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