The end.
Just kidding, but really, this day was just fantastic! I'm beyond exhausted now. I've been sitting on the hotel bed for over an hour already and I'm surprised I haven't fallen asleep yet...
Soundtrack for the day: Chicken Fried, Zac Brown Band. Listen to it as you read.
Started the day with the Paula Deen Tour! We got a red Paula Deen Tour lunchbox (which we're using to take leftovers home in). We bought some chocolate covered peanuts and cashews. We went to Bethesda, which used to be a boys' orphanage but is now just a boys' behavior school thing. Paula got married the second time here and it is her biggest charity. We then went to lunch at Uncle Bubba's Oyster House. The meal there was DELICIOUS! We had the buffet which was all kinds of yummy. Low country broil, red rice, pulled pork, fried fish, corn bread, grilled parmesan oysters and, my favorite, banana pudding!
After the stuffing lunch, we returned to downtown Savannah and Danielle and I headed to Forsyth Park. It was here that I watched my first ever Rugby match. Crazy!
We walked around a little more, went to the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, a cute book store, a paperie, a cupcake store, and the Andrew Low and Juliette Gordon Low houses. Afterward, we found a new parking spot (I pulled into several parallel parking spots all by myself today! Without any trouble!) and walked to City Market, which has a bunch of restaurants and galleries and more pralines. Today we got two samples of chocolate pralines. YUMM! We also stopped at a Mochi-look-a-like Frozen yogurt store called La' Berry. Yummy! (Had banana flavored yogurt with 'Nilla wafers! mmm)
Most stores started closing between 6 and 7, so we went to Paula Deen's store and loaded up on goodies and then took them back to the car. Goodies include: an apron and a purple knife for Danielle, a pen, some postcards and a Paula Deen green tupperware container that has a built in ice pack in the lid for me. Woo! Our dinner reservations weren't until 9:30, so we "chilled" out by some live music for a while, in a modern park, and then back for more music until we finally were able to sit down to dinner.
Dinner. A feast. I got a Chicken Pot Pie and Danielle got Shrimp & Grits. They were both delicious! It was the best pot pie I've ever had. The crust was a flaky puff pastry lattice on top of the soupy stuff. And there was fried chicken in the soupy stuff! Fantastic.
So between Bubba's Oyster House and La' Berry, you had two varieties of banana pudding in one day. Yum! Are you and Danielle going to try out that puff pastry lattice on a recipe soon?
ReplyDeleteYes I did! :) And got the recipe from Paula's restaurant!! :)
ReplyDeleteAnd as great as it looked, the puff pastry lattice was difficult to eat. I think I'd opt for something a little easier, but we'll see!
Interesting, maybe if it was a smaller amount of pastry or less tightly woven lattice it would be better. If you ever give it a shot, let me know. I just use crescent roll dough on the top of my pot pie.
ReplyDeleteI think a smaller amount of pastry would definitely help.. But yes, definitely going to use the crescent rolls :) We just bought more this weekend at Publix for assorted uses.
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