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Is the food you get to experience. \u00a0Finances being what they are, the one thing I miss is traveling. \u00a0I can take everything else, but in our day we did quite a bit of traveling. \u00a0Some of it was ministry related. \u00a0Often personal. \u00a0But we made some pretty good dents in the map in years gone by. \u00a0Not so much the last few years. \u00a0But we\u2019ve still had our chances to go hither and yon, if not on a limited basis. <\/p>\n

Not great for the culinary experiences we used to enjoy, but you can still touch base with old favorites. \u00a0One of ours is quite simply the best Irish Pub on this side of the Atlantic, known rather whimsically as The Irish Rover<\/b>. \u00a0Even when not staying in Louisville, we will adjust our travels to make sure we stop there for a bite and a draught. \u00a0It\u2019s owned by a bona fide<\/i> Irishman who routinely goes back to the old country to make sure his recipes are authentic and darn good. \u00a0It\u2019s not a bar made to look like a pub mind you. \u00a0You feel as if you\u2019ve stepped back a generation or so and into a land of emerald greens half way around the world.<\/p>\n

In my Doctoral days, I used to stop there every Wednesday at lunch for fish and chips and (psst, don\u2019t tell any Baptists) a glass of Harp. \u00a0A Presbyterian minister friend of mine sometimes joined me. \u00a0It was an \u2018everybody knows your name\u2019 time when my faith in my own denominational doctrines was being shaken, and my journey toward the Historic Faith was taking shape. <\/p>\n

Anyway, we found an article in a Louisville publication that had some of the recipes, and we tried our hand at one of the Rover\u2019s more scrumptious offerings \u2013 Scotch Eggs (a traditional English dish named after Scotland and served in an Irish Pub). \u00a0I have to say, except for using mild rather than spicy sausage, the results were splendid. \u00a0My Mom called it the best thing she\u2019s eaten since she doesn\u2019t know when. \u00a0Perhaps we\u2019ll get her down there someday for the full options. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Our little attempt at matching the greatness. \u00a0Not bad at all.\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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