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. 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 MMMMM--------------------------ICING--------------------------------- 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 Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives MMMMM .... "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house" G. Carlin ___ MultiMail/Win v0.52 --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: Get your COOKING fix here! - bbs.outpostbbs.net:10123 (1:18/200) .