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My friend Dave Goecker is usually bailing me out of some home improvement situation or fixing something for me that I don’t know how to do. So today, I was more than happy to help him out by driving a stranded vehicle home from Madison after he attended Ribberfest.

1. While there, we meandered through some antique shops as he was shopping for some beer signs to decorate his pool bar. (He decided on a Bud Light bottle cap tin sign.) We also found the Scoops Ice Cream Shoppe located at 115 West Main Street in Madison. I decided on the Salty Carmel Truffle and Chocolate Brownie Blitz in a waffle bowl. The Salty Carmel was creamy with streaks of carmel and carmel filled chocolate truffle candy bites. The Brownie Blitz was loaded with nuggets of Brownie in the rich chocolate ice cream all filling the crunchy waffle bowl! We relaxed outside on the metal mesh furniture on the sidewalk in no hurry at all. And before the day is done, Dave is coming over tonight to fix my roof!

This is a Smoked pineapple, Canadian bacon, and BBQ sauce pizza on the Weber Grill. While I lit the charcoal, Heidi baked the Kroger crust for about five minutes. After baking, she added the toppings and having been semi-baked, that made it easy to slide onto the grill. Before placing the pizza on the grill, I added applewood chips. It was on the Weber for about 6 minutes.

The crust was very crispy and all of the toppings were hot. The significance is, when you raise the pizza to your mouth to take a bite, you get that smoky applewood flavor that you don’t get from the oven. Smoky, crunchy, pineapple, and BBQ flavor put this slice over the top! Highly recommended! (We did make a sausage and pepperoni pizza for Liam and his friend Carter Waskom. They really didn’t care because we got the new REMC high speed fiber optic internet today and they couldn’t be bothered while playing Fortnite.)

Heidi and I discussed it and the last stop of the day would be the Doughnut Burger. A bacon cheeseburger between what looked like two Krispy Kremes. My sweetheart wife agreed to get the lettuce, pickle and tomato on the side because I am mostly a plain burger kind of guy. We enjoyed the sweetness of the doughnuts with the bacon and cheese. It was $9.00, but we wanted to try it once so we didn’t mind the price. The only other possible drawback for me would be that it was messy with the glaze covering my fingers and there was no place to sit.

All the food we tried was high in calories and high in satisfaction. Also, if you made it to the end of my “Walt’s Diner” blog debut, I’ll let you know that my beautiful daughter Sophie Kreis won the State 4-H Fashion Revue Dress Up Wear modeling category for the second year in a row! The outfit that she not only modeled, but made.

 

*Footnote: Roll Call- Characters mentioned today are: Heidi- the wonderful woman that puts up with me. RaeAnn- daughter. Sophie- step-daughter…and let’s give a shout out to Liam- step-son that stayed home today because of football practice and Lawyer- son.

I may buy it or I may make it myself, but I am for sure going to eat it!…Walt Wintin

The family attended the Indiana State Fair in support of our daughter, Sophie, that was modeling the outfit she made in the 4-H Fashion Revue. No one had eaten breakfast so we headed straight to the Indiana Dairy Farmers building for a grilled cheese. But this isn’t your Momma’s grilled cheese. The bread of the “Inside Out” grilled cheese sandwich looks like French bread, cheddar cheese encrusted on the outside and Swiss cheese in the middle. Simply genius! $3.50. And rounding out the  breakfast of champions, who doesn’t like a thick vanilla milkshake in a Holstein cow cup? $3.50.

After the Fashion Revue a large ear of roasted sweet corn on a stick caught my eye. $4.00 The folks at Wilson’s Roasted Sweet Corn peel back the husk, wrap the stick with foil and a napkin and dip the entire ear into a can of melted butter and hand it to you. As it is dripping butter, you then take it to a table and add any combination of sea salt, seasoned salt and parmasean cheese. My hands were full and I went simple with just the salt. Heidi, Rae, and Sophie all tried it and it was unanimous. We will go there again.

 

 

Thanks for joining me!

I only like two kinds of pie…Hot and Cold!