Outsiders Pizza Review – Nationwide Frozen Food Product

Do you remember when craft beer started to take off, to the surprise of the giant brewers? So what did they do, they created spin-off “mini-companies” with new brews, and marketing them as such.  So we didn’t know that Miller (or whomever) was behind “Bob’s Garage Brew – the beer made with sink water from… Continue reading Outsiders Pizza Review – Nationwide Frozen Food Product

Hometown Sausage Kitchen Gyro Sausage Review

The ‘gyro’ is a Greek inspired sandwich, with meat (generally beef and lamb) cooked on a vertical roaster, placed in a pita, dressed with tomato, cucumber, and tatziki sauce. Some purveyors add lettuce and onion. The word “gyro” is from the Greek word for “circle” or “turn.” The meat is generally seasoned with salt, hot and sweet paprika,… Continue reading Hometown Sausage Kitchen Gyro Sausage Review

Gloriosos Fresh Italian Sausage Review – Milwaukee, WI

Today I used some of their fresh Italian sausages for a home-made pizza. I only picked up two, of the “hot” not “sweet” variety, and they run about four ounces apiece at about a buck twenty per. I have this quirk which there is no rhyme nor reason for. When I’m making a sausage pizza, I… Continue reading Gloriosos Fresh Italian Sausage Review – Milwaukee, WI

New China Restaurant Review – Fox River Grove, IL

It’s been around for twenty-five years, so it must be “good” right?  Well, at least passable. Confession. I lived in China for six years, so it’s almost always a let down for me to go to a Chinese restaurant in the U.S.  Once and a great while, in a larger city Chinatown, I can be a… Continue reading New China Restaurant Review – Fox River Grove, IL

Gloriosos Italian Market Review – Milwaukee, WI

Seventy-year-old Glorioso’s in Milwaukee is one of several fine Italian deli/groceries the city has to offer. If it’s even remotely Italian, Glorioso’s has it on the shelf, in the counter or in the cooler. It’s a wonderland for foodies and cooks alike.  Naturally, I stocked up.  Sausages. Cheese. A muffaletta sandwich. So let’s talk about that. … Continue reading Gloriosos Italian Market Review – Milwaukee, WI

All About Cheese Curds

If you’re not from the Upper Midwest of the US or Eastern Canada, it’s possible you’ve never heard of “cheese curds.” What are they? In short, bits of fresh, unaged, cheese, snatched from the cheese making at the earliest stage possible. They are eaten fresh, fried, atop the national Canadian snack “poutine,” and in the… Continue reading All About Cheese Curds

The Cottage Review – Crystal Lake, IL

The Cottage is one of those places most people would describe as a “neighborhood bar” and it fills that role nicely, perched on the edge of downtown Crystal Lake, Illinois, within walking distance of a number of residential neighborhoods. Although a “bar,” it serves as a full restaurant as well, with a very lengthy menu… Continue reading The Cottage Review – Crystal Lake, IL

7-Eleven Frozen Pizza Review – Nationwide

7-Eleven Frozen Pizza Review A few years back, 7-Eleven made some rather dramatic decisions – to go into the hot, ready to eat food business and to replace many of the standard shelf offerings with house brand merchandise ( 7-Select). Both moves appear to have been very successful. With a history that dates back to the 1920s, and originally… Continue reading 7-Eleven Frozen Pizza Review – Nationwide

Impossible Burger Review

So there’s this Stanford professor, Patrick Brown, B.S., M.D., PHD, who decides in 2009 to take an 18-month sabbatical in 2009 to study “eliminating industrial animal agriculture” (fancy words that basically mean big time animal raising for food). He is of the school that believes the industry is doing major damage to the planet. He… Continue reading Impossible Burger Review