Just a few Friday this and that’s while waiting for the
rains to pass..
Food Knowledge
First a “to do” item..
tomorrow (Saturday) at noon, Sotterley Plantation is putting on a little lecture program
entitled: “A Taste of History: How African American Foods Influenced Our
Modern Cuisine”. There is a charge
($15) and they don’t do “walk ins”. Yes,
this is late notice but it just dawned on me this morning. Of course during last week I blithely scheduled
the irrigation start up people to arrive on …….. Saturday at noon. It’s always something.. don’t like to saddle MFO with the handling of
the sprinkler people, never comes out well (“Why didn’t you ask….?”) so not
sure what I’m going to do there, leaning toward going..
Down on Maggie’s Farm… in a way
This morning I had a chance to visit the home of WAG meats,
a farm near Leonardtown. I have
mentioned in the past that I have had some of their products purchased at our
local Farmer’s Market and they it’s good stuff. In fact, last night we had two of the pork
chops which were very tasty, and actually had some fat!! So this morning as
chance befell, I went with a friend to the source, Willie A. Goddard’s farm
just south of Leonardtown. Turns out it
is the place where L’il Margaret’s Bluegrass Festival is held every year,
famous for great bluegrass music and bringing in sweltering temperatures. Mark your calendars; it is August 8, 9, 10
this year. Anyway, we drove to the
house which also doubles as his “shop”, and rummaged through a couple freezers
full of chops, steaks, ground meats, sausage grillers, and ribs. Bacon was in the “other building” but he went
and brought us some. Since I didn’t know
I was going to visit, I didn’t schlep the camera gear (subject of a future
visit!!), so can only show you the fruits of our shopping
He also runs a thriving saw mill business, but again that
may be in another posting.. Meanwhile, you can
buy his meats at the Local Farmers Market, open most Saturday’s from nine to
one. Plus, you also get to talk to
Willie..
Sign, signs, everywhere a sign…
Of course two of the most popular signs in our county are
I see the “open” sign is lurking in the background…
These editions are from the long “Coming Soon” of Plaza
Tolteca
Apparently Mexican Restaurants, like Pizza and Chinese places there can never be too many
in any given community..
And, whenever Plaza Tolteca is finished with the county signs, they
can move them up the road because now we’re hearing that we will “soon” have our
very own Potbelly Sandwich Shop. It will
be located in the same building as the Sweet Frog and the new Nail Parlor (can't get enough of those either), next
to LongHorn Steak House. A quick look
see on their site indicates it is sort of an upscale Subway, made to order sandwiches, most
of which apparently get toasted (Didn't Quiznos try that?). More
processed foods!!
And while we're on the subject of signs, you might recall that I did
give a little praise to corporate restaurant row because their road signs apparently were limited
in height to four or five feet, still visible but at least not on huge poles like you see
elsewhere. Good on the developers or
commissioners for at least holding down sign pollution. Whoops!
Not so fast! A sign was recently
erected for the whole area which is called: “Park Place”
Anybody notice a little discrepancy in the height of that sign and
the "regulated" Olive Garden one in the background?? Rules are for you, but maybe not for me....As a
friend of mine would say "SOSM" (SO
Southern Maryland). and since I won't be going there, I don't have to worry about
DFD
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