My mom and Dave and I ate dinner at the Hays House in Council Grove on Sunday. My trip through the salad bar. This was a very good meal. Great fried chicken, homemade mashed potatoes and gravy, fresh green beans and homemade roll with butter. Excellent.
Lazy Dog Sports Bar
I loved the grilled salmon salad at the Lazy Dog Sports Bar along Pearl Street in Boulder, Colorado. Loved it so much that we went back a second time. There was an upper deck, but the first time we sat outside at their sidewalk tables – ’cause you can’t dine al fresco in downtown Emporia. …
A Change in Altitude
Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: A CHANGE IN ALTITUDE As we approached Pueblo, Colorado, I pictured all of the stress of the past few months as a ball of pink yarn. One end of that imaginary ball of yarn I left in Emporia, and I could visualize a thin pink …
Pho Hoa One
On the way to Colorado earlier this month, Dave and I stopped for dinner at the famous Pho Hoa One in Garden City. This restaurant was in the top 24 of the 8 Wonders of Kansas Cuisine contest sponsored by the Kansas Sampler Foundation. It’s in a nondescript building off of a parking lot, at …
Karen’s Kitchen
Last Saturday when I was in Newton for a book reading/signing, friend and fellow author Beverley Buller took me out to lunch at Karen’s Kitchen. It’s more than a restaurant, it’s a coffee shop, a hang-out place. The blackboard has a list of upcoming musical guests I had the black bean wrap and it was …
Cherry moos
For J.P., here’s a big bowl of cherry moos. A recipe on the Internet says it’s made with sour cherries, water, sugar, flour and cream.
Low German meal
On Aug. 6, Dave and I attended Threshing Days in Goessel. I did a reading, Dave checked out the farm equipment in action. And, for lunch, we took them up on the Low German meal.
‘My Ruby Slippers’
Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: ‘MY RUBY SLIPPERS’ “I grew up in a family that was extremely mobile,” Tracy Seeley said. “We were a very unsettled family. And my parents weren’t from Kansas. I did most of my growing up in Wichita, but we never felt, really, as if we …
Paxico Meatloaf Festival
Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: First place: The Gillie Gals PAXICO MEATLOAF FESTIVAL “Have you always wanted to be a meatloaf judge?” I asked WenDee LaPlant at the Meatloaf Festival in Paxico. “I never considered it until last year when they asked me,” she said, “And then I thought, ‘what …
Fresh flowers
On a table at the Hays House in Council Grove.
So Long Saloon
Haven’t eaten here yet – but the So Long Saloon is a colorful spot in Aggieville in Manhattan.