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Huddle House is a down-market Waffle House... if you can imagine such a place. Take an old Waffle House, forget to clean it for a few days and then fire 1/2 of the employees... the better ones. That's a Huddle House.

PS: I still go to 'em both! My Waffle House order is the All American... eggs scrambled well w/ sausage and a pecan waffle.

PPS: Anthony Bourdain loves the Waffle House!

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX_kbIVxl_o"]Anthony Bourdain tries the Waffle House - YouTube[/ame]

 

I guess HH varies according to location. The one here is nicer than any WH I've been to in years. And I'm a fan of WH! Never met one I didn't like. They used to have a kicka$$ hamburger steak, but no more. HH menu has way more choices than WH too.

http://www.huddlehouse.com/#

https://www.wafflehouse.com/waffle-house-menu/

 

I got a good deal on pork shoulder, and made some hard-cider-braised pork for supper last night. Had leftover pork on rice tonight.

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I've been to 3 different Cracker Barrels... I've yet to have a good meal there. Food was either cold, over-salted (massively over salted... like WTF happened here?) or simply made with absolutely no care at all.

Hmmm... Now I'm hungry for lunch at WH!

EDIT: I skipped the trip to WH when I remembered that I had some left over shredded hash browns and kielbasa sausage in the fridge. That and a few eggs made for a spectacular omelette lunch. Maybe tomorrow...

 

Happy National Taco Day!

Guess what I'm gonna have for a late lunch...

 

Yeah, Cracker Barrel does love the salt shaker. I had a country ham steak there years ago that I could not eat, it was that salty.

CD

 

Oh, oh, oh. I know... a burrito!!!

CD

 

Dinner tonight. Fried potatoes, onions, and diced hot smoked sausage. Ain't pretty, but was darn tasty. And for desert, a hot cherry cobbler. All it was missing was the vanilla ice cream, but that dish was nixed on my last visit to the sawbones.

 

Made it home for a week, my most favorite lunch on the island: Fish sandwich on raisin bread, fried rock shrimp, industrial strength rum swizzle.

 

Not sure about the raisin bread, but everything else sounds tasty. What island are you referring to?

 

Bermuda?

 

I found some veal scaloppine on sale, so so breaded and pan fried some in OO and butter, made a sauce with LOTS of butter, and had some Veal Picatta last night. Flash-fried broccoli and cauliflower on the side.

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It really works, so good.

 

I'll keep that in mind. Always game to try something different.

I met my Daughter and Grandkids at HH again. Ordered one of my favorites. Mega cheese and bacon omelet. Thing had at least a half pound of bacon in/on it.

 

I did a bit of cooking last weekend:

1) Beef stew - It's basically my slow cooker pot roast, but my wife likes smaller cuts of meat, so it's beef stew. For you kitchenware guys out there... this is a crockpot on steroids! It has a saute setting (up to 500 degrees) so you can brown meat and then dial it down to slow-cooker temps... everything done in one pot and in under 20 minutes of prep before walking away and letting it go all day on low.




2) Baklava - My wife had a craving for Baklava and the 2 or 3 times we tried it here in Charlotte, it let us down. This hit the spot! The recipe I used was a bit heavy on the nuts, but it was still better than almost any other Baklava I've had.

 

Chicken fried steak with country gravy and mashed taters.

 

Today is Chicken Fried Steak day in Texas, as proclaimed by the Texas Legislature. Wow, they got something right, for a change. :wink:

I had CFS from Norma's Cafe in Dallas for lunch, with mashed potatoes, green beans and fried okra. Meat and three.

CD

 

Fish tacos, tots, birch beer.

 

OK... that's food porn if I ever saw it!