A little toddy for your throat

And yes I know that this doesn't have anything to do with food - well kinda because if you can't swallow comfortably or discuss precious events over a meal then what is worse.  Well there are worse things of course.  Thank you for reading my blog and thank you for your encouraging words.

As we head into the seasonal allergies and the scratchy throats here is a recipe that I have used countless times.  I am just going to share someone else s blog information.  I don't think she will mind.

Throat Fix

I have some more information about last weekend in Kansas City coming your way tonight or tomorrow so stay tuned and check back often.

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Photo from the edge of the waters at The Creation Museum.

Kansas city relaxation weekend Saturday

Brunch was really good.  We both had a biscuit and gravy with bacon.  I added an egg.  Very good and a healthy size serving.  Betsey is not fond of extra crispy bacon but I found it excellent.  The place we ate was on the edge of little Italy.  Happy Gillis cafe and hangout is the name of the place.  Very eclectic neighborhood cafe.  The cafe uses local farm products and it was nice that they posted which farms they got their items from.

For our evening meal we went back to the city market and had Chinese at Bo Lings.  There was some great live jazz music at the restaurant next to us.  

And when it stopped there were three small ensembles that 

were starting to play.  Beautiful evening with a beautiful wife.  

Betsey got honey cashew chicken and I got General tso's chicken.  We started with an order of crab Rangoon which had an abundance of filling but not a lot of crab.  The two entrees however were very good.  Mine has just the right amount of heat.  Also there wasn't a lot of vegetables to confuse the taste.  

Kansas city relaxation weekend Friday

A few months ago my darling wife, of almost 33 years, said that she would like to take a vacation next year where she didn't have to worry about deadlines, going somewhere specific, be somewhere at a certain time, just her and me.

Well being the advanced planner I am...haha...most of you know that I am very impromptu; I took it upon myself to plan a mini weekend when I saw a Groupon for the Phillips Hotel in Kansas City.  BTW for those of you that don't know or don't live in this area most of Kansas City is in Missouri.  The grouping was one of those with a long time expiration but once you made your reservation that was it. 

Sure enough I made our reservation and then things started to be announced that were happening the same weekend.  Our church is having a joint service with two other churches in Gage Park (I am chairman of the deacons-I should be there), our church is having an end of summer block party Saturday evening, Huff and Puff (a balloon festival in Topeka in which it has been tradition to get the convertible out for breakfast under the balloons as they do their mass ascension), and there is something else that escapes me at this time.  I do have a great group of deacons that can handle things in my absence so here I am on Saturday morning jotting down the blog with indigestion from last night's dinner.

BRGR sounded like a great place.  What could go wrong with some beef.  Nothing it was great.  It was a toss up between Johnnys or BRGR, as a couple of my friends recommended both.  I had been to Johnny's in Lawrence before and they do have great burgers. 

For appetizers we had deep fried deviled eggs.  Yep, and y'all know I love resurrected eggs, I don't like to give credit to the devil for anything.  These eggs were sliced in half and the yolks removed and mixed with some seasonings and chives.  Then the yolk filing returned to the eggs where they were reassembled and wrapped in prosciutto and breaded with what was a panko covering and then deep fried.  They were great but I do think I prefer my resurrected eggs cold. 

I surprised my love with a small token of my love.  A new ring that I got at Westridge Jewelry in Topeka.  Best jewelry store in Topeka. 

I ordered the Juicy Lucy burger.  For those of you that don't know the story behind the Juicy Lucy it started in Minnesota I think with someone that though cheese should be inside the burger.