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Pizza Bombs, Peanut Butter Balls and Good Friends

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We have good friends who, like us, like to have a good time and enjoy food. We have a monthly dinner date together to both explore new and revisit favorite eateries. In fact, we were with them for several of the posts on this blog. This one is no different only this time we didn’t go out, we stayed in. In fact, we invited them over for a homecooked Italian meal. He said: I’m really not much of a cook but there are a few things I can make, and make well. One of them is the pizza bomb. Regular folks call it a calzone. Now, you can make your own dough and make your own sauce or you can take the easy route. So as a public service, here’s my simple version of Pizza Bombs for Dummies . Ingredients: buttermilk biscuits chopped ham shredded mozzarella spaghetti sauce flour vegetable oil Place a thin layer of flour on the countertop. Use a rolling pin to roll out and flatten one buttermilk biscuit, two combined if you use the smaller biscuits like I did for this meal. In the mid...

Seven Miles in the Mountains, a Double Dose of Burgers and a Fondue Feast

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Road trippin' it is always fun, especially when you're banging out an annual tradition. Fall means big game hunting season and since my son Jace is no longer my in-state hunting buddy, we headed out-of-state to his place in Washington so we could go out on opening day.  We left Montana on a late Friday afternoon meaning we'd be driving when the dinner bell rang. We just didn't know if it would ring at our final destination, two states over and a two and a half hours later, or along the way. Silly question! We weren't even 45 miles from home when the right blinker clicked on and we found ourselves exiting the interstate highway in St. Regis, Montana. Now, we've stopped off in St. Regis many times over the years, not because it's the halfway point on our Frenchtown-to-Spokane route, but because it has a one-stop shop for everything the traveler wants/needs. The St. Regis Travel Center has a couple of stations of gas pumps, a convenience store, a massive gi...