Category Archives: Food

Winter is Coming

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Garden’s Bounty

Hard freezes expected tonight and tomorrow night. When we left St. Louis last week it was a hundred there. It’s cooler now, but this summer there were 200 days from the first ninety degree day to the last. This hot weather makes us climate refugees. Today, I was ordered from sunny LA to harvest the garden and drain the water barrel and batten down the hatches. Mission accomplished! Three grandparents versus two grandchildren and we seem to be holding our own.

Declan had mini all stars today and it was a hoot. Today’s sport was football, American style. The best part was when they played flag football. There were only four kids in the class, three boys and one girl and the girl was the best player. When she ran away and all the boys chased her.

Stove Shield™

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Stove Shield™

As seen advertised on TV, YouTube TV that is, I give you the Stove Shield™. As the end of the month approaches and all of my streaming offering dry up, I frequently fallback on YouTube. I think that this month I might have lost my soul to YouTube. This polytetrafluoroethylene or more commonly known as Teflon™ coated fiberglass mat is designed to protect your stove from grease, gravy and other food spills that may occur while stovetop cooking. Able to withstand temperatures of 500 °F, it is supposed to make cleanup a breeze. Wash it in your sink. Each mat is individually tailored to the make and model of your stove. Which makes me wonder why the vendor offers a buy two get one free deal? Holiday cooking season is just around the corner, a great opportunity to test it out. I had to clean the stove in order to install the mat, which kind of defeated the whole idea of getting it. Anyway, it looks nice. It comes with a warning. Use of this shield may produce harmful fumes. Do not place birds near this product when in use. No canaries in the coal mine, thank you very much.

Deep Fried Oreo Cookies

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We finally left the cabin today. On our way south, we passed a couple of circus truck that were also headed south. Around Flint a bunch more were rendezvoused at a rest stop. I got a picture of this fried Oreo food truck. This dessert intrigued me and I looked it up and got a screen shot of one above. Fast forward to Ann Arbor. On our final approach Anne discovered that a restaurant in town serves this dessert, the Black Pearl. After dinner at Grizzly Peak, we walked over there and got an order to share with Harry. He seemed to enjoy it and Anne after repeatedly telling me not to get one for her. She ate it anyway and liked, but is still too prideful to admit it.