TEXARKANA, Ark.– Step into Huge Mama’s Crockpot and one’s senses are instantly inundated with the scents of residence cooking. The air wafts of spices, meats, greens and extra, hints of what is to come back. The dishes are largely cooked day by day in an array of crock pots, bringing the dishes to full taste and maintaining them heated for hungry diners.
“My mom declared we wanted to do that 20 years in the past,” mentioned Sharon Batts, one of many house owners. “Sadly, she fell sick and I needed to look after her. She handed away in 2016, however the thought and the plans remained. So later, we bought collectively and put the plan in play. And now we’ve Huge Mama’s Crockpot, in her honor.”
The menu adjustments day by day, however one factor that is still is that it’s about residence cooking.
“I started studying how one can prepare dinner after I was 5,” Batts mentioned. “I might stand on a stool within the kitchen, watching my great-grandmother prepare dinner. Over time, I picked up the information and now it’s time to put it to work right here.”
Huge Mama’s Crockpot opened up in November and already audiences have began indicating favorites.
“They particularly appear to love our rooster spaghetti and smothered pork chops,” she mentioned.
To honor the generations earlier than that taught the workers of Huge Mama’s Crockpot to prepare dinner, they are going to be adorning a bit of the wall contained in the restaurant with footage of Batts’ great-grandmother and her daughters, the unique “Huge Mamas” and those who taught the women within the workers how one can do what they do.
Their plans do not cease there, both.
“We need to flip this right into a franchise,” mentioned Batts. “And we do not assume will probably be that arduous. We’re working with crockpots. Simple to arrange.”
(Huge Mama’s Crockpot is positioned at 1313 E. ninth St.)
Serving it up day by day, Huge Mama’s Crockpot treats Texarkana diners to homestyle cooking. (Employees picture by Junius Stone)
