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MCC 2015 Food Photo Marathon #4: Half One Thing, Half Another
Our very special MCC extended interlude continues! Four out of every five business days I bring a home-assembly turkey-‘n’-cheese sandwich to work for lunch. It’s one of the little ways we cut budget...
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MCC 2015 Food Photo Marathon #5: Salad and Solitude
Our very special MCC extended interlude continues! Pictured above: the Salad Nicoise at Indy’s Bazbeaux Pizza — albacore tuna, anchovies, eggs, pepperoncini, red onions, artichoke hearts, and hearts...
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MCC 2015 Food Photo Marathon #6: The Thin Line Between Breakfast and Dessert
Our very special MCC extended interlude continues! Ye olde, venerable International House of Pancakes may be a chain restaurant, but they’re not known for dullness or restraint. You can order pancakes...
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MCC 2015 Food Photo Marathon #7: The French Confection
While my lovely dinner companion and I await our charcuterie, a tiny Eiffel Tower twinkles merrily at passersby. Our very special MCC extended interlude concludes! Once again we return to Massachusetts...
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2015 Road Trip Photos #2: Supping on the Shoulders of Giants
We weren’t ready for lunch by the time we left the Zachary Taylor National Cemetery in Louisville, but we knew I wouldn’t last all the way till Nashville without food. We pressed ahead another hour or...
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2015 Road Trip Photos #4: Cheese ‘n’ Knackered
At last, it’s our turn for Coke to really speak to us! Or so we tell ourselves. Not every stretch of highway is an endless parade of merriment. Not every side quest earns us a Trophy or Achievement....
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2015 Road Trip Photos #12: Southern Seafood Showdown, Round 1
Going into this year’s vacation, we hoped the cuisine would be a highlight at our various stops — be it good ol’ Southern kitchen cookin’, Gulf-sourced fresh seafood, or, really, anything outside of...
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2015 Road Trip Photos #23: Southern Cooking Showdown, Round 2
Redfish beignets at the Royal House in New Orleans. Day Three of our seven-day road trip was our first full day in the city of New Orleans. We already covered our musical breakfast at Cafe Beignet. As...
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Art ‘n’ Taters in Terre Haute
A baked potato called the Texan, containing steak, bacon, onion rings, jalapenos, cheddar cheese, and barbecue sauce. I’m not the kind of guy to call a baked potato a full meal, but maybe I would if...
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My October Symphony of Treats
Best of show: the Salted Caramel Pizookie at BJ’s Restaurant and Brewery in Avon, Indiana — an oven-baked caramel cookie as big as a Personal Pan Pizza, filled with almond toffee, pretzel bites, and...
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A Second Get-Together for Second Breakfast
This week my wife and I have been taking advantage of our hotel’s complimentary breakfasts to save as much money as possible (their modest, cook-to-order omelet bar is a nice touch), but sometimes a...
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2015 Road Trip Photos #32: Southern Seafood Showdown, Round 3
Crawfish beignets: in which New Orleans cuisine achieves its ultimate form. For this year’s scenic tour of the American South, even if everything else went wrong or turned out boring, we kept our hopes...
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Breakfast with the Blue Screen of Death
Anne and I went out for our usual Saturday breakfast today and were greeted with a fun reminder of how much the restaurant business has changed since ye olden tymes. The young crew members who...
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The Springs in Fall…2015 Photos #8: Munchies in the Mountains
This is not the Star Wars toy store you’re looking for. By the time I left the Cave of the Winds, it was after 12 and lunch sounded like a great idea. My original plan had been to work my way up US 24...
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Six Plates, No Bowl: Our First Time with Tapas
Solomillo con Cabrales! Tiny yet fantastic. And this wasn’t even our favorite course. Each year my wife Anne and I have indulged our own special Super Bowl tradition: while the rest of the world is...
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The Springs in Fall — 2015 Photos #14: Colorado Cookery
Two. Two! TWO meals in one entry! As with our July road trip to the South, I was determined to find places to eat in Colorado Springs that we didn’t have back home in Indianapolis. Here we backtrack a...
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2015 Road Trip Photos #40: Southern Cooking Showdown, Round 4
Remember that time we took you on a tour of New Orleans’ own Cafe Beignet — on Day Three and the morning of Day Five, in fact — and failed to show you a photo of a single beignet? That was a rude...
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The Springs in Fall — 2015 Photos #17: Bowling for Fish
Just when you thought it was safe to go bowling… After our tour of the Air Force Academy we declared suppertime. On the other side of I-25 we found a place in Colorado Springs where seafood meets...
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2015 Road Trip Photos #44: A Very Special “Chopped” Anniversary
Our feature for the entree round: Kashmiri Spiced Braised Lamb Shank. Our eleventh wedding anniversary fell on Day Seven, but scheduling needs and fannish impatience dictated that we celebrate on Day...
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Dinnertime Down the Street at Lola’s
When restaurateurs want to make their mark on Indianapolis, they rarely glance in the direction of the west side. They flock to the upper-class north suburbs and their adjacent cities, they swarm...
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