Texas Back Road Restaurant Recipes Cookbook (Sample)
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Texas Back Road Restaurant Recipes Cookbook (Sample) Do you find that the hardest part of cooking for your family is coming up with what to cook? Great American Cookbooks can help make that so simple with easy-to-follow, delicious-tasting recipes from hometown cooks across the USA. Our goal is to provide everyday recipes for the everyday cook. That is why we strive to select the best recipes using ingredients most cooks already have in their kitchen. Just to give you an idea of the great cookbooks Great American has to offer, here is a small sample of Texas Back Road Restaurant Recipes Cookbook. Each book we produce is a full-color, top- quality cookbook with 200 to 300 wonderful family recipes. We also include interesting stories and articles that will bring you and your family hours of fun. Thank you for taking the time to view this Great American Cookbook Sample. A Cookbook & Restaurant Guide AnI¦a Musgrove Great American Publishers www.GreatAmericanPublishers.com toll-free 1-888-854-5954 Recipe Collection © 2016 by Great American Publishers ALL RIGHTS RESERVED All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. Great American Publishers 501 Avalon Way Suite B • Brandon, MS 39047 toll-free 1-888-854-5954 • www.GreatAmericanPublishers.com ISBN 978-1-934817-25-4 by Anita Musgrove Layout and design by Cyndi Clark 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 All images are copyrighted by the creator noted through istockphoto.com (unless otherwise indicated). Front cover: beef fajitas, rez-art • sign with sky, 1stGallery • wood texture and longhorns, ClaudioVentrella • Texas road with bluebonnets, Jeff Gardner • Back cover: Cattle crossing sign, jojoo64 • cow thumb puppet, federico_botta • road map and navigator, Garsya • Texas bluebonnet, Warren Price • coffee and creamer to go, design56 • Texas flag, BruceStanfield • salt and pepper, bstoltz • green sunglasses, Avesun • red bandana, Jani Bryson • salsa, rimglow • Texas postage stamp, Miroslav Sokol • special ranger badge, Habman_18 • cash and car key, jaboardm • bolo tie, digitalfarmer • Texas state quarter, Kary Nieuwenhuis • Pages 1-3: Texas welcome sign, Aneese • Texas sunrise, leekris • welcome sign, kanyakits • guitar and straw hat, Bunwit • cactus, tomgigabite • rope, wabeno • keys, kromeshnik • tin cup, cris180 • special ranger badge, Habman_18 • toy bull with flowers, Semion88 • Pages 5-9: Cattle crossing sign, jojoo64 • Texas bluebonnet, Warren Price • Texas flag cowboy boot, Nasry • food plate by Hello, Sweetie! (page 206) • Fredericksburg Honey Lavender Peach Crisp by Cabernet Grill (page 124) • colorful wooden toy cactus, chengyuzheng • toy truck with horse trailer, Nic_Taylor • green sunglasses, Avesun • toy keys, Molnia • coffee and creamer to go, design56 • sheriff badge, Smitt • fried green tomatoes by Buttermilk’s (page 184) • yellow traffic sign, thinkstock.com/Ryan McVay • cactus, tomgigabite • toy cowboy, milosluz • Page 10-11: cactus, tomgigabite • Texas ranger badge, briancweed • bolo tie, digitalfarmer • guacamole, alisafarov • green gingham napkin, edelweiss7227 • green coffee cup, ukapala • road map and navigator, Garsya • cash and car key, jaboardm • cow thumb puppet, federico_botta • vintage toy truck, lucasbrown • toy rocking horse, Perytskyy • toy boy in canoe, DanielmAnderson • Page 18: Potager Café, Paul Knudsen/PortfolioStudio.net • Page 30: Cinnamon rolls, Teuobk • Page 48: Red Onion, msk.nina • Page 94: grilled sandwich©robynmac • Page 96: barbecue ribs and french fries, robynmac • Page 105: fresh bananas on board, Lecic • Pages 110-111: toy cowboy, milosluz • blue toy truck, winterling • blue toy guitar, trekandshoot • straw cowboy hat, Maria Jeffs • guest check, Devonyu • Texas state quarter, Kary Nieuwenhuis • keys, kromeshnik • cell phone, joruba • blue bandana, Jani Bryson • coffee cup with Texas shape, eyegelb • blue sunglasses, goir • horse finger puppet, federico_botta • special ranger badge, Habman_18 • Texas statehood postage stamp, AlexanderZam • Texas bluebonnet, Warren Price • toy bull with flowers, Semion88 • Pages 164-165: Texas postage stamp, Miroslav Sokol • cactus in pot, belchonock • tin cup, cris180 • red bandana, Jani Bryson • salsa, rimglow • cash and phone, mettus • car keys, pilcas • salt and pepper, bstoltz • deputy marshall badge, Habman_18 • toy motorcycle with sidecar, JordiDelgado • guitar and straw hat, Bunwit • wooden cow, jeep5d • Page 202: crawfish illustration, Stymie924 •Page 204: Star Drug Store, front: i_am_jim/Wikimedia Commons; counter: Paul Randall/Wikimedia Commons • Page 203: crab cakes, Lisovskaya • Page 218: burger and fries, nitrub • Pages 266-288: we’re open metal sign, thinkstock.com/mum_ble • jukebox, thinkstock.com/ agcuesta • napkin with tic/tac/toe, thinkstock.com/Zeljko Bozic • car keys, thinkstock.com/Ferli Achirulli • napkins and condiments, thinkstock.com/Michael Flippo • Texas flag, BruceStanfield • vintage suitcase, griffre • suitcase with roses, helen_kundicevic • rootbeer float and sundae by Storm’s Drive-in Restaurant (page 224) • neon open sign, thinkstock.com/Ryan McVay Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information provided in this book. However, dates, times, and locations are subject to change. Please call or visit websites for up-to-date information before traveling. To purchase books in quantity for corporate use, incentives, or fundraising, please call Great American Publishers at 888-854-5954. Preface . 6 Northwestern Region . 10 Southern Region . 110 Eastern Region . 164 Index of Restaurants . 266 Index of Recipes . 275 5 Are you ready for a new back road trip? We have already traveled Alabama, Kentucky and Tennessee in the State Back Road Restaurant Recipes Cookbook Series. Now, let’s crank up and take off for Texas, the Lone Star State. Each state has been an adventure and Texas is no exception. The second largest state in our United States, Texas is so large you can experience a diverse landscape with every direction you travel. It is, indeed, “Like a Whole Other Country.” From coastal swamps and piney woods to rolling hills and rugged desert terrain to the mountains of Big Bend, come and experience it all as we travel back roads in search of the best locally-owned, Mom-and-Pop places to eat. My first trip to Texas was a whirlwind excursion with my husband, Leonard, and brother-in-law, Craig. We left about six in the evening, because Uncle John had died and Ethel Mae (my mother-in-law) needed her boys. You know when Mama calls, you go. We took off from Mississippi and got to Houston 12 hours later, driving mostly at night, arriving just in time to make Mama happy. I learned my first Texas lesson. You better know where you are going and what exit to take and be in the right lane at the right time, because traffic moves fast Author Anita Musgrove with husband Leonard, in Texas. After spending less than grandmother, and children, 1982, the year of 24 hours in the Lone Star State, we the overnight Texas adventure. were back on the road home. 6 NORTHWESTERN Region Eastern Region SOUTHERN Region 7 A couple of years, later Leonard woke me early one morning saying he would drive and I could sleep. We were on an adventure. I awoke a few hours later to discover that we were headed back to Texas, this time to Galveston. At least it was daytime for this trip, and I could see all that makes Texas special. It was everything I had always heard about... wide open spaces, long-horn cattle grazing along the way, blue bonnets growing on the side of the highways, and, when we got to Galveston, the beautiful coastline. Of course, we enjoyed dining at several great locally owned restaurants while we were there. For our anniversary one year, our children, Sheila and Mickey, surprised us with a round trip visit to Texas, complete with a condo on the beach on South Padre Island and a car rental so we could explore. When it came time to eat, you guessed it, locally owned places are the best. On the Island one of the best places to eat is Ted’s Restaurant. The favorite local item is the pecan pancakes, but with a huge menu, everyone can find something to satisfy their palate. If you don’t see it on the menu, just ask Karen, and she will see about cooking it for you. If your trip is anything like mine, walking on the golden sands and watching spectacular sunsets will stay with you forever after visiting South Padre Island. We have divided Texas into three regions to help you find your way to good eating. In the Northwestern Region you will find places like New York Hill Restaurant in Thurber where three generations of the Mills family will serve you the daily-made cinnamon rolls and yeast rolls along with the best steaks in the area. Enjoy the view atop New York Hill and the adjacent Thurber Historical Park. Be sure to also visit Kelli at Valley Pecans in Chillicothe. You will enjoy pecans grown right in their own orchards plus her “Dang Good Candy” made right on the premises. While traveling through the Eastern Region, near Canton, be sure to stop at Buttermilk’s. You’ll take a step back in time when life was simple and food was created with passion to enjoy delicious dishes like chicken-fried steak and fried green tomatoes. Don’t forget to stop at J. Cody’s in Bryan and eat some mouth- watering barbecue and juicy rib-eye steaks cooked with mesquite wood over an open fire. When you stop, be sure to try the Cody Corn. Also, John’s Café is a must stop. Mr. John has been in business 43 years serving the best buttery homemade biscuits for breakfast and hot roast beef plates for lunch. He still greets you as you enter through the doors. Say hi to his daughter, Georgia, for me. 8 Not to be out done by the other two regions the Southern Region holds its own place with good food.