Knotts Berry Farm

I made pancakes for supper tonight. Probably because I was tired, and didn't want to cook. Besides the 100% pure maple syrup, I got out a jar of Knotts Berry Farm Boysenberry syrup.

Having a pancake with Boysenberry syrup on it reminded me of my recent trip to California. We stayed right next door to Knotts, (the motel parking lot was also a parking lot for the park). I really wanted to go over and have the chicken dinner at Mrs. Knotts Chicken Dinner Restaurant, and on Saturday nite we made it there. The place was pretty much empty, which is a lot different from the past couple times I have been there. Terrell and I tried to remember when the last time we went there to eat, we think it must have been on our honeymoon 26 years ago.

Anyway, the food was so good. Brought back fond memories of going there as a youngster with my family. Fun times! The chicken dinner is still the same as it was way back then. Remember the cherry rhubarb sauce? Those yummy buttermilk biscuits? How about the cabbage with ham? I'd probably never make cabbage & ham at home, but I sure enjoyed eating it that night.

When our waitress brought the main course, I was nearly full from eating the rhubarb sauce, salad & several buttermilk biscuits.

But I managed to tuck most of it away in my tummy. The pie was another story. We had our waitress pack it to go. When we got back to the motel room, she had given us three pieces of pie, 2 boysenberry and one piece of the flavor of the month, which was apple boysenberry. We ate the apple boysenberry later that night, (YUM!) and had the other two pieces for breakfast the next morning.

After we ate at the restaurant, we wandered into a couple of the stores next door. I wanted to see if they had any tomato preserves. They didn't. I asked the lady working there about it, and she said that in 2000, Knotts sold all their recipes to Conagra, and Conagra doesn't make the tomato preserves anymore. Then she said that the recipes had recently been sold again to another company, so it will be interesting to see what happens now. She told me that she has people ask her about the tomato preserves quite regularly.

Last summer I gathered a bunch of tomato jam recipes, and made a batch from a recipe that I got from Cheryl. I thought the jam turned out good. I still wish I had my grandma Slack's recipe though. Her's was the best.

Now, I can hear fabric calling me from the other room.