Real Food Forever

Real Food Forever

Category: Restaurants & Farmer Markets

Lodge front with timber archways covered in white lights.

Clyde’s

I got sidetracked with the pretzel trout recipe yesterday and forgot to tell you about the second Lodge restaurant. I get to treat my team at work to a holiday

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Lodge and lots of trees lit up at night.

Food Views

In food news last month, a Dallas restaurant critic who previously only presented herself as an avatar, outed herself and may regret it since now restaurants know who to Not

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Vintage sign on back wall of restaurant.

Vintage

The new restaurant, Vintage, opened on Main Street in New Market, MD, early September. I told you about it in July when they were still just a Farmer’s Market. It’s

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Open grill front kitchen

Parts & Labor

There’s a combination local butcher shop and restaurant in Baltimore called Parts & Labor, which someone at work recommended to Tony. Normally we wouldn’t drive that far to dinner but

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Chalkboard sign with list of local farm suppliers.

Local Restaurant

I’m still waiting to get my stove hooked back up, but the floor is in and the grout is dry. I put lamb chops in the frig to thaw from

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Five different colors of cauliflower.

Vegetable Restaurants

Hello fellow voters; I hope you had a chance to vote early, absentee, or in person today. It will be a relief for the voter phone calls and ads to

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Me shooting clays with my brother.

Hunt Club Outing

Today my brother invited us to The Huntsman Hunt Club, which is a private shooting preserve in Dryden, Michigan. There’s a large restaurant in the main lodge that takes reservations

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A packed Michigan stadium from an end zone seat during the halftime show.

Tailgate to Ethiopian

Today was a no-cooking day since we were in Ann Arbor for the Michigan homecoming game. The pre-game alumni tailgate party was in the field house, and local restaurants contributed

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Perfectly fried green tomatoes

Last of the Tomatoes

  The kids didn’t have school again for yet another non-reason, so my daughter pulled out my tomato plants for me in exchange for me taking her to get her

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Plate of half-eaten oysters with lemon and sauces.

Oysters – Shell Recycling

When I first heard about eating raw oysters in college, someone told me that you’re supposed to swallow them whole. It seemed kind of pointless to me to eat them

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