Golden Hex – Cary, NC – Bill Gibson, II

New Location (up to the corner in old RiteAid Pharmacy)

I found Golden Hex on my phone and could see that from the photos and description it was a good possibility that they would have blutwurst and/or headcheese (tongue bologna)…and they did!

They didn’t have Schaller & Weber, but what they had was just as tasty, and I ended up buying a pound of each of the blutwurst and one version of their headcheese. I came home and used one of the Miami Onion rolls that I purchased at Wegman’s after I left Golden Hex. I also slathered the bread with some sweet horseradish mustard (that I combine at home) and a slice of Vidalia onion. I also had bought a package of Hillshire Farms Ham and added a slice of that to the sandwich. It was good! It was soooo good!! Exactly what I had been hoping to find.

I definitely want to return to try some of the other items. In addition to meats, they have pickles, jellies, jars of mushrooms and much, much more. The Russian on some of the products, I did not understand. But, I am pretty sure they would be most helpful (as the woman that helped me was today).

I’ve made some horseradish/mustard with sweetener & Agave Nectar from both the French’s Yellow Mustard, and the Plochman’s Stoneground Mustard. I sliced some sweet onion (not specifically Vidalia, but sweet), and put both types of doctored mustard on my sandwich, along with some sweet bread & butter chips. I had the blutwurst, the head cheese and some honey ham slices also.

This make a really good sandwich, but a little messy.

04/24/23 Visit

I bought some more of Andy’s Head Cheese, some of the Basturma (which tastes a little like beef jerky), Duck Pate and some flavored tea. Unfortunately, the tea had a lot of Hibiscus, which I already had at home. I also asked for some of the Hunters Salami and after I got home realized that hadn’t been put in my cart. Don’t think I paid for the salami, but still would have liked to brought it home to try. The Duck Pate had much more fat than I would like. I like the Nueske’s (sp?) Liver Pate flavor. Closer to “potted meat.”

Talked at length with Armen, from Armenia, who appeared to be a manager. He walked about with me showing me various things. I did buy some frozen bread, which was thin, and good for a wrap and a small jar of horseradish.

NOTE: The Basturma was dry, a little hard, and did remind me of beef jerky. I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with it, because it did not seem to lend itself to making sandwiches, and at first I only thought of eating it by itself, a little at a time. But, then as I was making a salad it came to me to use some of the Basturma sprinkled about in the salad, and it worked perfectly.

I like salad, but I have not made and eaten much at home lately. I bought some Romaine lettuce recently which I normally do not do, and have actually made 3 salads before the lettuce goes bad. I rarely buy Iceberg lettuce to make salads. I will buy it if I am thinking of making a sandwich which needs the Iceberg. I usually buy the mixed greens which includes Freezia and Spinach.

I also chopped some Campari tomato, added some celery seeds and some freshly ground Long Pepper. Some time ago, I had bought a couple of jars of Suckerpunch Pickles. I don’t recall which kind of style was the first jar I opened, but I did not like the flavor. I took that I wouldn’t like the other style of pickles and did not open it for several months, until yesterday. When I tasted the pickles from the second jar, but these I liked. They were almost familiar as some my Aunt Sis might have packed.

[05/08/23]

Oh, wow! I am trying different meats from Golden Hex and here are a few more.

I made some lentil soup with some of the Basik Breakfast Sausage. The soup was good. Black lentils, carrots, russet potato and the sausage.

But the greatest surprise was this morning. I normally have either egg salad or fried apples either with bacon. I boiled two eggs this morning, and I sliced, on the diagonal, one of the Kabanosy Podsuszane LB sausages, and fried it in a little olive oil. Here was the surprise, I thought the sausage was going to be a little hard, but… The egg salad was good, and when I ate the first bit of sausage, it had a little crunch which then went to a soft center. The sausage was distinctive and delicious and well worth fixing again.

I happened to see a jar of Seaweed Salad on the shelf and it was a little over $5 so I bought it. The consistency and color was close to what I had in restaurants (some time ago). The liquid that the salad was suspended in didn’t have much flavor so I went looking for a seaweed salad recipe online. I added the following items, except for the red pepper flakes (which I just didn’t think of at the time). Not sure if it was the soy sauce, the toasted sesame oil, or more vinegar & sweetener, but this was exactly what was needed to make the seaweed salad taste exactly as it did in the restaurants. Very good!