Strong Odors Art Exhibit: Opening Party July 16
Posted by Troy | Filed under Art/Design, Beer, News, Traverse City
Illustration by Troy DeShano
I’m excited to announce my exhibit opening at Right Brain Brewery in Traverse City next weekend!
All the work is already up, so you can stop by anytime to check it out, but I’d really love it if everyone could come to the opening next Saturday night!
If you are anywhere near Traverse City or even in Grand Rapids or lower Michigan wondering what to do for fun next weekend you should definitely make the trip up to beautiful Traverse City! Nothing’s better after a long day at the beach or hike along the dunes than a hand-crafted brew from Right Brain Brewery!
My reception will be from 7-9pm so please stop by and say hello and hopefully you or a friend can go home with some radical new artwork for your walls.
TCFF John Huges Posters behind the bar
If you’ve never been to Right Brain then you’ve been missing out! Each beer is hand-crafted with the same kind of TLC that we visual artists know is required to create something that we can be proud of. The atmosphere is really fun and relaxed—way cooler than a bar with no big-screen TVs in sight!
Come support local art and just have an awesome Saturday evening at Right Brain!
Let me know if you can make it by Likeing the event on Facebook.
Here’s the details
Right Brain Brewery July Artist Reception
- Date: Saturday, July 16th
- Time: 7-9pm
- Place: Right Brain Brewery in Traverse City’s warehouse district. (map)
More on Right Brain and the Artist Reception
- RBB’s July Artist Reception announcement
- RBB on Facebook
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Tags: art, Beer, original illustration, shopping, Traverse City
Morel & Goat Cheese Hot Dogs with Wild Leeks
Posted by Troy | Filed under Last Night's Dinner
I love the idea of mixing foods that don’t normally go together… last summer I had huge success with a burger experiment (we in the Cherry Capitol are always looking for new applications of our local crop).
So while scrounging through the fridge in search of an adequate platform for my morels I spotted it… The Great Organic Uncured Beef Hot Dog.
Last Night’s Dinner: Priceless Lake Victoria Tilapia
Posted by Troy | Filed under Good, Last Night's Dinner, Travel
While in Kenya I lived in the city of Kisumu. Honestly, the city is very, very different than my hometown of Traverse City, MI—in a lot of ways opposite even (like the fact that it is always hot and sunny)
But even with all the differences I felt right at home from the moment I stepped off the plane.
Everything, despite being so different felt really familiar, but the one thing that actually was similar is that the city is right on the shore of Lake Victoria. The funny thing is that I don’t know how many conversations I had trying to describe how large Lake Michigan is (trying to calculate miles to kilometers in my head is hopeless), and my descriptions were never met with the astonishment I’d expected.
Come to find out Lake Victoria is actually larger than Lake Michigan… in fact it’s larger than any other freshwater lake in the world—except for Lake Superior of course.
So as you’d expect, fish is the main export for the region and catching, buying and selling fish is the main source of income for a large part of the population.
Tags: Africa
The Bagel Sandwich
Posted by Troy | Filed under Last Night's Dinner
In our never ending quest to find fulfillment in the new, we regularly miss that the most wonderful and satisfying things are often the most humble.
Last night’s dinner for example.
Homemade everything bagel & egg sandwich with american cheese and cream cheese. Served on a paper plate.
It really doesn’t get much better than that.
Tags: bagel, breakfast, eggs, Food, original photo
Fall Soup and Adventurous Living
Posted by Troy | Filed under Last Night's Dinner, Thoughts
It must be fall because we’re eating a lot of soup.
Last week my wife fed two hungry construction workers with a big batch of broccoli cheese and another of butternut squash.
Since grocery-shopping happens rarely these days, creativity with garden vegetables (grown or gifted) is key in our house. On this day, all we had was some tomatoes, so the hunt for a good soup recipe began.
We found it very interesting that most recipes online for “homemade” tomato soup actually call for a can of tomato soup…
Wha??
Well we found one real recipe and it turned out pretty dang good. Especially with the homemade french bread.
Tomato soup is one of those things that I didn’t eat until I was an adult.
Over the past few years I’ve been making myself eat the foods that I don’t like but always thought that I should.
I didn’t eat olives until about 5 years ago and now they’re my favorite. Just thinking about olives makes me start slobberin.
When I was a kid I loved cottage cheese but hadn’t had it since then… until a couple weeks ago I made myself eat some.
Not too bad…
I can actually list quite a few foods that I considered pretty gross until I started eating them regularly that I now consider my favorites – coffee, grapefruit, stinky cheese, spinach, beer, sweet potatoes, asparagus, and more…
It’s like the more adventurous I get with my eating, the more I discover the things that satisfy me the most and bring me the most pleasure (and the surprise at how many of those things are healthy)
Moose Drool Comes to Michigan
Posted by Troy | Filed under Beer
We used to live in a magical place called Montana.
We were obsessed with Big Sky Brews, even though we could only afford it once in a while as a treat. It had been a half-decade since I’d had one of their finely crafted beverages, but we finally started seeing Moose Drool here in Michigan. In fact, we even found our favorite seasonal from Big Sky – Summer Honey!
We’ve already got quite a few amazing micro-brews to choose from right here in northwest lower Michigan, but I’m pretty excited about this new development.
Plus it takes me back… ah Montana…
Check for it in Burritt’s in Traverse City
Bacon-Wrapped Mac-and-Cheese Dog
Posted by Troy | Filed under Last Night's Dinner
Wrapped a hot dog in bacon.
Grilled it along with some skewered mushrooms and red onions.
Topped it with some Annie’s Mac & Cheese
It was pretty amazing, as you can imagine.
Hot Dog & Bacon are both from Applegate Farms.. Pretty rad company that you should check out. Here’s a brief overview from their website: Read the rest of this entry »
Goat Cheese Stuffed Traverse City Cherry Burger
Posted by Troy | Filed under Last Night's Dinner
When my wife is working I’m in charge of dinner.
I like to cook, but we usually end up eating mac & cheese or hot dogs.
Since she’s been a vegetarian ever since watching Food, Inc., we sometimes like to have burgers when she’s gone (so we don’t feel so guilty eating in front of her).
For whatever reason, I get adventurous when I’m cooking for myself.
Three-Bean Pasta Salad
Posted by Troy | Filed under Last Night's Dinner
Okay, so this three bean salad only has two beans. But it is really good and we’re eating it all the time this summer, so who really cares.
You can make this salad ahead of time and then toss with the dressing just before serving. Keep chilled until you’re ready to eat.
For a lower-calorie option, we cut out the salami.
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Tags: Food, original photo, salad
Grilled Pizza
Posted by Troy | Filed under Last Night's Dinner
These grilled pizzas are awesome. We had a couple of pepperoni and one Greek and it was so sad to see them disappear…
Since they are a little smaller, it’s fun to make two or three different pizzas too. I included a few of our favorites for inspiration, but the fun is to get creative, make it your own, be adventurous and try new things
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Tags: Food, original photo, pizza
