Food & Drink
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Cupcakes Are A Smashing Success!
With Cupcake Camp Dallas less than a week away, I think it’s fitting for me to share my top 5 cupcake bakeries found courtesy of Bizzy, a local business recommendation website & mobile app based on the favorite places of people like you. To test the strength, accuracy and reliability of Bizzy recommendations, they created “Top Secret Mission #1: Cupcakes.”Mission: Use Bizzy to identify your Top 5 recommendations for cupcakes. Further identify the best recommendation based on the quality of the cupcakes available at those five venues. Details: Cupcake quality is to be determined by this specific methodology. Obtain one “specialty of the house” cupcake from each bakery. Observe and document the aesthetic beauty of each cupcake.…
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Whiskey Cake Impresses!
I was pleasantly surprised by the new addition to Plano called Whiskey Cake. Since I’m known amongst my friends as a locavore (a person who are interested in eating food that is locally produced), I was recommended this place because it is known for its farm-to-kitchen cooking and boosts local grass & grain fed cattle. From the folks behind Bolsa comes comfort food with rustic touches like stacked firewood and dangling bulbs. We started off with fried green tomatoes, which were crispy, well-seasoned and not too thick to overwhelm the tomato. To read more on this appetizer, click here. We ordered grass-n-grain-fed beef OMG Burger (topped with an onion ring & roasted crimini…
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FREE FryDay & Other Hot News
As a mom who frequents Chick-fil-A, I’m excited to see them expand their breakfast menu to offer the Spicy Chicken Biscuit. The Spicy Chicken Biscuit revealed itself to be the same spicy chicken patty Chick-fil-A uses for lunch, minus the bun and pickles. Did you know that they prepare their biscuits in house? The Feast shows you how they make the Spicy Chicken Biscuit. The flavor of Chick-fil-A’s biscuit gets masked by the chicken patty’s spiciness, as well as the crispiness of the breading. Today only before 10:30 a.m., all 70+ Dallas/Ft. Worth-area Chick-fil-A locations are giving away FREE Spicy Chicken Biscuits, but you must say “Eat Mor Spicy!” Want…
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How Big is Starbucks Trenta?
“Trenta” means thirty in Italian. Starbucks announced earlier this year their largest-ever drink size: the TRENTA. Right now, it is only offered for iced coffees, iced teas and iced lemonades. But how big is it? Have any of you tried a Starbucks Trenta and lived to tell the tale?
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Bravo’s Top Chefs Must-Have Ingredients
Last night, I was the host and provided commentary on a “Quickfire Challenge” between Top Chef Season 7 contestants Tiffany Derry & Ed Cotton to benefit Dallas Furniture Bank. If you are not familiar with Bravo’s Top Chef, a Quickfire Challenge is where the chefs must create a seafood dish in 20-minutes. They are able to request items that they’d like in their “pantry” to make their dish. This lead me to wonder what are the must-have items that chefs always have at home. Chef Tiffany Derry always has on hand dijon, creole mustard, champagne vinegar, kosher salt and Creole seasoning. Chef Ed Cotton focuses more on the big picture…
