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Skriven 2014-09-22 14:28:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 09-20-14  21:48 <=-

 NB>>> about food and such, I'd say that she grew up more southern than
 NB>>> many Floridians do..  :)  Not sure where her parents had actually
 NB>>> come from....
 RH>> Hopefully some place where they did real southern cooking. (G)
 NB>> In any case, she did grow up with real southern cooking... :)

 RH> So she would be a good one to take with you to validate a
 RH> restaurant's claim to authenticity.
 
Exactly...  :)

 NB>> Well, we did go, and had the same chef's specialty... it grabbed both
 NB>> of us, so instead of getting two different things, we had the same,
 NB>> except she had sweet tea with hers, and I just had ice water
 NB>> w/lemon...  Shrimp with grits... how could we pass that one up...?

 RH> Works for me but Steve would have issues with the corn.
 
True...  there were some other non-corn options, but grits is something
one doesn't get just anywhere... 

 NB>> What came out was a big flattish bowl filled with grits, with three
 NB>> 2" squares of cheese placed atop in the middle, 6 good-sized shrimp
 NB>> along one edge, and the other half topped with a homemade Cajun
 NB>> sauce.  And a side of 2 pieces of buttered toast... we both had
 NB>> wheat...  :)  Very tasty, nicely filling, and appealing as well...
 NB>> She immediately started talking about next time... even before we
 NB>> got our food...  We saw some other very tasty looking dishes coming
 NB>> out for other people...  She plans to get the chicken wings and
 NB>> waffles next time... I might get the fish and grits next time...  ;)
 NB>> They're only open for breakfast and lunch, and serve the breakfast
 NB>> stuff all day...

 RH> So it sounds like another trip is in (short) order.

Probably.  ;)  We try to get together at least once a month for lunch...
she used to go to our church and now goes somewhere else, this keeps the
friendship going actively...  :)

 NB>> Not mediocre... not at all...  ;)   It's a tiny little neighborhood
 NB>> place, and apparently does a good business both in house and with
 NB>> takeout...  :)  When we were there, there was a group of 11 people
 NB>> that came in for a meeting... the police chief and the mayor had reps
 NB>> there for that meeting... and it seemed a number of neighborhood
 NB>> vips of some level, maybe representing churches and at least one
 NB>> school... They  enjoyed a good meal while accomplishing their
 NB>> business, and it was also apparent that at least some of them were
 NB>> regulars there at the cafe.. ;)

 RH> Sounds like it's well known and is well worthy of a repeat visit.

It's only been open a bit more than a year, so it's done well for
itself...  I think that the proprietors live in the neighborhood, too,
so that helps...  and they obviously have cooking talent, whether their
own or in hiring a good cook... ;)

 RH> We went to an Ethiopean place in Raleigh tonight for our anniversary,
 RH> got a meat sampler plate and a vegetarian sampler (put together onto
 RH> one big plate) with injera. A bit (but not too bad) on the spicy side.
 RH> I went easy on the injera, other carby things but we were both well
 RH> filled.It's one we will try to get back to, another (almost) hole in
 RH> the wall sized place.

So you didn't take the trip to the coast for fish after all...  :)  My
friend Deb took me to a little Ethiopean place near her massage
office... we had a similar experience...  Got a meat sampler and the
vegetarian sampler... and had so much food that it was more than enough
for Richard, as well...  she sent all the leftovers home with me for
him...  ;)  I think they made their own injera there, and I know that
they were doing their own cooking...  All very tasty, and nicely
spiced...  :)  Probably a place to go back to, as well...  :)  It might
be a place that Fords would like, too... so maybe I'll try to make that
connection with them... ;)

ttyl         neb

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