I’ve been cooking up a storm this weekend, so I’ll be back with food I actually made in my own kitchen shortly. First I wanted to share about one of the places we ate on our trip north. Usually J-Fur and I use the holidays as a chance to visit family (who always want to cook for us) and hit up some of the local [...]
Back in Medieval times it was common for Italian peasants to eat their meals on slices of bread rather than use ceramics (I heard, but can’t confirm with any reliable sources, that it was the guy’s turn to do the dishes and he became so incensed with the idea of having to work after eating that he decided the family should just skip the plates [...]
Flicks and Food Trucks is a monthly Tampa gathering that takes place every third Thursday from 6-10. Located at the Grand Central at Kennedy, the event features live music, microbrewed beers, independent short films done by local filmmakers and a variety of food trucks. This past Thursday I decided to go and check out the event. I planned on not eating anything. I’ve been there [...]
My first four months in Florida, which occurred back in 2004, were everything I dreamed they’d be. Those days were filled with girls in bikinis, beach trips, drinking margaritas by the pool and the best damn pizza I’ve ever tasted. Alright, I’m lying. Except for the pizza thing. In actuality my first four months consisted of overzealous campus police, stolen car stereos and hurricanes. Lots [...]
As the name implies, Ella’s Americana Folk Art Cafe, is more than just a restaurant. It is also an art gallery, concert venue, hipster hangout and drinker’s paradise. From the moment you squeeze into the way too tight parking spaces and see the metal horse lying upside down in the grass surrounded by half buried bowling balls acting as a black rubber road that ends [...]
Today’s lunch was the product of a number of unrelated occurrences that have taken place over the last several months. It all started when my friend Becca randomly posted on my (insert social media page here) that she had just enjoyed a vegan Cuban at a restaurant in Chicago. I want one, I thought. Skip ahead a month or two and there was an article [...]
When I was younger there were many Sunday afternoons that found me at Johnny’s Restaurant ordering a greasy hamburger and onion rings while in the company of my grandparents. Inevitably a group of Amish teens that were in the midst of rumspringa would come strolling in. These guys were usually “dressing English,” smoking cigarettes and chewing on some sort of stuffed pretzel. They’d head straight [...]
Back in 2005 there was this bad ass movie called Hustle and Flow (a pimp tries to become a rap star). One of the songs, “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp,” walked away with an Academy Award and a place forever in my vernacular. Since really getting into the food scene in Tampa the song has become “It’s Hard Out Here for a Vegan.” [...]
This is a shot of my birthday cupcake baked by J-Fur. It was Lavendar infused cake, filled with homemade lemon curd and iced with Citrus-Lavendar icing. As one of the kids in my class would say “I have just one word for you. It was Marvelous.” Hey, I didn’t teach those guys how to count, I just multiply and divide with them. We drizzled the [...]
