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The burgers are really great, but the Flaming Rooster is phenomenal! I'd swing by for either. And if my dog is in the car, the drive thru folks always have a small treat for her!

Olgreydog7 - "Beer" by my boyfriend Cory Morrow is the best. I'm so glad someone else can recognize greatness! And Doug Moreland, also a great one!

The Central Market (an HEB Company) in Texas is great! So much better than Whole Foods for freshness and better selection.

MMMM.... tomorrow is Wednesday. Might be having the Wednesday Enchilada special at El Fenix. Such a good plain jane joint. Best chips and hot sauce in town too!

Please quit calling it the Texas State Fair. It is never that name! It is always the State Fair of Texas. even says so on the website, bigtex.com.

I'd love to throw something on the grill, but since half of Texas is on fire and the wind is blowing like crazy, I'm not taking any chances....

scramble them up and give them to your dog. It's great for the coat...

We ate squirrel so often as kids that I still have the smell of skinning them in my memory. And we would fight over who got to play with the tails after they were skinned. Mostly squirrel stew because they were the older, tougher squirrels thus easier to kill (natural selection and slower) But when we had the young squirrels, they were great fried with cream gravy.

I do remember one particularly funny (to me and my siblings anyway) supper. We had 2 cousins from Highland Park staying with us for a couple of weeks and Daddy had fixed squirrel stew. One cousin loved it and cleaned her plate. Her sister loved it until she found out what it was and then refused to eat any more. Our household was a "clean your plate before you leave the table" household so she stayed at the table until hours after supper. She may have been having squirrel for breakfast even. You ate what you had and usually enjoyed it.

Bob Armstrong Dip is one of the greatest hangover cures ever! Heck you don't even have to be hungover to enjoy it.....

We always have what my mother calls "mexican joe" She makes a big pot of chili and then makes a layer of tortillas, layer of chili, cheese, onions, then another layer of tortillas, chili, cheese and onions and just keep going with the layers until you run out of room in the pan or you run out of chili or both. Cover in a very generous layer of cheese and bake until the cheese is melted thru and bubbly. I look forward to this more than the Christmas dinner. It's basically a big flat enchilada and if it's all you get for Christmas, then you are definitely coming out ahead!

Not chili at all....sounds like some kind of stew...

skirt steak....giggle...