef, chicken, onions, peppers, etc. This may be the largest plate of meat for one we have ever had. Both the beef and chicken were marinated very nicely. What a great taste. The setup was pretty much normal and nothing to brag about, but not a negative either. The only down side was the meal came with only 3 tortillas. I did ask for 3 more and they brought them out. They did charge a buck for the second round of tortillas, but the price of the entree was 3 or 4 dollars cheaper than in the Metromess. So no worries here.

At checkout the owner apologized for the service being a little slow and discounted the 2nd round of tortillas. The service was slow, but they were understaffed. The workers that were there could pick cotton for me any day. They were hustling. Of course because of the prom night guests, they were probably much busier than they expected. They were trying very hard.I have understanding for their plight especially since I had nothing to do the rest of the evening. 

All in all, chipper and me agreed that this is the best Mexican food we have had outside of Texas. Now they would be middle of the road in North Texas, but consider what Oklahoma, New Mexico, Louisiana, Alabama, California, Colorado , Montana, etc. call Mexican food, this was great.

So I now have to definitely stay two nights in the Arkadelphia/Lake DeGray area on our getaways. You know the first night I am going to Fish Net, but now I have to go to Los Agaves also.

Givem an 8.65456464

Mitcho
©2018

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

Ponchos-Mesquite

As you know I go to The First Fried Chicken Eaten Mostly Non-Denominational Somewhat Baptist Church. Recently two of our pastor wives was doggin' several local eating establishments that men tend to enjoy going to. When they got to Ponchos, I jumped in and called out the men of the church to a men's only dinner at Ponchos. Of course it gave me a good excuse to go get miserable.

Hold on while I go get some antacids.................................................................... I am back now, a little better.

Ponchos is your ultimate redneck restaurant, all you can stand, mediocre taste, followed by as many sopapillas you can eat. We won't talk about the colon test that comes later. What more could you ask for????

Seeing that Bud is the Most High Reverend of the church and he needed wifey to keep Hoss, we decided to do the La Conquista together over to Ponchos.

Due to our serious marketing efforts, we gathered up a good number of millenials, yuppies and several other redneck wannabees. What the youngsters didn't realize is their cool reputation has now been replaced with some redneck influence. Can't get no better.

Antacid time again, be right back..........................................................................  Ahhhh@!

I have some significant experience at Ponchos and I know how to work the system. Forget rice and beans. You can get'em anywhere and you don't go eat Mexican to get rice and beans. So I go straight for the flautas, enchiladas, tacos, etc. The flautas and tacos are pretty decent representation of Mexican food. As for enchiladas, the beef has a kind of chili in them and the cheese are like watered down ballpark nachos sauce. Edible, but nothing to write home to mom about. It is all about the sopapillas. Besides a healthy supply of honey on the table, they also bring small cups of a mix of sugar and cinnamon to sprinkle over the sopas. This is the kinds of stuff you dream about.  I think next time, I will just get one taco in the line and then eat myself sick with sopas. Sounds like a good plan to me.

We had a great time of fellowship and made fun of almost everything in life. Good times, good people, mediocre food. Can't get no better. Of course we had deep discussion of where our next men's dinner will be. Our first criteria is a place that women don't want to go to. So stay tuned.

Givem a 6.5879789

Mitcho
©2018

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

Please attend church with me next Sunday. Where ever you are, go to the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwas2xFpEStMd06-59ggY7g

Bells Better Burgers - Balch Springs

The blogger here was requested to grab some burgers at Bells and review them. I am very dedicated to both of my readers, so I  had no other option but to get some burgers. Bells Better Burgers is in Balch Springs (formerly and fondly known as Zip City), which is the redneck capital of the world. It's like ole home week going back to Zip City. Bells has been at this location a very very long time. I have family that owned the Busy Bee across the street, so my family goes back many years eating their burgers. This place is a blast from the 50's. I started to stop and buy a pack of cigarettes just so I could roll them up my t-shirt's sleeve Fonzy style. This is your basic Drive-In, for all you millenials, yuppies, and other non-conformists to the redneck style, this means you park under an awning and a carhop comes and takes your order and bring's you the food. Your dining room is your ride you showed up in. The wifey advised me next time we will go in the convertible. Classic. This redneck likes these kind of joints.

Of course I ordered the burger and onion rings. Now this is a burger. This thing can compete with Whataburger, Dairyette, etc. The patty must be fresh hamburger meat, not some frozen circle bought from the food service mafia. Now, let's talk onions. Man this thing was loaded with onions and you know Mitcho luves onions. Throw in the other usual suspects on the burger and you got a humdinger of a burger here.

Let's talk onion rings. These rings are a top 5. Great tasting breading makes these great. I may go back just to get onion rings.

Warning throw your diet out the window when you head to Bells. You can smell the strong scent of grease when you drive up. If the smell is that strong 30 yards from the building, what do you think was in the burger and onion rings. So maybe you shouldn't go here everyday of the week. You also should never tell your cardiologist that you have ever eaten here.

The wifey says that 40 years ago, they had a great fish sandwich and it is still on the menu. So see you next week at Bells so that the wifey can get her fish sandwich.

If you are in southeast Dallas county around lunch time, gather up some buds and head to Lake June and Peachtree. You won't regret it.

Givem a 8.3549789
Mitcho
©2018

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

Please attend church with me next Sunday. Where ever you are, go to the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwas2xFpEStMd06-59ggY7g

La Calle Doce Lakewood

Happy Valentines Day to ya.

First of all, I am just too good and romantic to Chipper (aka Wifey). About 6 days ago, she came into the office and informed me what I was getting her for Valentines, including brand names, details, etc. Three days before Valentines I trot out to the store and get those exact items. I am not a dummy. If you will note I also didn't wait till the last minute. I am not going to be one of those guys in line at the grocery store at 8:00 PM on Valentines night holding a can of Pork & Beans in the checkout line because all of the flowers and candy were gone at noon and the chili and hot links were gone by 5:00. 

On Valentines morning Chipper gave me a very cute Valentines card and a gift card to HER favorite restaurant. She just luves me more than I deserve.

As you know, Chipper and me go to the First Fried Chicken Eatin Mostly Non-Denominational and Somewhat Baptist Church. Our Community Group (aka Sunday School Class, we just have had enough class, it's time to communitize) decided we were going to a Valentines dinner together. This is a communist plot by all the wives in the group to get their hubbies to take them to dinner on Valentines. So the women folk all plotted together and selected La Calle Doce for our romantic meal. Apparently La Calle Doce stands for Mexican dinners made with seafood items you never heard of. Of course for me, when you get past mud cat, creek crawdads and crappie, I don't have much experience with the finer seafood selections. So you know I was excited to go there. Here is how unusual this place is, the waitress brought out an entree and was going to hand it to the highly respectable gentleman next to Chipper (not me, I was on the other side) and told him it was _________ (don't remember what she said) and he said it wasn't his that his was something that started with a "P". Yea, he couldn't say what it was, he just knew it started with a "P". I was impressed. 

So finally after doing serious detective work Chipper found fajitas that were the old staples, Yardbird and Beef. All of our grandparents raised Yardbirds and cows, so we prefer those servings. So Chipper ordered the fajitas for us to eat. I did get to select to get flour tortillas. I am telling you, she is just too good to me. 

The chicken and beef were both very good. Great taste. Plenty of onion and bell peppers. The pinto beans and rice were just ordinary. As I have noted I was sitting next to Chipper, so I only got a few chips but they were average and the salsa was decent. The waitress did a great job considering she had 20 old adults to take care of. Over the evening we had some great company, told some great stories (some of them were true) and listened occasionally. 

All of the unusual seafood eaters in our group raved about their meals, so this must be a good place. As for Mitcho enchiladas, fajitas, burritos, tacos, and plenty of bowls of chips.

Givem a 8.421897

Mitcho

©2018

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

Please attend church with me next Sunday. Where ever you are, go to the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwas2xFpEStMd06-59ggY7g

 

Corner Bakery Irving

The wifey and I had some very important bidness to tend to in Las Colinas last night. We went to an old person's convention (aka rock concert by a 60's early 70's band). Since once again we had to cross Dallas in rush hour traffic, we decided to do some more Turtle Crawl early and eat dinner near the venue. Our bidness was at the new Toyota Music Pavillion at the Irving Music Factory. They show that there are 25 restaurants in the the Music Factory, but only 4 are open now. The four are priced way above redneck wages or they serve sissy food. Either way I had to find a dinner option in the area. After careful review we locked on to The Corner Bakery. I have clients that eat at one of these regular so I was compelled to check it out.

The Corner Bakery is an upscale Panera Bread but with man food. If you are eating in a Panera you are eating sissy food. I am just saying. The Corner Bakery has the sissy food, but it also has some options that could qualify as man food. The place is finished out like a high class joint. Not your usual redneck hangout. However, I didn't come here to look at the walls or the furniture. Give me some grub.

After careful review of the menu, I locked onto the Linguine and Meatballs, also served with Garlic bread. You have to select either cafe or entree size. Why can't they just say small and really small? I asked the order taker the difference in size. He showed me a bowl about a foot in diameter and 3 inches deep as the cafe size, and a bowl about 6 inches deep as the entree size. So I am picturing one foot diameter 3 inches deep of linguine and meatball, my diet was saying you better not go for entree size. Of course I ordered Texas tea. We don't drink water in Texas, we drink iced tea. When they delivered the food of my choosing, I was greatly disappointed. Yes the bowl was the size I was shown, but it was filled to less than half the bowl. I have coffee cups that would hold more food. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. So next time I will ask for a bucket of linguine. The food was ok, but no real good tastes jumping out at me. It wasn't bad, it just wasn't great. The garlic toast had very little zing. I suspect some sissy's have infiltrated this joint and taken all of the zinging tastes out of their food.

Overall this was ok, but for a person that likes some zing, not so much. Givem a 7.0778975465

The Toyota Music Pavillion was really nice. I have been to the Verizon in Grand Prairie many times and it can't compare. However, why do they not put enough restrooms in these places? I am looking forward to going back to The Pavillion.

Mitcho
©2018

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

Please attend church with me next Sunday. Where ever you are, go to the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwas2xFpEStMd06-59ggY7g

Hoffbrau Steaks - Haltom City & Tolbert's - Grapevine

It's Friday night and it is time to take the wifey out on the town. Especially when I am about to go into hiding for 3 months. You know the Revenuers come this time of year every year.

A while back a friend of mine in the Garland area gave me a gift card to Hoffbrau Steaks knowing that I live in Skeeterville. The nearest Hoffbrau to Skeeterville is in Haltom City which is across the world from here.In our infinite wisdom we decided to do the Turtle Crawl across Dallas, Arlington, Irving, to North Fort Worth, we even got there on the same night. Next time I am going to take a short cut and go East on Garland Road to Hwy 78. Hwy 78 North to Farmersville and catch Hwy 380 West. Boogie on 380 to Hwy 121 in Lewisville then into North Fort Worth. Certainly a less stressful drive. Warning whatever lane you are in on a Fort Worth freeway, it is about to be Exit Only.

Outside of Joe T Garcia's I don't know much about the culinary options in Fort Worth. However, it seemed like all of Fort Worth was holed up here in Haltom City. We were told the wait was only 25 minutes. That must be the max a customer will take without leaving. Trust me, we waited a lot longer than 25 minutes. Finally we get seated.

After a careful review of the menu, this isn't a redneck friendly joint. No fried bologna, grilled cheese, peanut butter and jelly (or banana's). Looks like I am in trouble here. The last few meals I have eaten with CBoss  which means Pizza and only Pizza. So my calarie count was off the charts the last couple of days. In my desire to protect my muscle hardened body, I went for the Texican Salad. I have to like the name because I commonly refer to myself as a Texican. With all the mexican food I eat by now I have to be part Mexican. This was a good salad it had all the usual suspects including guacamole. The salad was served with Spicy Ranch dressing and this was almost as tasty as Jalapeno Ranch at Chuy's (and that's good). Throw in a couple of rolls and this was a pretty decent meal. The wifey had a Steak, bake potato and salad. Here review says the salad was a little better than Outback's because of the Spicy Ranch, but the steak and baked potato was about the same.

This was a fairly good meal, givem a 823546878.

After dinner we had decided to do the Skip Jive to Tolberts in Grapevine.  Tolberts is on Main St in Grapevine. I had not been in this part of our great state in a good while. This area is pretty nice with a number of grub joints. Tolberts is a restaurant and watering hole with a live band every night. Tonight the 8 Track Band was playing. You know that with a name like 8 Track Band they play oldies. They really did a bang up job playing oldies. Lot of fun here. Our waitress came to take out order and I ordered Two Diet Cokes, a Chocolate Mouse Cake for the wifey and me a Peach Cobbler. You should have seen the stinky face the waitress gave me when she realized I wasn't going to be continually ordering pricey drinks all night. What she didn't know, I am big tipper in these kind of situations. The Chocolate Mouse Cake couldn't have been too bad. Within a minute or two of the waitress bringing it, it was GONE. A good redneck likes peach cobbler. This was a goodun. The ice cream was not Blue Bell, but it was pretty good, and the peach cobbler was yummy. We will be going back here, just not via Haltom City.

Givem an 8.9924846

Mitcho
©2018

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

Please attend church with me next Sunday. Where ever you are, go to the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwas2xFpEStMd06-59ggY7g

Cheesecake Factory-Northwest to Babbs BBQ

Yep, I might be crazy. Just saying. Beat ya to it. I may also be larger around the middle than I should be. But life can be fun. So it's Saturday night and it was time to tear the town up. The wifey and her best friend (who is a Joy to be around) advised me that I was taking them out on the town. Being the smart man I am, "Yes Ma'am" is my answer.

They decided for me that I wanted to go to The Cheesecake Factory for dinner and Cheesecake!!! So I had to put on my middle class almost decent costume. The Cheesecake Factory is a yuppie, millennials, think I am rich kind of hangout/restaurant. I am sure they would not be excited about a hick from the suburbs dragging in and giving it a bad reputation. So thus the costume.

We had to wait about 45 minutes for a table. I spent the 45 minutes next to the cheesecake display drooling over which one I would choose tonight.

Finally we get seated and it is time to order. My ladies indicated that they would be splitting an entree and I was on my own to get what I wanted.  This just doesn't happen everyday. Most of the time, the wifey checks out the menu and informs me what I am splitting with her. So we are off to a good start.

I went for the Factory Nachos. I sure hope those nachos was made in the kitchen and not some factory in Weatherford. These are some pretty yummy nachos. The chips have a different crunchiness and they have a different taste. Both a good. The nachos as stacked with guacamole, sour cream, chicken, cheese, sauce, and other unidentified ingredients. These are some goood nachos. But nachos is not why I am here.

It came dessert time. I had stared at the 30th anniversary cheesecake for 45 minutes. So I had no choice but to give it a whirl. Talking about rich. This thang is chocolate stacked on top of chocolate with a chocolate topping. I may share an entree, but I am NOT sharing Cheesecake. I ate the whole thing. Talking about the sweats. About 3/4's of the way through I was beginning the sweet sweats. It was so great that I was miserable.

This was a very good meal. Givem a 8.9246546.

Now the next step is what makes Mitcho Legendary. We left the Cheesecake Factory and went to Babb's Brothers BBQ. Can you imagine eating a full meal at the Cheesecake Factory and then going straight to a BBQ joint.  This is almost as good as going from an all you can eat catfish joint to Dairy Queen for a large Blizzard. Actually we didn't eat BBQ tonight, just faking you out. But we did get a Coke A Cola drink and listen to the Blues for a couple of hours. This is my kind of place. If you work it right, you can up grab a mike and take the show over. Last time was an Asian dude who did La Bamba with the band just by going up and grabbing the mike. And he was amazingly good. Tonight a lady decided she needed to sing Happy Birthday to a member of her party. So she goes up grabs the mike and sings Happy Birthday. I am going to have to start practicing. I need to take over the show sometime in the near future. By the way, their BBQ is good.

Next time.

MItcho
©2018

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

Please attend church with me next Sunday. Where ever you are, go to the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwas2xFpEStMd06-59ggY7g