Subj : Chooken [1]
To : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Mon Sep 01 2025 03:11 pm
Hi Dave,
RH> Probably so. Today, while waiting for a doctor's appointment, I started
RH> a book I'd downloaded before our big spring trip but never got around
RH> to reading. It's another Philippa Gregory one, this time about Margaret
RH> Pole, cousin to Henry VII.
DD> I familiar with her name - but never read anyof her swcrivening. I'm
DD> not much on 15th century settings. Or the machinations of the British
DD> Royals.
RH> My choice, your choice. It's a whole different genre than the Tom
RH> Clancy books I also like to read.
DD> Clancy has become too formulaic for my taste. Book Bub offered me a
DD> deeply discounted Fletcher Knebel that I had not read - so I glommed
DD> onto it. Nebel, who died in '93 wrote 7 Days In May, The Candidate,
DD> etc. and many of his works became Hollywoods.
I've heard of, but not read the books nor seen the movies. IIRC they're
a spy genre? Clancy passed away in 2013; his books are being written by
othes now under "...........A Tom Clancy book". Now most of them feature
Jack Jr or, if not him, some other member of the Campus group he works
for. Most of them are mediocre but once in a while, one will be pretty
good. "Fun" part is figuring out which book it will be. (G)
DD> 8<----- XXXXX ----->8
DD> Since I post a recipe with every message and the daily "bulk" recipes
DD> like the five related to each date's "food" or event and 10 from a
DD> list of topical recipes ..... like the 40 waiting to be posted as
DD> "Best of 2025". Even though I already have many of those in my
DD> archives I still bang in a fair amount of new stuff.
RH> Most of them I'll go thru, just reading the recipe title. Occaisionally
RH> one will catch my eye, like the Marry Me Chicken. Our Auxiliary
RH> President made a version of it for our July meeting, had enough that I
RH> was able to bring a box home to share with Steve. It was just as good
RH> the 2nd time around (for me), first time for Steve. (G)
DD> Those are the best kind.
The ones to be made multiple times. I finally got the fig cake made
earlier today. Tipping it out on to a plate was a bit of a mess, tho not
as bad as it could have been. We'll have the first tasting with supper
but Steve did taste a bit of what fell off the plate and said it was
good. We need to look for a rimmed 11" or 12" plate if I'm to make it
again; the dinner plate just barely held it.
RH> Actually, I like my CFA fairly plain. If I'm getting a sandwich, I'll
RH> just get a packet of mayo for it; if I'm getting strips, I'll ask for a
RH> side of pickles and also get some mayo. Basic but good; I'm not big
RH> into ketchup or bbq sauce.
DD> I'm not either. Popeyes offers all manner of goopy sauces for/on its
DD> chicken wings. Since I generally order on their app I was beginning to
DD> think I was going to have to pull a gun on someone to get "original"
DD> spicy wings with no pre-applied sauce. But eventually my (and no doubt
DD> other) complaints in "feedback" got listed to/read and now "original
DD> spicy" (or mild) is the first selection.
I'd probably go for the original, mild if I were to get any sort of
sauce but I usually like the chicken without any sort of sauce. The
variety of sauces they're getting is soon going to rival Zaxby's which
is more of a southern chain, tho they do have an outlet in Salt Lake
City. Saw that on a map of their outlets when we were there a couple of
weeks ago.
DD> My nearest Popeyes is about a mile from my house. How does Cook Out do
DD> their sandwich? Baked? Boiled? Broiled?
They're char grilled, with no coating. I've tasted a faint charcoal
flavor on them.
DD> Certainly CF is popular. The local store is on a "out lot" for the
DD> local maul. The out lots also have a Texas Roadhouse and Mission BBQ.
DD> But CF isthe one with 2drive-up lanes *alway* so full of hungey diners
DD> that the lines back up well into the street. And my mental voice says
DD> "No way we'll wait that long" Bv)= Fast food my patootie.
RH> Go inside; you'll get served quicker. With the antennas on the truck,
RH> we can't go thru the drive up lanes, nor can we when towing the camper.
RH> So, it's always inside to order, sometimes eat in, sometimes take home
RH> and sometimes eat in the camper. But yes, the drive up lines at CFA are
RH> always busy. WF got a 2nd store a few years ago; now both of them stay
RH> busy.
DD> I used to do that when I was a regular at Mickey D's. Pull up right
DD> outside the entry door, go in, get my grub and be on my way home or to
DD> work before the car that was at the speaker had advanced to the pay-up
DD> window.
With the camper we either try to avoid the super busy times or, if the
CFA place is an out property in a mall, park in the mall lot and walk
over. With the R-Pod, we could park in a double space, have to find
something a bit bigger now that we have the Grey Wolf and F-150. Not
quite as convenient as just pull up to the entry door, go in, grab your
order and head back out but we're pulling our (temporary) home with us.
(G)
DD> Popeyes is currently offering a 3-piece for U$5. Leg, thigh and
wing DD> is my usual selection. And with a side of coleslaw or mash &
gravy DD> it's a nice evening meal.
RH> If it's convenient to you, go for it. I'd probably eat the wing and
RH> leg, save the thigh for another time, or vice versa, or try to get a
RH> breast as one of my choices. But yes, cole slaw on the side.
DD> It's a rather strange selection. You can get dark meat - leg and thigh
DD> with the wing making the 3rd piece. Or white meat - breast and two
DD> wings. Tuesdays they still do the "Tuesday Special". Sometimes I'll
DD> get four of those and do the drumsticks for supper, than do the thighs
DD> - two at atime, for two more suppers. Bv)=
That works. We went to a new to us place yesterday for lunch, The Curry
House. The tandoori chicken was good, but hot (tomato/cream sauce tamed
it) and Steve said that in his lamb dish, the meat was tougher than
expected, also hot. We ended up taking some home (supper tonight) with
an extra order of garlic naan and the sauce, plus some basmati rice.
We'll probably go back so we can try some of the other dishes.
DD> And on Tuesday the drive thru looks like Chick Filly's so I
generally DD> park and go inside to order.
Makes sense. They're too far from us to do that on any sort of regular
basis.
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Catch you later,
Ruth
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