All Blog Posts Tagged 'peninsula' (3)

Living now in Traverse City, a place I consider a food lover’s paradise, it sometimes shames me that my three favorite foods haven’t changed as I’ve become an adult. They are, exactly as they were at age six: pizza, ice cream, and cheese. These are my deserted-island three. My last-meal trifecta. My go-to, triple-time-healer of a broken heart, bad hangover or even slightly irritable episode of P.M.S. I eat the big three, I feel joy. It’s very simple. They don’t have to be high-end either. In… Continue

My daughter and I snowshoed with friends this week. The temperature’s been hovering just above zero in the eastern Upper Peninsula so we bundled up to head out across 110 acres of open field and woods behind their house in Dafter. The snow was perfect for big-footed creatures. Tracks remained where showshoe hares bounded across the snow, kept from sinking by their wide feet and the hard frozen layer created by a recent thaw. We shuffled through the same top fluffy layer, only slightly breaking… Continue

The Kronbergs' kitchen wasn't finished yet when I scouted it for the Ultimate Up North Kitchen Tour last summer. Even so, I knew I would love it. The small but light-filled space looks out on a vineyard at the end of Old Mission Peninsula. The Kronbergs were working with the designers at the Wooden Hammer Annex in Traverse City to remodel a dark oak-filled 1980's kitchen into a style I call Vineyard Cottage: white cabinetry, sophisticated granite, stainless steel appliances. Yum!!! I get to see… Continue