cabbageking

Real Name:

Robert Stempkowski

Location:

Scottsdale, AZ

Blog:

http://cabbageking

Best meal I ever ate:

My daughter's first Easy-Bake Oven masterpiece

My current drink of choice:

Genesee Cream Ale

I really wish I could:

finish writing "Rearview Miracles," something I've nibbled at for some time now

My "Go-to" dinner party dish:

smoked pork and black bean-stuffed Anaheim chiles

My favorite comfort food:

Fried Chicken

My top 5 favorite restaurants:

1. The Salt Cellar. 2. Richardson's. 3. Sweet Tomatoes. And, if I had a time machine: Flaming Embers Steakhouse, Dearborn Michigan (circa 1970). Best restaurant in worst imaginable neighborhood: Xochimilco, Detroit, MI (Bagley Ave.)

My most tattered cookbooks:

the hand-written recipes of my Aunt Helen and my Aunt Mary's signature dishes: Stuffed cabbages, pierogi, shortbread cookies, dill-sour cream cucumbers, haystack cookies, duck blood soup, borscht, etc....