Thaden Family Blog

All these things added together equal a good day. a nice big soon to be pot of chicken & dumplings steaming on the stove a nice cold glass of beer a new knitting pattern

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Darryl and I hit this cute little place in downtown St. Joe today. This is one we’ve never seen before. It’s called Beachside Deli and has a basic Greek menu. We had warm grape leafs and I had my first Gyro (lamb & beef), which was very very good. Over all we were very please [...]

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There’s a place in Benton Harbor called Piggin N Grinnin.  It’s supposedly the barbecue place around here.  Well today my boss bought us lunch and I got to try it out. I ordered a pretty safe meal : brisket sammich, potato salad, and barbecue baked beans. The barbecue sauce gets a 5 out of 10.  [...]

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So whatcha think?  Thick enough?

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One of my friends @ work told me about this wonderful wine. It was an exclusive wine that wasn’t sold @ stores …. until now. It’s so very good!!!

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a new breakfast!

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So what if it took me lawd knows how many years, but today was the day. The Menu was: Buttermilk biscuits Collard greens Fried chicken Drink: beer I made the biscuits this morning since Margaret was studying for her test (which she’ll be taking in 20 minutes). I used her big stand mixer for the [...]

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Margaret picked out all 3 for me.  She said she’d be happy if I liked at least one and fortunately I really like all 3. The Rasputin beer was very tasty.  The Korbinian was almost the same as the Rasputin, but it was less hoppy.  The Belhaven had an odd taste that I couldn’t my [...]

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This is what good bread should look like And this is what good bread should taste like

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Today I really wanted some fresh homemade bread, so I went to my old standby recipe Tassajara yeast bread. I got out all my ingredients, cookbook, mixed, kneaded, shaped, let rise, baked….. I  love bread! The mixing, the kneading, the rising, the baking, the eating. Yep, I love everything about bread. Everything except what happens [...]

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Some of my very favorite people were born this month, and the list just keeps getting bigger and bigger! Today is my friend Jennifer’s birthday. To celebrate we went to Pumphouse for drinks and then on to Silver Beach Pizza for dinner! Happy B-Day Jennifer!!!!!!!!!!!!

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or flavored biscuits…. whatever you want to call it. I made some for Darryl to take to work tomorrow for food day. Recipe: 1 3/4 cups all purpose flour 3 tablespoons granulated white sugar 2 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 6 tablespoons butter, cold and cut into pieces 3/4 cup raspberry jam or [...]

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So today is the day before our anniversary of being married 8 years together and we decided to have a Mexican feast. Since we currently do not have a grill we had to make do with what we have. So we purchased a cast iron Dutch oven and made our food in that. I went [...]

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I was up early this morning to bake more bread. I made 2 loafs of pumpkin, 2 loafs of applesauce, & 2 loafs of bannana nut. The turned out pretty good so I’m happy with my efforts. The only thing I was unable to get done today were the apple dumplings. I’m gonna do those [...]

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