Category Archives: Great Lakes

Buffalo Wing Hummus

Yes, a fairly decent hummus that tastes vaguely like wings. Is it healthy? no. Is it healthier than wings? Hell yes. 🙂 Is it perfect for the upcoming 716 Day? Yes!

(In case you didn’t know, 716 Day is a holiday brought to you from the City That Loves to Party to celebrate a date that matches our area code.
I love this town.)
I made this over the weekend and it was gone really quickly. So instead of giving the promised recipe, I am posting it here for everyone. So during this time of Wings being a highly sought for commodity, you can maybe ease your craving a tad.

ingredients!

So, you will need
~ 2-2.5 cups of chickpeas/ garbanzo beans/ ceci
3 T olive oil (add more if you need it for creamy hummus!)
2 T mayo
2 T Franks hot sauce (or hot sauce of your choice- change amount to fit your heat level)
2 tsp white vinegar
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/4 tsp pepper

In food processor

Blend if in your food processor for about 60 seconds.

Serve with chips, crackers, bread, carrots & celery.

Feel free to top it with blue cheese crumbles if you want.


Happy 716!

The Antelope Found!

When you live on the Great Lakes in North America, it’s easy to forget how amazing the area is. They are ‘lakes’ so we forget that they are huge and dangerous inland seas that happen to be 20 % of the entire world’s surface fresh water. And it’s easy when dealing with the wind and the snow and the rain whipping off of it to forget that these connected bodies of water were once major travel and transportation routes.

And it’s easy to forget as well that they are huge graveyards for both humans and ships.

 

The Antelope floating ...
The Antelope floating …

Like the Antelope, a 187 foot coal-hauling freighter which sank in rough waters in 1897 in Superior. Ken Merryman, Jerry Eliason and Kraig Smith have used a remote camera to film the nearly intact wreck, and have posted this for all interested to see.

It’s nice to know that this ship sank with so much warning that no lives were lost, unlike many other shipwrecks on the Lakes. It makes it a little less ghastly when you are enthralled watching the video exploring the hulk at the bottom of the lake.

It’s intact because it sank slowly and was carrying lighter cargo- ships carrying iron and steel would shatter when hitting bottom, but the coal and slower sinking let the explorers believe that they could find this wreck intact.

So, watch the first four-minute video they offer. And lets hope they can go back and film us more.

For more information:
http://www.twincities.com/2016/09/14/remarkably-intact-1897-shipwreck-discovered-in-lake-superior/