Pooche's restaurant and grocery store off I-10 in Breaux Bridges, LA

Best crawfish ettouffee I have ever had ! $10 includes 2 side dishes

Can also buy all kinds of fresh or frozen meat, fish, poultry (even TURDUCKEN), and lot's of other items fresh from the local farmers and fishermen!



Oops! I'm drooling all over the keyboard just thinking about it

OOOOH! You just reminded me that I still have a shrimp stuffed bonless chicken in my freezer from there. Guess what I'll be having for lunch tomorrow.

Keen,

I have a TUR-DUC-HEN I bought there a week ago sitting in my freezer waiting to be Christmas dinner

If you are in Butte, MT and HUNGRY, give The Lamplighter a try. You will not be disappointed!

Someone mentioned West Virginia. I worked there once. I really miss those ramps. We would roast chickin halves on the grill with a pile of ramps on top. A ramp is part onion and part garlic. They only grow above 3500 ft, or so I was told. The ramp festivals are a lot of fun.

If you like steaks, stop by the Great American Land and Cattle Company on the west side of El Paso. I am still a carnivor so this is where we will stop on our way out to Tucson next month.

We also going to the TTT Truck Stop along I-10 just as you get to Tucson from the east. They have great food. Looks like an old place but the restaurant is very nice and clean. The portions are great. Hope it is still there !

If you ever pass thru Greenfield Tennessee (West Tennessee just south of Martin Tenn.) Stop at Wimpys. The best hand mage burgers in the country.

I don't remember the name of the place but there is a restarant right across the street from the Peabody Hotel in Memphis Tennessee. They have a 5 lb burger. Yes, it comes on a hugh bun and is fully dressed. You usually buy it then cut it into pie shaped pieces. IT is worth just stopping buy and seeing.

RT,

My Grandpa was a coal miner - My Mom was born in Eastern Kentucky then raised from 6 + up in Eastern Tennessee. Sounds like your WV ramps are also the Easter Onions she loved - she said they would grow wild in the mountains anywhere over 2000 ft above sea level and every Easter they had festivals to celebrate this early vegetables arrival to help suppliment low food supplies after a long winter.

RT,

Thanks for the Tips. WE will be passing thru Tucson and ElPaso the first week of the year. We will check the places out.

Happy Holidays

I have always thought a cafe or restaurant can be judged fairly well by their hamburgers and cheeseburgers. Using that method we found three very good places to eat in SE Arizona

On West AJO Way (highway 86), just West of Tucson is Tiny's Saloon, Steakhouse and Family Restaurant. Outside looks like a typical Shoot and Stab club, but inside very clean, neat, and serves great food.

In Willcox, AZ the Big Texas BBQ, set up in an old Pullman Train Car in old downtown and serves great BBQ and other dishes.

In Sierra Vista AZ on South Highway 92 the Sierra Vista, Diner, an old time looking chromed shotgun style diner serves excellent food including breakfast.

Happy RVing and eating.

If you're headed north from California into Oregon on Highway 97, be sure to stop at La Pine. It's on the way to Redmond where many RV rallies take place.

In La Pine, Gordy's Truck Stop has gas and diesel for a decent price, wi-fi and best of all, a "soup of the moment." The soup is accompanied by fresh-baked cornbread and is so tasty, you'll want to lick the bowl. I was traveling with a chef and she sent a note back to the cook complimenting her on the meal.

Next to Gordy's is the Central Oregon RV Repair where I had my alternator problem fixed. They've been there quite a while, have a good reputation and you can boondock if you need to.

Thanks for the sugguestions Jim. We will try to find the place on AJO Way. We know this road. Also, we have ate at the Big Texas BBQ in Wilcox Az. IT was good and if the timing is right we will try it again in January.

We also like McGraws Cantina on Hougton Road on the east side of Tucson. Their tri-tips plate is good. It is an old saloon type place. It is way up on a hill so the view south is fantastic also!

Workamperette - The ramps are a cross between wild onions and garlic. They have both taste but the garlic is the predominant taste.

I am looking forward to trying ramps at the first opportunity.

Alton Brown always sings their praises on Food Network, and he's a southern boy.

Must be something to it, kinda like mustard and turnip greens, with cornbread, yum, yum. . .

Starting Jan 2 we will be travelling I- 10 from end to end.

We intend to visit the food establishments recomended above.

If any one has other selections along the way, please advise.

Everything sounds great but I will put my Pork Loin with Garlic Smashed Spuds, Baked Beans with Dough Gods for bread and Pineapple upside down Cake with Cowboy Coffee, all cooked in Black Pots over an open fire outside in the fresh air up against any of it.

Hihowdy

Will be in El Paso first week of Jan and planning AMerican cattle co,