The Slow Bone - Irving Blvd Dallas

The wifey is a highly educated classy gal that occasionally has a little redneck in her blood. She is a descendant of  Fannin County farmers, enough said. So the last few weeks she has been craving the best fried chicken in North Texas. She has been on a hunt for the best. She got from good sources that the best was in downtown Dallas and we had to go. The problem was the place closed two years ago. So back to the drawing boards and more research. So she finally decided The Slow Bone was the Shangri La of fried chicken. All I have heard was fried chicken, fried chicken and fried chicken. So at lunch today she informed me it was fried chicken day. There was nothing I could do but grab the gusto and do the chicken dance with her to The Slow Bone.

The Slow Bone is a small old building with limited parking in an old part of Irving Blvd near downtown. It is mainly a BBQ joint and it looks like one in everyway.  You won't be running into any corporate presidents in this place. So this is safe haven for an upstanding redneck.

Of course the wifey ordered fried chicken. I wasn't letting her out of there without eating fried chicken after all I have heard lately. I went for the Cilantro Sausage, Mitcho is a Sausage kind of guy. We also ordered fried okra, beans and hush puppies.

The wifey reports that the fried chicken was not smoked, but some of the juiciest she has had. She liked her chikin likin. The sausage had a good flavor, not quite spicey enough for me, but better than most normal sausage. The fried okra was some of the best I have eaten in many years. The next time I go I am ordering a pint of okra just to eat with my lunch. Man this stuff seamed like it was fresh from the garden and was battered like grandma use to do it. Not the ole frozen stuff you normally get. Luv me some of their okra. The beans were doctored up nicely and had a smoked flavor. This is a plus. Most BBQ joints just have basic pinto beans with no added zip. The hush up puppies also had a smoked flavor and were very good.

So it may be a drive for you, but it could be worthwhile to take a shot at The Slow Bone, tell them the Wifey sent you.

Givem a 7.913

Mitcho
©2017

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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Pam's Hateful Hussy Diner - Talihina, OK

The judge finally released me from house arrest. I am free, I am free. Our first outing was checking out the Ouachita National Forest. You never know when you might need a  hideout (I told the Judge I would never do THAT again, but you never know for sure), still location, and various other needs when on the run. So we did the Stanky Legg up to Big Cedar, Ok. The highlight of this trip is the drive from Talihina to Mena, AR. If you haven't made this drive, get your self up off your mother-in-laws couch and get going.

Of course when dinner time comes, we check out all of the options in the area. A self-respecting redneck can't go wrong going to a diner named the Hateful Hussy. This is the number one rated restaurant in Talihina, OK. Of course the competition isn't overly tough. So we decided to try Pam's Hateful Hussy Diner. I will say most of the townfolk think this is the best place also, as there was a decent crowd.

I had a hankering for some chicken fried steak. You can get a pretty good idean of a eating joint by the CFS. So we ordered the chicken fried steak with a salad and mashed taters. No roll. The roll probably would have been the best of this meal.

The salad was tomatoes and lettuce, nothing else to give it variety. Come on, add something to give it a life. The ranch dressing looked more like mayonnaise and didn't taste as good. So as you can tell not impressed with the salad.

We bet the mashed taters were a box mix. After adding a good amount of salt and pepper they were almost decent. How about a real tater next time.

Now to the chicken fried steak. I am just guessing I look like Pam's first husband and there was bad blood at the end. This was the toughest CFS I have had in a long while. This meat must have worked out at the Wild Man's gym across the street and is the toughest in town. The breading wasn't bad, but the meat was tough. I am going to shave next time I go there so I don't look like the first husband.

Givem a 6.03

Mitcho
©2017

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

Zanata - Rockwall

The wifey and me are all churchified. You would know that if you have read the blog much. We go to The First Fried Chicken Eating Mostly Non-Denomination Somewhat Baptist Church. We call it CLife for short. We are part of a group of adults who gather once a week to try to cleanup the act of us rednecks and get us more like Christ. Which you know God parted the red sea and Jesus turned water into wine, but cleaning up a redneck takes more than a few minutes. Not everyone in the group is redneck, so I have some work to do also. The wife of the leader of our group determined that us guys were taking our favorite gal to a group Valentines dinner. That is a sure fire way for the wifeys to get a good meal, when you put peer pressure on the other wives. Us guys, we are just casualties. The head wife decided that we would go to Zanata's for dinner the night after Valentines. So we did the tarantella to Zanata's in Rockwall.

Zanata's is a high cotton Italian restaurant. I found that I needed a semi-smart phone so that I could Google the names of the different items in each entre. Most of this is stuff I have never heard of. This is not home of redneck cooking. Our kind of good food is like the Chuck wagon cook in the movie City Slickers said, "the food is brown, hot and plenty of it". The place is decorated nicely. There are some wall decorations that have been hung by a redneck, so I was very proud.

The wifey ordered a Supremo Pizza for us to share. This is sausage, pepperoni,  olives, onions and barking cat farms bell pepper. I don't really know what barking cat farms is , but the name is just fine in redneckville, it's a plus. I am not sure what happened to our pizza, but the crust was the soggiest I have ever had. The toppings were mighty good. I checked out the pizza of the other folk around me and their pizza was not soggy. So I guess the cat does more than bark. Overall, this was pretty good pizza.

Then the wives decided we were getting dessert. Of course I went along. The wifey ordered Pistachio gelato. She thought she was getting pistachio cheesecake. I didn't look at the menu, but gelato should have been an effective clue. Gelato for all of my redneck brethren is fancied up ice cream. Mitcho has a long history eating ice cream, so this was a good. The gelato had a great flavor.

Overall, this was a fun evening of corrupting friends and eating some good food.

Note: The federales are stirring up trouble, so I am going to have to hunker down and hide out for the next 6 to 8 weeks. So it may be a while till I write my next blog. Happy eating.

Givem a 8.0098146

Mitcho
©2017

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

Alligator Cafe - Casa Linda Valentines

Nothing is too good for my sweetie. So you know, on Valentines it is nothing but the best. The wifey picked the Alligator Café for Dinner. She is a good redneck wife. So we did the alligator dance to Casa Linda. The Alligator Café bills itself as a Cajun restaurant. The restaurant is decorated as part of Nawlin's. So interesting at least.  When you think Cajun you think spicey and there are no limits. So we are in for a treat, at least we think we are.

Being a high quality redneck, I spent my childhood days fishing in the creek and down by the dam. We caught plenty of mud cat, but we never had shrimp, alligator, or any of the other exotic seafood items. So today, I am pretty much catfish. Cause, you know, I know catfish.

Of course I ordered the catfish dinner. Two large planks of catfish, fries and hush puppies (I call em shut up doggies). We were expecting the catfish to be spicey, this is supposed to be Cajun. No, not gonna do it. This is just plain catfish. It was breaded decently, the fish tasted a little fishy, but not as bad as those mudcats of my youth. NOT A DROP OF SPICE. Come on, what is it with these Cajun restaurants in the Metromess. Go to the spice store and load up before you call yourself Cajun. The fries were pretty normal. They had a very small amount of spice sprinkled on them, but you couldn't taste it. There was one fry that got about 90% of the spice and that one fry was pretty good. The hushpuppies were pretty good.

So bottom line, this is just a basic restaurant with a great name. Givem a 6.851.

Mitcho
©2017

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

Babb Bros BBQ & Blues - Cake Bar Trinity Groves

Over the last 6 weeks I have worked my fingers to the bone. I mean I feel like a rented mule. However, I got some slack tonight so I decided it was time to kick my heels up and let my long hair down.. Our kids have been talking about Trinity Groves for the last year or so. We had never ventured there, so I asked the wifey to google it and see if there was something we would want to do. Her report back was BBQ & Blues. Say no more we got our boogey on. So we did the skanking on to Trinity Groves. Now parking is a problem, so if you figure it out, give me a shout.

By the time we got there Mike Babb & Friends were already playing. These guys were tight. Memphis & Nawlins don't have anything on these guys. They were two thumbs up good (I only have two thumbs). Chuck, BB and Stevie Ray would be proud of hearing these guys. They could really bang out the blues. They also encourage rug cutting. So if you got a special gal like I do, you could show her your moves. I don't have any, so I am a spectator. These guys really put on a good show. They interacted with the audience and just wanted to have fun. There is a watering hole here, but it really isn't prominent and you don't see much liquid refreshments.

This ain't no sissy French food (pardon my French to all of my readers in France and I have a decent number of readers in France). This is Texas man food. After a full day of punching cattle you don't want a soufflé, you want massive quantities of beef and sides.

So we did our normal BBQ thang. We get a two meat plate with brisket and sausage. Tonight we added bbq beans and onion straws. The brisket was lean, very tender and had a nice smoked flavor. This is top notch q here. The sausage had a nice spicey flavor also. On a roll. The bbq beans were the only weakness for the whole night. These were basically pork & beans. I need more spicey flavor than that. Then onion straws were just like I like em. This is some good luvin here.

So after we had eaten and listened to music for awhile, the wifey went over to the Cake Bar across the way and bought us each a piece of cake and brought them back to Babb's. No reason to give up listening to good music. I doubt that they really like other food brought in, but nobody said anything (of course I tipped the band enough for them to overlook my short comings). My piece of cake was Red Velvet cake. This thang was the size of a 10 gallion hat. Now in France that is amazingly big. In Texas it is just pretty good size. Great flavor and the icy was real yummy. Good idea wifey.

This was a good evening. Gonna go back. So if you like BBQ and the blues, then grab up your friends and head down to Trinity Groves. If you don't like BBQ and the blues, then go back to Illinois.

Given Babb Bros a 9.675810!
Given Cake Bar 9.255

Mitcho
©2017

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

 

Lockhart BBQ/Emporium Pies - Bishop Arts District

The last few years our kiddos have been going to Bishop Arts District from time to time. So the wifey and me had a free Saturday and decided to mosey on down there and see What's Up. So we did the Acro dance to the Bishops Art District. First of all, if you go, take your parking place with you, because you ain't gonna find one down there. Actually Google search Bishop Arts District Parking and jot down all of the options, you are gonna need'em. The Arts District on the map looks like it is 7 blocks long and 4 blocks deep. Not really. Davis Ave is probably 4 blocks long, then Bishop drive is 4 blocks long and Madison is about 1 block. That's about it. Mainly the area are art shops and restaurants. The people buying the art are not in my pay grade. Wow, if two things are welded together, they cost at least $2,000. The next time one of our family buggies die, forget selling them to the junk yard, I am going to part them out as art. I saw one piece of art that was bearings, piston connecting rods, timing chain and various other motor parts, $2,000. In the last couple of years we have given away hundreds of thousands of dollars of worthless car parts, that could have been welded into modern art. Go figure.

Also, you better do some study of the restaurants in the area. Most of 'em cost more than a week's wage of work at my neighbors pig farm slopping pigs. I am talking white table cloth pricey. I am not sure I can afford driving through this area, but I know I can't afford to walk around.

One of the exceptions to the restaurant problem is Lockhart BBQ, Lockhart is part of Kreuz Market which main location is in Lockhart, Tx. Now a good redneck knows where all of the BBQ joints in Texas are and Lockhart has the motherlode. So we slithered into Lockhart's and the wifey ordered brisket and I ordered sausage. We didn't order sides because we already planned a visit to Emporium Pies later. So we found us a table and dove right in. This is some good que. Great flavor, some black pepper and a good tasting BBQ sauce. This is a good choice. The wifey highly recommends the brisket. I was going to get a bite or two, but it was gone before I could get there. Lockhart's is one place in this area that a certified redneck can feel at home.   Good fixin's rat here.

Afterward, we walked about 30 minutes until we had seen most of the area, so it was time to head to Emporium Pies. Now this is some mighty good pie rat here. So I ordered "Lord of the Pies". This is apple pie with caramel and cinnamon. Man this is one good pie. The crust is amazing and plenty of cinnamon. The wifey ordered the Smooth Operator which is a dream chocolate pie. she plowed through that thing with a vengeance. She had eaten a piece of this pie before and it is unbelievable. Emporium now has a 2nd location in Deep Ellum at 2708 Main St and a 3rd location on the square in McKinney. The Deep Ellum location is next door to Pecan Lodge, which is around the corner from Twisted Root, Adairs and Angry Dog. So you know we will be hitting this location regular.

One interesting thing about the Bishop Arts District is there are murals painted on the sides and backs of buildings in the area. These are very interesting.

So if you are bored and looking for something to do, drag yourself over to Oak Cliff and check out Bishop Arts District.

Lockharts BBQ - Givem a 8.3781
Emporium Pies - Givem a 8.9991

Mitcho
©2017

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

 

Stackhouse Burgers - Dallas near Baylor Hospital

Today we had some business at a Baylor facility near downtown that led to another Baylor facility. We had major lunch plans, but they got scrapped because of our sitting around doing nothing. We had missed the lunch hour, so I decided we needed to go somewhere close to where we were. We had a friend that had raved about Stackhouse, and we were close, so today was the day to do the Cotton-eyed Joe on over to Stackhouse. This place is a little over a block towards downtown Big D and on the other side of the road from Baylor on Gaston. This is yuppy territory. This whole area has been re-built into downtown condos. So needless to say, we had nuttin in common with the patrons.

We ventured in anyway. I can take it if they can and sometimes they can't. This is one of those places you have to slither up to the counter to order. So we settled for a single burger each and an order of onion rings.

The burger is a 6 oz burger or 3/8's pound for you mechanics. The meat patty had a nice flavor and it was covered with all of the usual suspects (lettuce, onion, pickles, etc.). The bun had been toasted on the grill which is always a good plus. So overall, this is a good.

The onion rings, not so much. At least the ones we had. These goomers were greasy and soggy. They obviously had sat around a while. If they were fresh, they would probably be pretty good. There was so many of them you  could feed all your kin folk with just one order.

Two burgers, onion rings, and 2 drinks, set us back $25.00. Now all burgers in Texas have to compete with Whataburger and for twice the price, I am choosing Whataburger. Of course near Baylor the eating options are limited. I did notice that across the street from Baylor they are building a new building and it does look like there will be several restaurants in the building, so progress.

Givem a 6.9526 (soggy onion rings just don't cut it).

Mitcho
©2017

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