Burgers, Dogs, & Pizza, Oh My!

Recipe – Celery Root Soup

2013-05-25T00:42:16-07:00

Categories: Ham & Bacon, Hot off the Grill, Miscellany, Other

Mrs. Burgerdogboy taught me to appreciate soup more than I had in this lifetime. She made some pretty good ones, but turned out, I am better at it than her. She’s happy with a bowl of ramen or a can of Progresso, adorned with a couple of tablespoons of Tabasco; I go more for [...]

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Small Town America – Fest Food

2013-05-19T18:08:55-07:00

Categories: Hamburgers, Hot Dogs, Hot off the Grill, Sausage

Tags: Carny food, Exhibition Food, Fair Food

Few things I appreciate more than some family out slinging ‘hash’ at small town festivals, county fairs, and the like. Today’s occasion was a ginormous flea market in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, held several times over the course of the summer. (dates). Reminded me of one Mrs. Burgerdogboy and I stopped at in Central Washington a couple [...]

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Oscar Meyer Selects Angus Smoked Uncured Beef Franks

2013-05-18T12:14:51-07:00

Categories: Hot Dogs, Hot off the Grill, Sausage

Tags: Frankfurters, Hot Dogs, Oscar Meyer

Whoa, that’s a long name. Saw these the other day for the first time, when I was in the hunt for my usual brands, premium casing dogs like Usingers or Vienna Beef. These were $3.99, for a 14 oz, 8 frank package; they are bun length, and a bit redder in color than most grocery [...]

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Duluth, MN – Sammy’s Pizza (Downtown)

2013-05-18T10:49:19-07:00

Categories: Hot off the Grill, Miscellany, Pizza, Sausage

Tags: @_SammysPizza, Duluth Pizza, Minnesota Pizza

Not much more I can say about Sammy’s, the small regional chain in the Upper Midwest, I’ve written about them a couple times. Here’s the point: I’ve had pizza all over the world, from Naples, Florida, to Naples, Italy; from Boise to Beijing. And Sammy’s is still my favorite, and worth a couple day drive [...]

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Home Cookin’ Test – Extra Valley Frozen Beef Patties

2013-05-18T10:05:22-07:00

Categories: Hamburgers, Hot off the Grill, Miscellany

Tags: Frozen Burgers, Heat & Eat, Heat and Eat

I’ve reviewed a lot of these frozen patties, and to date, I’ve liked Ball Park brand the most, even though they are a ‘heat and eat’ product, not a raw patty. Extra Value is an economy brand, manufactured by the Holten Meat Company, outside of St. Louis. I bought a package of a dozen quarter [...]

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Nationwide – The Fresh Market

2013-05-18T08:14:10-07:00

Categories: Ham & Bacon, Hot off the Grill, Miscellany, Other

Tags: Fresh Market, Grocery Stores

Nice to pop into one of these recently in suburban Chicago. I had no idea the company had sprouted so many locations in the past few years. I first became acquainted with the chain in New Orleans, Mrs. Burgerdogboy and I were having kind of a funky / downlow Thanksgiving, and we wandered into the [...]

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Superior, WI – The Thirsty Pagan

2013-05-18T07:51:21-07:00

Categories: Ham & Bacon, Hot off the Grill, Pizza

We used to call it “soup town” tho I have no knowledge as to why. My best memories of Superior is that it was a bridge away from my home town, and for a period, had a legal drinking age of 18. We used to frequent one particular bar, and a glass of beer was [...]

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Minong, Wi – Jack Link Beef Jerky Outlet Store

2013-05-18T07:41:10-07:00

Categories: Hot off the Grill, Other, Sausage

Tags: Beef jerky, Beef Snack Sticks, slim jims

We used to drive down US 53 out of Superior Wisconsin, for winter family ski trips to Telemark, or some jaunts to various Wisconsin lakes. At the time, Minong, about 30 miles south, was a one horse town with a car dealer, grocery, and gas station, and a small butcher shop and cattle pen called [...]

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Arcadia, WI – Detox Bar and Grill

2013-05-18T07:29:12-07:00

Categories: Hamburgers, Hot off the Grill, Sandwiches

Tags: US Highway 53, Wisconsin Cheeseburger, Wisconsin Hamburger

Winding our way through the backwoods of Wisconsin, back and around my old stomping ground of LaCrosse, where I had my first job after college. Cruising up US 53 north out of LaCrosse, and feeling a might puckish as the noon hour was approaching. We had passed through Sparta, WI, earlier, home of F.A.S.T. Enterprises, [...]

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Elgin, IL – Prime Burgerhouse

2013-05-16T08:09:46-07:00

Categories: Hamburgers, Hot off the Grill

Tags: Juicy Lucy, Truffle fries

Prime BurgerHouse is one of the restaurants inside the Grand Victoria Casino in Elgin, IL. It’s my recollection the Grand Vic was one of the original casinos in Illinois, back when they were limited to being on water and having to take small cruises multiple times a day, during which time gamblers could play. Those [...]

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