Collard Greens and Crab Cakes

Our traveling tends to center on food. If headed north we plan our departure from home to be in Social Circle, Georgia in time for buffet lunch at Blue Willow Inn. We don’t stuff, but the variety of southern dishes is wonderful with fried green tomatoes, collard greens and sweet potato souffle. And the inn, a classical old southern mansion, is a treat.  

We stopped in Highlands for only one day, sort of old time sake. For several years in the 1980s Linda and her mother went there every summer for an oriental flower arranging seminar sponsored by Ralph deVille and his Stone Lantern, a treasury of oriental items old and new. Our favorite for supper is On the Verandah out Franklin Road, overlooking Lake Sequoyah, invariably having the rainbow trout. 

Winston-Salem has many interesting places to eat, but our favorite for supper is browsing the deli at Whole Foods and taking stuff home to Joe’s house.

We’d never been to Savannah, Georgia until this week, just an overnight watching the river traffic: a charming sightseeing boat and any number of large oceangoing container cargo freighters slipping past our balcony seemingly close enough to touch. Sunday lunch/supper on the outside balcony at the Chart House Linda had Savannah crabcakes. Scrumptious. No crab-flavored Thanksgiving turkey bread stuffing here: pure jumbo lump crabmeat and Linda gave me a bite. So good that my Monday morning breakfast order was the eggs benedict crabcakes florentine in the hotel cafe. Ate one and gave Linda the other. Not jumbo lump these were white crabmeat, also delicious.  

Next time we head west it will have to be back to New Orleans for beignets and coffee at Cafe Du Monde. Then board the Sunset Limited and head for Tucson, who knows.

Up, this is a religious blog, need to close with a prayer. Bless, O Lord, this food to our use and us to thy service through Christ our Lord. Amen

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