There’s a newer copy of this post over here. If you’re going to leave a comment, please feel free to comment on that version to prevent confusion. Thanks! This past Wednesday after we made final arrangements for our mom at Flint Memorial Park, my sister Barb headed north on Dort Highway out of Clio, Michigan, […]
Category: Michigan Cuisine
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 […]
A Dinner Date with Mary at Ciao! in Sylvania, Ohio
The beautiful Canneloni at Ciao! Ristorante in Sylvania, Ohio. Not an appetizer … I just wanted to show you dessert first. One of the issues I have in putting this blog together is that seemingly, the better the restaurant, the worse the lighting is. None of the overhead lights actually lit our table at all. […]
Photos: Lenten Fish Fry Dinners, American Legion Post 193, Luna Pier, MI
A plated Lenten Fish Fry Dinner at American Legion Post 193, located here in Luna Pier, Michigan. Coming out of American Legion Post 193 after shooting these photos, while still looking forward to having dinner there with Mary, my right foot hit the front edge of the bottom step out the front door of the place. […]
The Haunting of the Beachhouse
The harrassment seems to be building. The thing is haunting me. I was in the library. Off-handedly to someone else, but intentionally loud enough so I could hear it, the Luna Pier Librarian laughingly said, “Yeah I went down to the beachhouse to get one of those great Flint hot dogs the other day … […]
Grit Magazine, and A Recipe: Grandma’s Old-Fashioned Rhubarb Pie
A photo of Grandma Saeger’s Old-Fashioned Rhubarb Pie, made by my mom Joyce and sister Barb for this photo. The photo was taken a few years ago with an original 1 megapixel Kodak DC3200 digital camera, which the kids referred to as “The Brick”. Our friends over at Grit Magazine have published online a rather comprehensive article from the March/April […]
Recipe: An Impromptu Comfort Chicken
Chicken and bacon. That was the request. “Can you make something with chicken and bacon?” There were some beautiful boneless skinless chicken breasts in the fridge and some hickory-smoked bacon. And of course my brain went, “What?” I’m not so sure I’ve ever seen a dish made with these two ingredients that didn’t take at […]
Michigan’s Coney Sauces: Beef Heart? Kidneys?? The Realities Await …
Update, September 2, 2018:This post still gets a lot of page views but is quite old. The majority of recipes developed from this earlier information are now available on my Flint Coney Resource Site. Yes, I’m back on the subject of coney sauce again. It’s an obsession. Having made 72 batches of my own recipe […]
Dad’s Eggs In A Frame: A Memorial Recipe Tribute for Downloading
A batch of dad’s Eggs In A Frame, made specifically for this memorial by my 14-year-old daughter Briahna. As I’d written previously, my father Erwin F. Liske passed away on December 29th. Mom’s been in the hospital herself, so the funeral has been on hold. Visitation will finally be tomorrow with his funeral being on […]
Classic Diner Roast Beef Meal
Reader Erik pinged me this morning about my not covering the Chateau Louise here in Luna Pier. Doode, half the current kitchen staff was hired out of our living room … And then he wrote: Erik: Now you need to write up Red Wells. 🙂 me: ‘Red Wells’? Sound like a skin condition … Erik: […]