5 Guys Burgers -Rapid City, SD

Me, the wifey and double digits was just slightly north of east Dallas in Rapid City, SD spending a week surveying and getting to know rednecks in the area. You know there are rednecks all over the US, there are just more in the South. So the South Dakota redneck is part cowboy and part redneck. I am not really sure where one ends and the other begins, but they still whittle, spit, pass gas and hop freights. So while there we toured some failed gold mines, watched a cowboy fast draw contest and other good redneck activities.

Eating while traveling with Double Digits is very interesting. He could eat pizza 3 meals a day and the wifey does not want to eat pizza. His only fallbacks are hamburgers and hot dogs. So our food was very limited in types. Sounds like a good redneck for the future. We did the hand jive over to 5 Guys Burgers.

We were on the Hamburger action and chose 5 Guys, when Digits said that they had a great Hot Dog. It was really good. So there was nothing I could do, but dog it up. Their hot dog is a very tasty and large brat on a normal bun. They also have a long list of items you can add to the hot dog, just like their hamburgers. So you can have it your way. Of course I loaded mine with mustard, relish, onions, jalapeno's, etc. This dog was DOG GONE good.

We also ordered Cajun fries. This is always interesting as even Cajun restaurants sometimes don't know what Cajun means. These fries were really loaded with Cajun spices. I mean they were almost orange there was so much on them. Man these were some really good fries.

So the bottom line, the dog and fries were both very good.

Givem an 8.519647

Mitcho
©2017

Blog Scripture

 

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

Uno Pizzeria - Downtown Fort Worth

I am blessed with 6 wonderful grand kids. I see my job as the redneck granddad to teach them all things redneck. They need to know the important redneck activities, spittin, whittling, passing gas, hopping freights, etc. The 4 oldest are old enough to take on adventures and learning experiences. I decided it was time to ride the rails. Before you go call the sheriff or CPS, we bought tickets and everything. We didn't hop a freight, this TIME. Stay tuned.

The wifey and me gathered up Double Digits (formerly known as CBoss), Darlin, King L, and Precious and off we go. We went to the nearest Dart train station (the Dallas commuter train) and bought all day regional pass tickets, no freeloading in front of the grands. We rode the Dart into downtown Dallas to Union Station. We exited the Dart train and got on the Trinity Rail Express  that goes to Fort Worth. The TRE is similar to an Amtrak train that goes from city to city, so this is the real train experience. Nothing is too good for the grands. We got off of the TRE at the Intermodel Transit station in Downtown Fort Worth (basically a huge bus and train station). We caught Molley the Trolley around Downtown to Uno's.

I have heard a lot about Chicago Deep Dish pizza. I have to confess I am a thin crust kind of guy. We were so poor growing up that everything was thin crust. My son had recommended Uno's and said it was known as the best Chicago Deep Dish pizza in North Texas. So that gave us a destination for our train ride. While ordering my whole gang wanted thin crust, but I had to try the Deeper dish, so I ordered a personal size pizza. I ordered the Numero Uno. If it is number one, it has to be good. This is a pizza with sausage, pepperoni, onions, peppers, mushroomos, tomato sauce and cheese. I really couldn't tell there was sausage or pepperoni on it, but the other stuff was all there. The crust was very different from any thick crust pizza I have eaten. It seemed almost like it had been fried, it had a good taste and texture. Next time throw on some sausage and pepperoni and you may have something.

We ordered a couple of pepperoni thin crust pizzas for the kiddos. After my pizza I had several slices of the thin crust pepperoni. The thin crust was a good crust and of course cheese and pepperoni is always good.

Be aware that this is a classy downtown Fort Worth pizzeria. It is not cheap. I would recommend you go by the local Car Title Payday Loan shop or go see Vinny the Dollar in Little Sicily and get some extra cash, you are going to need it.

For my buddy Kyle, no worries, this pizza is nowhere as good as the Deluxe Pizza at Pizza Getti on Buckner just north of 30.

Givem a 8.328

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

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:

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

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