Paula Deen's restaurant and Mrs. Wilkes

Had dinner Tuesday evening at Paula Deen's restaurant, "The Lady and Sons."

Rich food, saltier than I like it but I'm not used to a lot of salt on my food any more. Very rich food. The crab soup was a meal in itself. Bacon-wrapped crab-filled shrimp with a very rich sauce just about did me in. Dessert was very very rich. OMG, I think I had more calories in this one meal than all the food combined on the cruise.

Wednesday morning we slept in and then packed. Lunch Wednesday was at Mrs. Wilkes. This restaurant used to be part of a boardinghouse. I met Mrs. Wilkes the last time we were in Savannah, about 12 years ago, and we both wanted to go back again to her restaurant. Mrs. Wilkes passed about seven years ago, but the family still keeps the restaurant going. Great food served family style. I counted 22 dishes on the table and while I can't name them all, here's a start....

Meat loaf, barbequed pork, fried chicken, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, corn, lima beans, squash, rutabaga, okra, tomato salad, potato salad, baked beans, turnip greens, freshly baked rolls, cornbread, okay, I'm running out and that's only 16. There was another meat and several more vegetables. Sweet tea was served (which I immediately traded for unsweet.) Sweet tea in the South is like adding a cup of hot tea to 6 cups of sugar and then adding a little ice. Enough sugar to induce a diabetic coma in 3.9 seconds flat.

Banana pudding or peach cobbler were our dessert choices. (Who needed dessert!?!) The peach cobbler was good. Frank said the banana pudding was every bit as good as Paula Deen's. This was our only meal on Wednesday.... we were still too stuffed to eat dinner!