The Meals I Crave Most When I’m Away From Home
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I have a little bit of travel coming up over the next two weeks for Southern Living. I’ll be doing television appearances in Atlanta, GA and Houston, TX. The Atlanta segment will be filmed this week and air this Saturday during the 9:00 AM hour on WXIA and then I’ll be live on Great Day Houston during the 9:00 hour on October 25th. I’m so looking forward both of these and hope you’ll be able to tune in if you’re in the area.
As I get ready for a wee bit of travel (The Atlanta filming will only have me away from home seven hours!) I can’t help but think about last year on my book tour and all of that time away from home. Folks often ask me what my favorite meal is and so today I thought I’d show you the things I crave when I’m away from home. You’ll find I’m really a simple gal 🙂
#1.Spaghetti. I LOVE Spaghetti and you just can’t get anything like spaghetti at home when you’re on the road. Everyone wants to dress it up or put some odd meat in it. I just want plain old spaghetti with ground beef. This is the meal I make most on those days I’m home in time for supper.
#2.Chicken Planks, Meme’s Mashed Potatoes, and Fried Corn. Okay so when I’m on a book tour, the meal I am thinking about most is the one featured on the bottom right of my book cover, so it only stands to reason that it is the one I am wanting, after spaghetti, of course!
#3.Grandmama’s Fruit Salad – I could eat this every single day for the rest of my life and still not have enough.
So there you have it, my top three things I like to make when I get home from traveling.
I’ve gotten to eat at some pretty nice restaurants over the past few years but I gotta tell ya, I’ve yet to eat a restaurant meal that could hold a candle to anything cooked at home.
Your kitchen beats out any five star restaurant hands down – and the company surely can’t be beat.
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Gratefully,
Christy
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Oh my!!! How I love all our Southern comforts…pot roast,chicken and dumplings,
meatloaf and mashed potatoes, fried chicken, mac and cheese…the classics!! But when this Texas girl was in Minneapolis for school for 4 years, I gotta tell you, I dreamed about good ole Tex Mex…Cheese enchiladas oozing with cheese and chili, QUESO (food of the gods!), rice and refried beans, chips and HOT sauce…When I came home for a visit, we would always go straight from the airport to El Fenix for a big fix of all the fixins…and of course, end with pralines and sopapillas with honey!!! WOW, I want a taco NOW!!!!!!
Spaghetti and meatballs, brats and weinkraut and cold meatloaf sandwiches are my favorite meals!!!!
When I’m away from home, I miss bacon, eggs, homemade biscuits, and my favorite fresh brewed coffee the most! I have been to many places across the US for breakfast, but you can’t beat a southern homemade breakfast! Especially the biscuits and gravy!
That’s it….I’m having breakfast for supper! Thanks Jamie!
My mama makes some good smothered chicken and gravy with rice, that is what I miss away from home. Pretty much anything with rice and gravy, hard to keep south Louisiana girls away from that!
I am from central Louisiana and I love me some rice and gravy too! I love smothered chicken in gravy. It is one of my favorites.
Pinto Beans with ham hocks, cornbread, spinach, red onion and ice tea.
I’m from Lafayette, LA. All our food is missed away from home. Probably Cajun chicken and sausage gumbo, not to be confused with New Orleans Creole gumbo.
Tomato Pie (Paula Deen’s recipe) it is the BOMB!!! My charcoal grilled steaks,ALWAYS get raves! Loaded baked potatoes, Green salad with lettuce,baby spinach,green olives,dried cranberries,chow mein noodles and blue cheese dressing-delectable!!! OOOOOH….and Mississippi mud cake (or as mu 3 year old grandaughter calls it “Mippy Sippy” mud cake…DE-LISH:)