It has been several years now since I blogged with any serious intent, and my chops have either been lessened, or the blogosphere has moved on while I remained static. Probably it's both.
So where are we? I want to be market driven in blog content during the few days that I'm on the mound, so what do you like?
How about food as a starter? What was the best thing you ate over the Memorial Day weekend?
Mrs. Haz and I motorcycled 400 miles for a hamburger and a piece of pie. Yep. We rode to the Delta Diner, a beautiful small diner in the middle of nowhere in northwestern Wisconsin, just inland from Lake Superior. Middle of nowhere is not an exaggeration - Delta Diner is in a forest in an unincorporated township. No village, no city, nothing but forests and farms.
It's been on Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives. The food is....wow. The hamburger is made of half steak, half chuck, marinated on Sunday, ground Monday morning, and the only thing served on Monday. They close when they run out of meat.
The burger.
During the rest of the week, they serve a menu based on the fresh ingredients they have. It's never printed; the waitresses just tell you what's cooking.
Dessert, oh boy. The pie maker is a woman named Krista who regularly receives marriage proposals from customers. We had raspberry cream pie. Heavenly. And we tasted a pie made of vidalia onions, and smoked bacon, with just enough other stuff to hold it together. It made us seriously talk about selling our home and buying a farm in Delta just because.
The pie.
Delta Diner video.
You can also get there by riding the TWAT - the Trans Wisconsin Adventure Trail - an off-road track that runs form the Wisconsin Illinois border all the way north to Lake Superior.
That was a bit too long, wasn't it? I'll be brief next time around.
19 comments:
Why can't you embed the photos?
Rookie error, now corrected. Also - shouldn't have been published when it was.
Great comeback post! 🏍
If any of you ever get to northern California and specifically the east bay in a town called Pleasant Hill, there is a small diner there the corner of Contra Costa Blvd. and Golf Club Road called Giant Chef Burger. If you get there in the morning, have their Chicken Fried Steak with the white sausage gravy, 3 eggs any way you like, hash browns. It is made fresh and will be the best you ever had anywhere in the country. Period.
No problem, Haz. Links are cool. Nobody like seeing html text in blogposts or comments. It's like seeing Hillary's thong.
The Samoa Cookhouse in Eureka is a slice of awesome too!
That diner is pretty awesome looking....I'm hungry now!
Clicking on the link for the pie, I'm told it's "Adult content"! What are being done to those raspberries, Mr. Haz?
What are being done to those raspberries, Mr. Haz?
I registered. They are sucked dry from their stems and topped with whipped cream.
Always enjoy your writing Haz.
Do they make hot beef or hot pork sandwiches? You know, diagnally cut sandwich with a lump of mash potatoes in the middle and smothered in gravy.
Thanks for the compliments!
I have no idea why the Flickr account shows as "Adult Content" - it's anything but that. To fix things, I inserted photos of pie and burgers. Sorry for the inconvenience.
That hamburger sounds like it would be worth the move.
not "sounds" - ---"appears".
Tastes!
Yay...a food post. My favorite.
We had some friends over for a rib bbq diner this weekend. They are the best friends a person could need. Always there for us. We like to take weekend get aways in the summer but don't want to leave our cat outside at night. To protect him from the foxes and other predators we put him into our workshop at night. It is a two story building and the upper area is my office with a cherry executive desk from my old office, a futon, some comfy chairs, bookcase wall etc. So Mr. Oscar (his name) gets luxury accomodations at night. Our friends come over when we are gone and put him in at night, let him out in the morning, make sure our gate at the end of the driveway is closed and everything is in order.
Our other elderly lady cat is an indoor kitty. She doesn't take much in the way of care but when we are gone for more than overnight, they come inside and make sure she has food, water and everything is safe. Both cats get lots of petting and love.
So...we always try to bring something home for our friends in appreciation. Cookies, fresh picked strawberries or fruit, specialty crafted beers, souvenirs from the trip. This time we brought home two full racks of baby back pork ribs to cook with a new bbq sauce we discovered. O.T.s It is, as advertised, simply the best! I've posted before our method for the best evah ribs. I can do it again if requested.
Our menu:
Ribs
Coleslaw (with craisens and chopped walnuts added)
Baked beans
Cornbread pudding with jalapenos and chilies and cheese
Ricotta cheese pie topped with glazed strawberries
And.....Adult beverages of course.
I cooked on Memorial Day for just the wife and me. It is a challenge since we went gluten free but I figured it out.
Organic gluten free hot dogs from Applegate. I highly recommend them because they are tasty and fresh. Beats out most commercial brands.
Organic hamburgers.
Gluten free buns.
Asparagus sautéed in garlic and oil.
Cold Cali-flower salad in apple cider vinegar with scallions.
Tossed salad with two types of lettuce, radicchio, red onion, Kalamata Olives, Feta Cheese and pistachio's.
Iced Lemon water with stevia.
Fruit salad for desert with strawberry, blueberry, peaches, plums, and raspberry topped with coconut milk whipped cream.
So-Delicious Coconut Milk Ice Cream Pops.
It was pretty tasty.
We sat outside in the yard all day and then went in for a double feature of "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" and the "Dirty Dozen."
I love Memorial Day.
The "Dirty Dozen" is free on demand on Time Warner Cable this week.
The "Great Escape" sounds good about now....
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