Annie put together a nice feast for Easter on Saturday night, and invited some of the friends and family over who hadn’t yet met Samantha. Can you say ham and hot dish? Oh yeah! Related posts: Easter Dinner No. 2: The O’D’s Good Friday Supper: Fish Three Ways Easter Dinner… Read More →
For lunch on Saturday, we went to what appears to be a really rockin’ bar. At least at night, I bet. During the day, it was laid back enough for us to take a big table by the back and get a few burgers. But despite the innocent looking setup,… Read More →
For Good Friday supper, we were thinking about turning Mark and Angie on to our newly discovered recipe for Bo Ssam. But, it being Good Friday, for Doris, meat was off the table, so to speak. So we went with fish. Walleye, shrimp and salmon, to be exact. Bob smoked… Read More →
After our walk through Sibley Park, we stopped for a beer at Pub 500, which SCF fans may remember from such posts as “Historic Mankato Pub Crawl: Pub 500.” We had some craft beer and a helping of very delicious homemade potato chips. Sam had milk. Related posts: At Sibley… Read More →
A nice little walk in the park before supper. Goats, llamas, koi. What else could you need, really? The park, named after Minnesota’s first Governor, Henry Hastings Sibley, is a quite nice one, really. There’s a playground and a paved walking path among the animals — — and then acres… Read More →
Surprise, surprise: there’s good Vietnamese food in Mankato, Minnesota! Our pho at Pho Saigon was really very good! And it’s a great place to take a big group for a family dinner, too. Related posts: Historic Mankato Pub Crawl: Pub 500 Mankato Historic Pub Crawl: Red Sky Historic Mankato Pub… Read More →
Wild Card Saturday has become a decade-long tradition. It started back in 2002 in our apartment on Burd Street with the Snow Bowl: New England Patriots v. Oakland Raiders during a big-ass snowstorm. It has turned into an annual gathering at Kelli and Patrick’s, complete with pernil, chili, chicken wings… Read More →
Pretty much right after breakfast, Bob got started smoking some chickens and pork ribs for a lovely Father’s Day barbecue. Here’s the chef at work! More photos of the food and the guests, after the jump. Related posts: Supper: Hickory Smoked Chicken and AB’s Baked Beans Fried Chicken Saturday Night… Read More →
For our fourth and final stop on the Mankato Historic Pub Crawl, we hit Red Sky Lounge. It is by far the hippest spot on the tour, but alas, we learned the least about its history. Instead, we heard more about what bars it had been over the years, and… Read More →
The third spot on the pub crawl was a spot called Pub 500. For a long time, it was a gas station, conveniently located near a tire store (that’s still in business). Today, it’s a pub and restaurant, owned by the same people who own the Happy Chef chain of… Read More →
Our next stop on the Historic Mankato Pub Crawl was a spot called Blue Bricks. Related posts: Historic Mankato Pub Crawl: A Walking Tour with a Twist Schell’s: The (Second) Oldest U.S. Brewery
Here’s one way to learn about this history of your town: take a walking tour — and have cocktails at the same time! OK, it was more like pints, rather than cocktails, but we learned a lot and had fun too. Our first stop. Rounders in Mankato, after the jump…. Read More →
Schell’s Brewery in New Ulm, Minn. was established in 1860, making it the second oldest brewery in the US. (The first is Yuengling.) We went for a tour and a tasting on a beautiful Friday afternoon. Related posts: Kelly’s Job Site, And a Tour of The Neighborhood A Drive through… Read More →
Jake’s Stadium Pizza — one of Greg’s favorites because of its thin, crackery crust and fun toppings, such as Canadian bacon — is moving to make way for a CVS. We were there on its last weekend in the old location. Related posts: Iron Pizza Chef: Pizza Night in America