This has become a very popular dish; BBQ Pork Ribs in Raspberry Sweet Baby Ray’s, “Five-ounce single ribs marinated in Sweet Baby Ray’s Original sauce with raspberry share the spotlight with homemade sweet potato fries and homemade cole slaw.” Intended as a Special at the Frog Leg Inn in the spring, it became so popular it’s […]
Recipe: Tomatillo Salsa
This stuff is currently disappearing rather rapidly. I’m gonna need more pita chips. Back in September I started playing around with a recipe for a green sauce made by Mario Batali’s babysitter, Aculpoca-born Leo Maya. I’d been itching for a while to make a salsa out of it, and the concept has been on the back […]
Eat This Blog: Bolles Harbor Café Lumberjack Skillet Breakfast Special
When this dish arrived in front of me this morning, it was covered completely with egg. This photo was after I cut some of the white away to expose the goodies inside. And talk about goodies! This morning’s Lumberjack Skillet special at the Bolles Harbor Café was an exceptional breakfast dish, one of the finest I’ve […]
National Bundt Appreciation Day, Nov. 15: Sour Cream & Apple Bundt Cake
Over on The Great American Cooking Project, as part of her year-long trek through century-old cooking and techniques, Nora Leah is hosting the National Bundt Appreciation Day on November 15th. My Adam will be 15 that day, so yesterday when we celebrated his birthday, he and I made a Sour Cream & Apple Bundt Cake. […]
Celebrating A Birthday at J. Alexander’s, Toledo
Update Oct.8, 2014 – Ok, it’s crazier today than it was a year ago. 235 298 views of this page today alone because of pins of the above pic on Pinterest! Alright, here ya’ go folks, maybe this is what you’re looking for … Over on The Kitchen Prescription Sherri in Florida has worked throough […]
Third Anniversary at the Frog Leg Inn
Mary and I have agreed … the Frog Leg Inn in Erie, Michigan is our favorite restaurant anywhere. We may appear biased since we’re such good friends with everyone over there, but evenings such as yesterday evening, when we celebrated our third year of marriage by eating at the restaurant, just keep us thinking that way. […]
Recipe from Pel-Freez: Rabbit & Sausage Gumbo
Over on the Home Life blog here on BlogsMonroe.com, Sarah asked an interesting question a couple weeks ago: Lately my husband and I have been considering raising rabbits as a meat source for our family … I like the idea of raising our own meat as we know how it was cared for, what it was […]
National Meatloaf Appreciation Day, October 18th
Wow, what a busy weekend! We’re just now recovering from a few days of running and running, and hope things are a more even keel, at least for the next few days. Over on Serious Eats the gang has decided October 18th, this-coming Thursday, will be National Meatloaf Appreciation Day: Meatloaf lends itself to improvisation […]
Pumpkins & Goodness at the Trabbic Family Farm
Update, October 2019 -FYI … WE ARE NOT TRABBICS. 😀 Their web site is here. This is my food blog. Hokay? Hokay! 🙂 Trabbic’s opens for the 2019 season on September 14, 2019, and is open through October 31st. Hours are 10 a.m. through 7 p.m. every day. I realize this page sometimes pops up […]
Adam’s Omelets
So, what do you do when you’ve got a 14-year-old like this one, who can whip up the kind of omelet you see in the above photo? That’s right, ya’ take him on the road! This is the same Adam of mine who lost his head for the camera a few posts back. In this image to […]