Willie's Duck Diner

The wifey and me are off to Alabama to fellowship with some of God's country and with some local rednecks. In traveling to Alabama, I noticed we would be in West Monroe, La at lunch time. Willie's Duck Diner is run by Willie Robertson of Duck Dynasty and Duck Commander. This is some good redneck folk rat here. These guys hunt, fish, rassle alligators, go muddin and tell TV executives that if they can't pray on TV they won't be on TV. Just doesn't get any better than these folks. This morning l put on my Duck Commander T-Shirt (dress shirt) and hat in anticipation of lunch.  We did the Duck waddle all the way to Louisiana.

This sure is a fine upstanding cafe to be run by such highly regarded rednecks. When we were seated we were treated with a large bowl of pork rines. I am not a real big fan of pork rines, but they are related to pig (bacon) and I guess Willie likes em so I had to eat a few. We ordered chicken fried steak, cheesy potatoes, salad and corn bread. The chicken fried steak tells us just how good rednecks this here batch is. Some pretty good ones in my book. The CFS was breaded heavily and the meat was tender and tasty just like I likem. The cheesy taters were a good mix of taters and cheese. Can't go wrong here. The cornbread was different, but tasty. The salad was one trip to the salad bar. The wifey made the salad bar run. When she came back she had piles of ranch dressing, lots of bacon (shes too good to me), and a hint of green stuff. A great salad.

All in all if you are in West Monroe at bean time, slide in here and support these fine God loving folks.

Givem a 9.5

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

Latham Bakery - Downtown Forney

The wifey and me had some very important bidness to tend to in Terrell. We had a grandson that was in dire need of being spoiled. So we are off to Terrell. Our trip was around lunch time. This is a Monday and Doe Belly's and 4T BBQ are both closed in Forney. I searched Tripadvisor and the highest ranking restaurant in Terrell is Buccee's. 2nd is Hamms Orchard which is only open a few months each year. Eating in Terrell is not something you look forward to. We have a friend that had sung the praises of Latham Bakery. So this seemed like the right time to get over going there. I knew it was a foo foo place from the beginning. You might as well say it is a La Madeleine of Forney!!

When we arrived the employees game me the stinky face. They knew a redneck was infiltrating them and they weren't sure they should let me in. Fortunately my money is still green (the ink might be wet, but it is green), so they let me and the wifey in. The wifey is one of them.

The menu is foo foo food that women go berzerk over. For a redneck, not so much. They have no chili, jalapenos, tobasco sauce, cayeene pepper, etc. What are they thinking. After reviewing the fresh bakery products and the menu I decided to go for a sausage and peppers in a fresh baked roll and an M & M brownie.

When the cashier rung up our meal I saw that my choice was a Quiche. REDNECKS DON'T EAT QUICHE. The wifey understood my dilemma and offered to trade even up (that means I am going to pay for it later). She had ordered a ham and cheese roll. At least this thing had lots of cheddar type cheese. Rednecks like cheese.

The ham was your basic ham pretty good, but nothing outstanding. A little Cayenne pepper would go along way. Of course there was plenty of cheese and a homemade roll, which was pretty good. So overall this wasn't a bad choice.

As I mentioned earlier I also ordered an M & M Brownie. When you go to a joint that has bakery in it's name, you eat some light meal to get to dessert. So the Brownie was the main thing here. Rednecks love their sweets. I just can't believe it. The brownie was decent, but CiCi's makes a better tasting and richer tasting brownie and I can get all the pizza I can eat with it. I was expecting a much better brownie from a bakery. Ok guys get with it. Stop counting calories and load them babies up with all the rich ingredients, lard, fat, sugar, chocolate, sugar, chocolate, etc.

All my girlfriends on the blog need to go to Latham Bakery and grab some grub. All my redneck buddies need to go to Forney Wednesday to Sunday and get some Doe Belly's or 4T BBQ.

Givem a 7.00000091

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

Texas Roadhouse - St George, Ut

The wifey and me are in Utah surveying to find out how many redneck Mormans we can find. We haven't found one yet. My readers know that I don't miss many meals. When in Utah, do what Utahwans do. At least tonight they are crowded up in Texas Roadhouse. You know we can't go wrong with any restaurant with Texas as the first name. We have saddled up in the Roadhouse in Texas so we knew it would be good Fixins.

Our waiter tonight was a very nice young man that worked hard to get us the meal we wanted. However, if I hear the word "awesome " one more time tonight, I may go redneck postal (you know, throw some rocks).

Growing up redneck the only steak I ever saw was the round version. Of course fried was the best. As a semi-adult I am not a big steakeater. The wifey was born with the silver spoon, so I have to feed her steak occasionally.

Tonight I ordered a house salad, which was a good salad. Very similar to Outback.

I followed the salad with a bowl of Texas Red Chili. This is some real redneck vittles rat here. This chili had it all, sweet taste, spicey and hot, onions, cheese, etc. The chili came with one packet of two crackers. Give me a break. At the home front, I eat a whole sleeve of crackers with my chili. Other than the cracker fiasco, this was some right good chili.

Throw in some rolls and this was a good meal. No they didn't throw them at us, that's Lambert's.

Givem a 8.47362897

Mitcho
Copyright 2017

Round steak is Bologna
I think people in Utah are referred to as Utes, however I made up Utahwans and I like it better.

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

 

Route 66 Classic Diner-Rockwall

Today was Sunday, so the wifey and me was gathered up at the First Fried Chicken Eating Mostly Non-Denominational Somewhat Baptist Church for some free coffee and donuts. They even had some sanging and a young buck brought a moving message. Afterwards it is always mandatory to do Sunday lunch. You know momma wanted it that way. We have driven by the Route 66 Classic Diner many times and always wondered what it was like. Well now we know, we did the Baptist shuffle over there and slid in for some grub.

This place has about 8 parking places and probably 25 booths. They need to work on parking. We parked in the childcare place across the street. It was Sunday and no one was there. No harm no fowl.

The Diner is on Hwy 66, but not Route 66. I know because Route 66 goes from Oklahoma City to Amarillo and west from there (now mostly I-40). This joint is about 200 miles from the closest part of Route 66. You can't blame the owners from trying to associate the place with Route 66. I am sure our redneck nation has spent many hours traveling on Route 66 and causing all kinds of havoc.  I assume having Route 66 in the name says rednecks are welcome, which is not always the case.

A look at the menu reminds me of meals at home growing up. Liver & onions, Fried Chicken Livers and Gizzards, Salmon patties, chicken fried steak, burgers, Mexican food, seafood, etc. So pretty much anything in the American/Mexican food genre. They also serve breakfast all day. I will have to go back and try other entres.

Today I went for biscuits and gravy with hash browns. B & G is quality redneck breakfast food. Due to the skinny boy diet I am on, I now only eat healthy cereal breakfast. Boring. When I get a shot at a cooked breakfast, I just can't hep myself. The biscuits were probably good at 7:00 this morning, but a noon they were a little stale. I suspect the gravy had been sitting since 7:00 also. Even loaded with a healthy amount of pepper and salt, there still wasn't much flavor. The hash browns were very good.  The wifey ordered a chicken fried steak sandwich. The chicken fried steak had a homemade breading. It tasted good, but the breading was pretty thin. You know Mitcho likes lots of breading on his CFS. The wifey also reports that the steak had more grizzell than she would like. Otherwise it tasted good.

This is your basic downhome diner. Nothing especially good, but a decent shot of home cooking.
Givem a 7.13545864

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

 

Trevino's Mexican Food - On the Square in Rockwall

My church which is part of the Fried Chicken Eating Mostly Non-Denominational somewhat Baptist Denomination was having a Baptism service in Rockwall tonight. One of the amazing things about our church is that about 1/2 of all of our Baptisms are adults. As you know, being religious makes me somewhat weird in the redneck world. A good redneck does say a little prayer to God hoping for some grace when the gate opens and he is on the back of Demon, the bucking bull. But I regress.

The service was at dinner time. Once it was over, chipper and me made a bee line for food. Mitcho does not miss meals and really tries to not be late either.

Chipper and me did the Big Apple to downtown Rockwall to Trevino's. We have a neighbor that is from Central Mexico and I believe this is where his family goes for Mexican food. They do advertise as authentic Mexican. The last time my neighbor brought me hot sauce it was so hot that after I mixed the small cup with a large jar of Pace Mild Picante sauce, it was still too hot to handle. So I was a little bit worried about how hot the food would be. After looking at the menu it looks basically like the normal Tex-Mex and Mitcho likes his Tex-Mex.

Chipper informed me that we were splitting combo fajitas tonight. Being the head of house I said "Yes Ma'am". We started with chips and salsa. Imagine that. The chips had a little better flavor than most Tex-Mex joints. So the chips were a good. The salsa seemed a little watered down and had only minimal flavor, but it did have an after burn. Overall chips good, salsa not bad. We are on a roll here.

The combo fajitas had more beef than chicken. The beef seemed to have a decent amount of spicey flavor, the chicken didn't have much flavor. They served the meal with plenty of bell peppers, onions, sour cream, guacamole, and pico de gallo. The pinto beans had a pretty good flavor which puts them ahead of most. Service was good and the atmosphere was interesting. The fajitas were front porch quality.

Parking is always a concern if you are not on your horse, but Trevino's has a parking lot in back that probably has enough parking spaces. That is a real plus on the Rockwall square.

Overall this was a pretty good meal. Give'm a 8.165464321984

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

 

Bull's Pen - Sunnyvale, TX

This evening the Wifey and me had some bidness to tend to on the Service Rd of Hwy 80 just down the road from the Bull's Pen. After we successfully tended to our bidness it was dinner time. Over that way, there isn't much in the way of good food offerings. The best option is a Mexican restaurant and we have had Mexican the last two days in a row. For some reason that is a problem for the wifey. My theory is, if you can eat pork chops one night, roast the next and meatloaf the 3rd night, why can't you eat fajitas one night, enchiladas one night and burritos the 3rd night? Just saying. Off my soap box here!!!! The wifey decided we were going to the Bull's Pen for dinner. So being the smart guy I am, we did the Western Two Step on down the road to the Bull's Pen.

The Bull's Pen is run by a great family that actually raises bulls for rodeos. Their bulls are famous and are used in all of the most famous rodeos. They have a good bull bidness. You could say they are full of bull. My theory has always been that once the bulls get too old, then they become hamburger meat. That's what you call full cycle. I doubt that this is true, but is sure sounds good to an enterprising young redneck.

They also run two successful Mexican restaurants in the area.

As you know, once we were seated and given menus, the wifey notified me that we were splitting an entre. She decided we were having chicken fried steak, black-eyed beans, and fried okra. Now if that ain't Texas Redneck food, I don't know what is.

The chicken fried steak was breaded very nicely, had a good flavor, and the meat was tender and tasty. The black-eyed beans were your standard bean offering. Nothing outstanding but not bad either. I started to ask for some hot sauce, but decided not to. The hot sauce would have spiced things up a little bit. The okra was exactly like most restaurants okra. I am betting they are frozen and come from a food service. However, the same o, same o, are pretty good.

This was my first time to break bread for dinner here, but I have had breakfast here a number of times. Speaking of bread, a roll for each of us came with dinner and at was good enough to make this redneck want more.

Overall, this was a good meal. Why haven't I been eating here more?  If you figure out the answer, ring me up at the email address.

Givem a 8.11574976543

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

Orchids Bloom - El Fenix Downtown

Man I had worked hard this week. Several days I had worked 5 or 6 hours. It is Saturday night and I am in bad need of some party time. I figured the only right thing to do was to load the car up full of women and head out to the club. A young man out of our hood is pursuing a career in music and has had some successes in the life of bands. He currently is in Orchids Bloom. We had already made arrangements to go to the Jack Daniels Saloon at Gilley's Dallas to see Orchids Bloom. Of course the only refreshment we partook of was Diet Coke.

So I grabbed the wifey and her friends and off we did the Landler over to Gilley's Dallas. Blondie was going to perform on the main stage tonight and she has some weird followers. It was interesting walking in from the parking lot. I had dropped off the wifey and friends at the door, so they were already inside jamming to the music. When I got to the door the security lady asked me what I was doing there. Well, it is a saloon, I am thinking getting something to drink and listen to music. What did she think. Ok, she let me in.

We spent over an hour listening to Orchids Bloom perform. They perform a Bluesy, Folk, Rock Coffee House music. You figure it out. Very talented and someday will go places. We originally had planned on eating dinner here. However, their only offering was a hamburger and we were in Downtown  Dallas which has many good restaurants. So I informed the ladies that we would wait to eat until after the show. Like I had a say in any decision since they outnumbered me. You know they outnumber us guys even when it is one on one.

After the show we mingled with the band, the band's groupies, and Ralph Strangis (of Stars Hockey play by play who is their manager). But you can only mingle so long when you are hungry. I cut it short and we're heading to the parking lot.

We did some more Landler to the other side of Downtown Dallas to El Fenix. El Fenix is a downtown staple for many years. They also have a free parking lot. Mitcho likes free. We talked about getting Twisted at the Root, but it is on Commerce in Deep Ellum and even though in my earlier years I was ready to rumble not so much anymore. El Fenix looked pretty good. My girls on the way were asking would El Fenix still be open. I told them that without a doubt they would not close their doors until Mitcho has arrived. I really don't know what they do when I am not downtown, but that is not my worry.

The wifey and my doctor have conspired against me and have me on this here diet to lose weight. I can tell you eating is not as fun as it once was. So I ordered the Tenchita salad. This is your basic taco salad, meat, cheese, lettuce, fried shell. A trip to El Fenix also includes some of the best chips in North Texas and the salsa isn't bad either. The restaurant was full even at 9:30 at night. But this is Saturday night, so I imagine they do a good business way into the evening. I won't know because it is past my bedtime.

Overall got my party on, had some fun, listened to some good music, talked to some good people and ate some good Tex-Mex.

Giving Orchid Bloom an 8.4021974 on the Led Zeppelin/Lynard Skynard scale.

Giving El Fenix a 8.124891.

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