The beauty of a long weekend... I kicked off Memorial Day weekend by filling a craving for dinner at The Pit with Hank. It's perfectly southern, reasonably priced and delicious. I enjoyed a super healthy ; ) veggie platter of sweet potato fries, collard greens, fried okra and mac n cheese. The Carolina Style Ribs Hank ordered are always a favorite, and I think it has a lot to do with the fact that they have "more fat, more flavor!" Their fried green tomatoes as a starter are always a gem. Dinner was great, and we grabbed our check just in time for a raging bachelor party to be seated next to us. They couldn't read their menus and the only words the one could say was, "I've got the mustaches and cigarettes."
Saturday it was onward to the lake! We enjoyed sitting on the dock visiting with neighbors, lots of boat rides, some sunshine and watching Bentley swim. My favorite beers of summer that I'm enjoying above are SweetWater Blue (blueberry beer) and Leinenkugel's Summer Shandy (lemonade beer). Mom was the hostess with the mostess serving us Bloody Marys, smoking a delicious dinner of chicken, ribs and pork as well as making one of my favorite of her gourmet burgers, Pear & Brie. Note prettiest Monkey Bread I've ever made above.
Bulldogs can't swim? Maybe not, but Bentley certainly was amazing at it with his life jacket on. Bentley loves boating, swimming where he can touch and floating, lots of floating. Dad played the part of an awesome captain, and my favorite moments of the weekend were tubing and being anchored in the middle of the lake to relax without a care in the world.
