🥑 Avocado Toast 🥑

Thanks to Sophie for bringing this recipe 🏠 home and then to Heidi for whipping it up this morning. Because of them, Avocado toast is a new thing at our house.

Take a ripe 🥑 avocado, mash it up, then sprinkle on some onion powder, 🧂 salt, black pepper, red pepper 🌶 flakes, 🍋 lemon juice and then mix it up. (Or, Google up a recipe that suits you.)

I fried up an 🍳, laid it over my whole grain toast and then piled on the avocado mixture that Heidi made for us. Whole grains, protein and the good kind of fat… a great way to start my Saturday.

If you look 👀 closely at the picture, you can see I have a slight view of the swimming pool included along with the green plate to help us look forward to a 🌞 sunny day in July. (Side 📝 note: My favorite time to be out on the deck is when the pool is warm and the view is green.)

🥑 🍳 Toast

Shrimp 🍤 Trio For The Win 🦞

For me, Friday night is “Date Night.” Just ask my basketball players, they’ve heard all about it.

For an added bonus, I got to choose the restaurant and Heidi even came up with gift cards for Red Lobster 🦞 that covered the meal.

The coconut 🥥 shrimp with pina colada sauce , fried shrimp and cheddar bay biscuits were wonderful! (I was too full for the scampi, but will have it tomorrow for lunch.) We sat in the bar for quicker service and even went to 🎯 Target afterward to get Lawson some Mickey Mouse gifts for Valentine’s Day. A pretty good night!

Garlic 🧄 🍤 shrimp Scampi, Walt’s Fried shrimp, 🥥 coconut shrimp with pina colada sauce.
Blue 🌝 Moon with a slice of 🍊!!! The shrimp was good, however, this may have been the highlight of the meal.

🍓 Strawberry 🥨 Pretzel Salad

Actually, Nina Hackman says it is too sweet to really call it a salad. However, whatever you call it, it is incredible!

You can really see all three layers from this angle.

1. Spread a layer of salty pretzels 🥨 in the bottom of a pan. Add some butter and sugar and bake.

2. Mix two blocks of cream cheese, Cool Whip and a cup of sugar and spread over the pretzels.

3. Mix two packages of sugar free Jell-O and strawberries 🍓 and layer that on top.

4. Put it in the fridge and serve when ready.

This combination of sweet and salty is one of my favorites.

🫐 Blueberry Hill 🥞 Pancake House 🏠 “Fresh Inside”

The Blueberry 🫐 Hill 🥞 Pancake House is located at 10289 East Washington Street (Highway 40) in Indianapolis. I was on the east side for a basketball 🏀 tournament at Trinity Lutheran School and needed some breakfast after the game.

🥓 Bacon and medium 🍳 eggs.
Bluetooth pancakes 🫐 🥞 “fresh inside.”

“Fresh Inside” opposed to spread on top was my preference this morning. A big blob of melting butter 🧈 and plenty of syrup made for a filling and satisfying experience.

I may need a 😴 nap, but I have another game at noon so I better get busy and head back to Trinity!

Crumbl Cookies

It all started Thursday evening at Rush Off Main, a Cubs Bar in Brownsburg. Jon and Brevin Tilmon met their cousins, Alec and Chris Schuck and myself for some Old Style beer and Chicago themed food.

The starting line-up: Brevin, Jon, Walter, Chris and Alec.

Those boys continued on to the Butler/Providence basketball 🏀 game while I went to the New Ross Wintins and a wonderful ribeye 🥩 dinner cheffed by my son, Lawyer. Bathed in 🧄 garlic butter, it was delicious.

The highlight of my overnight trip, hanging out with Lawson Wintin.

After a morning of playing with Lawson, I headed south. On the way home I stopped off in Greenwood for some City BBQ.

Ribs, brisket,Mac and cheese, and corn pudding washed down with a Cheerwine 🍒 cherry cola. A nice grilled piece of bread dipped in BBQ sauce and some Blues 🎶 🎼 music playing in the dining room was a cool atmosphere.

Finally, I decided on some Crumbl 🍪 Cookies. I struggled with the automated order system, but after a bit of time and some help from a human, the order was successful.

From left to right: Chocolate Chip, Galaxy Brownie(by no means confused with a Little Debbie Cosmic), and two Ultimate Peanutbutter 🍪 cookies.

I made it home for David Goecker’s surprise birthday party and even have a growler of Zwanzigz Honey 🍯 🌾 Wheat and a couple of oranges 🍊 for New Years Eve…Boom!!!

Jaggers 🍔 Burgers

When I meet a new person locally they may ask “Are you related to the Walt Wintin that was the teacher at Seymour?” To which the answer is “Yes. He was my Dad.”

This year at Lutheran Central Grandparents Day, Cam Nierman’s grandma asked, “Are you related to the Walt Wintin that was a football 🏈 coach at Warren Central?” Holy cow! We moved back to Seymour in 1967! What a pleasant surprise to meet Sherry and Armin 🍎 Apple that day.

As I am coaching Cam and brother Brayton Nierman this 🏀 basketball season, I have spoken to the Apples several times at ball games.

A week or so ago, Armin mentioned that Jaggers, a new restaurant in Columbus, had a really good 🍔 burger. So, after two victorious games at St, Bartholomew Thursday night, I had to give it a try.

I don’t often include fast food on The Diner, however, Jaggers is pretty darn good. I had the Bacon, cheese, avocado burger. It was two beef patties, Crispy bacon, Swiss cheese and slices of avocado. The fries 🍟 would be in the “shoe string” variety and I can also recommend them.

🥓 Bacon, 🥑 avocado , 🧀 Swiss 🍔 burger!!!

I tried the chocolate chip cookies of which you get six and they appear to be baked in a muffin tin.

A box 📦 of chocolate chip 🍪 cookies.

Wild 🥚 Eggs 🍳

Located east of I-65 at the Veteran’s Parkway exit in Clarksville, we enjoyed a wonderful breakfast at Wild Eggs. We all agreed that we would drive to Clarksville if the main reason was to eat there.

There was an incredible menu with breakfast burritos🌯 , omelettes , chicken & waffles, A Bloody Mary, …all kinds of stuff.

The Mad Platter

I had the mad Platter which was three medium 🥚 eggs, three pieces of 🥓 bacon, three sausage links, gone fries, a blueberry 🫐 muffin and a pancake. The home fries were outstanding and the muffin was just tremendous!

If I go back, I would probably try the 🌯 burrito.

Bruce had a Bloody Mary. Jalapeño, pickles, and olives 🫒 on the stick. not for me, but Bruce liked it. Also, a Tajin rim which is chili, salt and lime.

Jeff Ruby and Luke Combs

Quite the combination, Jeff and Luke are!

Us and Stahls met the Tilmon’s at 5:30 at Jeff Ruby’s Steak 🥩 House in Louisville Friday… It was an incredible evening!

The Porter House! 🥩

I had the Porter House T-Bone which one side off he bone is a New York Strip and the other is a Filet Mignon. It was 24 ounces. When I first saw it, I doubted I could eat the whole thing. However, I made it to the finish line.

For sides, we had the garlic 🧄 creamed 🌽 corn, mushrooms 🍄, asparagus, and a delicious Mac and cheese. They all were superb.

Bruce and I have done Tomahawk steaks about four times, and we (mostly Bruce) can cook one as good as any I have ever had. However, Jeff Ruby’s was a nice experience, and with the concert next door at the YUM! Center, it was an excellent choice.

Jon Tilmon prefers the Blackened Delmonico ribeye.
Jon ordered me a smoke infused Old Fashioned. Jon actually makes one that is better.
Luke Combs.

Lainy Wilson and Jordan Davis performed first and were outstanding!

But, Luke Combs gave possibly the best show I have ever witnessed. The entire YUM! Center was captivated by his performance.

I have seen The Eagles, Kiss, Rolling Stones, Kenny Chesney three times..,they were all really good, but Luke Combs absolutely slayed it! He had the crowd in the palm of his hand, and when he sang “Long Neck, Ice Cold Beer Never Broke My Heart,” every person in the house, including security, was rocking and rolling and singing along.

Better Than the Grand Canyon

If you are a regular reader of Walt’s Diner, you know that Last Thursday night after hiking 🥾 the Grand Canyon Rim, we had a BIG 💰🥩 steak dinner in Tusayan, Arizona. I mentioned that if I had Bruce Stahl and Richard Hackman that we could produce something just as good or better right here in Grassy Fork Township.

We have been home less that 24 hours and it has already happened. However, we did have a trump card!… Nina Hackman.

Clockwise from 9:00. Rib-eye steak that has never left Jackson County from Dick Peter’s farm, cheesy potato 🥔 recipe that was outstanding, Asian slaw, and orange 🍊 Jello Cool Whip and cottage cheese salad that might as well be a dessert.
Cloud 🍪 Cookies.

On an additional post from the North Rim we had some Cloud Cookies from The Jacob Lake Inn.

Nina took it upon herself to duplicate these gems.

She baked a chocolate chip 🍪 cookie, Added a marshmallow and after it had melted a bit, she spread chocolate frosting on top. Home run!!!

The National Parks were incredible, but the Big Butt BBQ team can cook with the best. As well, we didn’t even have Bruce tonight!