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 […]
Grilling Fundraiser at the Monroe Boat Club
The community grill in the back yard of the venerable Monroe Boat Club. When I lived in Norfolk in the early 1990s there was a man who drove himself to our church in a limousine. He was thin, impeccably dressed, and had the trimmed gray beard and black 10-gallon hat of an old-west Sheriff in […]
Classic Cookie Recipe: Chocolate-Oatmeal No-Bakes
Mary’s fingers were almost in this shot, waiting to grab a cookie as soon as I was done. These things have started showing up, more than they ever had before. Amanda V. proudly pointed out a batch in June at her high school graduation open house, explaining that it took forever for them to set up […]
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 […]
2009 Memphis BBQ Network Competition, Novi, Michigan
What it’s all about; Ribs It took me quite a while to learn how to cook ribs at home so they turn out halfway decently. What I do is pretty simple: The spare ribs get wiped down, sprinkled with a mix of Kosher salt, pepper and granulated garlic, then slow-cooked in a 200F oven for […]
Homemade Ice Cream in Grand Haven, Michigan
Gerri Moen, Mayor of Howell, Michigan, accepts a cone from one of the servers at Sweet Temptations. We used to have an ice cream shop here in Luna Pier, Michigan. The shop was called Sweet Temptations and they served Hershey ice cream, along with pizzas, gyros and a number of other goodies. The shop was […]