Food

Josh's favorite foods were BBQ and Mexican.  If he wasn't in the mood to go out to eat I knew if I dangled a BBQ place in front of him we'd be out in no time!

One of his favorite places was Q4U BBQ.  I loved them too.  Why did they ever have to close down?  Pulled pork sandwiches with coleslaw on top was something he made me love as well.  I have always loved the sandwich but I had never tried it with the slaw directly on the sandwich before.  It's brilliant!  We both preferred vinegar based coleslaw as well, but in a pinch we'd accept the mayo based.  He would also get beef brisket often which is one of my favorites too.  Hmmm mmm good.

When we'd go out for Mexican he usually picked a combination platter so he could have a little of everything.  Or he'd go for a chili verde smothered bean burrito.  He also used to love making "Connie's Burritos".   They were his mom's recipe of delicious burritos with steak, chili beans and cheese.

He tried to get all of his mom's recipes that he could.   One of the favorites was what we called chicken, mushroom & swiss bready things.  What else do you call it?   It's an original but never turned out quite as good as his mom would make them.  Still, we did get them fairly close.  This was also an excuse to use Worcestershire sauce which is a staple in our house.

He loved his mother's fudge and would joke around with her that she had to make it all the time.  She makes real fudge; the good stuff.  I tried to make it once and failed miserably.  haha  I've never been good at making candies.  I can bake and cook, but candies are above me.   That's a good thing!  That meant we could get the fudge as a treat too.  One time she gave us fudge and Josh gave me one small piece and ate the rest.  I had no idea what had happened to it.   He just wiped it out.

One fun thing Josh would make sometimes was an "Egyptian Eye".  He'd take a piece of bread and cut a circle in the middle.  Put that in a frying pan and crack an egg in the middle.   Cook the egg, flip it until the egg is over-medium.  It was good.  He usually only made it for Christine but I talked him into making it for me sometimes.

Josh was lactose intolerant and could only have a small amount of milk.  He was drinking soy milk for a while until I asked him why he didn't try Lactaid.  It's the cow milk that has the lactose removed from it.  He agreed to try it and it was like he had gone to Disneyland (oh ya, he hated Disneyland... ha).  He immediately bought a bottle of Hershey's syrup and drank chocolate milk every day, multiple times per day for a while.  I tried it and it's milk, but for someone who had been drinking soy milk and not liking it for so long, I can imagine how wonderful that would be.

I have so many great memories of Josh and his favorites for food and drinks.  Earl Gray tea, ice tea, garlic burgers, club sandwiches, hefeweizen beer, super nachos, Thin Mint cookies, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Twizzler Nibs, meatball sandwiches, Philly cheesesteak, top sirloin steak, peas and mashed potatoes, corn on the cob, and many more.  I'm forever going to be reminded of him every time I see a menu or go to a grocery store as most of his favorites are also mine.