The Monster Candy, about 4″ in diameter, from May’s Candy Shop on Mackinac Island in the straits between the peninsulas of Michigan. It was just over a year ago Mary and I were on Mackinac Island a few hundred miles north of here. One of the shops I had wanted to visit for a few […]
Category: Food Destinations
Walking Tacos, Ludington-Style
Click on this image for a larger version. Back a couple months ago, Dawn Shock retired as librarian at the Rasey Memorial Library here in Luna Pier. She’d been here for quite some time, and was an incredibly hard worker. She set up the hours at the Rasey Library in such a way that it […]
Photos, Food and A Train: B&B Railroad Depot, Oregon, Ohio
What does the 7.5″ train in the above picture have to do with the amazing breakfast in the following photo, which I ate? (Er, the food, not the train.) House Special: Crab Soft Scramble — Soft-scrambled eggs with crab meat and cream cheese, served with fried red potatoes and biscuits Well, lemme tell you about […]
Review (sorta): Turkey Roost, Kawkawlin, Michigan
Turkey? A full-blown turkey dinner, with stuffing and potatoes, and cranberries … in July?? You bet your boondockers! Turkey anytime, and this particular plate is one I’ve been enjoying off-and-on my whole life! No, not … the same plate of turkey and stuff … my whole life … that would be … no, that’s not […]
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 […]
Review: Trout Town Country Café, Kalkaska, Michigan
It’s not very often Mary and I find a restaurant that we’ll go back to time-and-time again in a very short period of time. This past weekend, however, we visited the Trout Town Country Café in Kalkaska, Michigan, four times between Friday evening and Sunday morning. It certainly wasn’t our intent to have multiple meals […]
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 […]
Florida Food Report, From a Warmer Time …
As the weather gets colder, it’s always nice to think of warmer times and trips to warmer climates. Following is a blog entry from my other blog about all the food Mary and I enjoyed during our trip to Florida this past July. I hope you enjoy it, and that it helps warm you from the […]
Alden Mill House, Alden, Michigan
When it comes to jerky, some people just say “no”. But when it comes to the jerky shops in Dundee and Luna Pier, you have to reconsider. Why? Because there’s more to these shops than just jerky. These two stores, which are owned by the same people, have a massive variety of hot sauces and […]