Hill Country Take Out

About a year ago, I purchased a bunch of Restaurants.com gift certificates to Hill Country.  I used two, then quickly forgot about the other two (and lost them, then found them, a couple of times, too!)… but they were quickly expiring, so the day after I went to Hill Country Chicken, I headed back down and picked up a lot of take out.

The first order was just meat and collards, and came to about $19. 

1/2 a lb of brisket moist… moist, fatty and delicious…

and a jalapeno-cheese sausage from Kreuz’s.   Lots of snap to the sausage, a little kick, and bits of cheese integrated, pretty tasty. 

The collards were cooked nicely, though not as good as Georgia’s with its honey-taste to it, but still good. 

The next order started with a small cup of green bean casserole – I mistakenly thought I’d really liked this last time, when in reality, I only thought it was OK. 

I did accurately recall loving the corn pudding, and ordered the larger size, but for some reason – maybe they added to the recipe? – something in this really turned my tongue the wrong way, and I was digging at my tongue, trying to get it odd.  Egh. 

But for my main event, because I’ve heard so much about it, I ordered something that came with cornbread and

This ancho-honey butter that was ridiculously good… like crack!

I thought the cornbread was pretty good, too, surprising since I don’t normally like cornbread.  This was crumbly and slightly sweet, made all the better with the butter…

I actually ordered the Texas chili special, the larger size, which, for $12, got me 16 oz. of the chili, cornbread and butter, and a sweet tea.  It was also supposed to get me cheddar and chopped onion, but when I got home, I discovered they forgot to give me that, boo. 

Honestly, a great deal for all this food – the second half came to just about $16 – but I stupidly didn’t realize that um, chili is spicy.  (In my defense, I make my own chili, never order it, and it isn’t very spicy, just a little bit of a kick.)  This got progressively spicier for me until I just had to stop eating – but damn, it was good spooned over the cornbread, broken into a bowl, sooo good.  (And helped temper the heat a little bit.)  YUM!!!

Yvo says: Per usual, yummy stuff from Hill Country.  Even better is paying $20 less for the total than it would have been otherwise; I’m not sure the full prices are easily justified, especially to someone on a student budget like I am, but with the gift certificates from Restaurants.com, excellent value – I had leftovers for a few days, too.  NOM!
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