Category Archives: Cooking
Summer Festivals
Spend your Summer Weekends celebrating in Northwest Indiana. We guarantee there’s a Festival EVERY WEEKEND WITH TONS OF FAMILY FUN! From Car Shows, beer gardens to live music, food trucks, carnival rides and parades, these events will have you enjoying your summer weekends!
Nativity Fest Portage Indiana –
Come out for four nights of homemade food, live music, carnival games, bingo, beer garden, and much more on is back in July 2026! Boasting live music every night and Carnival Rides 2026 dates are July 9th – 12th, 2026! 2026 MAIN STAGE LINE UP: THURSDAY: Hicks Duo – Echoes of Pompeii FRIDAY: Crawpuppies…
Seasons Restaurant Celebrates 7 Years!
Season’s Restaurant and Catering has been known for creating great meals and providing superior customer service for the past seven years. Patrons are guaranteed professional courteous service, high quality food, sanitary preparation, on time delivery (for catering services) and competitive prices, located at 7219 Taft St., Merrillville, Indiana. Their freshly cooked from scratch home-style cuisine…
Wine Pairing Basics
by Chris Mauch Spring is right around the corner and with it, the holiday dishes of Valentines, Easter, and Mother’s Day. Are you one of the millions of people who are serving ham? If so, then you may have some problems trying to figure out which wine to serve. Ham can be hard…
Food – Craft Series at Barker Mansion
New this winter, the public is invited to become a member of “Mrs. Barker’s Club” which pays tribute to Katherine Barker’s involvement in planning the mansion’s menus and parties. Katherine was the wife of freight car industrialist John H. Barker and lived at the mansion until her death in 1910. Mrs. Barker’s Club will…
Experience Steve’s Lounge in Hegewisch
Located in an almost forgotten corner of southeast Chicago, in the quaint and historic neighborhood of Hegewisch is an isolated blue collar community boarded by Lake Calumet, railroad tracks and the Ford assembly plant you’ll find Steve’s Lounge. It is in this almost ideal “classic tavern” environment that one can find. To experience a…
Yats Cajun Restaurant Opens In Valparaiso
Yats is a local Cajun Creole restaurant recently opened in Valparaiso, Indiana. Yats’ food is New Orleans inspired stews and sauces that are deeply satisfying and served over a bed of rice with Cajun buttered bread. Their food is New Orleans inspired sauces that are deeply satisfying with a touch of spice. …
Wildrose Brewing in Griffith
Four region dudes and a chick all started home brewing together on their block in Schererville, Indiana – Wildrose Lane. After winning several awards, and various comments from tasters, they realized that their home brewed Craft Beer was as good if not better than many crafter beers on the market. After much planning the five…
Healthy Holiday Treats
WHETHER LOW-FAT, LOW-CAL, OR LOW-CARB, HEALTHFUL WRAPS CAN BE FUN, FESTIVE AND EASY TREATS FOR HOLIDAY MEALS AND PARTIES To help ensure that holiday foods are healthful as well as festive, the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) has developed innovative recipes for wraps that can serve many purposes as appetizers,…




















