What I did this weekend ...

... went to visit my dad for Father's Day.

He took me and Le Petite Poulet out to dinner, to a restaurant called The Farmer's Daughter. It's run by Mennonites (there's a general store next door to get foodstuffs) and it's great. Not anything you'd find in an upscale market; just good southern eating.

When we sat down, the waitress asked if we'd ever eaten there before ... my dad had, but I hadn't. The way it works is you can select two meats for your table, and then they bring you small amounts of all the vegetables they have that day. So ...

We had pulled pork and buttermilk chicken, plus green beans, mac and cheese, apple salad, cornbread salad, cucumber salad, carrot souffle, fried squash, cantelope, cole slaw, boiled cabbage, pinto beans and mashed potatoes and gravy. Plus cornbread and rolls. And desert.

If you get the chance ... go. Good food.

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