I happen to have a 13-year-old who is enjoying growing his own herb garden. Ryan’s not a member of 4-H, FFA or any of those other organizations which generally promote this type of behavior. He simply has an herb garden. And loves it. Ryan is quite proud of this garden and has begun bringing me […]
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Tonight’s Dinner: A Good BBQ Pork Sandwich
Inspired by the sirloin steak sandwich I had at Quaker Steak & Lube a few weeks ago in Charleston, WV, this evening’s dinner was just a bit on the filling side. I’d slow-cooked a pork loin (seasoned with Kosher salt, pepper and granulated garlic) in a crock pot in its own juices for the entire day. […]
Thanksgiving Dinner 2009 at the Occoquan Inn, Occoquan, VA
A slice of the fresh Blue Ribbon Pumpkin Pie, with whipped cream. Dessert first, right? Other available desserts were an Apple Cinnamon Cobbler and a Chocolate Coffee Mousse. We’d been planning this trip for a while: Spending Thanksgiving with Mary’s youngest son, LCpl John Winckowski, USMC, just north of where he’s stationed at Quantico, south […]
Sea Gull Pier Restaurant, Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, Virginia
Update, September 29, 2014 – Here is a link to the current restaurant that’s at One Island on the bridge: www.virginia-originals.com Update, June 6, 2009 – This post … well, it’s garnered a bit of attention since I posted it about a week ago. I don’t really know how people are finding it, but they’re […]
The Cavalier, Lynchburg, Virginia
Last Friday the gent I was working with in Lynchburg, Virginia, had heard about the hot dogs I’d had at the Texas Inn the previous evening. I’d told him they weren’t all they were cracked up to be. He felt I needed to have something better. He gave me a couple suggestions, including the possibility […]
The Texas Inn, Lynchburg, Virginia
Best hot dogs in the world, eh?? When I got to a hotel in Lynchburg, Virginia this past Wednesday it was well past 8:30 p.m. I’d been on the road for almost ten hours straight. At one point the GPS got me seriously lost in the hills east of New Haven, West Virginia, and I’d […]
Recipe Re-Post: Mom’s Dill-Pickle-Sauced Meatloaf
Yesyterday would have been my parents’ 56th anniversary. Oddly enough, dad would have been 86 yesterday as well. See, dad told mom he was going to marry her by the time he turned 30 years old, and he beat it by a day. And people wonder why I wait till the last minute to get […]
Ryan’s First Catch of 2009
If there’s one thing my 12-year-old Ryan excels at (besides video games and annoying his sister), it’s fishing. This is the carp he caught yesterday on his first outing of 2009, off his uncle’s property in Lake Erie waters, using a pole and pre-loaded tackle box he was gifted this past Christmas. Of course, since […]
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 […]
Follow-Up to My Peeps Rant
Following my Peeps rant from the other day, the bin on the right was given to me by Mary and Briahna this morning. Fortunately, it was a joke Easter basket, filled with Peep bath toys, a Peeps coloring project, a 24-piece Peep puzzle for 4-year-olds, and a few pounds of the creatures themselves. Behind it […]