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Skriven 2013-12-08 21:43:34 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 7604 av Dale Shipp (1:261/1466.0)
Ärende: Slice & Dice
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Hi Dale,

 DD> You guys gave me a C=64 and some other stuff back in the 90s when we
 DD> met for a meal at the Cracker Barrel south of Springfield. I believe

 RH> That was back in 1998, our first ever visit to a Cracker Barrel. We've
 RH> been there since, but not often.

 DS> Many years ago I went to a Cracker Barrel in Florida with my mother.
 DS> I ordered their chicken & dumplings.  It was super good.  Plump
 DS> dumplings, sort of like fat noodles with a good rich chicken gravy.
 DS> There aren't
 DS> any Cracker Barrel restaurants withing 20+ miles of us, so I did not
 DS> get to go back to one for quite some time.  When I did get to one, I
 DS> tried
 DS> their chicken & dumlings.  Very BAD.  Dumplings were undercooked and
 DS> doughy.  Gravy was thin and watery with hardly any flavor.  Fast
 DS> forward to another trip.  This time I tried ordering just the
 DS> dumplings and
 DS> gravy as a side dish to whatever entree I had picked.  Good choice on
 DS> my part of sticking to just a side dish:-}}  They were not much
 DS> different
 DS> to the second sampling.  Either corporate changed the recipe of that
 DS> first restaurant just knew how to do them right and no one else did.

Could be a bit of both. Corporate may have said "this is how we do
chicken & dumplings" but that CB may have had a cook that said "no, this
is how this place will do chicken & dumplings". All costs being figured,
it may have been cheaper to go the cook's way too. I think I ordered it
once and was less than impressed with it--best I could say was that it
was road food and fit the need I had to fill my stomach. I'd most likely
not ordr it now as it's heavy on the carbs.


 DS> Another place that was similar in nature was the Black-Eyed-Pea.  We
 DS> had several things we liked from there.  Then I got a chicken fried
 DS> steak, a dish I had enjoyed there before.  This time the gravy was
 DS> like wallpaper paste in color, texture and taste.  We did not go back,
 DS> and the chain
 DS> closed up (at least in Columbia) a couple of months later.

Never heard of them. Sierra Vista had a Po Folks for a while; they were
pretty decent overall, tho not gourmet by a long stretch. They always
had the fried okra; last time I had it at CB, it was low quality. But
the best CFS I've ever had was at a small Mom & Pop type place in
Elfrida, AZ. Steve preached there one Sunday & we were taken to the
restaurant for lunch by the chairman of the deacons. CFS was a Sunday
special and they did a really good job of it.

 DS>       Title: Low-Fat Raspberry Brownies
 DS>  Categories: Brownie, Chocolate, Dessert, Alcohol
 DS>       Yield: 1 servings


 DS>   1. Spray a 9x9x2-inch baking pan with non-stick coating. Set pan
 DS>   aside.

 DS>   Makes 16.


 DS>   Nutrition information per brownie:
 DS>   195 calories, 3 g. protein, 35 g. carbo.,
 DS>   5 g. total fat (1 g. sat. fat), 14 mg. chol.,
 DS>   1 g. fiber, 65 mg. sodium.

I'd have to do some tinkering to bring this down even lower in the carbs
and calories but it does look good. Chocolate and berries seem to have a
natural affinity.

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Ruth
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