Many of you know my dad passed away late December in 2008 at the tender age of 85. I’ve written before of his signature dish, Eggs In A Frame, and of his despising melted cheese in any form even though I have a photo of him eating pizza. But while I’ve posted a lot more […]
Category: Family Reunions
Recipe: Cherry Chili Chicken, and Zack’s 27th Birthday
A serving of Cherry Chili Chicken from the book Cooking Jewish, plated on a bed of buttered white rice. Click on any of the images in this post for larger versions. Recently Mary and I have become very interested in what might seem an odd combination of cross-cultural holiday celebrations. A few years ago one of the Toledo […]
Seniors and Food
My parents at Genesys Medical Center, Grand Blanc, Michigan, in December 2008 during one of their last times together. Note: On June 15th, my kids lost their third grandparent since December. They’ve lost both my own parents and now their Grandpa Elijah, a week shy of his 91st birthday. My heart goes out to those […]
Eat This Blog: Oven-Roasted Potato Salad
With mom being with God now, I wonder if she’ll be able to bring a halt to the Liske family curse of it raining whenever one of us makes potato salad? Maybe. I mean, the curse did start with her decades ago … I’d made this particular batch of my Oven-Roasted Potato Salad last Saturday for our buddy […]
Holding Hands Again; The Snoring Has Stopped
My parents hold hands in October 2008 ago when we brought them together from different ends of the same hospital. My dad always said he appreciated mom’s rather intense snoring because, if that sound ever stopped, it meant she was gone. She still snored after he passed away this past December 29th. Her snoring stopped […]
Recipe: Grandma Gardner’s White Bread
Grandma Pat Gardner’s handmade breads, at Sunday Dinner on March 8, 2009. There is nothing like a slice of freshly-made white bread. Period. My dad would tell the story of coming home from school in the late 1920s/early 1930s (of course, after walking the four miles home uphill in the driving snow) and, each and every […]
Parents: The Hands of Time
Part of the reason for my lack of posts as of late are that both my parents are in the hospital … in opposite ends of the same hospital … with different forms of cancer. Yesterday I arranged for dad to finally be able to visit mom for a while, and we got the two […]
Ahhh, Millington; All That Food!
My dinner plate from this afternoon; Roast chicken, meatballs, Uncle Al’s rich baked beans (yeah, those are baked beans on the front-right!), green beans & ham, penne and sausage (which I made this morning), sliced baked ham, deviled eggs, and cinnamon raisin bread. Click the image for a larger version. Almost exactly a year ago I […]