Kitchens Hardware & Cafe - Mineola, TX

Due to life's circumstances, I have been hanging out in the city with them so called professionals and I feel like I have become way to citified. So the wifey and I decided to skip off to East Texas and associate with some good ole East Texas rednecks for a few days. All you have to do is hole yourself up in an area with mobile homes, storage buildings turned into homes, and other makeshift accommodations and you will get an education of a lifetime or two.

Of course while we were down in the woods, we tended to wander during the day and one day we wandered into Mineola. Now, I have been here before and I have been aware of the cafe in a hardware store. This is redneck on steroids. So we slid into Kitchens Hardware and Cafe. Nothing like eating with shelves of hardware nearby and many many old relics of the past.

After studying the menu, I decided to go for the Junk Yard Dog. I am thinking why not. This is a hot dog with chili, sauerkraut, onions, cheese and any other stray items they happen to have in the kitchen. this doggy had the best sauerkraut I have tore into in a very long time. The chili and dog were pretty good, and there was a good amount of onion. Overall, this was a powerful good doggy.

The meal also came with homemade french fries. We all like fries, and these were pretty thin cut and fried crisp just like I like'em.

So if you are getting too citified and need an instant cure, grab up some know associates and bogey down to Mineola and checkout Kitchens Hardware you won't regret it.

Givem a 7.9655465465

Mitcho
©2019

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

Circle Grill

Me and a known associate meet for breakfast every Saturday morning. Usually we meet at Cracker Barrel and we have our own personal waitress. However, our waitress had surgery recently and is out of work for a few months. So we currently are free agents to try some of the local establishments that sling breakfast.

This week we chose Circle Grill. Both of us in the late 60's and 70's hung out at Circle Grill usually around midnight after an fun filled evening of Shenanigans, terriorist activities, partying and other fun filled waste of our time. We have settled down more than we would like to admit to over the many years. We didn't know each other back then, but we were probably there at the same time many times and would have been double trouble if we knew each other. Both of us rave about how good the enchiladas and chili were at midnight there. Yum, Yum. So we went back just for old memories sake. 

My known associate has had Circle Grill enchiladas on his brain all week. So he asked the waitress if they could prepare enchiladas at 7:00 in the morning. One order of enchiladas coming up. They came with chips and salsa. We also ordered our usual biscuits and gravy and burnt bacon. There is nothing like some burnt pig.

Yipper, biscuits and gravy, bacon, enchiladas and chips and salsa for breakfast. The breakfast of champions (or is that chimps).

We have many friends that slide into the Circle Grill still and they brag about their breakfast. They are probably from the eggs and bacon tribe instead of the biscuits and gravy tribe.

As for biscuits and gravy, the biscuits were decent, but the gravy was lacking  Of course the burnt bacon was great, you can't hurt dead pig that is overcooked. Imagine this, the chips were stale at best. Yes at 7:00 am. The salsa needs more zing to it. The enchiladas were as good as I have had in Colorado or New Mexico, but leave something to be desired in Texas. Wolf Brand chili would be better than the chili on the enchiladas. Our memory was far better than this, of course our memory was severely damaged back in the day.

Next time wait till noon for the enchiladas.

Overall, givem a 7 for breakfast, plus a bonus point for memories so 8.0.

Mitcho
©2019

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

Hamburger Joint Taco Challenge Burger King-Jack in the Box-Dairy Queen

One of my avid (or rabid) readers recently requested a taco challenge of tacos at fast food hamburger joints. You gotta know I am a big fan of tacos. It is obviously one of the major food groups. You also need to know I am a fan of quantity over quality.

I will start with Burger Thing. They have just recently jumped into the taco game. Welcome to the big time. Good luck getting one of their tacos. I went 3 times before I found a BK with Tacos. To be fair I ordered 4 tacos at each place. The taco shell is quite greasy. The taco has lettuce and meat. The lettuce is just normal. Now for the meat. I don’t know what mystery meat really is, but I am not sure what this meat is. It may be a version of mystery meat. It has a funky kind of taste. The salsa was pretty good and enough of it covers up the meat flavor if you want to call it flavor. I give em a 6.45674. Note they are $1.00 each.

Now for Jack in the Box. I am somewhat prejudice here. In high school, Jack in the Box was the hangout place. The tacos were 19 cents each back then. We would order 15 to 20 each. So I have eaten a lot of their tacos over the years. These shells are somewhat greasy also. The lettuce is just normal. I am not sure of the meat here. It may be a mystery also. This brought back memories of potted meat. Somehow this meat taste ok. Their salsa has a decent flavor. Overall I am a fan of the Jack in the Box taco. 69 cents each. Giv’em a 7:638539.

Finally Dairy Queen. These tacos more closely resemble tacos made at home or good Tex-Mex restaurants. The shells here are a good quality shell. They are loaded with a decent amount of cheese and lettuce. The meat is real ground hamburger. Their salsa is a little lacking here. Overall this taco can compete with Mr. Tex-Mex. Here I get a basket of 3 and a drink for $4.95. I giv’em 7.95948. Of course here you can get a blizzard for dessert.

So Dairy Queen is the winner wit Jack in the Box a close second. My actual favs are Fuzzy’s Taco and Fuel City (they have fried pies!).

I am thinking we need a taco trip and eat tacos 5 or 6 times a day.

Mitcho
@2019

Krispy Kreme Donuts - Reeses Peanut Butter and Chocolate

Over the weekend the Wifey and me spent some quality time with 4 of the grands, Lil Darlin, PNuggett, Precious, and DMoney. Since these kiddos are spending way too much time with their ultra citified parents, it is important that I spend quality time with them to teach them the redneck ways. So the best learning place is Dirt Track Car races. So the wifey, the 4 grands and me did the Hot Wheels to RPM Speedway on Friday night. It was very interesting, the girlies loved the racing even better than the boys. Go figure. Because we were out half the night, the grands spent the night with us.

The wifey is a huge fan of Reese's peanut butter and chocolate products. I mean all of them. So I planned to take the tribe to Krispy Kreme in Mesquite to test out the Reese's donuts. As you can tell from the picture above, the kiddos went for sprinkles on their donuts. You can also see that the wifey went straight at the Reese's donuts.

All of the kiddos report good things about their donuts, except DMoney who didn't like his. What was he thinking. I obviously am going to have to spend more quality time with him. (Of course I did get to eat his donut for him, so it wasn't all bad.) The wifey gave top notch reports for her two donuts, the chocolate and the peanut butter. I was allowed a few bites of each and they were very good.

So if you get a hankering for a good donut, you may want to get your sugar in gear and get to Krispy Kreme. Don't take all your buddies because if they are in line in front of you, they may buy all of them. How tragic could that be. (Note: I am still a big fan of the Kreme filled donuts at Dunkin Donuts.)

Givem a 8-24866748494

Mitcho
©2019

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 Porch Swing - Mesquite Follow-up Re-Check

Being Sunday, my main wifey and me slid over to The First Fried Chicken Eaten Somewhat Baptist mostly Non-Denominational Church. As luck would have it, our sonny boy (Bud) was bringing the heat this morning (preaching). After church we had plans to meet my adopted other wife for lunch. We took a vote for lunch in which I never got around to voting not that it would have mattered. The girlies decided we would be doing the electric slide to The Porch Swing.

We had gone here back in February a few days after it opened. If you read my review from then, I wasn't that impressed.

The girlies had a chicken fried steak and they split it. In my last review, they had a long way to go to making this a good meal. Apparently they made the trip, because the girlies gave a good review of the CFS.

Recently I have been on an eating fest that makes it imperative that I lose a few pounds. Not so easy especially when they have pie. Since I had my eye on pie, I went for a vegetable plate. Salad, Broccoli Bliss, Mac and Cheesey and beans. All of these were pretty decent. You don't get excited about veggies, but if they lead to pie, then they are ok.

The two girlies got pie to go. Not this guy. I want me pie and I want it now. In my last review the coconut creme pie was in need of some attention. Mainly the topping was supposed to be whipping creme, but it was more like paste. This time I went for chocolate pie. Now if you mess up chocolate pie, then quit cooking pie. This time around the chocolate pie was very good and the whipping creme topping was excellent. Once again, they checked out my review and got with the program. 

So this time, things were much better. 

Givem a 8.23824978

MItcho

©2019

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

Palios Pizza Cafe - Amarillo, Texas

This last week me, the wifey and grands CBoss, Lil Darlin, and King L were touring West Texas. You know a redneck has many things in common with a cowboy. You know a little pain like a broken leg is no big deal for some fun. So I fit right in for the last week. We ended up in Amarillo which is probably the capital of West Texas. Since we were traveling with the grands and CBoss has been known to eat pizza 3 meals a day for up to a week at a time, pizza for dinner is always a good choice. So we did the Amarillo Slim to Palios.

The restaurant is very nice on the inside. The staff were very attentive and the waitress we had was one of the best we have had in a long time.

I just don't understand but the Wifey, Lil Darlin and King L ordered chicken alfredo/spaghetti and meatballs. We were in  a pizza place!!!! They did report that the food was real good.

As for me and CBoss there was no choice, Pepperoni Pizza. CBoss reports after one extra large pizza, that this is in his top five. And I repeat he eats a lot of pizza. I agree with him. This was good fixin's.

After the main course the waitress asked if we would be eating dessert. Duh!!!! The wifey got triple layered chocolate cake, CBoss ordered cheesecake and Lil Darlin ordered Strawberry cheesecake. They all reported that they were very good. As for myself, I went for the chocolate chip cookie with a scoop of ice cream. It didn't say the cookie was the size of a dinner plate, which really was no problem. Man this was some good cookie. As good as The Great American Cookie and other bakeries specializing in cookies.

Overall, this was some real good fixins. I giv'em a 8.7987987

Mitcho
©2019

Afterwards we went to Palo Duro Canyon to see the Musical Texas. If you haven't ever seen this musical and you call yourself a Texan, get yourself to Palo Duro Canyon and check it out. While you are go to Palios for some grub.

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

Burger Style Cafe - Mesquite

As you know on Sunday's the wifey and I go to the First Fried Chicken Eating Mostly Non-Denomination, Somewhat Baptist Church. This Sunday after church we needed to eat lunch close to church because we had an important bidness meeting close to the church. So after careful consideration we did the burger hop to Burger Style Cafe. Obviously this place supports rednecks of all kinds. They even have Elvis perform the 3rd Friday of every month. Elvis disappeared/checked out over 40 years ago, yet he still performs the 3rd Friday night of every month. Amazing.

I had some concerns while we were ordering. A pizza delivery guy came in while we were ordering and delivered a pizza to the cook and his helper. I don't know about you, but I eat anything I cook. When you are the cook of an eatery and you order your food via takeout, I have some concerns.

The wifey ordered a Kids burger which turned out to be the same size as adulthood burgers. I ordered the cheeseburger/fries combo. The fries were pretty good, better than average.

The burger was a pretty good burger, but not any better than a Whataburger and this meal cost twice the cost of Whataburger. All burgers are judged against the Whataburger. What can I say, currently the best burger in Texas (at least till the new owners mess with the burger).

Overall, give'm a 7.01

Mitcho
©2019

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