Janis Joplin burnished her gravelly voice there. Jerry Lee Lewis rocked there. Willie Nelson was on the street once more to carry out there. And you’ll nonetheless hear artists like Leon Russell.
America’s greatest side-dish restaurant? Sure. And a live performance spot. A former filling station. As soon as often known as an old honky-tonk the place guys gambled. With Southern cooking impressed by a preschool trainer who cooked for 50 hungry youngsters every day.
It is Threadgill’s (301 West Riverside Drive) Austin, TX. Their colourful historical past is just too lengthy to elucidate here–it entails a groundbreaking liquor license, free soup, hippies and more–so let’s simply record their horn-o-plenty menu of 29 side-dish decisions: steamed rice, Spanish rice, pink beans and rice, inexperienced beans, candy potato fries, black-eyed peas, steamed broccoli, mashed potatoes, mac and cheese, corn off the cob, Old South butter beans, black beans, broccoli-rice casserole, stewed okra & tomatoes, garlic-cheese grits, turnip greens, collard greens, buttered carrots, spinach casserole, yellow squash, steamed asparagus, scalloped potatoes, fried okra, French fries, onion rings, cole slaw, dinner salad and “Texas Caviar” (it is actually a black-eyed peas recipe 토토먹튀).
Wow! This place was a must-see, must-eat spot on my latest journey to Austin. Masterminded by Eddie Wilson (his mom was the preschool trainer), Threadgill’s sports activities glorious most important dishes like steaks, fried catfish, meatloaf, chicken-fried pork and way more. However the selection of succulent facet dishes is the star–and they’re all well-made. It made me need to sing Janis’ “Cry Child” as a result of I could not have all of them.
Till you make it to Austin to eat there, this is considered one of their facet dishes you can also make at home:
Stewed Okra and Tomatoes
- 1/4 lb. bacon, diced
- 1 cup yellow onion, diced
- 2 cups tomatoes, diced
- 1/2 lb. frozen minimize okra
- 2 cups tomato sauce
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/2 teaspoon Tabasco sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons black pepper
- 1-2 cups corn kernels (non-obligatory)
Saute bacon, onion, then add all different components and produce to a boil. Cut back to a simmer and stew, stirring often, for 45 minutes or till okra is tender. Makes 10 “large servings” (in keeping with Threadgill’s).
This dish and extra are all of their colourful cookbook (and I do imply colorful–it even consists of cartoons), which I extremely advocate: Threadgill’s the Cookbook. And for music, play Me and Bobby McGee whilst you’re cooking.
Be aware: Recipe reprinted with permission of Threadgill’s.