Winnebago County

Since we weren't leaving until the morning we decided to go out and have dinner. I had heard some visitors talking about a steakhouse about 10 miles out of town in a small farming community of Thompson. Tom loves a good ribeye!
Nice drive out, country roads; lots of harvesting activity. So much so that there was a little haze in the air from all the dust in the fields. Interestingly enough this seems to be almost exclusively corn, unlike Missouri which seemed to be both corn and soy. The landscape was just as you would imagine, fields of corn, clumps of trees with farm houses and silos, ands then the big grain bins and silos that are probably part of the cooperatives. And those low, long buildings that we thought were poultry, are for the hogs!
Sadly Thompson is liked so many of these little farm towns, many buildings seem boarded up, and some still busy and making a living. We ate at the Branding Iron, original owner and cook for the last 45 years. I had some good steak tips and Tom had a 14 oz. ribeye. Well actually he ate about a third and had to call it quits. Definitely tender and tasty, and we plan on getting a whole second dinner from it.
Just a nice drive and evening out in Iowa.Leggi altro