Just shoot me if I even mention going to the fair again next year! We drove at record speed down the tollway trying to get home to the Rolaids. I forgot to put them in the car before leaving. We “ate” our way through the tents, sampling on anything they poked in front of us. Here is a summary of the food ingested in the 5 hours we were there:

Corny dogs, cheese melted in a flour tortilla,  little smokies, marinated chicken, which we watched being cooked on a grill that we “just had to have”, pizza, from the cooking demo, which, actually I did learn a lot about tomatoes, which I will share later, my FIRST funnel cake, ever, YUM, Texas nachos and ending the night right before we climb on the 221 ft Texas Star, the infamous cinnamon roll with cream cheese frosting……..I sit here thinking that we paid good money to feel this way. You would think by the time we were this age, that we would know better. BUT…..isn’t that just part of living in Texas. We have the largest state fair, with the most fried food. And it would just really bother me to hear people talking about their visit to the fair and I would not be able to join in with my experience. We did not taste the “fried butter” That is really nothing new to this family. Randy tells people that I have a cube melted for him in a cup to drink on his way out the door in the morning, just to be sure he gets his quota of butter each day. We are Plano’s answer to the “Butterkin Family”………As soon as one of my kids come over to show me how to download pics from my phone to the computer, I will post a couple of pictures of our day, wandering around, trying to sniff out what we would try next!  I did however decide to have my picture taken with Big Tex, it made me feel so small, I loved it!

Have heard back from a few of you who have made the meatloaf and have gotten great positive reviews, this really is a great recipe, try it! A great fall night easy meal…….

Well, we are headed to the fair this afternoon. What a great day to go, the weather is cool, which means that the “fried butter” will taste so good. We start off right when we walk in having a corny dog. We walk around, see the exhibits, I think a promise to myself that next year, I am going to enter some of the food contests (which I promise myself that every year) and then head over to get a taste of what ever is new to taste. We sit in every car at the auto show, go to the petting zoo and act like we are 6 yrs old, feeding the baby pigs and lambs. Then after thoroughly washing our hands, we get either a dessert of either ice cream, caramel apple or fried pie. We walk around some more, sometimes going to the bird show, or go through the tent where all the “junk” is for sell and then all of a sudden, we realize it has been almost an hour since we have eaten, so off we go to the food tent. We walk around and see what smell entices us. After that, it is usually getting dark and I make Randy ride the ferris wheel with me. I love riding that when it is getting dark and the lights of the fair are on and it just reminds me of how wonderful the day is when you can grab hold of your sweetie’s hand and climb up in the cage, letting the wind blow through and watching all the sights down below. It makes you fall in love all over again. We end our trip eatting the Texas shaped nachos and of course the infamous cinnamon roll with cream cheese frosting. Then we head back to the car, open up the container of Tums and eat them on the way home, so by the time we get home, we can go to bed without heartburn…….what a day!