My favorite place to eat in all of New Hampshire is LA Burdick’s in Walpole. It’s a chocolate shop and cafe and I’ve never had anything there that isn’t sinfully delicious. We took my mother-in-law there for Mother’s Day this year. We started the meal with their delightful cheese plate. This featured four cheeses in [...]

Posted May 13, 2007 by TowerGirl
Categories: Kitchen. Tags: burdick, burdick's, burdicks chocolate, cafe, cake, chocolate, chocolate frappe, cooked rare, desert, Dining Out, frappe, hazelnut-orange cake, lunch, main street, Meals, new hampshire, salad nicoise, steak frites, Sweets, walpole, walpole nh. 2 Comments.

We didn’t get to go to Barstow as planned, but I couldn’t leave Las Vegas without a peak at the desert. Fortunately, Red Rock Canyon isn’t far from town, and the Blue Diamond Highway does a nice loop there and back.
Along the way I found that the town of Blue Diamond has a new welcome [...]

Posted December 29, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Photoblog, Travel. Tags: blue diamond, blue diamond highway, desert, las vegas, las vegas nv, nevada, photos, red rock canyon, red rocks, road trip, vegas. Be the first one.

What didn’t work out because of our problems with the hotel was our drive to Barstow to see Sandee’s friend Joanne.
I don’t know much about the town, but Wikipedia told me to look out for the original Del Taco, Rainbow Basin Natural Area (site not loading now, try this instead), Calico Ghost Town, and the [...]

Posted December 28, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Travel. Tags: baker ca, barstow, barstow ca, california, desert, drive, i15, road trip, sight seeing, sightseeing, Travel. 2 Comments.

There is, supposedly, some historical meaning to our Thanksgiving holiday, but all I can figure out is that I wasn’t there and it probably didn’t go as I’ve been told. Thing is, Thanksgiving isn’t so much about what we were, but who we are. Thanksgiving celebrates the two most important things in life: food and [...]

Posted November 24, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Kitchen. Tags: apple, desert, eat, family, food, holiday, holidays, meal, pumpkin pies, stuffing, thanksgiving, thanksgiving holiday, turkey. 2 Comments.