MeatHenge’s crack reporter Cindy heads off to Mobile for a late in the year meat treat. This time though, there’s been a change in the menu! There’s a new rib place in town. She and her friends pile into the Winnie and head out to find out whose ribs are best.
Please look to your left and under “FEATURED ARTICLES” you’ll notice the two entries for the Rib Off v1 and v2.

I had the pleasure of making it out for breakfast this morning by invitation of a friend. She suggested a newish restaurant at the 4th Street area in Berkeley. All she would say is, you just gotta have the tamales. Just gotta.
The building was a nice large industrial type with some neat angles to the walls. The tables and bar areas were all refinished recycled wood, so they had some patina left to them, quite nice. I perused the menu up on the wall a bit, but came back to the first item, chorizo with scrambled eggs. Oh and a tamale and a cup of blue bottle coffee and half and half and that would be plenty thank you.

The chorizo and eggs were right on the mark. Not too damn greasy, in fact they weren’t greasy at all. The heat came in to say hello, and the cilantro cleaned it all up fancy. I don’t like to admit it, but I’m not a fan of the black bean. I feel pintos are the way to be, but these were worth not leaving on the plate. Especially with the crumbly mexicanny cheese. Now take the chorizo egg love, a smoosh of beans and apply to the home made corn tortillas … and you have one of the best breakfasts of the year. But wait, it gets better. The Blue Bottle coffee compliments food. Their brew isn’t a dark roast such as what Peet’s spews (that stuff is a meal within itself). It was a complete joy to have with a meal.

Look, it’s a fresh shredded pork tamal with a sweetish red sauce. It was nice of the chef to set the tamal on a bed of husk. That way the sauce wouldn’t be disturbed by unwrapping the sucker, ah hell if the husk was on, the sauce wouldn’t have been there.

The scrambled eggs over tortilla chips slathered in red sauce with crema, crumbly cheese and white onions was … well really tasty as well. I had some of all.
Again, I can’t stress enough how nice it was to take a few minutes out of the day to sit and have a nice meal. There wasn’t anything I could have added to this meal, oh wait. Yes, actually there is something I could add. It would have been nice to have a smidge of fruity goodness. But other than that, total success.

Where are most of you? Working I would hope. Today I was just way too hungry and needed a little something to tide me over. Well, this certainly fit the bill. In fact, it was a bit much. Some omelette thing with mushrooms, onions, peppers, maters and some link sausage. AND HASHBROWNS !!! I LOVE HASHBROWNS. Sure they were a bit mushy, but that’s how Sukies goes.

It’s been one of those days. You know the ones. A few hours longer than you expected, a co-worker shows up with homemade iced coffees that have enough cafeine in them to kill a moose (you have two), the chinese lunch repeats for maybe six hours worth of nasty garlic filled grease. Yeah, that’s the day. So what is the last thing you wish to do? Cook dinner, let alone eat dinner. But the kids are hungry and the wife is expecting something tasty. My solution? Fast food. What kind? Well, it’s hot, it’s july, the obvious choice is FRIED CHICKEN! In this part of the country, Popeye’s is really the only choice for edible fried chicken. So there it sits, in the oven keeping warm. Zachary is having a bite and I’m sure M will have a piece. But it scares me. See? Isn’t it scary?

Meathead and Mz. Meathead went to Sukis last weekend and we got these yummies
SKILLET

and PORK

and of course I love a detail shot.

Another file meal served up at Sukie’s Country Kitchen in San Pablo California. Yum.

Thank you Sukie! For this ‘delightful’ repast consisting of goodies such as BACON … bacon friend.

Okay, so I’m dying already. Here it is 7:30 Thursday morning and this is what I find in my Inbox. I know it was probably meant for dinner or a huge lunch, but am now thinking BREAKFAST.
Thanks Joe ?

This is just in case you were wondering what it looked like close up.

Wow, look at all that … uh food.

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