Subj : Road Food was: Knee-Moan
To : Sean Dennis
From : Dave Drum
Date : Sun May 28 2023 05:12:02
-=> Sean Dennis wrote to Dave Drum <=-
DD> I bet there's a Cracker Barrel though. Bv)=
SD> Nope, nothing there yet. There IS a Cracker Barrel north of town right
SD> off of I-26, across from Waffle House. <G>
Cracker Barrel seems to be spaced about 90 minutes apart in Illinois.
All on/just off interstate highway ramps.
DD> Our franchisee did outdoor (patio) even w/heaters in the winter time.
DD> And hung on. He also leased the last Denny's location (before they tore
DD> it down) and installed a Spaghetti Shop franchise. It's still under the
DD> same ownership - but it's now a "Beef O'Brady's" sports bar franchise.
SD> I haven't been to our local Beef O' Brady's in 10 years but they are
SD> still there and still evidently going strong in the same location.
SD> They are in an odd location but if you want them, they're there.
I'm not a fan of most sports bars ... but, then, I'm not a saloon-a-tick.
There's one I go to called Brickhouse - for the chilli. And the waitress
with the sizeable assets. She always give our party great service - we
tip with "funny money" ... U$2 bills, gold dollar coins and half-dollars.
DD> I wish we had a Waffle House or a Toddle House. We're forced to make do
DD> with a Memphis based Huddle House.
SD> We've three WHs here; one a short drive north of me (3 miles) and one
SD> west of me (4.4 miles), and the one across from CB (6.6 miles).
SD> They're all really good places especially the far-north one. I like to
SD> go around 9-10 AM. Past the breakfast rush hour. I do admit to
SD> enjoying going to a WH around that time with my laptop and a MiFi to do
SD> my morning computer work while eating.
There are but two WH locations in Illinois - Granite City and Collinsvlle
(both St. Louis Metro-east). I did note that in scrolling through their
"Find a Waffle House" page there are a butt-load of locations in one
Tennessee city. Clarksville .... so many I thought they might have their
Corp-Rat offices there, But the Bing-O search engine tells me they're
out of Norcross, GA.
DD> You know what they say about "great minds" (Not talking about us, of
DD> course.) Bv)=
SD> More from our OTR experiences. Mine is more of just doing
SD> cross-country driving in a car, not a semi.
I've hitch-hiked, driven (cars and semis), ridden motorcycles over 49
of the 50 Untied States. And most of the Canadian provinces (except the
maritimes ... including a trip to Oshawa, Ontario to see a Long John
Baldry gig.
The limited sccess Interstate highway system has pretty much killed off
"thumb tripping" around the country.
MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
Title: Baldry's Pistachio & Rosewater Sponge
Categories: Cakes, Desserts, Nuts
Yield: 12 servings
12 oz Self raising flour
12 oz Granulated sugar
12 oz Salted butter
4 oz Crushed pistachios
6 lg Eggs
2 tb Milk
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6 oz Salted butter
12 oz Icing sugar
Few drops of culinary rose
- water
Set the oven @W 360ºF/182ºC
Grease 2 cake tins, then line with baking parchment.
Measure your flour, sugar and butter into a large mixing
bowl.
Crush the pistachios and add to the bowl of dry
ingredients.
Add the 6 eggs to the bowl and mix together using an
electric whisk
Once all your ingredients are mixed together, add milk
to get the mixture to a dropping consistency
Divide the mixture equally between your 2 tins, then
bake for 40 minutes
To make your rosewater icing, add your icing sugar,
butter and rosewater essence into a bowl and mix
together.
Once the sponge is cooled, slice each sponge into two,
to create a layered cake. Add the rosewater icing
in-between each sponge, then decorate with 2oz crushed
pistachios and dried rosebuds on top
RECIPE FROM:
https://baldrysgrasmere.com
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