Well we were off to Rockwall to keep the grands. After a day of ministry work it was time to raise a little cain. So we loaded up Precious and Lil' Bud and off to Raising Caines. The story is the grands eat chicken strips.
First the good news. The Rockwall location has a picture of my hero Chuck Norris in the dining room. The answer to my favorite trivia question is yes, I was an extra in a Chuck Norris movie. I stood in the lunch line behind Chuck and he was a very nice guy, nothing like what I expected. But I digress (I seem to do that a lot.)
First of all the menu has 3 options- chicken sandwich, 3 pieces of chicken strips, or 4 pieces of chicken strips. You are also going to get sauce, fries, and Texas Toast. If you order 4 pieces of chicken strips you also get cold slaw. Not much in the way of choices.
The main thing here is the chicken strips. Of course the chicken is chicken. The score is in the breading. The breading here is ok. I eat at Popeyes quite a bit and their breading is much better. There is also a special sauce. I thought it was ok, but it really didn't have much taste to it. (Several of my family members disagree with my call on the sauce, but this is not their blog!!!) Givin the chicken a 5.
The best part of the meal for me was the fries. The fries are crinkled fries and they were very crispy. I enjoyed the fries. Giving the fries a 6.5
Texas toast is pretty hard to mess up. You take an oversized piece of bread, butter it heavily and toast it. It was good, but back to Popeyes for the biscuit. Giving Toast a 5.5.
Overall, I give Raisin Caines a 5.756. Don't look for many more posts about Raisin Caines.
next time.
Mitcho
©2014
Saturday, June 7, 2014
Friday, June 6, 2014
Twisted Root - Downtown Dallas/Commerce St
Me and the wifey had bidness to tend to in downtown Dallas late afternoon, so there was nothing to do but get Twisted.
Twisted Root was rated one of the top 5 hamburgers in Texas and it is the best hamburger of all of the hamburger joints we hang out in. The Commerce street location is about 1/2 restaurant and 1/2 bar. The one in Richardson is all restaurant and just as good. It is always busy.
Our hamburger of choice is the Ranch Hand. This is a great tasting hamburger patty with swiss cheese, peppercorn ranch sauce and two pieces of bacon plus fixins. This is a great tasting burger. It is large enough to be a meal by itself. Givin the burger a 9.28
Of course you can't pass up the fried foods. The top of the line is the "Fried Ride". This is fried pickles, fried onion strings, fried sweet potatoes, french fries and fried green beans. We have taken the Fried Ride several times, however, it takes 3 or 4 days to get over having that much cooking oil in your body. It's like electrocution by fried foods.
So we chicken out and order fried pickles and fried onion strings. Fried pickles are always compared to Razzoos Fried Pickles which are the absolute best. The fried pickles here are a step down from Razzoos, but they are still very good. A Pickled score of 8.1.
The fried onion strings are as good as any I have eaten. They are thin cut with a good tasting batter. They are very good. The onion strings get an 8.35.
Overall, Twisted Root is a 9.0.
NOTE: You have to park at a meter. Before 6:00 parking is free, but beginning at 6:00, you have to feed the meter. Also, since it so popular, the parking is full along Commerce for blocks. We have found that if you go over to Main, you park at a meter there and can be within a block.
Also, the clientele for dinner looks like just normal Dallas folk. There are people from all walks of life. Most of them look almost as normal as I do. Of course tonight, there was one young woman that had all visible parts of her body tattooed to the hilt, this is actually an exception not the norm. I wouldn't recommend being here at 10:00 at night.
Mitcho
©2014
Twisted Root was rated one of the top 5 hamburgers in Texas and it is the best hamburger of all of the hamburger joints we hang out in. The Commerce street location is about 1/2 restaurant and 1/2 bar. The one in Richardson is all restaurant and just as good. It is always busy.
Our hamburger of choice is the Ranch Hand. This is a great tasting hamburger patty with swiss cheese, peppercorn ranch sauce and two pieces of bacon plus fixins. This is a great tasting burger. It is large enough to be a meal by itself. Givin the burger a 9.28
Of course you can't pass up the fried foods. The top of the line is the "Fried Ride". This is fried pickles, fried onion strings, fried sweet potatoes, french fries and fried green beans. We have taken the Fried Ride several times, however, it takes 3 or 4 days to get over having that much cooking oil in your body. It's like electrocution by fried foods.
So we chicken out and order fried pickles and fried onion strings. Fried pickles are always compared to Razzoos Fried Pickles which are the absolute best. The fried pickles here are a step down from Razzoos, but they are still very good. A Pickled score of 8.1.
The fried onion strings are as good as any I have eaten. They are thin cut with a good tasting batter. They are very good. The onion strings get an 8.35.
Overall, Twisted Root is a 9.0.
NOTE: You have to park at a meter. Before 6:00 parking is free, but beginning at 6:00, you have to feed the meter. Also, since it so popular, the parking is full along Commerce for blocks. We have found that if you go over to Main, you park at a meter there and can be within a block.
Also, the clientele for dinner looks like just normal Dallas folk. There are people from all walks of life. Most of them look almost as normal as I do. Of course tonight, there was one young woman that had all visible parts of her body tattooed to the hilt, this is actually an exception not the norm. I wouldn't recommend being here at 10:00 at night.
Mitcho
©2014
Thursday, June 5, 2014
Pei Wei Firewheel Mall
Last night we felt the need to celebrate the wifey's 2nd 29th birthday. We went to darlin's and went to Pei Wei with her family (wifey's choice - normally we let the kiddos decide which almost always means Cici's). First of all any meal with 2 3 year olds is interesting. So we piled into the soccer van and headed to Pei Wei. Going through the line and ordering went without much difficulty other than deciding which item we are going to order and complain about 2 hours later when we are hungry again. Speaking of being hungry this is actually two hours after the meal, so time out for a minute...................................... Much better.
I ordered Caramel Chicken with fried rice. The chicken was coated in a delicious sauce that obviously had some caramel, but other spices also. It also had the following ingredients on the plate - pinneaple, ginger, garlic, lemongrass, mint, rice sticks, Asian slaw of cucumbers, red bell peppers, cilantro, carrots, red onion, Fresno chili peppers, and Vietnamese Vinaigrette. This created a variety of tastes in each bite. It was pretty interesting and tasty. I washed this meal down with Diet Raspberry/Vanilla Coke (I really like these new fancy Coke dispensers that allow you to get multiple flavors). The Caramel Chicken with fried rice gets a 7.45.
By the way when we left, Pei Wei had 3 or 4 employees cleaning up where "Big Guy" had sat. He was probably hungry leaving since all his food was scattered everywhere. Oh well, he is cute. I sat across from Lil darlin and for once she didn't comment about how fat I was. So this was a good meal.
For dessert, wifey had purchased a pettifor from CASA LINDA BAKERY for each of us. Now everything from CASA LINDA BAKERY is dreamy wonderful. Giving the pettifor a 10 (I was told by wifey that it was a 10 or else). Did I say it was a 10, just wanted to be sure.
Darlin reminded me that I needed to review the Poor Mitch sandwich from Mitcho's Kitchen. So coming soon, the Poor Mitch!!!!
Mitcho
©2014
I ordered Caramel Chicken with fried rice. The chicken was coated in a delicious sauce that obviously had some caramel, but other spices also. It also had the following ingredients on the plate - pinneaple, ginger, garlic, lemongrass, mint, rice sticks, Asian slaw of cucumbers, red bell peppers, cilantro, carrots, red onion, Fresno chili peppers, and Vietnamese Vinaigrette. This created a variety of tastes in each bite. It was pretty interesting and tasty. I washed this meal down with Diet Raspberry/Vanilla Coke (I really like these new fancy Coke dispensers that allow you to get multiple flavors). The Caramel Chicken with fried rice gets a 7.45.
By the way when we left, Pei Wei had 3 or 4 employees cleaning up where "Big Guy" had sat. He was probably hungry leaving since all his food was scattered everywhere. Oh well, he is cute. I sat across from Lil darlin and for once she didn't comment about how fat I was. So this was a good meal.
For dessert, wifey had purchased a pettifor from CASA LINDA BAKERY for each of us. Now everything from CASA LINDA BAKERY is dreamy wonderful. Giving the pettifor a 10 (I was told by wifey that it was a 10 or else). Did I say it was a 10, just wanted to be sure.
Darlin reminded me that I needed to review the Poor Mitch sandwich from Mitcho's Kitchen. So coming soon, the Poor Mitch!!!!
Mitcho
©2014
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
El Chico - Rockwall
Last night we were on our way to Rockwall to keep two of the grands (Precious and Lil' Bud). So we decided to eat in one of the restaurants along Hwy 30 in Rockwall. The final decision had us going to El Chico. Of course I was accompanied by Chipper. But she was not in full form tonight. We ate only one basket of chips.
Speaking of chips, these are basically the standard fare at most Mexican restaurants. They are nothing special but still pretty good. Giving the chips a 6.5.
The salsa was spicy and a good consistency. I enjoyed the salsa tonight. Giving salsa a 7, not salsa lessons.
Chipper ordered the Tortilla Soup, which is one of her staples at Mexican Food restaurants. El Chico is her favorite Tortilla Soup of all of the options. She would give it a 7.
I ordered the Juarez. I am just glad I don't have to go to Juarez to get it. I hear that Juarez is a cartel capital. The Juarez comes with a beef taco, cheese taco, cheese enchilada, beans and rice. I enjoyed the beef taco. It was pretty good size, spicy beef, lettuce and cheese. Now I have never understood why there is a cheese taco and a cheese enchilada. There isn't much difference. Here the tortilla's were a little different and one had queso on top and the other had chili.The queso topped enchilada tastes similar to the cheese taco at every other Mexican food restaurant. The cheese enchilada is topped with a chili. The chili is pretty spicy, which it adds to the flavor and points. The re-fried beans and rice were re-fried beans and rice, pretty decent but nothing special. Giving the whole plate a 7.25.
Overall, tonight El Chico scored a 7.0. Way to go guys.
Next time, Mitcho
©2014
Speaking of chips, these are basically the standard fare at most Mexican restaurants. They are nothing special but still pretty good. Giving the chips a 6.5.
The salsa was spicy and a good consistency. I enjoyed the salsa tonight. Giving salsa a 7, not salsa lessons.
Chipper ordered the Tortilla Soup, which is one of her staples at Mexican Food restaurants. El Chico is her favorite Tortilla Soup of all of the options. She would give it a 7.
I ordered the Juarez. I am just glad I don't have to go to Juarez to get it. I hear that Juarez is a cartel capital. The Juarez comes with a beef taco, cheese taco, cheese enchilada, beans and rice. I enjoyed the beef taco. It was pretty good size, spicy beef, lettuce and cheese. Now I have never understood why there is a cheese taco and a cheese enchilada. There isn't much difference. Here the tortilla's were a little different and one had queso on top and the other had chili.The queso topped enchilada tastes similar to the cheese taco at every other Mexican food restaurant. The cheese enchilada is topped with a chili. The chili is pretty spicy, which it adds to the flavor and points. The re-fried beans and rice were re-fried beans and rice, pretty decent but nothing special. Giving the whole plate a 7.25.
Overall, tonight El Chico scored a 7.0. Way to go guys.
Next time, Mitcho
©2014
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Mesquite BBQ - Downtown Mesquite
Mesquite BBQ has been a downtown Mesquite staple for over 50 years. They just recently completely remodeled the restaurant and it looks very nice. They were shutdown for several months, which built up significant BBQ demand in downtown Mesquite. When we got there the line was backed up to the door. Unfortunately the line ahead of us was most of the staff of our church - CLife. I jokingly suggested that the pastors pay for mine and wifey's lunch, but as it turns out, I was lucky to get out of there without buying all 13 of their lunches. I digress!!! Back to the line, it stayed to the door the full time we were there. So it's hopping at Mesquite BBQ.
The wifey and me decided to split a two meat plate. This is sliced beef, sausage and two veggies.
As usual the wifey takes the sliced beef (I am a sausage kind of guy!!!). She said it pretty much tasted the same as the other BBQ places we haunt. She noted the meat had very little fat on it. Sounds like she is giving the sliced beef a 6'er.
I chowed down on the sausage. At this joint the only choice is plain sausage and I am a big fan of the peppered sausage. They get a negative point for not having peppered sausage. The sausage had a pretty good flavor and consistency. The BBQ sauce was pretty good also. So the sausage begins at 6.5, but after the loss of one point is a 5.5.
The baked beans looked like pork and beans, but they had an afterburn that was pretty spicy. The beans get a 6.
The potato salad was mayonnaise based potato salad. Now Mitcho is a mustard potato salad kind of guy. Mitcho also prefers some onion, relish, or other crunchy additives which this didn't have any of them. Givin' em a 5.
Overall Mesquite BBQ gets a 6.
Mitcho
©2014
The wifey and me decided to split a two meat plate. This is sliced beef, sausage and two veggies.
As usual the wifey takes the sliced beef (I am a sausage kind of guy!!!). She said it pretty much tasted the same as the other BBQ places we haunt. She noted the meat had very little fat on it. Sounds like she is giving the sliced beef a 6'er.
I chowed down on the sausage. At this joint the only choice is plain sausage and I am a big fan of the peppered sausage. They get a negative point for not having peppered sausage. The sausage had a pretty good flavor and consistency. The BBQ sauce was pretty good also. So the sausage begins at 6.5, but after the loss of one point is a 5.5.
The baked beans looked like pork and beans, but they had an afterburn that was pretty spicy. The beans get a 6.
The potato salad was mayonnaise based potato salad. Now Mitcho is a mustard potato salad kind of guy. Mitcho also prefers some onion, relish, or other crunchy additives which this didn't have any of them. Givin' em a 5.
Overall Mesquite BBQ gets a 6.
Mitcho
©2014
Monday, June 2, 2014
Arby's - Mesquite Hwy 80 & Belt Line
If you are reading this on Monday night, turn your TV to Channel 13, they have a "Party Song" special going. I am rocking out!!! So if there are any spelling or grammar problems it is part redneck/part party songs.
Okay, it is getting hard to have new material finally. We had dinner at Jason's tonight, but it was identical to the last time. So that post would be "ditto, any questions". So we are working on lunch tonight.
We had important business to tend to at Walmart, junk food and supplies for the T.
This isn't my first visit to Arby's. For a chain fast food place it is a cut above most. I am a big fan of the beef and cheddar, which is what I ordered today. Now the rating of this sandwich goes in direct proportion to how much Arby's sauce you can get on you and the sandwich. I made a mess of things today. So giving it a 6.5.
Of course I ordered curly fries with my meal. Actually I was told to order curly fries. Apparently there are no calories if your husband orders the fries and you eat them. So I am thinking of adding Frybaby to chipper's aliases. The fries I did get to eat had a little Arby's spice on them, curly and nice and crisp. They get a 7.
My main knock on Arby's is they serve Pepsi products which are OK, but my retirement account is heavily invested in Coke. Drink more Coke. But the diet Pepsi was pretty good anyway.
Overall, it averages out to an 6.81652.
Next Time
Mitcho
©2014
Okay, it is getting hard to have new material finally. We had dinner at Jason's tonight, but it was identical to the last time. So that post would be "ditto, any questions". So we are working on lunch tonight.
We had important business to tend to at Walmart, junk food and supplies for the T.
This isn't my first visit to Arby's. For a chain fast food place it is a cut above most. I am a big fan of the beef and cheddar, which is what I ordered today. Now the rating of this sandwich goes in direct proportion to how much Arby's sauce you can get on you and the sandwich. I made a mess of things today. So giving it a 6.5.
Of course I ordered curly fries with my meal. Actually I was told to order curly fries. Apparently there are no calories if your husband orders the fries and you eat them. So I am thinking of adding Frybaby to chipper's aliases. The fries I did get to eat had a little Arby's spice on them, curly and nice and crisp. They get a 7.
My main knock on Arby's is they serve Pepsi products which are OK, but my retirement account is heavily invested in Coke. Drink more Coke. But the diet Pepsi was pretty good anyway.
Overall, it averages out to an 6.81652.
Next Time
Mitcho
©2014
Sunday, June 1, 2014
Taco Cabana - Mesquite Hwy 80 & Belt Line
Now a good Christian's first priority after leaving church on Sunday morning is getting to the restaurant fast!!!
So most Sunday's we get our boogy on down to the Taco Cabana, probably the closest restaurant to our church. This is also one of the wifey's favorites!!!
Now I have eaten here many times. First of all anything ordered with hamburger meat is going to be running with juice/fat. I don't car if it is tacos shell or soft or street, beef nachos, beef burrito, etc. So I go the chicken route. A chicken runs in the yard not on the plate. See yardbirds earlier.
I order the fajita chicken quesadillas, because it tastes good, not because it is easy to spell. The personal size is a standard paper plate full. The chicken is tender and tasty, plenty of cheese, I think there may be some onion. You can get pico de gallo, but I leave it off. The fcq gets a 6.5.
The meal also comes with a free bowl of chips, but you have to ask for them or you won't get them.
Throw in a Diet Coke and Sunday afternoon is off to a good start.
Mitcho
©2014
So most Sunday's we get our boogy on down to the Taco Cabana, probably the closest restaurant to our church. This is also one of the wifey's favorites!!!
Now I have eaten here many times. First of all anything ordered with hamburger meat is going to be running with juice/fat. I don't car if it is tacos shell or soft or street, beef nachos, beef burrito, etc. So I go the chicken route. A chicken runs in the yard not on the plate. See yardbirds earlier.
I order the fajita chicken quesadillas, because it tastes good, not because it is easy to spell. The personal size is a standard paper plate full. The chicken is tender and tasty, plenty of cheese, I think there may be some onion. You can get pico de gallo, but I leave it off. The fcq gets a 6.5.
The meal also comes with a free bowl of chips, but you have to ask for them or you won't get them.
Throw in a Diet Coke and Sunday afternoon is off to a good start.
Mitcho
©2014
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