Here are a few more delish dishes I had on our trip down south - a couple of restaurants - one that is beloved by my mother -in-law and her husband, and another we discovered on our journey to Alabama.
Here is superb Italian food - Frank's Italian Restaurant, in Sheffield, Alabama. We started with the bread dip - I believe this one is tomato pesto - we just couldn't get enough of it:
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Darn - I see this photo is a little blurry - I thought it was clearer, sorry. But you can see the herbs mixed in the sauce,and the sauce was a pink color, kind of like vodka sauce.
I also ordered the eggplant parmigiana - just lovely - fried cutlets of eggplant - I love deep fried cuts of eggplant without the skin, and that's just what this was! Smothered in sizzling cheese.
My husband and his Mom ordered the lasagna - it looked cheesy and perfect.
When we go back down to Florence, we are definitely returning to Frank's - if you are in the Muscle Shoals area, and there are many reasons to be there, besides being beautiful it also has a rich musical history-stop in at Frank's!
And I want to give a shout out to Sapphire, in Knoxville - it was right next door to a popular sports bar; the sports bar had an hour wait, and so we tried Sapphire next door, and were delighted. So delighted, in fact, that on our trip back home to New York, passing through Knoxville again, we beelined it right back to Sapphire. They had a lot of non-traditional takes on traditional food. They had outstanding sweet potato potato chips, but also, brussel sprouts that were flash fried on the outside, so that the outer layers were shriveled but hugging the curve of the brussel - and perfectly soft on the inside. We ordered them both times.
Ok, that's my tale for now.
