Peach Cobbler Factory - Forney

 There are a few foods I am passionate about. Kolache's at the Czech Stop in West, TX. Pizza at the Pizza Getti on Buckner in East Dallas. Catfish at Doe Belly's in Forney and The Fish Net at Lake DeGray in Arkansas. Pie at Piefalootin in Garland. Blizzards at Dairy Queen anywhere in Texas. Dukes Truck Stop along I-20 and I-30, they have Fried Pies.

I have always been a big fan of the peach cobbler but getting a good source has eluded me for years. So I am always on the lookout for a peach cobbler source that is a good crunchy and vibrant taste cobble. Trust me I have eaten a peach cobbler in every place that serves them in North Texas and have come up short until now.

The Peach Cobbler Factory has been open for a few months and I have been seeing posts on social media about it. Of course it was becoming necessary for me to give it a try. The wifey informed me we were going to a movie in Forney just a couple of blocks from The Peach Cobbler Factory. So I agreed to go with the understanding that dinner would be at The Peach Cobbler Factory. She's a peach.

We got there about 6:30 on a Saturday evening along with everyone else in Forney. This place was hopping. When you get inside the menu is a large advertising banner which is very easy to read, but very difficult to decide what to order. There are 12 different variations of cobbler, 12 variations of cheesecake, churros, ice cream, cookies and much more. My blood sugar went through the roof just walking in the door.  Of course for both of you readers I ordered the regular peach cobbler with ice cream. It is only right to go to the main thing. The wifey ordered chocolate chip cheesecake. 

The wifey reports the cheesecake is very good. A little small but very good. As for the peach cobbler this is an above average peach cobbler. It is crunchy (I would want it to be a little more crunchy which kept it from being the best.). The cobbler is very flavorful and there are a number of peach slices in it. The serving is a little small for the price. The ice cream is vanilla ice cream with cinnamon on top. It is pretty good ice cream but not Blue Bell quality. 

Overall this is very good fixins, but a little pricey. So it won't be a trip to Forney weekly but an occasional special treat. If you are craving peach cobbler, grab you up some friends and known associates and get yourself to Forney and give it a whirl. 

Given it a 7.9254964

Mitcho

©2026

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

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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.

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Dairy Palace - Canton If you are a true Texan you have either been there or you are on your way to there!!!!

 

So a known associate of mine has been informing me of sometime that my citizenship in the State of Texas is in question because I have never been to the Dairy Palace. So being a true Texan the only thing to do was to do the Miata Twist and head to Canton to the Dairy Palace. You see I am not giving up my Texas citizenship. Now Dairy Palace is definitely a redneck hideout. However, it would have a better position if it served fried bologna. Just saying.

When you walk in, you think you are just in a local fast food place. Wrong!! This food is legit. 

The wifey ordered chicken fried steak with onion rings and a salad. Her meal also came with 2 large rolls and a big bowl of gravy. After the wifey had devoured the CFS and onion rings, she commented that this is the best chicken fried steak she has ever eaten. I told her a restaurant in East Texas worth anything has a chicken fried steak and they better be good. The food was so much she didn't touch the salad or rolls. We through our diet out the window on the way there.

My known associate has bragged for months about how good the grilled cheese with bacon is. Oh my, he wasn't kidding. Wow this is a really good grilled cheese. This may be the 2nd best I have ever had and that is saying something. I also ate a few of the wifey's onion rings and these things are about as good as I have ever had. 

This has been a really nice start so far. But down to the real deal.

This place has 32 flavors of Blue Bell ice cream. If you are not familiar with Blue Bell Ice Cream, just know there is ice cream and then way up the good food chain is Blue Bell Ice Cream. This is the best. The wifey went for Triple Chocolate. I didn't get a report, but it disapeared rapidly. I got one dip of Sea Salt Caramel and one dip of chocolate chip cookie dough. This was Blue Bell good. I mean Gooooood.

We are already planning our next trip to the Dairy Palace, this was very good vittles.

Giving it a 8.798797

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:

 

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

Bob’s Steak and Chop House - Plano

 

49 trips around the sun ago I came out of the creek long enough to get me a wifey. I talked this high falootin, cultured and educated woman to agree to marry me. So you know I married way way up.

One of the few downsides is she wants a high falootin meal on valentines and anniversary. Furthermore she doesn’t consider fried bologna a high falootin meal.

So it’s that time again and she informed me I was taking her to Bob’s Steak and Chop House. Being a man of the world I said “yes ma’am”.

The wifey is a waggyuu steak eater deluxe. On the other hand I am fried bologna.

So I looked at the menu and this place had a foot long hotdog. You can’t beat that. Well you can, because they had been invaded by creek dwellers and was out of them. Can’t believe my luck.

The wifey ordered a waggyuu steak, mashed taters and stewed carrot.

After perusing the possibilities I chose a meatball. Yes one meatball and a salad.

The wifey loved her steak and raved about the mashed taters.

Now my meatball was pretty good size and it was drowning in an Italian marinara sauce that was yummy.

The salad had a good variety of weeds from the field.

When it came to dessert time I got serious. The wifey ordered carrot cake. At a fancy restaurant you don’t waste your one dessert on carrot cake. She did love it.

Now I am professional level at dessert. I ordered this sundae. I was expecting two dips of ice cream and hoping for 3 dips. Wow about 8 dips of ice cream on this mountain of heart attack. The best sundae I have ever had.

As you can imagine this was a top notch dinner followed by an over the top dessert.

Givem a 8.8888

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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Burgers and Fries Hwy 276 Royse City

Today is the USA’s 250 th birthday. To celebrate we moseyed over to Rockwall for their 4th of July parade. The parade starts off with a long line of crooked politicians. This parade had more USA flags than the entire Democratic Socialist Communist Party own. I loved seeing all of the flags.

Afterwords it was lunch time and there is no more American than burgers and fries. Some fellow Corsicana rednecks had highly recommended this place. It was only a short distance to it. 20 miles later I am not sure how long a short distance is.

This place is retro 50’s and very cute. They serve breakfast, hamburgers, sandwiches, and a few entrees. Today they also had a fried bologna sandwich. That is true redneck grub. AND PIE

I ordered a hamburger and onion rings. The burger was a good burger. The main positives were lots of mustard and onions. I am a big fan of mustard and onions.

The burger was a really good regular burger. The onion rings were oh my gosh. Huge and heavily battered. These are onion rings you drive across town for.

This is a cute place that takes you back in time and feeds you a good meal. Check it out.

Giv’em a 8.036338

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:

 

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

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:

 

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

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:

 

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

 

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:

 

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