About a year ago Saqib was looking online for good ice cream shops and he stumbled upon a company named Graeter’s.  He was so excited to read about this company because the site kept praising it as one of the best ice creams in America.  The company sets itself apart from the rest because they use a unique method to make their ice cream– the French Pot method.

After reading up on the store, he shortly thereafter became bummed out.  Why?  Because the store is only open in IN, OH and KY.  The closest one to him, in Illinois, was more than four hours away!  How would he ever get to eat the yummy ice cream he’d read so much about?

Enter our plans for our honeymoon.  We decided a while ago to drive to Tennessee.  We wanted to drive because we wanted the chance to stop at different places on our way down.  We were discussing different places we could stop and eat at on our drive down when we realized we would cross the path of… Graeter’s!

So on Friday when we left, after about 5 hours of driving, we took a detour in Louisville KY and pulled into this place.

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It sure feels like it.  Today it was a 81 degrees and uncomfortably humid.  Bees and wasps alike were buzzing outside and around our deck.  And of course, abbu had fired up the grill for a family BBQ.

A puhpo of mine came into town this weekend from Jersey and she requested that abbu barbeque.  So he planned a menu filled with tikkah and kabobs.  But I was uninterested from the sound of all that.  I interjected yesterday and demanded there be hotdogs and hamburgers!  As much as we barbeque throughout the summer, burgers and hotdogs, in my opinion, don’t get enough grill time.  We usually have steak, chicken tikkah and kabobs on heavy rotation.

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I’m not one to post an article or forward that I’ve read recently, but for some reason I thought this one was just interesting enough to share.  Enjoy

You are what you eat, so eat well. A stupendous insight of civilizations past has now been confirmed by today’s investigative, nutritional sciences. They have shown that what was once called ‘The Doctrine of Signatures’ was astoundingly correct. It now contends that every whole food has a pattern that resembles a body organ or physiological function and that this pattern acts as a signal or sign as to the benefit the food provides the eater. Here is just a short list of examples of Whole Food Signatures.

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My family is known for making an event special by the food we eat.  Whenever anything special is on the horizon, we immediately ask ourselves, “What’s for food?”  Meaning, what will we eat to commemorate this moment in time.   For example, my sister’s birthday was only a few weeks ago.  The weekend before it came we asked her, “What do you want to do for you birthday?”  Our conversation afterward was a little slow, so I cut to the chase, “Look, what are we going to eat?”

Birthdays are one thing, and Super Bowl Sunday is another.  The Super Bowl is like our Eid for food.  Every year we try to come up with something to eat that is more spectacular and disgusting than the year before.  We’ve had home made chicken wings, twice baked potatoes, chilli, fajitas, tacos, you name it.

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