The Menu: for Miq and other BBQ fanciers
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pjthompsonThe roommate and I had us a little celebration (a day early, but the logistics were better) and decided to get take-out BBQ. We went to this place. I remember when it was just a hole-in-the-wall, but it got featured on the Food Network show, Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives, and the joint is really jumping now. For one thing, they replaced their plain vanilla webpage with this fancy production, and although the joint itself hasn't changed (and, more importantly, the food hasn't), they're doing a damned fine business these days.
Enough of that. Let's get to the important part. What did we eat?
The roommate had the Baby Blues BBQ Tiger Shrimp. These are nicely spiced and slapped onto a grill with a mild creamy mustard sauce on the side, but chile, they are so good we prefer to eat them just as they come. All entrees come with a side of corn bread—and this isn't that dry, cakey stuff they serve at places like Marie Callendar. This is the Southern style: dense, moist, with bits of corn in it. She got two sides with her meal and had the mashed potatoes (actually more like scalloped potatoes) and cole slaw.
We also got a full rack of Memphis Style long bone pork ribs. Now, my apologies to the folks in Kansas City, but I'm not that crazy about your BBQ. I know those are fightin' words, so I'm sorry. I like the dry rubs they do in Texas and the Carolinas, but if I'm honest, my favorite is the long bone Memphis Style: meaty ribs, a tomato-based sauce, not too thick, piquant without having too much bite, a nice sweet undertone. Oh lawd, I had me a high time. We're splitting the rest of the ribs between us tonight. I had more of that great corn bread, plus a side of mac n' cheese that's absolutely to die for. Creamy, cheesy, with a nice crust on top. Oh mama! What bliss. I also had a cob of sweet corn with a nice sprinkling of melted Parmesan.
For dessert, we got Southern-style banana pudding and pecan pie. Now, this banana pudding has got the vanilla wafers in it like an self-respecting banana pudding should, and they whip the pudding itself until it almost has the consistency of a mousse, with those wafers softened and folded in. So rich, so very rich. I should not have eaten the whole thing. But I did. And the pecan pie was delicious, too. I only took a bite—just for informational purposes, y'understand.
I also got me some sweet tea which I put in a thermos and brought to work to have with lunch today. I hates me some ice tea which has been sweetened, but sweet tea is a whole nother category of taste, and it's delicious. Maybe it has to do with mixing the sugar in while it's still hot, then chilling it—I don't know. I just know it's good, and if we go to Baby Blues on a "school" night when I have to get up early the next day and can't have the caffeine, I always get me some to go so I can put it in a thermos for work.
And that's all we had.
My friends and I will be having another little celebration on Saturday and the Malibu Pier Club. I'll let you know how that eatin' extravaganza comes out.
Enough of that. Let's get to the important part. What did we eat?
The roommate had the Baby Blues BBQ Tiger Shrimp. These are nicely spiced and slapped onto a grill with a mild creamy mustard sauce on the side, but chile, they are so good we prefer to eat them just as they come. All entrees come with a side of corn bread—and this isn't that dry, cakey stuff they serve at places like Marie Callendar. This is the Southern style: dense, moist, with bits of corn in it. She got two sides with her meal and had the mashed potatoes (actually more like scalloped potatoes) and cole slaw.
We also got a full rack of Memphis Style long bone pork ribs. Now, my apologies to the folks in Kansas City, but I'm not that crazy about your BBQ. I know those are fightin' words, so I'm sorry. I like the dry rubs they do in Texas and the Carolinas, but if I'm honest, my favorite is the long bone Memphis Style: meaty ribs, a tomato-based sauce, not too thick, piquant without having too much bite, a nice sweet undertone. Oh lawd, I had me a high time. We're splitting the rest of the ribs between us tonight. I had more of that great corn bread, plus a side of mac n' cheese that's absolutely to die for. Creamy, cheesy, with a nice crust on top. Oh mama! What bliss. I also had a cob of sweet corn with a nice sprinkling of melted Parmesan.
For dessert, we got Southern-style banana pudding and pecan pie. Now, this banana pudding has got the vanilla wafers in it like an self-respecting banana pudding should, and they whip the pudding itself until it almost has the consistency of a mousse, with those wafers softened and folded in. So rich, so very rich. I should not have eaten the whole thing. But I did. And the pecan pie was delicious, too. I only took a bite—just for informational purposes, y'understand.
I also got me some sweet tea which I put in a thermos and brought to work to have with lunch today. I hates me some ice tea which has been sweetened, but sweet tea is a whole nother category of taste, and it's delicious. Maybe it has to do with mixing the sugar in while it's still hot, then chilling it—I don't know. I just know it's good, and if we go to Baby Blues on a "school" night when I have to get up early the next day and can't have the caffeine, I always get me some to go so I can put it in a thermos for work.
And that's all we had.
My friends and I will be having another little celebration on Saturday and the Malibu Pier Club. I'll let you know how that eatin' extravaganza comes out.
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Date: 2008-09-23 10:29 pm (UTC)Then my work here is done.
Alas...no vanilla wafers here. :(
Alas, this is truly a sadness. Perchance some ladyfingers?
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