Capital Grille - Plano

 Spring is coming to an end. The water in the creek has been very high for the last couple of months but it's finally receding some. Up until now there have been water moccasins everywhere and scorpions in the yard. It's like the food is just automatically coming to us. But with the water receding the moccasins are hard to find and the scorpions are back in the creek bed. So no more moccasin stew for dinner. Man hunting them was so much fun though. Life is going back to normal again. 

The wifey decided she had eaten enough moccasin for awhile and determined I was taking her to some high falootin food. Being the smart man I am, all I said was "Yes ma'am". You know I am just entirely too good to her. So she has been listening to the high falootin folk we run into who talk about all of these fancy grub places. After considerable research she decides we are going to Capital Grille for dinner to celebrate. Now this is one of those places you can't just drive up in your jalopy and park it up on the curb. No, they have valet service so they park for you, for free. Yeah that's a joke.  Also, don't be showing up in your best overalls right after you have cleaned a mess of fish and your favorite muddy boots. This is high falootin, so Sunday go to Meetin clothes. 

No card tables, paper plates, plastic forks. The real problem is there is a hardware store of knives, forks and spoons. Which one should I use. Also, everytime I use one they take it away. I don't really like this game. I don't want to get rid of my hardware until I am fully finished stuffing my face. 

I order a wedge salad to start with bread. Now I guess it is a cool thing to just cut a head of lettuce in quarters and put a quarter on a plate and scatter some fancy dressing on it. But come on, take a few seconds and cut up the lettuce instead of giving me a hunting knife to cut it up. And if they knew how good I was with a huntin knife they wouldn't give me one. Of well, it was fun cutting up the lettuce. Now the bread is a different story. You would think in a fancy place the bread would be incredibly good. And you would be wrong. The first piece of bread had a strange spongy consistency and tasted like spoiled cheese. The next piece looked like a normal roll, except if I ever go back, I am taking my circular saw with me to cut the bread open. Man that was like a rock. I ate it anyway. The next piece was a dark brown and was decent, not real good, but decent.

When it came to entree's I didn't understand half of the things on the menu. The menu didn't have any real good fiood like mudcat or crawdad tails. After studying long and hard I settleed on the salmon. At least it is a fish product. The salmon was very tender and it came in a citrus glaze which added a little flavor, but at what it cost, I want it jump off the plate and make me go wow that was good. Not gonna happpen. It was ok though.

For the finish line I ordered a Warm Apple Tart. This was like apple cobbler with a scoop of ice cream. Finally some good fixins right here. Man this was so good and it was plenty big. I ate myself into oblivion.

At the end I called my banker and got a bank loan to pay the tab. We did the scuttlebutt out of there before they kicked us out. 

Overall, it was a good meal. But considering the level of restaurant it was kind of disappointing. We have been to a number of these kind of places. The wifey keeps dragging me to them. And all of them have had better tasting food. It wasn't bad by any means, just not to level they think they are. 

Givem 7.5987979

Mitcho © 2026

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:

 

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Papins - Belt Line in Sunnyvale

 So after a hard day up in the crick fishing for mud cat and crawdaddin, the wifey informs me that just west of the crick is a new Mexican food establishment what we haven't tried. Apparently that was some sort of crime of which I was guilty of. So being the smart man I am we went to Papins for dinner.

When we drove up it was of some concern that no one else was there. That is not a good sign for a restaurant during dinner hours. But we barged on in anyway.

The waitress showed  up soon with chips and hot sauce. Now this can make or break a Mexican restaurant in the first few minutes. You know I have Chipper with me, so they better be good cause I got a true expert with me. First thing, there was not a salt shaker anywhere to be seen in the whole restaurant. How can you serve chips and not have any salt to liven up the flavor. That might be UnAmerican. Oh well, we still gonna eat the chips. The chips had a very nice crunch to them which I liked better than many other establishments of Mexican food. The chips had a little different taste which Chipper liked. That's good rat there. Now for the salsa, this is very important food. This salsa was bland in our opinion. I buy a Kroger brand salsa off the grocery store shelf that is much tastier than this. The salsa was a bust.

Since we always share a meal, Chipper ordered an enchilada plate with 3 enchiladas, salad, rice and charro beans. The salad was just lettuce with a few little tomatoe pieces to give it color. No points here. The rice was just rice. The charro beans had a different flavor to them which we couldn't identify. They were ok, but could have used some chili powder to liven them up. The beef enchiladas were a disappointment. The beef had a decent flavor, but the tortilla it was wrapped in was not good at all. Chipper ordered the ranchero sauce which turned out to be a reddish orange sauce that had no taste.

Overall, this would have a hard time competing with Oklahoma Mexican Restaurants and there is no good Mexican food outside of Texas. Pretty disappointing. We now know why no one else was there. The parking lot is a good judge of how good a restaurant is. If the parking lot is full and overflowing, loosen your belt because  you are about to grab some mighty good grub. But an empty parking lot is a warning that is being shouted at you.

Givem a 6.5797/87

Mitcho

©2026

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:

 

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O’Desi Aroma - McKinney (Indian)

 So I was wandering on up to McKinney to hang out with a couple of kindred spirits. While up there I ran into an ole known associate who use to hide out at my church with me, The First Fried Chicken Eaten mostly Baptist somewhat Non-Denominational Church. We decided we needed some extended time to hash out old times. So we decided to grab some grub. Now my known associate apparently doesn't eat any American foods or anything from the creek, so we had to wander into this Indian food restaurant, Desi Aroma. This was my first experience in an Indian restaurant. I had a neighbor bring us some Indian Food down to the crick for us to try one time and it was ok. So I wasn't totally scared, but I had heard tales of curry.

I studied the menu a long time and googled a lot of things to see what I was willing to risk my life over. I finally settled on Korma, a rich cashew almond curry with mixed vegetables (think a thick soup/sauce) with chicken (you know Yardbird). Also, I ordered garlic naan. 

So here I am risking my life, and all of sudden, hey this isn't too bad. Of course chicken is chicken. The Korma was very interesting a little spicy but a nice flavor. Hey I might do t his again sometime. The naan was basically a flatbed with oil and garlic on it. Now I could eat my weight in this stuff. So overall, I survived the indian food war with a win and a promise someday I will go do it again.

Of course when I was done my Texas drawl had a little Indian twang to it.

Givem a 7.98888

Mitcho

©2026

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:

 

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Pluckers - Mesquite

 Recently grandson number 1, CBoss, came in for a few days for advanced whittle and creek dwelling lessons. Gotta love the desire to learn and improve. Now CBoss is a big friend of the chicken wing or tender. Gotta be saucy though or forget it. So come time to strap on the feed bag, CBoss wanted to go to the new Pluckers in Mesquite. Since no is not in my vocabulary when it comes to grand kids we are off to Pluckers.

The first few months this place was open it was covered up with chicken eaten Skeeters/Stallions. However, finally the new has worn off and it is just a restaurant now. Mesquite was in bad need of another yardbird vendor. Like taco venders we have one on every corner.

We started off with fried pickles. Years ago I would have wondered why you want a fried pickle, but if it is battered and spiced nicely they are awesome. Pluckers are not. First of all they use a half a pickle spear. Fried pickles should be pickle slices heavely battered and very spicy. The batter here was ok and the spice was basic. The biggest problem here it is all pickle, limited batter and spice. If you need good fried pickles Razzoo's is the best. Buffalo Wild Wings are very good.  Don't bother with fried pickles at Pluckers.

I ordered the original buffalo flavor for my wings. The first thing I notice is what they call a wing, I call half a chicken. These things are huge. I prefer normal wing size which has more breading and flavor to the chicken ratio. These should be called yardbird breast not wings. The original buffalo flavor was disappointing. I have had this flavor in a number of wing shops in the area and this one is the least flavor I have had. This is how bad it is, Whatwings at Whataburger have a much better flavor. My wings (half chicken) had a good amount of grizzle. My knife couldn't cut the grizzle. So there goes a good amount of the wing (half chicken). You lose me at grizzle. 

Overall, I don't see the point here. My drink was good. That is the best thing I had. So don't look for me at Pluckers in the future cause I won't be there. Come see me at Whataburger, love those Whatwings.

Givem a 6.1

Mitcho

©2025

 

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:

 

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Lazy Dog - Firewheel

 Children

, you gotta have’em to get to the grand kids. No shortcuts here. 

My oldest was flying in for a rave and expected to be picked up at the big bird yard.

Of course at the time the fish are going to start to bite. What do you do?

After consulting the wifey and evaluating the future she painted for me, I went to the big bird yard.

The good news is the oldest grandson was hiding out nearby and was hungry. So we started making valuable food plans. One thing I know for sure is CBoss knows good eats.

Of course he has a hankering for The Lazy Dog. I had notified the family months ago that I was boycotting The Lazy Dog because how can you have dog in your name and not serve a hot dog?  How does that happen???

But as I said CBoss wanted to go there and grand kids rule. So against my better judgement off we go.

As we are ordering CBoss advises me that the BBQ Ranch Bacon Cheese Burger may be the best burger he has ever eaten. Just reading the name makes me hungry. As I mentioned above CBoss knows food so I ordered the burger. Wow he may be right, this was a mighty good burger.

But the best is yet to come. I was advised that the Cajun fries were the best. I like everything Cajun. So I ordered a mess of them. Oh my gosh, these things are incredible. Best fries I have ever had. 

Overall except for the two acres of land I had to sell to pay the bill this was a great meal. Of course it wasn’t my land I sold.

Givem a 8.93570

Mitcho 

©2025

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:

 

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Cheesecake Factory

 As Valentines was approaching the wifey informed me I was buying her her favorite candy. She got it off the shelf, took it to the register and indicated I was paying for it. Then she informs me I was taking her and my other wife to the Cheesecake Factory. You know I was out voted then. There was nothing I could do but gather the wives up and off we go.

You don’t go to the Cheesecake Factory for their entrees. They aren’t bad, but the star of the show is the cheesecake. Being on a diet and determined to eat my whole cheesecake I was looking for something lighter for entre. I found Chicken and Jalapeño Fritters. Chicken, green chilies, onions, sauce and some other stuff.

My first question is where is the jalapeños?

Question 2; where is the chicken. The fritters, green chilli and cheese sauce, onions etc were pretty good, but I didn’t find either one of the stars.

Of course afterwards I ordered a Snickers Cheesecake. Chocolate, caramel and whip cream, how can you go wrong. No take home box needed. This was some mighty good cheesecake. 

The entree gets a hardy 6.111, but the cheesecake comes in at a solid 9.0.

Mitcho

©2025

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:

 

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Kolache Depot Bakery-Ennis

 Down in the crick I was tending to important things when the word was that the Revenuers were in the crick looking for copper lines and kettles. I had no choice but to get out of Dodge for a few days. I grabbed up the wifey and we took off for Rockettown. We have some folk down there. 

One of my strong points is that I like to eat. I am a really big fan of the Czech Stop in the town of West, TX on I-35. But I don’t have a Czech place on I-45 going south. I had heard Ennis was a Czech community so it was time to Czech it out. A search came up with the Kolache Depot Bakery right next to I-45. We roll in there about lunch time and plenty haungry.

This place had a display case similar to the Czech Stop. So I am in bidness. I ordered a sausage and jalapeño kolache, a sausage, jalapeño and cheese kolache and a cinnamon roll.

The sausage was pretty good but could have been spicer. The jalapeño was barely detectable. But the make it or break it in a kolache is the fresh baked bread. Had I not eaten at the Czech Stop for 40 years, I would not have known better, but the bread did not measure up. Don’t get me wrong the bread was pretty good, but not oh my kolache good. So I left somewhat disappointed. 

When I dug into the cinnamon roll I found one thing that was ok. It was pretty close to the competition. Not enough cinnamon but it was as sweet as you would want.

I am still looking for a Czech place on I-45. If you know of one please call me at BR549.

Givem a 7:0000123.

Mitcho

©2025

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