Posted in Copper Hills, Family on Sep 25th, 2023
This is the Recipe for Sweet Rolls from the Copper Hills. It was created and originated by Lorene Asanovich in the very early 1960s. When I was about as young as I could remember, I would go to work with my dad on some mornings at the Copper Hills and run back to the bakery where “Lori” would be making sweet rolls and pies.
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Posted in Copper Hills, Family on Jan 1st, 2012
Back in 1987, I gave my dad, Danko, a mini-cassette recorder and told him to just talk into it and tell some stories. After more than 15 years, 11 years after his death, I found them in a box when I was unpacking in Detroit. There are over 4 hours of stories that have been [...]
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Posted in Copper Hills, Family on Sep 8th, 2009
If you’re looking for Danko’s Salad Dressing, it’s here. When I was a young man, I worked at my Father’s Restaurant on the line at nights. One of the most often-ordered dishes on the menu was the “Danko Special”. It was a dish that my dad developed — we ate it out our house for [...]
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Posted in Copper Hills, Family, Italian Food on Feb 20th, 2009
My Mother and Father were intensely fond of this recipe. I was 6 years old, and we were going to Europe on the Cristoforo Colombo. Dad always wanted to do a “Grand Tour” of Europe, and in 1967 he was 56 and had multiple hotels in small towns in Arizona, was finally secure and wanted [...]
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