The Porch Swing - Mesquite

Hey Mesquite we actually have a new major restaurant. Hoooooray. Of course the percentage of restaurants that have closed after I blogged them is mind boggling. Oh well, good luck The Porch Swing. 

After a hard day of whittlin', judging a tobaccy spittin' contest and fishin for mudcat down at the crick, I had worked up a powerful hunger. So the wifey suggested we Sashay on over to The Porch Swing. The place is a down home cookin of fixins like grandma made. So we are very high on the possiblities. The menu of entrees actually is pretty limited, but then grandma only cooked a few items. Actually I only remember my dad's mom cooking fried chicken (aka Yardbird). Yea she would chase one down soon after we drug up and start the process for lunch. Since they are grandma like, I will cut them some slack.

Of course we ordered Chicken Fried Steak. If you are down home, you are Chicken Fried Steak. The breading was thick, crunchy and very tasty. However, the meat was a little tough. For $15 (all the entrees are about $15) I would expect a pretty decent piece of meat. They need some work here. I also ordered pinto beans. This is the other staple that is a must to be good. These are pretty good pinto beans, but they could use a little more spice. You know Mitcho likes spicy things. So next time bring some chili powder and throw it on top before you dive in. With a little chili powder, these would be top of the hill beans.The wifey also had the green beans and gave them a good report.

Now the real reason we were there (and everyone else that have heard the rumors down by the crick) is PIE!!!!!!!!! I have heard mention that this place has home made pies. So I was ok with splitting the CFS, but I want my own pie. One note, I think they have an apple option, but they need cherry, peach, or some other fruity option. So I went for the coconut cream pie. The topping,which I am guessing is whipped cream was very thin and crusty, but the cocunut cream filling was very very good. So over all the pie was a good.

This joint has been only open a few days. They need to review my blog and recipe suggestions and step it up just a bit. The inside is an interesting modern layout, but it does have porch swings out front. This will be good once it warms up. Also, I saw a number of other redneck types that I have served time with here, so the city (those that are not currently incarcerated) is checking it out. After a few weeks I guess the business will level off some.

Overall, it was good, but I would choose a fried pie at Fuel City over the pie, which leaves the rest suspect.

Givem 7.487977961

Mitcho
© 2019

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

Rodeo Goat - The Harbor Rockwall

It is valentines time and the girlies in my Community Group at The First Fried Chicken Eating Mostly Non-Denominational Somewhat Baptist church have conspired again to get a good dinner from us low life husbands. For all you hard heads out there, you get your wifey candy, flowers and buy her a good meal on Valentines. Otherwise you are going to hear about for many years to come. So don't be that guy in line at Kroger's at 8:00pm on Valentines Day about to checkout a can or pork and beans for your sweetie (see my blog 2-14-18), you might as well have bought her the shot gun shells. So this sophisticated redneck let's his sweeties buy her own candy, pick her restaurant and give me detailed instructions on the flowers I buy. Not real romantic but pretty safe. This year she drove to Trinity Groves to a very exclusive candy store in which I apparently bought her 15 or so pieces of candy.

These girlies picked Rodeo Goat as our Valentine's Meal. Being a good redneck eating at a place with the name Rodeo Goat sounds like a bucking good time. What it really means is hamburger joint in which you won't understand what any of the burgers are going to be.

So we did the Sweetie Shuffle to Rodeo Goat in Rockwall at The Harbor.

To start things off we ordered an appetizer of Cheese Fries Surprise. That is kind of scary when after looking at the hamburger's, I don't understand half of what I read. Apparently havarti is a really good cheese. What is hydroponic sprouts, berry boursin, gruyere, blackberry compote, kalamata, tapenade, arugula, on and on and on. Of course bacon is mentioned on several of the burgers and Mitcho knows bacon. So Surprise could be a valid concern. It turns out, Surprise is jalapeno's and house chili. This is some good fixins. It is a tie with Snuffers cheese fries,so that is a good.

After going over the menu several times. I settled for the Terlingua burger. It has the aforementioned havarti cheese (which was good), house chili which was good, onion (you know Mitcho loves his onion), corn chips, and garlic-herb mayo. I know everything here assuming havarti is cheese. This was a pretty big burger and it was very good. An explosion of flavors awaits you here.

The wifey got the "Inner Beauty" burger. She didn't need it, she is already beautiful inside out (It is Valentines and I am not as stupid as l look.) But she thought it was good go. She said she liked it and it was gone in just a few minutes.

Since there was 14 of us, there were good times, tall tales, and plans for future mischief to get into.

Overall give'm a 8.549849874564

Mitcho
©2019

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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