Patriotic Vegetable Flag

Flag Day was this week...
 and we almost missed it...

Luckily, we had things in place since Memorial Day... 

(Whew!!)

I try to keep things patriotic from the end of 

May until just after the Fourth...

and by "trying to keep things patriotic"...

I mean the red white and blue stays up 
from Memorial Day right through the Fourth...

I used to take all the flags down for a few weeks

and then drag them all back out again.

I must have smartened up...

or perhaps it's laziness...but it works for me

and it feels and looks like summertime.

While we made sure to have our flag flying...

We had just enough time to make an edible flag too.

It was delicious... and patriotic...  

Biscuits On Parade

Driving 5 hours for a biscuit says a lot about a person.

Really... It does. Right?

Taking a road-trip...even a mini-vacation for a biscuit 

might say:

'this person has set a high bar, 

some might even say very high bar for great biscuits'

or perhaps it says:

 'this person enjoys long car rides that offer beautiful scenery...
barns, green pastures and rolling foothills.

The biscuit is simply a perk of that scenic journey'

or maybe, just maybe...

'this person believes you have to risk it...for the biscuit' 

or some country-saying like that... 

you just have to go for it...

Sometimes, you have to go as 
far as five hours for "it".

I am that person.

The one who would travel long distances
for a really great biscuit.
I have MY reasons... 

First, this particular biscuit resides
in one of my favorite nearby 

destinations for a family road-trip... 
Nashville, Tennessee.

Beautiful state, friendly folks.  Done.

And yes, this culinary triumph

is also a 
really-great-wonderfully-delicious, biscuit.
I'm not over-stating it... I promise.

 I don't need any more incentive than that...

A Loveless Cafe biscuit.

Over the past weekend

we took a super-fun family road-trip.

In part, because we have a lot of baseball games

that need to be played in the coming weeks. 

We had a very soggy springtime, so our next few

weeks of June will be spilling over with make-up games...
We won't be traveling too far in any direction...
other than the direction of the baseball fields.

 July seemed like

a long, long way off, 

for kiddos itching to get summer started.

So, off we went...a mini get-away.

Smells like sweet tea and porch sittin'

Friends, try to contain your excitement...

(Yes, I am going to share some

 of our vacation/road-trip photos, 

Skip past them... if you must...I would

absolutely understand...

 and I will never know if you do...)

 Our trip included a stop at The Loveless Cafe,

 just outside of Nashville. 

 I first visited The Loveless Cafe

 last year, and I felt the right thing to do

 was to introduce the rest of the family to the biscuit...

They met...and they were smitten. 

 Just as I had imagined...

They were big fans.  

This time however... 

I poked around a little more (at the Loveless) 

 and you'll never guess what I found...

 hint:

It was not a spare copy of their biscuit recipe 

lying on the ground... 

but, it was something almost as good...