eating out at last

 

On the Friday before Valentine’s Day we had planned to eat out at Goodson’s, a favorite restaurant in Tomball. We rarely eat out these days; when we do, we choose between-times with less people. But temperatures were already dropping with freezing precipitation expected — Houston area drivers DO NOT know how to handle winter driving conditions so we canceled our plans.

Then came a full week of snow, ice, and frigid temperatures, keeping us at home. Yesterday we finally got out to pick up some prescriptions in Tomball, then we headed to Goodson’s to eat — only to find them closed. The sign on the door said “closed; we will reopen Thursday”; that was crossed out and “Friday” written in; that also was crossed out and “at an unknown later date” written in. Apparently they had burst pipes and can’t find parts to repair them . . . There’s quite a lot of that going on in this area!

So on the way home, we stopped at a Mexican Cantina we had never tried before. Julio’s food is amazingly good! We ate out on the huge patio, sitting at the south edge with the sun on our backs — felt so good!

After our meal, we ordered a fried ice cream to share — something we haven’t been able to find since Carlos O’Kelly’s in Wichita, KS. What they served was good but it was not real fried ice cream — just a scoop of ice cream served in a fried shell with corn flakes sprinkled on top (plus chocolate sauce, whipped cream, and 2 cherries). Carlos O’Kelly’s actually rolled a hard ball of ice cream in a crunchy cinnamon coating and fried it in oil a few seconds, and the tortilla bowl was also coated in cinnamon. Texas does “Tex-Mex” best, but apparently not fried ice cream.