Smothered and Covered

Happy New Year y’all!

Are you as sleep deprived and recovering from enjoying a bit too much champagne? We are! Or at least I am, and we’re on a six hour drive back home to my parents in Louisiana.

Lord be near.

Besides coffee and everyone else being pretty subdued the biggest saving grace has been a late breakfast stop at Jackson’s Waffle House. For anyone who hasn’t eaten there I’m so sorry. That has to change.

It’s cheap, it’s quick, and it’s so darn good. Let’s just say since it’s been 7 years that we’ve eaten at a Waffle House I went whole hog. That meant ordering a soft, freshly made chocolate chip waffle and hashbrowns that were smothered (melted cheese), covered (grilled onions), and countrified (slathered with country gravy).

Now I didn’t say it was healthy of easy on the hips, but goodNESS! This is good cooking and better eating. Proof positive that a good meal doesn’t have to be fancy to be enjoyed.

Watching them make our breakfast then getting to savor every bite has made this morning much better. The only thing that’ll make it even more so will be a trip to Cafe du Monde.

And that will be our first stop back home.

Happy 2018! Go get yourself smothered and covered, and begin the next 365 on the right foot. Or left. Whichever will support you better today!

I’ll see y’all soon.