Mick, We stayed in Texarkana on our move down here from New Jersey. I was surprised at what a big town that is! We were cross-eyed from the road and just ate at our hotel (Hilton, I believe). On the plus side, we had maybe the best food of the whole road trip.
I just finished leftovers from a brisket that I did a couple of weeks ago, so I did ribs this weekend. Did a rack of baby backs and a rack of spares. I haven't done baby backs in a long time, and though they were tasty, I do prefer the taste of spares. We are thinking of heading out to Cooper's in Llano this week, where that pork chop is calling me from the taste center in the back of my brain.
I have not yet made it up to Taylor, but thanks for reminding me. Louie Mueller's has been on my bucket list for a while. I belong to a gun range up in Lockhart so I have two good excuses to head up there. (Last week I stopped at Kruez for a quick sausage and slice of fatty brisket to steady my trigger finger.) My personal favorite up there is the beef rib at Black's.
It's been so damn wet down here and the forecasts have been useless, so it's hard to plan a long cook. We had hellacious thunder storms the other other day when they said it would be clear and today it's beautiful, but the forecast said storms. That's Texas, though.
Jeff
I saw that Saturday was National Brisket day, and had already planned on smoking one Saturday night for Sunday. So, I may not have gotten to eat any on Saturday, but at least I started smoking one. It was only the second one I've tried on the WSM, and was really good. I think I'm getting the hang of this thing now.