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Wednesday Night Round-up
Written by dave in Wednesday, January 21st 2009
BR @ CL notes 3 new restaurant openings around Tampa.
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Three Shells restaurants are now Stingray's, including the Shells/Stingrays on 30th.
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gnatv can now also been seen at Creative Loafing's new food page. (scroll down)
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Here's ABC Action News' Dirty Dining. Now with embeddable video.
(Which I just removed because it begins automagically).
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Inkwatu reviews Spinners Rooftop Revolving Restaurant in St. Pete. Here is Inkwatu's new restaurant page where you can find all of his reviews and lists of his [+]
Creative Loafing’s New Food Section
Written by dave in Tuesday, January 13th 2009
Creative Loafing launched their new food section yesterday. Check it out!
Here is the introductory post from Brian Ries.
"...[W]e assembled a crack group of local food and drink bloggers to cover the Bay area’s vibrant eating and drinking culture, from tours of local ethnic markets to a behind-the-scenes look at the people who bring you food. We’ll also feature more coverage of restaurant openings and closings, local events, and foodie news from around the country."
(full disclosure: [+]
Florida Agriculture
Written by dave in Wednesday, January 7th 2009
The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services keeps a page called Marketing Florida Agriculture that's full of useful information.
Here's a list of farmer's markets from across the state. They list five in Hillsborough County, Brandon Fresh Market (which no longer has a location and so seems to be closed for good), Plant City Sunday market (but the URL they give goes to the Keel and Curley Winery, perhaps they're related?), Sweetwater Organic Community Farm, [+]
The Florida Chef
Written by dave in Wednesday, January 7th 2009
It turns out that the Department of Agriculture has its own chef.
Justin Timineri is the executive chef for the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
His webpage includes a long list of recipes, including the Orzo With Feta, Green Beans and Tomatoes seen here.
It looks like the recipes attempt to stick with native flora. The last few years have also offered dishes for seasonal vegetables.
Here the Florida chef explains the virtues of eating food [+]
Blogging at Creative Loafing
Written by dave in Thursday, December 11th 2008
I am now an occasional blogger at Creative Loafing.
CL is expanding their food coverage and recruited some local folks to write about food for their Daily Loaf blog. Here's a nice link list of the new food bloggy goodness.
As some of you know the company that owns Creative Loafing filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in September. Like every newspaper in the United States they're trying to figure out how to make it in [+]
Intensity Academy Update
Written by dave in Friday, November 7th 2008
Intensity Academy, creators of all-natural gourmet hot sauces, and based out of Tampa, sends along this update -
UPCOMING SHOWS
Join Intensity Academy along with Paula Deen, Giada and Bobby Flay at the Metropolitan Cooking Show! Nov 8-9, 2008 We are attending a show next weekend with Paula Deen, Bobby Flay & Giada from the Food Network! Giada will be walking the floor w/ the Today's Show & will choose 5 products to feature the following Tuesday.
Cross [+]
Enchilada Sauce
Written by The Divine Miss N in Saturday, October 18th 2008
As I started making my enchilada sauce, I decided that this is a good recipe to share. It is probably the most basic Mexican sauce. It's also inexpensive, and is great with lots of Mexican dishes, canned sauce doesn't compare.
You can double this recipe. Leftover sauce freezes well.
6 large dried red chilies
1 quart boiling water
7-10 peeled garlic cloves ( about 1/4 cup)
salt to taste
3 Tablespoons flour
Rinse the chilies in cold water and remove the stems. [+]
Halloween
Written by The Divine Miss N in Thursday, October 16th 2008
I love Dave's spidercakes site. It got me thinking about some things that I've done with food for Halloween. One of my personal favorites was making a punch with floating hands, and dry ice as a fog effect.
I made the hands by filling latex gloves with water, adding a little food color and freezing them. After they freeze, cut the glove away, quickly rinse with a little H2O (in case of a latex allergy), and [+]More From Restaurant Reviews
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