Click on either of these top two images for a larger version. What’s seriously annoying is going on a food-related road trip, getting to where I need to be, seeing mounds of fresh food everywhere … and not being able to eat any. Yeah, that would have been today. Mountains of freshly-made mushroom ravioli … and I mean […]
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Recipe from Pel-Freez: Rabbit & Sausage Gumbo
Over on the Home Life blog here on BlogsMonroe.com, Sarah asked an interesting question a couple weeks ago: Lately my husband and I have been considering raising rabbits as a meat source for our family … I like the idea of raising our own meat as we know how it was cared for, what it was […]
Alden Mill House, Alden, Michigan
Two summers ago on our honeymoon, Mary and I rented a house near the northeast corner of the amazingly-clear Torch Lake, located between Traverse City and Charlevoix. As the lake is almost 20 miles long but very narrow, we decided one day we were going to simply drive around it and see all the sights. After passing the […]
Fresh Washed Cherries!
The National Cherry Festival is taking place up in Traverse City this week, and as always, there’s plenty else going on near the festival itself including roadside stands with signs advertising “Fresh Washed Cherries”. This past weekend, the folks at Penrod Sales parked this truck in an old driveway off M-72 east of 131 just […]