We're back and already missing the food of the south
Yes we are back in town. With Shirley and Jeannie as co-pilots and Pearl (my GPS) as our navigator, home was a puddle jump away from Arkansas. We pulled an all nighter and now can be called super-truckers. The kids and I put about 4600 miles on the van with this trip. We saw all four sets of grandparents and covered four states as far as visiting goes but we drove through a total of 11 states. We toured Jonesboro, GA (GWTW post), we visited and toured the Jack Daniels Distillery in Lynchburg, TN, visited a cemetery where a lot of Harpoles are buried in Arkansas, and wrote our name on a Cadillac in Amarillo, Tx. Though the driving was fun with the kids (really it was, we had a good time) the trip was great as we centered it around family, friends and food we can't get at home.
We ate at Cracker Barrel five times in the two and half weeks we were gone. One in Texas, one in Georgia, one in Tennessee twice and one in Oklahoma. And what did I get every time you ask? Grilled chicken tenderloins, fried okra, hash brown casserole and grits with butter and sugar!! Yes, all five times. Unfortunately, we were only able to eat at Waffle House once. But I did get my Chick-fil-A fix three times. I went through Birmingham too late to get a Milo's. I think this was my first time I have had to skip Milo's. In GA, Meme fixed us the best gravy and biscuits and even grilled us fish for dinner one night (our one truly healthy meal). Then we headed to TN and had the best grilled cheeses Pappy has ever made along with being introduced to chocolate covered sunflower seeds by Debbie and Dottie. We enjoyed BBQ in Lynchburg and Debbie and I shared a true BBQ pizza. All my kids enjoyed ordering sweet tea at every restaurant in the South. Other than the Milo's miss and forgetting to get my boiled peanuts down the road from Meme's, and missing out on Bill's fried pork chops and forgetting to get Kristie to make me some baked beans, I had an enjoyable culinary trip. It is a shame a I have to cram all that good food in only once or twice a year. Now as I write this and literally feel my blood sludging through my veins, I have resided myself to do Medifast for a couple of weeks to detox. But don't feel too sorry for me yet, with Jeannie's bacon grease loaded green beans (they are soooo good) and her mashed potatoes and Shirley's chicken enchiladas, my smorgasbord has lingered a few extra days.
We ate at Cracker Barrel five times in the two and half weeks we were gone. One in Texas, one in Georgia, one in Tennessee twice and one in Oklahoma. And what did I get every time you ask? Grilled chicken tenderloins, fried okra, hash brown casserole and grits with butter and sugar!! Yes, all five times. Unfortunately, we were only able to eat at Waffle House once. But I did get my Chick-fil-A fix three times. I went through Birmingham too late to get a Milo's. I think this was my first time I have had to skip Milo's. In GA, Meme fixed us the best gravy and biscuits and even grilled us fish for dinner one night (our one truly healthy meal). Then we headed to TN and had the best grilled cheeses Pappy has ever made along with being introduced to chocolate covered sunflower seeds by Debbie and Dottie. We enjoyed BBQ in Lynchburg and Debbie and I shared a true BBQ pizza. All my kids enjoyed ordering sweet tea at every restaurant in the South. Other than the Milo's miss and forgetting to get my boiled peanuts down the road from Meme's, and missing out on Bill's fried pork chops and forgetting to get Kristie to make me some baked beans, I had an enjoyable culinary trip. It is a shame a I have to cram all that good food in only once or twice a year. Now as I write this and literally feel my blood sludging through my veins, I have resided myself to do Medifast for a couple of weeks to detox. But don't feel too sorry for me yet, with Jeannie's bacon grease loaded green beans (they are soooo good) and her mashed potatoes and Shirley's chicken enchiladas, my smorgasbord has lingered a few extra days.
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Remember when we used to try to eat at every single restaurant on a certain street? I remember even once we did so ordering only potato-based items! Ah, the good times. I do still love a good hashbrown casserole. And biscuits and gravy, of course.
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