And what a great time I had. I love TEXAS! It was hot, hot, hot, but I seemed to get used to it the longer I was there. In celebration of the Lone Star State some Friday Night Music from some very talented Texans.
Lightnin' Hopkins
Willie Nelson
Roy Orbison
There were some things however that I refused to partake of. Grits and deep fried pickles were two.
ReplyDeleteFay's home! Yippee!!!
ReplyDeleteDeep fried pickles are delicious to the point of addiction! I also love grits (both ways, with butter or with gravy).
Did you enjoy some good southern brisket?
I'm glad you didn't wilt. It's been hotter than hell itself in Texas.
ReplyDeleteFay - Grits are great.
ReplyDeleteGlad you are home in the cool.
Hey lady red, actually quite a few people told me how wonderful fried pickles are. I'm not a huge pickle fab to begin with...
ReplyDeleteThe grits on the menu were "goat cheese grits" we asked the waiter what grits were and he said they were like mushy cream of wheat...yuk.
No brisket (don't remember seeing any on a menu) but some good Texas beef none the less.
No I didn't wilt, almost but not quite. Everywhere we went had AC and the hotel had a lovely pool. The AC was so cold in my room I actually switched it off at night.
ReplyDeleteFay doesn't even like poutine -- not that I blame her -- so why would she try grits?
ReplyDeleteBut she did not mention chittlins. As Bill Cosby described them, "I think somebody misspelled something."
Thanks Dances although it could stand to be a lot warmer here. Summer hasn't really started for us yet. In fact the low temps in Dallas were about 10 to 15 degrees HIGHER than our highs.
ReplyDeleteGoat cheese grits? That's a new one. Ick. Might as well throw a handful of chitlins in there too...make it a well-balanced meal. :))
ReplyDeleteI passed on the deep fried Snickers and deep fried coke as well. Although I was told that I must try Chick Fil-A the next time I'm there.
ReplyDeleteSo lady red, what exactly are grits?
ReplyDeleteSorry, as a poor boy, I grew up with Home-Made chitlins, and love them too.
ReplyDeleteNow, I eat my grits (and oatmeal, for that matter) with butter, salt & pepper (or cajun spices) and the though of chitlins mixed in makes me wonder why I had not though ot it myself.
Fay - grits are the tiny seed portions of corn grains. They are a wonderfully tasty and chock-full-of-fibery-goodness food.
ReplyDeleteHeh, I bet you don't even like hominy ;)
Ah, well - bedtime for this Bonzo.
ReplyDeleteIn the morning I will go to the local battery warehouse, and buy a blem battery to fit my car, then take it to the parking lot where my ride is hors de combat.
With any luck it will not take me more than 45 minutes to disassemble the front half of the car (DAMN automotive engineers) and replace the battery.
With even greater luck, that will be the problem.
Thanks for the explaination DWT, so if they are made from corn are they anything like polenta? I like polenta.
ReplyDeleteDon't know what chitlins or hominy are.
As I mention on FB, I did learn that coke comes in many varities..coke sprite, coke root beer, coke coke :)
Yes, Fay. Where I'm at I can't get 'real' grits (which I grew up on), so have to make do with polenta. The only difference I'm aware of is that polenta is ground finer than good grits. I say good grits... coarse ground, the best, versus 'instant' grits, which 'are' like mushy cream of wheat.
ReplyDeleteHere's a simple way to enjoy grits.
Layer a plate/shallow bowl with grated Tillamook Cheddar, not too thick but a good portion, a couple of slices say.
Pour on hot grits.
Top with fried eggs with the yolk sorta runny. Mix/cut up with knife and spoon. My wife hates that part.
Top with lots of black pepper. Though not everyone likes black pepper as much as me.
Bacon on the side, or sausage, or meat of choice.
It's a stick to the ribs, keep you going all day kind of meal.
Blogger sign-in is acting weird, again.
Luther
OOOO that sounds good Luther. Now that I know it's cornmeal I will probably try some the next time I'm down there.
ReplyDeleteAnd I love runny yolks.
Well, it's not 'exactly' cornmeal. But close. It all depends on the grind.
ReplyDeleteWhen y'all show up here for breakfast I'll cook a large pot of grits. Buffet style. Take it or leave it. :)
Sorry, meant to add.
ReplyDeleteI don't think you need wait until you're 'down there'.
I'm sure all the ingrediens are nearby to you.
Surprise Matt...
Well I have made polenta and I think that surprisded Matt
ReplyDeleteYay! Magic Fayre is back!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you had a good time and are back home. I like grits but ixnay on the deep fried icklespay...
Goat cheese grits, ew, erp. I'm not a huge pickle fab either, Fay.
ReplyDeletetee hee
And yes, grits are like polenta, but white.
ReplyDeleteWaiting for Sheila Jackson Lee comment in 5..4..3..2..
Fay, chitlins are cleaned small intestine, boiled with spices, then cut into pieces, rolled in egg/cornmeal, and deep fried. Oh, they're good! I like tabasco on mine.
ReplyDeleteHominy I'm not so fond of. It's castrated corn kernels that have been soaked in lye (I have no earthly idea why this is done. DWT will probably know!). You have to wash hominy repeatedly to get the chemicals and the yucky taste off. The only time I cook with hominy is when I'm making posole.
Luther, your breakfast recipe has my mouth watering! Yum!
"chitlins are cleaned small intestine"
ReplyDeleteOkay- I know I didn't ask, but that's all I needed to know : @
Yeah, apart from being one of them veggieterians, I'm a bit of a food wimp. It may have something to do with being subjected to long summers under the care of my grandfather- a man with an iron gut who ate everything and did not ever let a single bit of food go to waste.
Grits, otoh, I shall have to give a try some day.
BTW- am I delusional or was there another post above this one that simply disappeared. I was struck with a bit of insomnia in the wee hours, and sat up watching Capwe Fear (the remake) and reading TCKT during commercial breaks. So it could have very well been my imagination.
ReplyDeleteI love Capwe Fear! Both of them :-)
ReplyDeleteThere could have been, Alphie, it wasn't one of mine, though. Sometimes I'll put up a post and then see all the mistakes so take it down until I can edit.
There's a new gardening post though...just in case you were wondering :-)
Hominy is soaked in lye to soften and enlarge the kernels. I love the stuff.
ReplyDeleteAlso grits were originally called hominy grits, because they were the little seed kernels removed from the hominy prior to soaking.
I don't know if they are simply coarse ground corn, now.
I've spent much of my day in an oven of a parking lot, with no shade and more sunlight reflecting from the mall wall beside me, working on my car to no avail.
ReplyDeleteIt is now sitting at my cousin Tim's repair shop, unrunnibg, and I am sitting in front of my PC feeling woozy.
Given the naked condition of the top of my head, it will almost certainly turn bright red overnight.
Alphie - there was another post about the possible future return of the Gold Standard.
ReplyDeleteI re-read it this morning and realized I did not care for the rather smart-a$$ed language, so I took it down at a little after 5 am.
Oh, thanks DWT. So I'm not crazy (at least not in this instance). I read TCKT mostly from my blackberry these days and since I can't see the entire post on the little screen I try to guess who the author is before I get to the bottom. I believe I was surprised to see who it was, though I can't for the life of me remember much else about it.
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear about you car ordeal, DWT. I was curse with the ownership of an Oldsmobile Omega many years ago. That thing was terrible to work on. Just like your car, I had to practically disassemble half the engine compartmemt to replace anything.
ReplyDeleteBut the battery, at least, was easily accessible.
Almost equally annoying is the oil filter on my truck. The damn thing is mounted at an angle, so that it leaks oil down your arm as soon as you loosen it. I finally learned to drive a screwdriver into it an let the oil drip out into a pan first.
florrie, I was surprised the first time I saw the original Capwe Fear* (ages ago) that Robert Mitchum was such a good bad guy. The only other movie I had seen with him was Holiday Affair, in which he played a somewhat friendlier character.
ReplyDeleteI love that both Mitchum and Gregory Peck (as well as some other guy from the original) were in the remake.
*aka Cape Fear
I've been wanting to comment on your latest garden thread, florrie, but it's so terribly slow to load on my phone. Hopefully I'll be able to get on my computer sometime soon so I can actually see all the pictures.
ReplyDeleteRobert Mitchum...swoon
ReplyDeleteSex on legs...
Alphie, I thought that was pretty cool as well. And Robert DeNiro did make a creepy, creepy bad guy. It's one of the few remakes that was right up there with the original, in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteFay, I feel the same about Gregory Peck. He was a generation removed but *swoon* bigtime!!!