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 Tomorrow we head off on what will be, no doubt, a harrowing journey back to Texas for the holiday weekend.  Harrowing because our flight is at 8:15 pm, and like almost every other day since April, we are expecting rain tomorrow afternoon, not just rain, but thunderstorms.  So much for an on time departure.  While I am looking forward to seeing the entire family (one is in from college, the other returning from a study course, and the last is throwing a party for the whole, whole family on the 4^th), the dilemma forming in my mind is whether to get tex-mex or bbq while in town. 

Honestly, tex-mex should probably be the choice, as we won’t get back down to Texas until Thanksgiving, but we were just in Dallas for a wedding and had some delicious Pappasito chips and queso and fajitas at the wedding (yumm).  **By the way, I recently learned that fajita actually refers to the cut of beef, not the food type, so beef fajitas is redundant, and apparently chicken fajitas don’t exist – weird, right?  On the flip side, we haven’t had barbecue in a really long time.  Now, you can get barbecue up here, but nothing is quite the same as the Texas barbecue I know and love.  For the most part, people argue that true Texas barbecue should not have sauce, and is just smoked.  I disagree, why would you not also put sauce on a brisket?  There is one place that tries to imitate one of our favorites from Texas (starts with an R and ends in udy’s), but instead of one line for everything, there’s a line for meats, a line for sides, and then a line for drinks, which is the dumbest thing I have ever heard (we’ve only ordered takeout from them so far). 

In the end, I think Tex-Mex will win, because just thinking of the queso makes me drool.  Hopefully we’ll go to the place with the green salsa, because green salsa is really the best.  J

 

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