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 […]
Category: Recipes
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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
Grit Magazine & My Oven-Roasted Potato Salad Recipe
A few months ago I stumbled into The Great Potato Salad Debate in the forums over at the 120+ year old Grit Magazine. There were discussions back and forth about various aspects of potato salad, such as whether or not mustard is an appropriate ingredient, whether or not to add pickles, what kind of potatoes to […]
Original Recipe: Pepperidge Farm Sage & Onion Stuffing
When I picked up Margaret Rudkin’s autobiographical “Pepperidge Farm Cookbook” from 1963 at an antique shop back in March, it was with hopes of finding some of the company’s original recipes. Mrs. Rudkin, it turns out, did not disappoint. My maternal grandmother used to make a seriously-good sage & onion stuffing. Grandma Liske probably did as […]