Pork Fat….

Rules!!..

after the protein glut at Ray’s on Saturday night, the FOJTY’s picked us up at the hotel Sunday morning and took us out for breakfast at



Jones Heritage Farms is one of the growing number of small farms "reverting to traditional farming techniques eschewing modern industrial agricultural practices such as animal confinement, the feeding of animal byproducts and the use of antibiotics and growth hormones. The result is better tasting food and more environmentally friendly practices." Must work because they produce a damn good breakfast.

It is apparent that it is a real farm



With real critters







The “restaurant” is located next to the barn



You’re seated in an enclosed patio which can be opened to the outside (and, according to FOJTY, the roaming chickens) with a view of the back pasture housing the sheep, a hog or two, and more chickens. The menu is simple:



After an infusion of coffee, we ordered. I took the “number one with bacon and eggs up”. A little oddity, the server was unfamiliar with the term “up” or even “sunny side up”. I am not sure what the local vernacular is, but eventually my order was understood. And, no matter that FOJTY had twenty ounces of ribeye steak the previous evening, he selected a "number two" with double bacon and a sausage (for the three meats) as his choice. MFO also had a number one, and asked about the “southern potato hash” another semantics oddity to us, but it turns out that they are what we would normally call “hash browns". So she added that to her order.

After a bit more conversation and watching real animals, our orders arrived. It’s so nice to see “real” eggs. Look at those yolks… what a beautiful color and they tasted so good..



And the three egg version was equally inviting (look at that pile of meat!)



Pretty soon my plate looked like this



Everything was so good..

As you leave you walk through their little “store”



Where you can purchase various local items..



On the way back to the motel FOJTY wanted to show us one of his favorite subdivisions:



Complete with catchy street signs. Wouldn't you want that for your address?



What a great experience that breakfast was. We talk about this “buy local” stuff but this is really it. They also occasionally do wine dinners with guest chefs . That would be fun for your weekend in the country! A different life.

So we reluctantly bid adieu (or so long) to younger son, pointed the MOMSTER north toward the big city and FOJTE, where other culinary pleasures awaited…

Different outfits up there for

DFD