It’s not often I find a Koegel product I haven’t seen before. Having grown up trying all the products they make it’s probably been a good 25 years since doing a double-take in a grocery store when spotting an unfamiliar Koegel item. But that’s exactly what happened yesterday when I spotted these “chubs” of Koegel’s […]
Category: Michigan Cuisine
Michigan Cherry Burgers à la Hockeytown Café
This past Wednesday evening we were fortunate to snag tickets for the opening night of the latest national tour of Fiddler On The Roof. The first two performances were at the Fox Theatre in downtown Detroit before the company moved on to Wisconsin … they’re currently in North Dakota and will tour nationally till June. […]
Dinner at Hillside House, St. Ignace, Michigan
There are many places in the Great Lakes region where Whitefish is listed in the menus of restaurants as being “fresh” as well as being labeled with, “caught locally”. The Straits of Mackinac, located between Michigan’s upper and lower peninsulas where Lake Michigan and Lake Huron meet, is one of those places where this designation […]
Review: Michigan-Made National Coney Island Hot Dog Chili Sauce
A couple 1.5 lb bricks of National Coney Island’s Hot Dog Chili Sauce with a package of Koegel Viannas. Yesterday Sylvia Rector of the Detroit Free Press published an article promoting the fact that Meijer stores in the midwest are now carrying Hot Dog Chili Sauce from National Coney Island of Roseville, Michigan. Since a […]
Fifth Anniversary at the Frog Leg Inn
For various reasons we always celebrate our anniversary with dinner at the Frog Leg Inn in Erie, Michigan. Yesterday our fifth anniversary was no exception. However, exceptions were made in that the Inn had started an updated menu on Tuesday so we were able to try a couple new additions to the resaturant’s offerings … Baked […]
Breakfasts at Rivalrys Bar in Erie, Michigan
An excellent breakfast at a bar? Who’d of thunk it? Yeah, that’s a big pile of schmutz. But it’s a good pile of schmutz. Out of all the breakfast burritos I’ve eaten in probably 40 years, this one is one of the best if not the best one of the bunch. This thing is absolutely […]
Fall Recipe: Simple Deer Venison Chili
I love cooking with deer venison. But oddly enough, no one in my entire life of what is now a couple years shy of 50 years has ever invited me hunting with them. I’ve fired seven whole rounds of ammunition, five of which were 9mm rounds all fired within 30 seconds in Navy boot camp. I’ve fished more times […]
Milk Prices: The Disgusting Truth
BlogsMonroe’s Emiie at the 2008 Monroe County Fair. No, she’s not the disgusting part … sheesh … Over on BlogsMonroe this evening, Elephant Ear pal and fellow blogger Emiie is lamenting about the price of milk at the Monroe Public Schools: Monroe Public charges 50 cents for a carton of milk. So I’m sending in $2.50 […]
Recipe: Authentic-Style Flint Coney Sauce
This and other recipes, along with history and restaurant locations, are available on the Flint Coney Resource Site. For years now I’ve been making my own version of the Flint-style coney sauce. During the summer of 2008 over a period of three months the kids and I sold hot dogs with this sauce, making 72 […]
Waterside Dining at Boatwerks, Holland, Michigan
Every once in a while I’ll get an email out-of-the blue from Patty Lanoue Stearns. Patty is one of the more well-known food writers here in the state of Michigan, having written quite a few books on Michigan foods and authoring an even larger number of articles on the subject. One of Patty’s current gigs is […]