A Happy Steak Day It Was

You hungry? I dang sure am especially as I sit here thinking about writing this blog. So lets talk about food today, yea I know your gonna say “Billy I am watching my weight!” HECK WITH THAT!! It’s the holidays lets watch it after January 1st, 2009, LOL!

Friday, December 12th was my birthday and I thought I'd go out for a nice steak dinner. So I waited till Saturday the 13th and went to Longhorn Steakhouse.

I know it’s a chain restaurant and it probably isn’t the best Steakhouse to go eat at as I would have preferred Ruth Chris’s to any Longhorn establishment but have you tried getting reservations lately? You would have to know President Elect Obama to get a seat these days.

So we drove out to West Mobile and found ourselves over on Airport Blvd at the only Longhorn in town, yes were a one “LONGHORN” town and proud of it. Anyways, the place was very relaxed, private and toned down, maybe because of the lighting and the fact that there were very few people eating at the time. What I like about it is even though they have a bar in there it is very child friendly for a place like that (it's not a bar, it’s a Steakhouse.)

I asked for a table in the back in one corner of the joint and our hostess took us on back there. Our waitress brought a “HUNK” of bread for us to munch on while she took our order. The bread is kind of crispy but has a great flavor if you were hungry like I was. Okay to be honest you could have given me one of my ostrich boots I was wearing to chew on and that probably would have been good at the time with some butter on it.

We ordered the “Texas Tonion” and “Shrimp and Lobster Chowder” for starters. It was some mighty tasty starters, I must say!! Kinda salty and spicy was the Tonion and delicious was the chowder, need I say more!

My main entree was the Texas T-Bone 16 oz. hearty NY strip and a tender fillet in one cut. Chargrilled over an open flame. I ordered it medium rare and I don’t use steak sauce. I am a firm believer a real steak eater never uses steak sauce because it hides the flavor of the meat and any steak connoisseur wants to know what the meat tastes like.

The steak, it was pretty dang small if you ask me! But it was "FRIGGING" good! Yumm! Yumm!!! It definitely hit the empty spot in my belly! I certainly didn't have enough red meat though! It left me wanting for more! I don't know if that's good or bad. It came with salad and a side item, so I opted for the loaded baked potato that helped fill my big belly basket a little.

My dad who happened to be with me ordered some chicken dish I can't remember what it was now. He said it was tasty, succulent and moist. I did taste it and well, did I mention that I really, really do love steak!

And, of course, what's a birthday without a birthday cake? Compliments of Longhorn I had the Chocolate Stampede, two peaks of chocolate cake packed with six (yes, six) types of chocolate including chocolate mousse, fudge icing and chocolate shavings! Served with vanilla bean ice cream, fudge sauce and whipped cream. Goodness gracious that was just about as close to heaven as I have found on this planet.

Finally, what you will see above is the picture of my steak right before it left this heavenly world for a better place, MY STOMACH!!

I just had to let you look at it… Look, yea that’s it, look at it, that's what I was doing.

<BIG EVIL TOOTHY STEAK EATIN' GRIN>

Happy Holidays Y’all!