Also cornbread with honey butter.

This is my first attempt making this kind of soup. My mother used to make it all the time when I was a kid. Hopefully it will be good because it is a large pot of soup. 🥣

Sweet potato fries, and probably green beans. The usual chocolate ice cream, and cinnamon vanilla coffee.

nuggets, shrimp, onions, green pepper served on cheesy grits.

with steamed artichokes on the side, and Yorkshire pudding, which I wish I knew how to make better. I just picked the wrong grandmothers, I guess.

RE spiffing up the broccoli soup: sour pickle soup is a Polish standard, and I've had Chinese soups made with pickled cabbage. I'm not sure it would go well with the cheese, though: have you considered adding a bit of that gorgonzola to give the soup more of a kick? I agree though on letting it sit a night so the flavors get to know each other.

Thanks, retrograde. It turned out to be most delicious just with the flavors blending overnight. I didn’t know about the Polish soup, which I’m going to check out because I generally love Polish food.

The RG has this incredible taste sense so I really should check out the pickle idea, which I might for one serving. He’s never wrong about taste issues. In 30 years together he’s messed up exactly one dish.

His taste memory is so strong that I can ask him to re-create a dish I had at a restaurant 10 years ago and he can do it in a heartbeat. It can even be a foreign cuisine with ingredients we don’t even have in the kitchen—he can still remember it if he tasted it.

I’ve never made Yorkshire pudding. I’m going to look up the recipe. I got a laugh out of your remark about grandmothers.

on the way home from TDW Convention.
This is a traditional stop for us. Usually we do it on the way down to Austin but thanks to the ice our scheduling was off. The staffs greets us like regulars even though we are only there once a year

This time it was on the way back to FW. This place has sandwiches, soup, great looking breakfast and desserts.

If you are ever in the area, I recommend it. Saledo has a number of beautiful old homes.