I promise I won't tire you with a run-down of everything I ate, not that you'd even have time for that, but it would also be booooooring. I'll just show you the highlights. Plus, I didn't take pics of everything, so there.
Let's start with the star of our show: the Kentucky Hot Brown. This sandwich was made famous by The Brown Hotel in Louisville, but you can get it just about anywhere in KY, though some purists will tell you they are cheap imitations. Ya know what? If it's slathered in cheese, who really cares?!
Being a blogger, I always have my camera at the ready. Here is an intact Hot Brown:

Knowing I would not survive eating a whole one of these, I opted for a small side salad and I split a Hot Brown with someone. This is what half of one looks like:

The next day, after I awoke from my cheese coma, I hit a local farmers market. In my world I call it "industry research"... you know, being a market veteran I must compare other markets to my own, even if they are in a different state. The stand-out at this one was this cheese (I sense a recurring theme, here):


Moving on ... one of the things I treat myself to on the road is sweets. Candy. Rare candy. I crave very few things of the sweet variety, but these things will stop me in my tracks:

Also, these:

On another leg of my journey I met a friend for lunch outside of Cincinnati, and it just wouldn't be right to be in Cincy and not eat their famous Five-Way Chili. This is what it looks like:

Next I found myself in Pittsburgh. (Did you know that if you address an envelope with PghPA, it will get there? What? You don't address envelopes any more? For shame!) Anyway, several years ago, I was visiting PghPA with a friend and we went to the original Primanti Brothers restaurant. The one I go to now is just down the street from Pitt and Carnegie-Mellon. I took this picture of the sign because I seem to be incapable of remembering the name of the place. I always say "that P restaurant with the fries inside the sandwiches". Yes, I embarrass my son. A lot.
So here we were:


For the last leg of my journey, I stopped at a rest stop on the PA Turnpike. On purpose. Not only did I need a potty stop, I needed one of these:

So there you have it - my culinary tour of the Midwest. In future posts, I'll update you on some of the scenery and historic things I saw. I just had to show you the food first.
My farmers markets start this Saturday (yay!), so I'll also have weekly market updates for you. I need the road trip stuff for my blog because I have made nothing card-wise - NOTHING - and I am soooo far behind with the inventory. I put my boxes in the car tonight and I only have three boxes, where I usually have five. ACK! Panic sets in ...
Thanks for stopping by!
OOOHHHHHH YUUUUUMMMMM!! I would LOVE to do a Crooked Road Trip with you!!
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What the heck! no sentence but I had to show you this one. Diid all the other letters quit for the day?
OMG! I want to be the mouse around your table!
ReplyDeleteHoly crap!!!! I've seen a lot of cheesy food but your roadtrip takes the biscuit!! LOL
ReplyDeleteFries in a sandwich..we call that a chip butty at home in the old country...I survived boarding school on those...and apple sandwiches...and wish sandwaiches...bread was impostant in that school...#nunscantcook
We have similar tastes in food. I think I've gained 8 lbs. just drooling over the hot brown, chipotle cheddar cheese, and the 5-way chili :)
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Mmmm... cheeeeeeeese! I love this blog post so much. I think I'm starving now.
ReplyDeleteYum!
OK this does it: we are SO going to travel next summer. You are my ideal road trip partner..... this is like the Pioneer Woman's cook book come true.
ReplyDeleteWOW - what awesome pictures!
ReplyDeleteNeccos were my favorite candy as a kid and my great aunt always had the circus peanuts.