Denny’s has been working on their menu again. They had a few surprises for me this time! I ordered the chicken strips and had them tossed in buffalo sauce before being served with ranch dressing. That in itself was a welcome change because for years, I haven’t been able to get buffalo chicken strips from [...]

For years I have wanted to make the Gumbo Shop‘s Turkey and Hot Sausage Gumbo. One of the first steps is to make turkey stock using the stripped turkey carcass, which makes the day after Thanksgiving a great time to make this gumbo! It calls for 1.5 lbs of the leftover turkey meat, too, which [...]

In October, Pumpkin Pancakes were back at IHOP! One of my favorite things about Fall is the way you can find pumpkin served in a wide variety if preparations. I tend to be a buttermilk pancake girl, but pumpkin pancakes get my attention every time. I was a little surprised that IHOP only had two [...]

I always look forward to what I consider to be my first real taste of Fall. It usually involves pumpkin in some or another form. This year, it was Pumpkin Cheesecake at Lestat’s Coffee House. It may not look like much in the picture above, but this was a delightful treat and a very nice [...]

For my daughter’s Halloween potluck, I wanted to bring a treat that would be healthy, tasty, toddler friendly, and thematically appropriate. So I trolled the Internet looking for ideas. Almost everything I found was sugary and full of empty calories. Then I found an article by Kimberly Bilger MPH, RD, LD, Pediatric Dietitian at Marni Paul [...]

Awhile back, I placed an order with Dinner-A-Go-Go. Since I was already a loyal Dinner Studio customer, I was hoping to expand my options by finding another great shortcut to really tasty dinners. What I was not counting on was how different the experience was going to be. Be sure to read my Dinner Studio [...]

Eating healthy, working, and running a household are all time consuming things. Sometimes it can be hard to make all of them happen the way that they need to. It’s easy to give into convenience and pick up a fast food meal on the way home or cook from a box you picked up at [...]

IHOP makes some really good comfort food. Over the past few years, they have had some really good seasonal choices. Most of them, like the stuffed French toast, almost send me into a diabetic coma just looking at them (and I don’t have diabetes). This summer I didn’t get my fill of fair food. So [...]

Normally I don’t make a habit of getting sushi to-go. Sushi is made to be eaten immediately – not after suffering through a half-hour of car ride and patient waiting for the humans to be done “arriving” and get down to the business of actually eating. But sometimes, desperate times call for desperate measures, like [...]

I love going to Brians’. The food is HUGE and awesome. The people are friendly. I usually end up there during hours when it is too late for anything other than breakfast. Today I was lucky enough to arrive 10 minutes before they stopped serving dinner. AWESOME. After asking the server’s opinion (always a good [...]