Saturday, March 21, 2009

Spring meal


Amanda, chef Michigan extraordinaire, made a sumptuous meal of chicken and greens this evening. It was the perfect transition meal from the winter doldrums into Spring bounty.
The best part about this dinner is that it was relatively cheap and very simple.
First, a bed of organic micro-greens tossed with Michigan dried cherries, pecans, local Amish blue cheese, and quartered hothouse vine tomatoes. Second, a pan-seared olive oil chicken breast, seasoned with salt and pepper. Next a light vinagarette of 2-to-1 olive oil to red wine vinegar, minced shallot, and seasoned with salt and pepper. Last a crusty olive ciabiatta from Hiller's rounded out the meal. Yum! Thank you Amanda!

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Welcome!

Glorious Jones goes for the gold
I LOVE that Dinty Moore is a selling point...
Sammiches!


I love food.


Fresh produce. Country fried steak. Vegan cupcakes. Goat milk. Curried okra. Cheese, cheese, cheese. Tomatoes that smell like sunshine. Raspberries right off the bush. Lavender cookies. Kim chi. Homemade noodles. Fatty yogurt. Smoked chubs. Bathtub gin. Beet greens and roast garlic. Hot wings. Pulled pork. Honey comb. Deep fried pickles. Squid. Sour mangoes with chili salt. Rhubarb pie.

Shall I go on?

Sometimes I think and talk about food to the point of distraction. So do most of my friends (thankfully, they're also mostly good cooks which I, unfortunately, am not). Michigan has a lot to offer the foodie, (all of the above and much much more), so I've decided that a blog devoted to eating and loving Michigan food was in order.

We begin at the Eastern Market on Russell in Detroit with Wigley's Corned Beef. Salty and buttery, corned beef is my ultimate comfort food. My gram and gramps are old Detroiters and the first thing they ask when I say I've been to the market is "Did you get some corned beef?"
It's so. damn. good.

Sunday, March 8, 2009

coming soon...