Lunch. (Not Great Northern Beans in the Shape of Hello Kitty)

[fancycwabs]

Across the street from my workplace, there's a little hole-in-the-wall soul food restaurant called At The Bistro, where you can get the standard meat + 3 for about seven bucks and the selection rotates daily. I may be the only person at work who's ever bothered to stop in--they're moderately busy at lunch, but they really ought to be packed, as the food is excellent.

Today's lunch was a smothered pork chop, broccoli & rice casserole, greens, and mac & cheese:



Three things to note:
1. I don't even like macaroni and cheese, and yet I order it here.
2. The thing on the plate in the back, for you non-southerners, is hot water corn bread, cooked on a griddle. It's important, because it's poor manners to drink the potlikker from the greens straight out of the bowl after you're done, but it's okay to soak it up with cornbread. It's also known as a hoecake (from the days when they were actually cooked on the farm implements, not "because ho's gotta eat too") or a johnnycake (if you added sugar, which would make it unfit for anything but flushing down the john).
3. The broccoli and rice casserole had precious little broccoli in it--you'd have a hard time passing it off as a green vegetable, the way you can pretend broccoli and cheese sauce is a green vegetable.

It appeared that they had carrot cake for sale, but I was stuffed after everything else.

Comments

[bigbrownhound.livejournal.com]

That looks really, really, really yummy! I'm going to do binge on doritos.

I'll have dessert for you shortly.

Thanks for the Venture Brother DVDs. For your birthday?

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

Considering I missed yours and all of your family's I figured I ought to send you something for mine.