Coronary halitosis

Seems I have done it again.Let my mind run free and look at the trouble I'm in.

My thoughts where on those things in the photo.Homemade biscuits with gravy,white gravy with lots of black pepper on top.

Maybe a few slices of strick o lean and a couple of fried eggs.Big bowl of buttery grits with salt and hot fresh coffee.

Just thinking of a meal like this is enough to cause coronary halitosis or something just as bad.

The last time I had strick o lean the person cooking it I forgot to mention it to her that it needs to be soaked before cooking.I ate it,it was delicious,bit salty. I didn't let on that it made me so dizzy I had trouble getting up out of my chair.My BP was most likely off the scale.

Another thing about biscuits and gravy.Professional truck drivers know this and won't eat biscuits and gravy while working.It puts you to sleep.Does me anyway.

So as life goes if it taste good chances are pretty good it's bad for you.

Skip the biscuits and gravy.Some butter pecan ice cream would be good or how about chocolate......

Long gone

Now this brings back memories.Hanson's on Old Airport road here in LaGrange.

Curb service and if your group was large enough a private room could be had for your meal.

A neat thing about the curb service was that Hanson's was next door to LaGrange Drive Inn.

Be lucky enough to be at Hanson's on weekends and you could get dinner and a movie for the price of one!

Guess it's like a lot of things in life,the good things never last.Both of those places are now long gone.But that's what makes up our memories.

Boiled okra and squash

Boiled okra and squash.Let me say from the start I learned years ago to never say never.But eating boiled okra and squash might come under that category of maybe never.

Momma cooked that southern thing of peas mixed with whole stalks of okra often.I like many others either passed on that or did like me dip the okra out.

That other thing ...squash.Boiled with onions added.I would eat that but it had to be cause I was really hungry.

But if you take okra and squash and batter them with corn meal or flour and deep fry them is a whole different story.Walmart sells battered fried okra and I can eat it like popcorn.

Take the name okra. All my life and till this day I and the old folks call it okree.Another thing about okree,everyone needs the opportunity of cutting okra on a hot August afternoon,temperature hovering around 100,sweat pouring off your head and face and making the mistake of wiping the sweat off with your okra cutting hand.It stings.

Never say never.