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Travel Eats

HotDogg!

HotDogg!

Winter sets in and the Hot Dog Vendor takes a break. Spring – Return quickly ! The BEST Hot Dog in Cherry Creek is at Milwaukee and 3rd. Keep and eye out for Henry. The hot dogs at his stand are a must . grading […]

Sweet of the week ~ IceCream from little Man

Sweet of the week ~ IceCream from little Man

Little Man IceCream Any time one can break “always” – go to little man ice cream. I like LoHi better than Union Station for the decorations. this week i had Vanilla. Papa says – If the icecream maker can make vanilla – they can make […]

Book Review ~ “A Treasury of Great Recipes” Mary and Vincent Price

Book Review ~ “A Treasury of Great Recipes” Mary and Vincent Price

I had picked up a treasury of great recipes and serendipitous found it to be the travels of Mary and Vincent Price. The wanderings are chronicled from Dodger Stadium to London with recipes included. In Vincent’s writings he shared his “appetite for life”. Pages of […]

Pizza Friday ~ Coaches’ House. Best Ever Double Stuffed Cheese Crust

Pizza Friday ~ Coaches’ House. Best Ever Double Stuffed Cheese Crust

Coach made up the pizza oven. Coach made the pizza dough. We ended up cooking 25 pizza dough crusts this night. The best was my double stuffed cheese crust with a bit of char. Coach said the cheese was still molten when he bit in. […]

Tea Towel for the Month of May “Windsor Castle”

Tea Towel for the Month of May “Windsor Castle”

 Recipes are not included on this tea towel. Says “made in UK “and “100% cotton”.  Site of THE Wedding…. and all I got is this tea towel.  

Traditional Scottish Recipes on a JohnsHaven Festival Tea Towel

Traditional Scottish Recipes on a JohnsHaven Festival Tea Towel

Crazy i know! trinkets from the festival. Tweed Kettle does not sound anything like fish.

Pizza Friday ~ Basic Kneads

Pizza Friday ~ Basic Kneads

Attended an End of Summer Party where Pizza Friday  and Travel Eats ran together. Wood fired, anywhere is the mantra. Basic Kneads followed through. They did a great job keeping in front of the guests appetite. The pizza did not end at the end of […]

Johnshaven Festival

Johnshaven Festival

Johnshaven is a coastal village along the North Sea located in Aberdeenshire, down the road from Grandpa in Laurencekirk Scotland. The travel eats this week is Scottish Smoked Salmon. When I visited grandpa in September it was to cold to sit water side. Thank goodness […]

Pizza Friday ~ Tony P’s  Pizzeria

Pizza Friday ~ Tony P’s Pizzeria

Tony P’s Pizzeria: the perfect location, and the perfect family dinner experience…. well… maybe not perfect, but it has “kid friendly” potential.  When my family and I went down to the Highlands this weekend, we found an original and gorgeous pizzeria. As we ventured inside, the first […]