Turkey? A full-blown turkey dinner, with stuffing and potatoes, and cranberries … in July?? You bet your boondockers! Turkey anytime, and this particular plate is one I’ve been enjoying off-and-on my whole life! No, not … the same plate of turkey and stuff … my whole life … that would be … no, that’s not […]
Adam’s World of Cooking, 1950’s Boy Scout Style
This past Saturday we picked up my son Adam at Camp Tapico, a Boy Scout camp east of Kalkaska. He’d been there for three weeks, two of them as a Counselor-In-Training. The last week he was there he was able to do what he felt most comfortable with: cooking! An area of the camp had been […]
Alden Mill House, Alden, Michigan
Two summers ago on our honeymoon, Mary and I rented a house near the northeast corner of the amazingly-clear Torch Lake, located between Traverse City and Charlevoix. As the lake is almost 20 miles long but very narrow, we decided one day we were going to simply drive around it and see all the sights. After passing the […]
Review: Trout Town Country Café, Kalkaska, Michigan
It’s not very often Mary and I find a restaurant that we’ll go back to time-and-time again in a very short period of time. This past weekend, however, we visited the Trout Town Country Café in Kalkaska, Michigan, four times between Friday evening and Sunday morning. It certainly wasn’t our intent to have multiple meals […]
Street Eats Gone Wild! Well… kinda sorta… not…
I have a beef about how street food vendors are treated on this continent. This entry is a long one, but by the end, I think you’ll understand. Yesterday the CBC reported that street vendors in the Ontario province can now expand beyond what’s usually found at the food carts. From the article: Health Minister […]
Fresh Washed Cherries!
The National Cherry Festival is taking place up in Traverse City this week, and as always, there’s plenty else going on near the festival itself including roadside stands with signs advertising “Fresh Washed Cherries”. This past weekend, the folks at Penrod Sales parked this truck in an old driveway off M-72 east of 131 just […]
Lunch, Maumee Bay State Park, and a B&B With A Railroad
On Thursday, fellow Monroe News blogger Mike Ingels reviewed the Monroe Street Grille on his Expatriate Monroe blog. Well, just for that, yesterday, we went for a hike! Ok, I have to admit, the hike had been planned for a few days. And we did it partly as a way to actually have our first […]
On Food Blogging
One of the questions asked of me at the BlogsMonroe blogger’s picnic a couple weeks ago was where I get enough material to blog on an almost daily basis. I’m not sure what my answer was, only that, whatever it was, it was very non-committal. [… and that fulfills one of the goals for the […]
My Father’s Day Gifts
This morning, Mary and my kids have presented me with a Canon Powershot A560 digital camera. Part of the reason for this is so I can take better pictures for the LunaPierCook blog than I’ve been taking with my ancient Kodak DC3200. Of course, I had to take a picture of what I found in the […]
Recipe: Grilled Western Pork Ribs
Are you planning on cooking dad something for Father’s Day tomorrow? Would you like to, but have no idea what to cook? Or would you like to grill something for him and haven’t decided on what or how yet? Here’s a simple grilling technique I threw together yesterday that works well. You’ll want to start […]