We've eaten breakfast most Saturdays at the same family-owned restaurant for close to 40 years. They've had tough times lately, even closing for a few weeks, but they've always had a good take-out business and that is sustaining them now.
So this morning, I phoned in our order. I usually get whole wheat toast while my wife gets buttered white toast. Ok, so today, she wants a bacon, egg and cheese biscuit, which doesn't come with toast. I haven't been eating the toast lately, so I ordered buttered white toast with my western omelet so that my wife could have the taste-erasing jelly toast at the end.
I go to pick up the order and the waitress, who we've known for years, comes out without the order. She says, "I gotta ask you a question." (She's originally from Connecticut, so she talks funny.) "Do you want white buttered toast or wheat toast?" I explain and a heartbeat later the order is bagged up. In the bag is a note to my wife telling her how much they all miss her and how much they love her.
I'm sure that there are some fast-food restaurants that are as concerned about their customers as my folks are, but I'd bet that it's rare. These are just great people earning a living by providing a great service.
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We still have a few local eatery shops around. They have the best food that is something beyond what the chain stores can offer.
We had a nice little cafe that quickly learned how to make their clientele feel special.?ÿ Most Saturday mornings we would stroll in for breakfast and the waitress would ask, "You want your usual pile?"?ÿ My response would be affirmative with the added thought, "Make it sausage today."?ÿ The alternate choice was bacon.
They knew what I wanted, it was just whether it would have bacon or sausage.?ÿ "The Pile" was my personal creation of two biscuits topped with two scrambled eggs topped with either an order of bacon or sausage topped with a very generous helping of homemade sausage gravy. D-licious!
Other customers would see what I had an inquire as to what it was.?ÿ Many ordered it once then took up my habit.?ÿ After a couple of months the cafe added it to their menu as "The Pile".
Try this:
In cast iron skillet.
Add olive oil, and salt. Grate one jalapeno. Fry gently, until it suddenly turns black. Then crumble 2 - 3 squares of cornbread into pan, on top of jalapenos. Fry and stir, till it's all toasted. Add 4 jumbo eggs. Scramble till done. Top with grated cheese, and a dollop of sour cream.
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Too hot for me, Nate, but my son is very interested. He wants to know how long that takes to prepare.
It is one of those cobbled dishes. Leftover cornbread, is usually involved. If you have cornbread, and the other ingredients, 20-25 min prep time.
Just fact-checking you, I found this one. Actually, your posts are a standard for fact-checking others.
https://www.recipefiction.com/2014/12/fried-cornbread-green-chile-eggs.html?ÿ (Feel free to skip the poem at the end)
I think my son will like yours better, but he's well versed in cooking with hot stuff of all kinds. His mother sometimes threatens to ban him from our kitchen, but he's worth his weight in gold to us two old people.
Actually, your posts are a standard for fact-checking others.
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Ha ha jalapeno!
That's funny!
My recipie will bring out the nutty flavor of roasted jalapeno seeds.?ÿ
It's likely that as I age:
My eyes get dimmer.
My hearing gets poorer.
My taste buds can't taste it, without salt and jalapenos.
So, I'd prefer to write it off to old age!
Now, where's me glasses, and hearing aids!
I have often wondered about certain foods.?ÿ For example, who was the very first human to look at a jalapeno and say, "That looks like it could be food. I wonder how it tastes."?ÿ An even better question is why did the second human, after observing the reaction of the first, decide to give it a try, too.
"Here, hold my mastodon tongue and watch this."
