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06-13-2008, 06:52 PM
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Fall is here!!
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: The Great Southwest
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Originally Posted by TexasReb
Gimme a nice ol' fashioned Texas cafe where the waitress has "big hair' and calls ever'body "hon" and/or "sweetheart"...and the "special" is most often a nice huge chicken fried steak smothered in white cream gravy...with fried okra and black-eyed peas on the side...
And you just take yer time to eat it!  |
LOL!! Sounds good except for the fried okra and black-eyed peas......  |
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06-13-2008, 10:10 PM
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Location: Plano, TX
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Throckmorton TX has an annual calf-fries festival in May, one of these days I plan to go. Thorckmorton is located about halfway between Abilene and Wichita Falls. They had their sixth annual World Championship Rocky Mountain Oyster Festival, last May.
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06-13-2008, 10:20 PM
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Fall is here!!
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Join Date: May 2006
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Originally Posted by Cowboybootnut
Throckmorton TX has an annual calf-fries festival in May, one of these days I plan to go. Thorckmorton is located about halfway between Abilene and Wichita Falls. They had their sixth annual World Championship Rocky Mountain Oyster Festival, last May.
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It does sound like tasty fun.....I had heard of that, too! |
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06-13-2008, 11:51 PM
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it's a Texas thang..you wouldn't understand
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Over yonder, Texas
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i used to dove hunt in Throckmorton! (when i lived up there!)...great small town...
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Originally Posted by Cowboybootnut
Throckmorton TX has an annual calf-fries festival in May, one of these days I plan to go. Thorckmorton is located about halfway between Abilene and Wichita Falls. They had their sixth annual World Championship Rocky Mountain Oyster Festival, last May.
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06-14-2008, 07:25 PM
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Texan, Southerner, USA
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LOL!! Sounds good except for the fried okra and black-eyed peas...... |
LOL Cathy, you are a sweetheart and both of us are equally incorrigible in certain ways. And NOW, I have an idea for a little "poll" question...if I can figure out how to DO it! |
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06-15-2008, 11:57 AM
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Fall is here!!
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Join Date: May 2006
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LOL Cathy, you are a sweetheart and both of us are equally incorrigible in certain ways. And NOW, I have an idea for a little "poll" question...if I can figure out how to DO it!
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So are you, Reb, so are you..... 
Interesting polls...I didn't vote in all of them, but left a choice comment here and there...LOL!!!!
And...the best CFS is made in my own kitchen.....every once in awhile!!
I went on too many band trips to greasy spoon diners where the CFS was so tough that I bet they used the bottoms of old shoes to make it.....ick, LOL!! |
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06-16-2008, 09:11 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Currently live in Canyon, Texas
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Rocky Mountain Oysters
Just so you'll know for future reference, Throckmorton has what's called the Rocky Mountain Oyster Festival every year around Memorial Day weekend. This was the 6th annual celebration and it's getting bigger - there's a cookoff, bands playing and dances, and lots of people from small towns in the area. Throckmorton is on HWY 380 between Graham and Haskell, if you're ever in the area!
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06-17-2008, 11:02 AM
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Location: St. Louis, Missouri
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TexasReb
Gimme a nice ol' fashioned Texas cafe where the waitress has "big hair' and calls ever'body "hon" and/or "sweetheart"...and the "special" is most often a nice huge chicken fried steak smothered in white cream gravy...with fried okra and black-eyed peas on the side...
And you just take yer time to eat it! |
oh .... that just sounds soooooo gooooooood ...... not a decent chicken fried steak to be had in this neck of the woods...... other than one i do myself.....
and fried okra...... mmmmmm mmmmmmm only place i have found it routinely is at cracker barrel and i have to tell 'em to cook it almost well-done to obtain the proper crispiness and consistency.....
probably wouldn't have enough room to do justice to the peas though..... |
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06-17-2008, 12:33 PM
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Texan, Southerner, USA
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Originally Posted by latetotheparty
and fried okra...... mmmmmm mmmmmmm only place i have found it routinely is at cracker barrel and i have to tell 'em to cook it almost well-done to obtain the proper crispiness and consistency.....
probably wouldn't have enough room to do justice to the peas though..... |
Down here, you don't have any trouble finding fried okra on the menu's just about anywhere. BUT...as you allude to, getting it "fried right" is a problem. Most places just deep fry the frozen breaded stuff up. Which I guess is better than nothing, but doesn't hold a candle to the home-cooked stuff, properly done with fresh okra and cornmeal! And an iron skillet! |
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06-19-2008, 09:17 AM
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Made the trip to Waco (Elm Mott) last Sunday. Calf fries were pretty good!! A bit on the greasy/buttery side, as was everything we ordered, but worth stopping in!
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