Sylvia's Scenario

We ate at Mrs. Wilkes' Dining Room during our visit to Savannah in 2010 and I really wanted to go back so I could blog about it because it's one of those experiences you don't want to forget.  I also really wanted to go back because the food was so good, a true Southern experience.   They say that Mrs. Wilkes has the best fried chicken in the South.  And I believe it. All the food is served family style with 10 people at a table.   You will know everybody at your table because they don't take reservations and only serve from 11:00-2:00 pm daily for lunch so you must stand in line and you get to know everyone since you're standing in line for about 1 to 1-1/2 hours. Mrs. Wilkes took over the boarding house in 1943 and kept feeding hungry patrons right up to her death in 2002 at the age of 95.  It has continued with her family now running it.  President Obama ate here when he came to Savannah in 2010 and there are photos d...

We had our second guests of the summer this weekend arriving Friday evening from Seattle after a long 8 hour drive (that we've made many times in the past 12 years...)  My sister, Barbara, and her husband, Jim, are driving to Colorado and spending their first night on the road at our house so I'm greeting them with a relaxing dinner of pork tenderloin with plum sauce (plums from our trees), yukon gold potatoes, broccoli salad and fresh strawberries with cream cheese dip.  I chose a recipe to make for them from our vacation trip last year when the four of us went to the Master's Golf tournament to Augusta, Georgia.  I could write at great length about that trip but I can sum it up by saying the food was DELICIOUS in the south. Too bad I wasn't doing this blog last year.  So, for Barbara and Jim's visit, I decided to include a recipe from Mrs. Wilke's Boardinghouse, one of the many wonderful food experiences we had from Savannah, Georgia. Here is a per...