Ramage Farms

by Dena

One of our projects we hope to do at least every few weeks is to review a restaurant. There are rules to how we choose these.

No chain restaurants.
Must have something that you normally don’t make at home.
We hope for it to be delicious..

The first one that we chose is one that is nearby and we go there often. For people in our area, BBQ is a food group. If it ever breathed, you can slap BBQ sauce on it. You will find something of this nature at every family reunion, church dinner, or funeral lunch in the Southern states. Ramage Farms in Hooks, Texas is well known in this area for many things, and BBQ is the main one.

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The Ramages have taken a restaurant and store and made a thriving business. Their food has always lived up the high expectations people around here have for meat with spicy sauce. Me? I don’t like to find ANY (and I do mean even a smidgen) of fat in my chopped meat sandwich. I was pleased to find it smidge free last night as I enjoyed the plate special. The sauce topped off a great hunk of meat. The side dishes you could choose from were the typical potato salad, coleslaw, corn on the cob, beans, and mexican rice. I chose the rice. It was OK, but had little taste compared to the sandwich.

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My partner in crime, the pickiest eater I know, ordered a beef quesadilla. RVW 025

Let me say that I’ve never seen him order that anywhere. Even at a Mexican restaurant he gets a chicken fried steak. He chose last night to branch out when I wanted to review the BBQ. Shocking though it was, he said it tasted good. In the language of picky eaters, that means fabulous. It was cooked as he watched and decided on his sides to go with it.

We could have ordered hot links, a stuffed potato or ribs. There was a variety of sides to choose from. What really mattered was at the end. Fried pies, made right there. It was so hard to choose but I settled on chocolate. Chocolate fried pies were once a catalyst for a family argument that has never been forgotten. The pie was in the class of those my sweet little Mother-In-Law makes. The crust was flaky and moist, somehow at the same time, and the filling was perfect. It was certainly fried.

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One of the best things about Ramage Farms is that you can take some of it with you. They have a gift shop in the place that only adds to the atmosphere. Half if it is food, the other half you will find items that have Texas stamped on it somewhere. When I am looking for a gift for someone who has everything, I go there. One of the best things I’ve ever had there was raspberry jalapeno jelly that we would pour over cream cheese and serve with crackers. TMI maybe.

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