boonville mo

while spending my usual week in boonville, i decided to cook a couple of supers at home. in boonville menu options at restaurants tend to be a choice of fried with a side of fried. the first super was homemade pimento cheese (which i have decided all southern gals need 3 things: an ice tea pitcher, a deviled egg plate and a pimento cheese recipe) with what is known as “jane’s soup” in our house. “jane’s soup” has become grandpa’s favorite soup of late.

grandpa and i both concluded that jane’s soup just doesn’t taste the same as when my mom makes it

meal 2: steak, potato salad and baked beans. my grandpa buys steak like it is about to become extinct. friends that i have brought along with me to boonville i warn “you will get 2 things when you leave my grandparents house, a frozen steak and a bag of pecans” (grandpa spends all winter shelling pecans) thawing out steaks isn’t just a steak or two it was literally a cake pan of meat, 7 KC strips and 2 T-bones. when i declared myself grilling the meat grandpa pulled up a chair next to the grill so he could “supervise” aka tell me if i hadn’t turned a steak right. cooking with grandparental supervision on both sides makes things a tad interesting but i think i proved my abilities when the food hit the plate.

RECIPE: PIMENTO CHEESE

2 cups shredded cheddar

40z cream cheese — softened

4 strips of cooked bacon — crumbled

1/2 cup mayo

1 tsp garlic powder

1/2 tsp ground red pepper

*mix together shredded cheddar and cream cheese, best way to mix is with your hands, add in bacon till well mixed. combine mayo, garlic powder and red pepper and mayo dressing to cheese/bacon mixture. mix well and enjoy!

happy trails

every memorial day the pedaler’s jamboree takes place on the katy trail. for the last 4 years the event has gotten bigger and bigger. the concept is that bicyclists start in columbia mo and ride all the way to boonville, cyclists camp out at the old kemper military school where waiting for them is an amazing bluegrass concert. big smith has played as well as split lip rayfield, haha tonka, and the ozark mountain daredevils. the next day you pack up camp and ride back.

the beauty of this event is that 80% of boonville is populated by farrises meaning you don’t have to camp and get a real shower at the end of the ride. linda and embarked this year on the jamboree, which now includes music and food along the 30 mile ride on both days.

we estimated the 30 mile ride might take somewhere between 4-5 hours, with stops along the way to enjoy music, beverages, etc. well… we got done in around 3 hours. why? because in true farris fashion i rode like it was a race head down and must pass anyone riding in front of me. linda said she just tagged in behind me ringing my bell to announce myself.

this though turned out perfect. though we hit all the stops before the first bands setup, we made it home by 1:30 meaning we got to go back to columbia to collect our free pint glass and beer at broadway brewery and then head to the hotel frederick in boonville to eat a fantastic meal while watching the rest of the jamboree head over the bridge to the camp ground.

nothing tops a day of perfect riding, beer, food, and music, let the countdown to next year’s jamboree begin!