If you’ve been following my story for a while you know that a few years ago during the pandemic lockdown I got a report from my doctor informing me that I had skipped right over “pre-diabetic” and landed firmly in the type-2 diabetes category. I control my blood sugar with pulls and diet, and once or twice a year my… read entire post
Category Archives: Food
All Aboard the Sushi Train!
Last month while visiting Minnesota, Susan and I ate at Sushi Train, a local restaurant. I’ve since learned that there is also a restaurant in nearby Tulsa called Sushi Train, but the two places are unrelated. “Sushi train” is slang for any conveyer-delt driven sushi bar, so discovering that there are multiple restaurants with this same name is not completely… read entire post
Our Valentine’s Nailed It Cake Decorating Competition
Nailed It is a Netflix baking competition where non-professional cake decorators with questionable skills do their best to reproduce fancy and artistic cakes in a short amount of time. The cakes are based on their taste and appearance, both of which are often bad, and the results are often disasterous. For Valentine’s Day, Susan came up with the idea of… read entire post
Getting Our Kicks at Ken’s Pizza on Route 66
Susan and I were off work for Veterans Day, and so on Friday Susan planned a day trip for the two of us up Route 66 from Oklahoma City to Tulsa. Route 66 is a road full of nostalgia, and nothing on Friday was more nostalgic for me than our visit to Ken’s Pizza in Chandler, Oklahoma for lunch.
When… read entire post
A Half-Hearted Trip to the Onion Burger Festival
Any review I write of last weekend’s Onion Burger Festival in El Reno wouldn’t be fair to the fine people who worked hard to put on a great event. There was nothing wrong with this year’s festival, nor was it significantly different from any other Onion Burger Festival I’ve ever attended. It wasn’t you this year, Onion Burger Festival. It… read entire post
Part Mexican, Part Italian — The Return of Taco Bell’s Mexican Pizza
If you were to take the hottest, most delicious slice of pizza you’ve ever had and combine it with the most tantalizing Mexican dish you ever tasted, the results would be… well, pretty far from Taco Bell’s Mexican Pizza, which returns to restaurants next month after a two-year hiatus.
What is it about the disappearance of fast food items that… read entire post
The Olde Orchard: Old Restaurant, New Location
Live in the same town long enough and you’ll eventually start referring to houses by who used to live there, and buildings by what they used to be.
If I were giving directions to someone from out of town to The Olde Orchard, I’d tell them it’s located at 326 Elm Avenue in Yukon in the Old Mills Plaza, just… read entire post
The Latest Collectible… Monster Cereals?
When I was a kid, I ate cereal for breakfast almost every day. As far as I was concerned, the more sugar a cereal had, the better it was. I was a big fan of Cookie Crisp, and loved cereal with marshmallows like Lucky Charms. One of my favorite cereals was Count Chocula. It was full of sugar, it had… read entire post
Bananas and Red Sauce
There’s something inherently American about Chinese buffets. I’ve never been to China so I could be wrong, but I’ve always suspected “bananas in red sauce” is a dessert more likely to be found in Tennessee than Tokyo. I’ve shopped at more than one local Asian market and never run across individual cup servings of ice cream. You know what they… read entire post
Cookie Card Nostalgia
The thing I liked most about television’s Cheers was right there in the theme song: it was a place where “everybody knows your name.” Every time Norm or Cliff or any of the bar’s regulars walked through the front door and down those steps, they were greeted by name by Sam or Diane or Coach or Woody.
I have never… read entire post