Sloppy Sammys

I’ve been craving these for a bit. The issue here is that this feels like a colder weather meal and this week finally provided one. While the recipe never really stays the same, a lot of it is similar. I enjoyed it quite a bit.

Brats (probably the last for a while)

Simple meal, good to go.

Roast Leeks, New Potatoes and Bangers

Roasted the leaks, put the potatoes on them, then put the bangers on those. I tossed the leeks and potatoes in olive oil and salt and pepper (separately). It came out to be a nice meal.

Notes From a quick vacation

We did quite a bit of research before we went to our weekend in Springfield, Illinois. This worked out pretty well. I found the Snail of Approval to be one of the things that was most likely to be with something that we wanted.

We were shocked, and I think everyone else was, as to how busy the Soap Co. Coffee House (Jacksonville) was when we visited. The coffee was ok, and had we gotten in and out pretty quick, it would’ve been fine, but with the wait…

It takes me about twice to get bored with a road. I drove back and forth on IL-125 to and from our Airbnb in Virginia, IL.

Driving back and forth on IL-125 it appeared as if the ground was being shaved, as the farm equipment slowly brought in the harvest.

There in the miles and miles we covered, there were a plethora of road kills, mostly racoon and opossum, but we saw a fox as well.

There was a large difference between the towns that appear to be attempting to recover, have recovered and may have given up. The smaller the town is, the harder this is to do, (notable exceptions are towns that something bringing people there).

There is a lot of anti-Chicago talk in the political ads (we’d get in for the night and watch a bit of TV).