Daily Archives: December 7, 2015
Surf and Turf . . .
Jan and I headed out about 4pm this afternoon for BBQ in Ellinger and the Wal-Mart in La Grange, but as often happens, it didn’t quite work out that way.
On our way up to Peter’s BBQ, we detoured by the Ellinger PO to drop off our last Landon Gingerbread Man project picture postcard (you send yours in, didn’t you?), then we pulled in the empty parking lot of Peter’s.
And the reason it was empty was as we discovered to our disappointment, that Peter’s closes at 4pm on Mondays. In thinking back, we’ve never beer on a Monday. Usually we come on Friday nights for their BBQ & Seafood Buffet., and I think we’ve come on a Saturday afternoon once or twice, but that’s about it. Lucky for future visits, Monday is the only day they close early.
So now we needed to pick another place for dinner, so we headed on into La Grange, while trying to think of another place to eat. About that time we saw a big billboard advertising Back Porch BBQ in La Grange, right off TX71, so that became our new go-to place.
But when we got there, it was not only closed, but didn’t look like it had been open at all for a good while. So next up was our fallback place, Sealand Seafood, which was right down the road. We really like Sealand’s seafood platters, but we were in the mood for BBQ, so if hadn’t come up.
When we placed our orders, Jan was surprised, and even teased me a bit because, while she got the Catfish & Oyster & Shrimp Platter,
I got an 8oz. Flatiron Steak with Grilled Shrimp.
She said, “I thought you said to never order steak at a seafood place.”
I told her, “Well, I did order some seafood”, pointing at my Grilled Shrimp, “And just because we have always only ordered seafood here doesn’t mean it’s only a seafood place.” Saying this I pointed to the name on the wall.
Sealand Seafood & Steaks.
So if it’s got ‘steak in the name, I can order it.
And it was a very good steak, tender, juicy, and perfectly done medium rare. I would definitely have it again if I wasn’t in the mood for seafood.
Finishing up dinner, we made a ‘stuff’ stop at the nearby Wal-Mart before heading home. Although this one is called a “SuperCenter’, it’s more of a mini-SuperCenter. You can always tell these because they only have one door instead of the normal two, and they don’t stock as large an inventory as the full sized ones. But they had everything we needed, so it was fine.
Tomorrow afternoon we’ll head into Katy about 1:30pm for some shopping and then we’ll meet up with Lowell, and later Brandi for a trip to the Houston Zoo Lights, a Christmas Light display at where else, the Houston Zoo.
Chris, Linda, and Piper will be coming up to meet us too.
Really looking forward to it.
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Thought for the Day:
I know the voices in my head aren’t real, but they sure come up with some great ideas.
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