A salad, an entr?e, or a dessert made from a wonderful restaurant recipe would be a welcome addition to any meal you might serve, but there are certain occasions when we feel the need to pull out all the stops in order to make the afternoon or evening memorable. Birthdays, anniversaries, and prom ni…
I had already visited Stowe several times, and so I tested my idea to gather restaurant recipes by returning to a favorite spot there, Michael’s on the Hill. This wasn’t actually part of my long road trip, rather a test weekend to make sure that I was ready to go. I hadn’t been on a road trip in …
In my travels through America, there is no place that makes pies like the Deep South. I think the easy pace and gracious hospitality practiced there for generations has developed some of the most wonderful desserts. Right at the top of my list are cream pies: chocolate cream pie, coconut cream pie (…
Today is the first day of my trip across the country in order to try out new restaurants and collect memorable recipes. I’m starting in my own backyard, New Hampshire, to look for the first of my restaurant recipes. The beauty of the countryside that I drive through makes me wish I were a photograp…
It doesn’t matter which chef created the recipe for which restaurant, when you make it at home, you make it at your own risk. We have all heard horror stories from amateur chefs who tried a restaurant recipe for a certain vegetable dish or dessert only to have it fall flat and instead of praise, el…
I live in a small New Hampshire town that is about an hour’s drive from the nearest large city. We have several very good restaurants in our town, and it is nice to know the owner (and frequently, also the chef) when I go out to eat. I wanted to spend the summer collecting new recipes, restaurant r…
New York is one of the best places in the world to find great food, but it is not a good place to easily find a parking spot. I am slowly driving across several states, looking for interesting restaurant recipes to bring back to my small hometown in New England. There are so many wonderful places to…
My summer trip is about half over, and I am driving through Arkansas on my way to Texas and the West. I have been eating at dozens of restaurants, and am collecting restaurant recipes to bring back a bit of each of these different places to my hometown in New Hampshire. The particular restaurant rec…
My adventure in collecting restaurant recipes from across America has come to an end. It has been more than a month of driving, eating, walking my dog Ralph, and enough exercising to avoid putting on a lot of weight. Resisting delicious food is difficult enough, and even more so when the goal is to …
When I planned this trip to collect restaurant recipes, I planned to drive through Texas and pick up a barbecue tip or two, and continue west. However, Texas is bigger than I had expected, friendlier, and more varied. So I have detoured to San Antonio, maybe to see the Alamo, but really to experienc…