Agave & Rye: New Albany

Be sure to sit on the top level!

What a cool spot! We sat on the 🔝 level that was open air and wonderful views over the levee in both directions of the Ohio River.

The Swipe Right Epic taco!!! Incredible!!! Spiced bacon, herbed chicken. It was delicious!!!

The OG strawberry 🍓 margarita with a sugared rim. 💥 Boom!!!

🦬 🐔 🍌 🌶 Buffalo Chicken Stuffed Banana Peppers

Let me tell you, that Heidi Wintin is on to something! When I offered something from the freezer for 🥘 dinner, she said she had an idea. So, I picked sweet 🌽 corn from the garden while she already had some banana peppers that she had picked earlier.

Buffalo 🦬 🐓 Chicken Stuffed Banana Peppers With 🥓 Bacon! Whoa!!!

Heidi mixed a can of shredded chicken, a block of cream cheese, Frank’s Red Hot 🥵 sauce, and 🧄 garlic salt and spread that into a sliced banana pepper. Then she topped that with bacon and baked it for 20 minutes at 400 degrees and it was awesome!!! 😎

Three ears of corn sliced off the cob and the stuffed buffalo chicken banana pepper.

I prefer my 🌽 corn Off the Cob! The flavor from this meal was outstanding and I really enjoy knowing that we grew the corn and the peppers! Also, it took about 10 minutes to prep and 10 minutes to pick and shuck the corn. We tag teamed on that. And now, I am playing on my phone and she is cleaning up. Someone has to live this life and it might as well be me.

Veg2table: Hackman Family Farm Market 🥔 🥬 🌽 🍆 🫑 🌶

Located at 6077 South State Road 135 south of Vallonia, Indiana, the Hackmans are hard at work providing fresh vegetables for the area. Their Veg2table program delivers fresh vegetables to your door🥕 anywhere in Jackson and Washington counties. Contact them at 812-358-3377 for more information.

Service with a smile is what Abby and Jacquelyn are offering along with cantaloupe 🍈, 🍉 watermelons, 🌽 sweet corn, etc. Not to mention local jams, marinades, Marion Kay spices and Hackman’s Family Farm Market T-shirts with clever sayings on them.

The market is located at the corner of State Road 135 and 600 South about a mile or so north of the Muscatatuck River and south of Vallonia.

Here is a sample of a Veg2table package which included: lettuce, 🍉 watermelon, cabbage, potatoes 🥔, green beans, 🌶 peppers, locally canned relish, dill and eggplant 🍆. There were also blackberries.

Cayleb Covert and Liam Kreis fill Veg2table bags for Thursday’s delivery.

While delivering Veg2table bags this week, I drove past Beck’s Mill in Washington County. Hackman’s delivery area includes Jackson and Washington counties.

Hackman Family Farm Market, “More than just melons!” Be sure to get your cool Hackman’s T-shirt!

Call 812-358-3377 or visit the market at 6077 State Road 135 south of Vallonia for fresh vegetables and For information about the Veg2table program.🥕 🌽 🥔 🍅 🍉 🍑

Edley’s BBQ: Nashville

While in Nashville for the George Strait, Chris Stapleton and Little Big Town 🎵 concert, Heidi and I visited the Old Lebanon Road location of Edley’s BBQ. It was not far from our AirBNB.

Half rack of ribs platter: Top, St. Louis style ribs that were nicely done by the smoke staff. Bottom left to right: 🍌 banana pudding, jalapeño cornbread and grits casserole.

The ribs were excellent. Came right off the bone with each bite. The banana pudding had vanilla wafers and banana slices and good flavor. The jalapeño cornbread with butter was outstanding! The grits were a bit cheesy and also had a kick to them.

We have a mini tailgate party going here in Parking Lot N outside of Nissan Stadium. There is a ⛈ storm brewing and the concert has been pushed back a bit. At least we were prepared..

Trolley Car Creamery: Brownstown

Trolley Car Creamery: Brownstown

Trolley Car Creamery: Brownstown

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Trolley Car Creamery: Brownstown

In conjunction with Blondie’s 🍕 Pizza and right next door, Trolley Car Creamery has some great ice cream! My “Go To” is the Ultimate Peanutbutter Brownie in a chocolate dipped waffle cone with sprinkles! If you are lucky, Chelsey will scoop your ice cream or make your milkshake as I 👀 look forward to seeing her when I go there.

Inside, a vintage picture from the past clarifying the name of the establishment.

There are some cute places to sit on the sidewalk to enjoy your ice cream! As well, you can always get an awesome pizza at Blondie’s!

The Donald Ross Course

Christopher Schuck, Jon Tilmon and Bruce Stahl made their way to French Lick for some outstanding golf ⛳️ on a premier course. We had a twilight tee time for $85 per player. Totally worth it! We played our own ball the first 9 and Bruce was the low medalist 🏅 with a 49. We played a two-man scramble in the back 9 with Bruce and myself partnered versus Jon and Christopher. In match play, the boys from Jackson County(Walt and Bruce) won up 7. 💥 Boom!

Walt, Jon, Bruce (game face on)and Chris on number one tee. Bruce indeed came to play this day!

We had lunch in the club house before and this masterpiece is the Fat 🦬 Buffalo and corn chowder. A first class meal.

Afterward, Bruce and Walt had a complimentary Shock 🔝 with an 🍊 orange slice and sat in rocking chairs on the porch overlooking the course.

Patoka Lake

After binge watching The Night Agent until 1:30 a.m., Heidi and I ventured out today and used my state park pass that I got for Christmas 🎄. We hiked trails 4 and 5 at Patoka Lake State Park before a 🍷 wine tasting at the Patoka Lake Winery.

At the Nature Center, this display of the wing span and the eagle, 🦉 owl, hawk and kestrel was interesting.

Unique old trail number 5 was only a quarter of a mile long featuring a narrow pass through the rocks.

After a wine tasting we each purchased a Slushy Bag to go. Mine was Peanutbutter and Jelly and since it was Mega Monday, I got the 30 ounce bag.

Benny’s Restaurant is next door and you can take your wine with you there if you want. Heidi and I shared a pretzel and beer cheese appetizer and split a bacon, pepper Jack cheeseburger on Texas Toast along with thin onion rings that were superb!

🥓 🍔 🧅…These thin onion rings were a highlight!

We also added a new state park app to our phones and when you get to the visitors center or nature center you enter a PIN number and it shows that you visited that park. Heidi and I are suckers for any type of passport and look forward to visiting and checking in at sever state parks with the app.

LEGENDZ Sports Bar and Grill

Ain’t gonna lie, it was a bit of a struggle to climb out of this giant Adirondack.

Legendz is located in downtown French Lick. A sports bar atmosphere with St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds, Indiana Hoosier and Larry Bird paraphernalia. My favorite is the front entrance:

The front door with Magic and Larry Legend. I was walking out as I took this one.

Heidi is holding a Sam Adams Summer Ale in front of the St. Louis Cardinals wall for my Cardinal fan friend, Jon Tilmon. That backwards Budweiser baseball ⚾️ is actuary’s reflection from the opposite wall.

I had the sweet 🌶 chili ribs and house potato chips.

Heidi had the Philly cheese steak with sweet potato 🍠 fries that were dipped in apple 🍎 butter.

Great atmosphere for a sports bar and our food was very good!

O’Hana: French Lick

In 🌺 Hawaiian. O’Hana means “family.” Heidi spied the O’Hana Grill and Bar as we drove by and thought we should give it a shot.

Who knew that Yuengling had a Hershey’s Chocolate 🍫 beer. I ordered a pint and was happy with the result. The aroma was thick with chocolate flavor.

The Hawaiian shrimp came with 🍚 rice, steamed 🥕 🥦 veggies and a hunk of grilled pineapple 🍍. Tasty!

I have some golfing buddies coming later and will for sure put this on the list. At least for a taste of Yuengling Hershey’s!!! Go, Pennsylvania!!! BTW, we also had some fresh made California Roll 🍣 sushi and we both used the chopsticks. We are so talented!