The Smoked Salmon Omelet with cream cheese, capers and dill at Jeanne’s Café in Grand Haven, Michigan I didn’t eat this omelet. Neither did Mary. Oddly enough, some biker we met at a rest area ate this particular Smoked Salmon Omelet. Already, you’re definitely getting the wrong image of the guy. Believe you me, we had […]
Baguette Slices with Roast Pork Loin and Pumpkin-Chipotlé Ceviché This past Wednesday evening as the Michigan Association of Mayors Summer Workshop got underway in Grand Haven, Michigan, I got the chance to make a new friend. I tend to leave Mary on her own in these situations as we’re most certainly not at these events […]
I’ve blogged a couple times before about our favorite food trailer in Monroe County, the Rock ‘n Roll Café owned by John and Melita Scott. The one photo I was missing, however, was that of their half-pound steakburger, topped with a slice of Swiss cheese and freshly-sautéed onions, peppers and mushrooms. This is a pic […]
A few months ago I posted about one of my favorite lunchmeats, Koegel’s Macaroni & Cheese Loaf. Grit Magazine Editor In Chief K.C. Compton had inspired me to write about the lunchmeat, and I’ve been itching since to write about my other two faves. The one is Koegel’s Olive Loaf, made with Spanish olives (complete with pimientos), […]
A package of supposedly “raw” hot dogs. This morning I ate a Ball Park Frank, uncooked, directly out of the package I bought yesterday and licked the juices off my fingers. Obviously, I’m a dead man. Last summer when I ran the beachhouse, serving more hot dogs than I could remember in three months time, […]
My parents at Genesys Medical Center, Grand Blanc, Michigan, in December 2008 during one of their last times together. Note: On June 15th, my kids lost their third grandparent since December. They’ve lost both my own parents and now their Grandpa Elijah, a week shy of his 91st birthday. My heart goes out to those […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]