Crab BLT Open-Faced (you get more good stuff that way)

Who doesn’t like a good BLT?  Let’s add crab and make that a great BLT.  When you throw in some peppery arugula and spicy remoulade sauce, you have a great sammish.  I hope you like it. 8 slices sourdough bread, toasted. 8 ounces lump crab meat (I got mine at Crosby’s Crabs) 1 teaspoon Old…

Bangers and Three Mashes

This is my update on the English classic bangers and mash.  You have the banger with its beer and bread flavors. Now the mashed part is where I did it three ways.  I did Parmesan potatoes, sweet potato mash, and an apple parsnip mash.  So sweet and savory with a lot of flavor.  I hope…

Creamcicle Cheesecake

Summer memories are the sound of the ice cream truck music and the double dash: first to the change bowl and then to the truck.  Sometimes you may have had to run to the next block to catch the truck, but you would not be denied.  But that’s summer in Royal Oak.  You can now…

Asian Chicken Gizzards

“Hand me down my walking cane. Hand me down my hat” is the beginning of the Spinners song “Rubber Band Man,” and improperly cooked chicken gizzards are as tough as rubber bands.  So when Sally at Rainbow Acres Farm challenged me to make them more tender, I failed.  On my second try, I figured out…

Leslie’s Roommates’ Smoked Salmon Breakfast

I got a text that read as follows: “Best way to include smoked salmon in an egg related breakfast- go!” It took me back many years: I was in the Portland airport waiting for a flight at 5:30 in the morning, and I had something similar.  There were a couple of updates – the Roommates…