Wings for breakfast anyone?

Ok, first I know it has been a while, but I'm back. Now, it's 7:50 in the morning and I'm craving wings! Some garlic parm and Asian style or my fav combo, bbq parm. 

This brings me to my thoughts, I'd rather have "lunch or dinner" foods in the morning and breakfast burritos is always an option for dinner. Brings me to say "about dang time" to McDonald's for making breakfast available all day. Now, step it up and make the whole menu available all day. How many of you have wanted chicken nuggets for breakfast or a chalupa for breakfast from Taco Bell. Yeah there are other options that do full menu all day, but sometimes there is certain things you want. 

Maybe I'm wrong, but again these are really just my random thoughts. 

Breakfast should be like this every morning.

First morning of Spring break and my wife says "let's go to Hugo's!" Well, this makes me very excited and you'll see why shortly. 

Hugo's is in Claremore, Ok and serves breakfast all day, well 6am-2pm anyway. They specialize in breakfast and big portions. First time we went, we split an omelette and got a side of bacon. I swear there was like half a pig on this plate. Well, we back this morning and each got our own plate. I got the 3 eggs and chicken fried steak which comes with a huge portion of German style hash browns and a biscuit and gravy. The biscuit is homemade by the at. 

The wife got the ham and cheese omelette with the German potatoes and she went with toast. 

Well, it was delicious as usual as you can tell from the picture. The whole bill was less than $22. Good food, good people, and good prices. If you are in NE Oklahoma, go check it out.

The Gnarley Dawg!!!

I had to grab a quick lunch Saturday and saw this place, The Gnarley Dawg, that was half of a mile away. I'm really glad I checked it out. My apologies for crappy pics, one day I'll upgrade to a phone with a better camera. 

Some great choices of quality dogs, burgers, sausages, and chili. Their sauces are fantastic as well. 

I enjoyed The Hooch which is their in-house made brat, sauerkraut, mustard, and a dash of celery salt. I also had the Frito chili pie which I thought was great. The chili has just the right amount of kick, but they provide cayenne powder on te table if you need more. 

I asked the gentleman that helped us about the restaraunt and he said they were recently under new ownership and are looking to expand the menu and new locations. 

If you want to see the full menu and get some more info, check them out at www.gnarleydawg.com

Are all these toppings necessary?

So tonight, we hit a chain "gourmet burger" joint. This burger has provolone, sautéed mushrooms, and crispy onion straws on it along with some kind of a mayo. It was messy but my biggest issue, I couldn't taste the beef. 

This leads me to ask "are all these toppings really necessary?" If you can't taste the beef or whatever you choose for you meat or meat substitute of choice, I don't see the point. That should be the focal point of the flavor profile. 

You may ask, "is it possible to have that?" My answer is yes. The best burger I've ever had was topped with 4 cheeses and a homemade Mac and cheese, plus mayo and still that beef patty came through. The toppings did way they were supposed to do and enhanced the flavor not shadow it. That is what this burger had plus the homemade bun was soft and yet was strong enough to support it all. 

I don't care if it's fast food to high dollar, let me taste beef. But again, these are really just my random thoughts.

One of my favorite BBQ joints

So you will learn I am a BBQ conisseuer so you will see plenty of entries. Today, we hit one of my favorites BurnCo in Tulsa. These guys are only open Tuesday through Saturday and when the food is gone, they are done! 

They used to work for a company called Hasty Bake which makes grills and smokers and then decided to open a Q joint and it has been a hit ever since, in fact they just moved into a bigger building this past year and still have lines around the building as you'll see in the pic. 

I'm a huge fan of the ribs and their other specialty is The Fatty. It is a sausage with chopped beef and a small amount of spicy sausage wrapped around it into a log. Then they weave BACON around it and smoke it. It doesn't suck. They do some interesting sides including a smoked mac and cheese with bacon and a grilled potato salad. 

What's a great part of the place is the atmosphere. They open the door and say "Welcome to Paradise." You can tell they are having a lot of fun. If you are ever in Tulsa, go check it out. 

First mistake of 2015

So I've already screwed up and it hasn't even been 13 hours in yet. Normally, we have a standing New Year's Day event with my wife's Dad's side of the family, however this year, it was moved to a later date. That being the case, we didn't think about lunch and slept in way past breakfast. In our little town, we have just a handful of places to eat and considering we were sick of Sonic and pizza, we opted for Subway. (Note, I'm going back to Paleo tomorrow. I did great for 6 weeks and let stress and the holidays get me. That's a 2014 mistake I'll learn from.) I was still in my"pjs," a long sleeve t-shirt and cotton shorts, so I didn't want to have to go in. I get on Subway's website and check out their specials. No prices, but I get that. I decide to try the Big Pastrami whatever. 

So I call to order so I can use the pick up window. My wife got a six dollar combo and included baked BBQ chips, I got a foot long pastrami, and we got 3 cookies. The lady taking my order repeated it back but didn't give me a total and hung up before I could ask. I grab about $16 in cash thinking it should be plenty. I get there and it's $18.89!!! I said "come again?!" I was then told that the pastrami was almost $10!!!! I can get one at a chain deli for less. So I had to run back and grab 3 more dollars. I get back, about 5 minutes later, the woman gives me the total and doesn't say sorry, thank you, kiss my butt or anything. 

I get home and find I got regular BBQ chips and a sandwich that isn't even close to being worth $10. On top of that, I said light lettuce on my wife's sandwich and there was more lettuce than anything. 

I normally try to hit non chain places when I can but I expect to have decent customer service and for them to get my order right. 

Subway, you're overcharging for an inferior product and wasn't enough of it on there to validate the price of it either. I suggest you find a way to look up price by zip code and if you are going to charge that price, it better not suck and it did today. 

Roast is already in the crock pot for dinner.