A Texan's Last Meal (Lone Star)

[GoingHome2TX]

It won't be my last meal, but being away and deprived of the every day options of good Texas food has made me think long and hard about my first meal upon re-entering the borders.

First off, since it is still a lot of hours of driving from Texhoma to south Texas, I'm hitting up the first Whataburger I come across. A good old fashioned Whataburger (or two) with cheese and loaded should hold me over for the rest of the drive down.

Now, the first real meal has to be a good old fashioned Texas beef chicken fried steak with a side of corn. Y'all don't know how lucky you have it cattle-wise. I cringe each time I am told that Montana has great beef. If they only knew...

Other soon to be in my stomach meals include fried catfish with fried okra, cabrito y nopalito, and some good mesquite BBQ'd sausages in a tortilla wrap. Oh, and fresh Coronas, as it has been almost a year since the last fresh one of those I had.

I am going to gain ten pounds the first week I am back home!

[Aggie]

Originally Posted by GoingHome2TX

It won't be my last meal, but being away and deprived of the every day options of good Texas food has made me think long and hard about my first meal upon re-entering the borders.

First off, since it is still a lot of hours of driving from Texhoma to south Texas, I'm hitting up the first Whataburger I come across. A good old fashioned Whataburger (or two) with cheese and loaded should hold me over for the rest of the drive down.

Now, the first real meal has to be a good old fashioned Texas beef chicken fried steak with a side of corn. Y'all don't know how lucky you have it cattle-wise. I cringe each time I am told that Montana has great beef. If they only knew...

Other soon to be in my stomach meals include fried catfish with fried okra, cabrito y nopalito, and some good mesquite BBQ'd sausages in a tortilla wrap. Oh, and fresh Coronas, as it has been almost a year since the last fresh one of those I had.

I am going to gain ten pounds the first week I am back home!

Going back home from SC I sometimes don't even make it across the border .... there's a Whataburger in Shreveport (LA) ... just off I20

[case44]

Originally Posted by TexasReb

Oh lordy, the talk of grits and blackeyed peas and fried porkchops and all else got me to thinking...

OK. What would be your last meal? Keep in mind you are representing the Great State of TEXAS on your way out...LOL

But seriously, rules are ONE meat or fish, three veggies, a salad, bread, a drink, and condiments are unlimited.

Since I started it, I will go first:

Fried catfish, black-eyed peas, fried okra, mashed 'taters with chicken leavin' gravy. Homemade cornbread OOOZING with REAL butter. Green leaf lettuce salad drippin oil and vinegar...and cold sliced salted tomatoes. Sweet milk to drink (only a true Texan/Southerner of the old school knows what "sweet milk" means! LOL)

Y'all...?

Hey, TR, do you think you can start a new thread entitled, "A Texan's Next-to-Last Meal"? I feel like cheating again.

[TexasReb]

Originally Posted by case44

Hey, TR, do you think you can start a new thread entitled, "A Texan's Next-to-Last Meal"? I feel like cheating again.

LOL Good idea, Case! On the other hand, I think we have all violated the original rule, anyway. So by all means go ahead and cheat! On things like this, especially with we Texans, staying within parameters when it comes to good ol' traditional fare, ain't long for this world no-how (pun intended! )

[BluesConnect]

CHICKEN FRIED STEAK, homemade mashed potatos, fresh shelled blackeyed peas, corn on the cob out of the garden dripping with butter and smothered in salt, homemade cole slaw, hand churned, fresh peach ice cream, sweet ice tea....oh now I need a nap!

[BluesConnect]

I remember being asked did I want sweet milk or buttermilk...is that it?

[gy2020]

If it was my last meal, I'd have my grandmother conjured from the hinterland and she would be the cook. Home made fried chicken, raised by her own loving care. Then she would go out in the backyard and ring its neck off. The headless chicken would run around the yard for 15 minutes scaring the bejeebers out of us. She would then clean it, cook it and serve deeelicious fried chicken with turnips, cornbread, the best mashed potatoes, smothered in butter. Okra would be fresh and slimy, yummy. Corn on the cob, fresh made apple pie and ice tea. Ya'll hungry yet?

[TexasReb]

Originally Posted by gy2020

If it was my last meal, I'd have my grandmother conjured from the hinterland and she would be the cook. Home made fried chicken, raised by her own loving care. Then she would go out in the backyard and ring its neck off. The headless chicken would run around the yard for 15 minutes scaring the bejeebers out of us. She would then clean it, cook it and serve deeelicious fried chicken with turnips, cornbread, the best mashed potatoes, smothered in butter. Okra would be fresh and slimy, yummy. Corn on the cob, fresh made apple pie and ice tea. Ya'll hungry yet?

You betcha!

I picked fried catfish as my choice for the last meal...but since we have all cheated (as my good friend Case says)...I sure gotta say that homemade fried chicken would be a VERY close second! My great-grandmother used to do the same thing your grandmother did. That is, raise her own chickens and was an expert at neck-wringing. And yep, used to scare the dickens out of us kids to watch it! LOL But dad gummed if the finished product, flour coated and pan fried in a seasoned iron iron skillet, wasn't a sweet bit of heaven! And even before it was time to eat...those wonderful smells of frying chicken coming out of the kitchen.

I'll maintain to my dying day that the scents coming from an "old time" Southern kitchen (gas stove, naturally!) on Sunday afternoon ranks right up there as the best this side of the Promised Land.

What were the words to that old classic song (by Kris Kristoferson and Johnny Cash)...Sunday Morning Sidewalks? Went something like:

I crossed the empty street and caught the Sunday smell of someone frying chicken. And it took me back to something that I'd lost somehow, somewhere, along the way...

[Cathy4017]

Originally Posted by TexasReb

You betcha!

What were the words to that old classic song (by Kris Kristoferson and Johnny Cash)...Sunday Morning Sidewalks? Went something like:

I crossed the empty street and caught the Sunday smell of someone frying chicken. And it took me back to something that I'd lost somehow, somewhere, along the way...

Sunday Morning Coming Down.......written by Kristofferson (great writer, lousy singer)....and sung by Johnny Cash (also a lousy singer, but he has something, and has always been one of my favs)!

[catman]

I'd have a hard time choosing between a chicken-fried steak or fried catfish. Every time I go to Massey's Restaurant about a mile away, I'm torn between the two. If you're ever in Ft Worth, give them a try!

I remember that home-made fried chicken, too. My great-grandfather in Cleburne kept chickens and would perform the neck-wringing of one (yuck), and a couple of hours alter, we'd have it with cream-style corn (didn't like it at first). Great memories!

I agree that Kris wasn't much of a singer, but he sounded good with Rita Coolidge (who wouldn't?).