You may not have heard of Belamere Suites. And if and when you go there, you won’t see any cars. This amazing place for a couples-only getaway, known as a “boutique hotel”, is just south of Toledo. People I know probably don’t even know they drive by it regularly. Toledoans, next time you’re at Levis Commons, look over at […]
The Haunting of the Beachhouse
The harrassment seems to be building. The thing is haunting me. I was in the library. Off-handedly to someone else, but intentionally loud enough so I could hear it, the Luna Pier Librarian laughingly said, “Yeah I went down to the beachhouse to get one of those great Flint hot dogs the other day … […]
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 […]
Happy Birthday Ryan!!
There is something I’ve done in my life that not many dad’s can say that they’ve done. It’s a very cool thing, and the person on the other end of what I’ve done is watching me type this at this very moment. I have actually been the one to catch one of my kids as […]
Daddy-Daughter Date 2009
Briahna in the lobby of the Frog Leg Inn Saturday evening. For our previous Valentine’s Day dates Briahna and I attended the annual Daddy-Daughter Dance at the Community Center in Tecumseh, Michigan. This year Briahna is a member of the Tecumseh Competitive Cheerleading Team. Throughout the majority of the day we were at the Adrian […]
Crab Wontons at Penta Family Night
This is a Crab Wonton. It’s a deep-fried wonton wrapper with a crab filling made with red onions, celery root and other delectable things. This is high school cooking class food. No really, it is. Yesterday evening Penta Career Center in Perrysburg, Ohio, held their first annual Family Night in their new sprawling 26-acre facility. The school’s three […]
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: […]