(I took the photo with my cell phone, hence the fuzziness--but click, anyway, to embiggen for a closer view.)We decided to be lazy today...at least a little. We drove to Ponder, a tiny town just north of Fort Worth and just a hop, skip, and a jump from Denton. There, we had chicken-fried steak at Ranchman's Cafe. It's a fantastic little place; it has the best chicken-fried steak I've ever eaten. And one of today's specials was fried green tomatoes, which we couldn't pass up, so we savored the wonderful, artery-clogging goodness of fried food...including the steak, the tomatoes, and french fries (though my wife ordered a baked potato...they usually require you to call ahead to reserve one, but they had an extra so they served it to her).
I discovered during our visit that Bobby Flay did a show on chicken-fried steak there in 2002 and another Food Network show on grilled steak was filmed there in 2003. I haven't see either one. Doesn't matter. We've been visiting Ranchman's since 1998 or 1999 (and it's been around since 1948). It doesn't need PR to stay afloat.
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