Comments on: Food-recipes-memories

By: Wretha

Wretha — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:23:52 +0000

Mary, this was many MANY years ago, something like 22+ years back, I understand that now many restaurants serve chicken fried steak. The first time I visited Oregon, I was in Oregon City, Portland, and a few miscellaneous other towns along the coast, and I could find no one who served chicken fried steak, I always got the same questions, if I wanted fried chicken or if I wanted steak? It was the same way when I lived there for almost a year. I met a lady who had been living in Oregon City for 20+ years (at that time) who was a transplanted Texan, when I asked her what she missed most about Texas, she said it was the food, specifically chicken fried steak, she found the people there (in Oregon) to be most friendly, I did as well, they just offered different foods. I do miss going up into the mountains to play, and I dearly miss Saturday Market in downtown Portland, we used to ride the MAX to downtown and spend a day just walking around, eating fun foods (elephant ears covered with cinnamon sugar and honey, spring rolls with fish sauce…), watching and listening to the many street performers, that was a lot of fun!

By: Mary Hart

Mary Hart — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:45:08 +0000

Regarding Oregon…how odd. I’m oregon and know a chicken fried steak perfectly well. In fact most traditional oregonians would be quite comfortable cooking you up a chicken fried steak.

By: Wretha

Wretha — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:20:44 +0000

Mmmmm Survivalchick, come back over to the greasy side…..

By: Survivalchick

Survivalchick — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:07:54 +0000

It’s post like this that make me wish I never became a vegan!

By: Wretha

Wretha — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:30:10 +0000

MsBelinda, glad I could give you a laugh, it’s good medicine. :) No, they didn’t make the dish I requested, it just made no sense to them, that was many MANY years ago, I understand that you can now get chicken fried steak in Oregon now, but I suspect it’s a poor substitute for what we make here in Texas. ;) We too love mexican food, I make a mean chicken enchilada dish, I’ll post about it later.

Tell your mom thanks for Mountain Man Bob and I, and as for the name of our home, it’s the best compromise we could come up with, I still want to call it a cabin, but for some reason that offends Mountain Man Bob, we used to call it the tree house, but that doesn’t fit any more.

By: MsBelinda

MsBelinda — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:14:27 +0000

Lol, how I laughed with your story about the poor waitress in Oregon. But you failed to mention if they if fact whipped you up a chicken fried steak.

I love food but I can’t cook, but I admire those that do. I dont have one favorite dish but I do enjoy mexican, american and italian foods.

BTW my mom loves the name you have for your husband (Mountain Man Bob) as well as for your home (Sky Castle).