Ashli Michelle

Lakewood Smokehouse

Ashli Michelle March 4, 2016 0 Comments

Lakewood Smokehouse's recently opened restaurant on Abrams Road seems to make tons of people happy or else it wouldn't have been so busy on a Wednesday. We were invited to check out the menu this past week, which meant conquering the quest to find food for Almost Veggie people at none other than a BBQ place. The first area of a menu that almost always wins has a list of sides. This section is...

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up Book Will Control Your Life

Ashli Michelle March 1, 2016 0 Comments

After buying The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo, I've been locked in a slow motion tidying trance since January 2nd, 2016. This book is the bomb of all books. Lazy readers can listen to this book of Guinness Book worthiness if actual reading hurts their feelings. Writing about food has been on hold because tidying is controlling my life morning, noon, and night. In the nicest...

The Skellig is a Pub

Ashli Michelle January 23, 2016 0 Comments

After being told we were meeting loads of people at The Skellig for brunch, I quickly asked Google what to expect. Google promised skellig is some kind of rock from the sea. Three extra minutes of deeper detective work uncovered that skelligs are actually a group of rocks near Ireland. Pubs and Ireland go together, so The Skellig is a sensible pub name. This is how I feel, so it must be true....

Raise the Roof: Finally Graduating From Le Cordon Bleu

Ashli Michelle January 22, 2016 0 Comments

Le Cordon Bleu graduation was January 9th. The entire internet was invited, even though rules specifically stated no more than ten people per graduate. Most of the time it is best to be a rule-follower. Sometimes the best rule-follower in the history of following rules can't do it. Graduates had to arrive earlier than the entire invited internet, as well as each person's family. All parts of my...

Sundown at Granada Media Tasting

Ashli Michelle January 22, 2016 0 Comments

Sundown at Granada introduced their new winter menu to writers this past week. Sitting across the street at Wayward Sons an hour before the tasting began seemed like a great idea. I quickly violated executive chef Graham Dodds' privacy by taking a super secret chef picture while he was concentrating on paperwork at the bar. The time to head over to Sundown at Granada meant being greeted by a...