Taco 🌮 Salad from the St. Peter’s Taco House, complete with the cardboard 🚣‍♂️ boat, was featured at the Fair Food 2020 party tonight. I like mine with Fritos, taco meat, lettuce, black beans, cheese and Western Dressing.

It was delicious, however, Mendy Stahl’s rendition of the Choco 🌮 Taco was DaBomb.com!!! She made crepes with waffle batter, filled them with ice cream, folded them up and topped them with chocolate and nuts. They were incredible!

Once again, the Lemon Shake Up was the featured drink of champions.

Great conversation with three generations of fair goers and friends just like we were sitting around the “Hackman Tree” at the Jackson County Fair.

Located in Wanamaker, Indiana you will find the New Bethel Ordinary. Actually, it is extraordinary!!!

Wanamaker is in Franklin Township of Marion County. (Indy)

The Texas BBQ 🍔 Burger was a whopping half pound of ground beef topped with cheddar, bacon, BBQ sauce and an onion ring on a toasted bun! It was speared with a big kitchen knife 🔪.

This slice of Americana has a craft beer list and the food is far from ordinary. This old cast iron wood stove adds character just sitting outside the front door.

It was pork 🍔 burgers and ribeyes from the pork producers stand tonight at Th e Jackson County Fair locates in Wegan tonight at Stahl Farms.

*Just ask Bruce Stahl about the beans.

The Wintin/Kreis, Hackman and Stahl families are recreating Jackson County Fair food from home this year due to obvious reasons.

Monday was a hit and the ladies have taken the bull by the horns and we have a menu for the rest of the week.

Tonight’s feature was a tenderloin from Immanuel fried up by Nina Hackman along with some potato salad from Sauers. Mendy Stahl provided the delicious sweet corn 🌽 picked fresh from the Stahl garden while Heidi Wintin came up with watermelon 🍉 and 🍈 cantaloupe from the Hackman Family Farm Market.

To celebrate Heidi’s birthday 🎂 we meandered through the 🌽 cornfields of Washington County to First Miracle Winery. Amid Amish country, this gem is nestled into the the rolling hills and 🌽.

As soon as we enter we meet our tour guide, Andy. The place is furnished with several Amish made tables and chairs made from milk jugs and stainless steel. They will last forever and are very sturdy and comfortable.

We had originally planned on eating back in Salem until we saw and smelled the food they were serving.

They get their 🥖 bread and cheese 🧀 from an Amish bakery down the road. I am going back just to shop at the bakery.

This Sunday, July 26 they will have live music 🎼 with Justin Underwood. On Saturday July 25 they are hosting a tasting titled “Washington County Wine Walk…If you can.”

Andy was a wonder host and I learned so much from the tasting. The significant point is that First Miracle does not add anything to their wines. They are naturally aged and fermented and the taste is fresh and clean!

Heidi nailed the mini zucchini pizzas tonight!

The zucchini, green beans and potatoes were all from local gardens and the “Fresh” factor put these dishes over the top.

I personally believe that smoked sausage is an under rated meat. I enjoy it on the grill, however, in this combo the only challenge is getting the right amount. You see, the perfect forkful has all three ingredients; Beans, sausage and potato. Furthermore, I have to have a bite of sausage in every bite in order to be 😃 happy. This combination a full meal in one dish. That gives it “Classic” status! Just so you know.

The zucchini came courtesy of the Scarletts. Heidi simply sliced it up, added pizza sauce and mozzarella and baked it up.

I spent most of my life living in town and only eating what came from the grocery store. Now it doesn’t take a genius to know that the smartest thing I ever did was marry Heidi Hackman. What you didn’t know was just how much better she made all facets of my life. Especially my appetite.

For a guy that often critiques tenderloins, the River House is for sure an up scale seafood establishment on the the Ohio River.

We sat outside and enjoyed live music coming from the King Fish next door.

Our knowledgeable waitress humorously compared King Fish to Long John Silvers.

The atmosphere was very nice and then the food arrived and trumped it up a notch.

The Brie was amazing!!!

The waitress kept referring to “Chef” and how he gets fresh seafood flown in. Bruce and Mendy had seen him on WDRB news recently. We watched Barges go up and down the river as we dined. It was relaxing and delicious!

We had a sausage, pepperoni and 🍄 mushroom. Big chunks of sausage made the pizza for me.

It has a wonderful thin crust and plenty of toppings. The restaurant has a nice atmosphere and the Honey 🍯 Blonde Ale it quite refreshing and worthy of your attention.

Actually, they are called “cronuts” because they are a combination of 🍩 donuts and 🥐 croissants. And , they are incredible!!! You can find Parlor Donuts 🍩 in Newburgh and Evansville.

They are crispy on the outside and tender in the middle. The flavor is out of this world!

The Catfish Kitchen in Benton, Kentucky has justifiably been featured in Southern Living magazine. Now it’s on Walt’s Diner. I wonder which they are more proud of?

While visiting Kentucky Lake with my college friend Jon Tilmon, we had a hankering for some catfish.

The sides were stand alone delicious. Jon had been whining about wanting some white beans all day and they delivered! And now I’m stuck in the car with for the next two hours.

The hush puppies were uniquely shaped and perfectly fried. I was living on the edge and crumbled them into my beans.

Because we were so stuffed, we got a blackberry and a peach cobbler to go.