Cold Weekend - New Meat

It was colder than a mother-in-laws' kiss over the weekend.  I went out for coffee Saturday and Sunday morning, after sleeping in late both days.  That part was good.  The cold wasn't.  I was trying to get a little Christmas shopping done, and they had some sort of holiday street sale downtown at the big fountain.  There were some really nice local, handmade things, but it was so cold I just couldn't stand it very long.  After about an hour I packed it in.  (Yeah, I know...wimp.  But there's a reason I live in Texas.)

Most know I like to eat (and show it).  And, I like to try new things so earlier in the week I purchased a couple of cheval (horse) steaks and cooked them up Saturday.  They were really quite good.  A little chewy, but that was because of the way I prepared them.  Next time I'll get thicker steaks and broil them.  The meat is quite tasty and very, very lean.  I rank it right up there with Kangaroo, which is also very good.  I do draw the line at some of the "sweetmeats" available, though.  But giblets are sweetmeats, and I love them.

But...what I'm looking forward to eating soon is seafood gumbo, chicken-fried steak, Tex-Mex, biscuits and gravy, thick roast beef, and a fatback pork breakfast.  Yep, I'm heading home for Christmas in a couple of weeks.  And the bean soup at Two Amigos.  YEAH!  That's what I'm talking about.