One of my favorite places to eat in the whole wide world is The Cheeky Monkey on Selby in St. Paul. We often go there for work lunches, it is a deli by day and bistro by night, and delicious the whole time through. In another life, I would really really like to live in…
Chicken Sausage over Grilled Veggie Hash
We’ve been trying to incorporate some lighter options into our meal repertoire along with more vegetables. But one of the most important things to us is that these lighter meals still have big flavors. We were in the mood to grill sausage the other day and were trying to decide on a side dish. I…
Biker Jim’s Hot Dogs
My husband and I both work for companies that have offices in Denver and have made a few work trips out there together. On one of those trips we found Biker Jim’s Gourmet Dogs, a restaurant that sells a unique variety of locally made brats/hot dogs. Many of them are made with wild game like…
Grilled Banana Sundaes
The other day after the sister and I made pizza, we were in the mood for a little dessert and still in the mood to grill. I happened to have some bananas so we decided to grill them and throw them on top of some ice-cream for a simple dessert. To keep things simple (and…
Chicken, Peach & Gorgonzola Pizza
With both of the men in our lives gone for the weekend, the sister and I made plans to spend the afternoon shopping and grab lunch at Punch Pizza, this awesome Napoleon style pizza place. Somewhere along the way we both decided to spend the day cleaning our respective houses (yeah….I don’t understand how it happened…
Grilled Salmon with Nectarine Salsa
It was the opening weekend of summer (aka Memorial weekend), so naturally I wanted to grill something for dinner. I just had amazing burgers the night before (with the sister), so I wanted something a little lighter this night. I couldn’t decide what I wanted; all I could describe was something “fresh.” I finally settled on grilled…
