Along with tuna rolls, this year’s spring-training menu offers a selection of small-plate meals that reflects the international popularity of America’s pastime, such as Caribbean fish tacos, Kobe beef sliders with wasabi aioli, barbecue pappas rellenas and Cuban spiced chicken quesadilla.
“I decided it was time to get creative, because people are tired of the typical [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Real curry comes from scratch not a bottle
If they did, all Indian food would taste the same, which as the title of Iyer’s book indicates, it doesn’t.
To Indian chefs, curry simply means “sauce,” typically one with spices - sometimes many of them - liquid ingredients, thickeners such as nut pastes, and souring agents, such as tomatoes or tamarind.
These sauces [...]
Bites from chef Mays blog answers
Where to buy fresh seafood in the desert: For fresh seafood here in Phoenix, I like to shop the ethnic markets. Ranch Market at 16th and Roosevelt streets is a great Mexican market with a wide selection of super-fresh fish. Ranch 99 at the Chinese Cultural Center on 44th Street (no relation to the [...]
La Bocca Not just a pie joint a slice of style
Food is also part of the attraction. Look for salads like the antipasto with prosciutto, salami, cheese, figs and dates ($13); toasted ciabatta sandwiches like the one put together with turkey, Brie and caramelized apples ($9); and personal-size pizzas fired up in a stone-deck gas oven. Among the varieties you’ll find the basic Margherita ($9), [...]
Farmhouse fare to crow about
The inside feels the same way, like you’re in a small town. Like you’re at a grandma’s house in a small town.
There can’t be more than two dozen tables in the quaint restaurant, which opened in 1989 at another location a few hundred yards away and is owned by a mother-and-daughter team.
The Farmhouse [...]
Mission giving out food aid Thursday
Epic Food Mission distributes food boxes the first and third Thursday of the month. It requires clients to have a photo I.D. and proof of residence to receive the food.
Distribution of the emergency boxes, which began last April, has supplied 880 food boxes to families and helped 4,300 people in the past year, Rooney said. [...]
Raw food fresh but also risky
In other words, foods that would likely have turned the stomachs of their pot-roast-and-mashed-potatoes-loving grandparents.
Where did Gen Y pick up the craving for foods so fresh they are almost moving?
The association doesn’t say. But it does urge improved education about food handling, bacteria and food poisoning.
Tags: food, food poisoning, raw food, risk, stomach
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Shoppers face rising food prices
“We do more selecting, looking around, seeing which prices are cheaper,” said David Valdez. “We are being more selective. We have got to find the cheapest price.”
Record-high energy, corn and wheat prices in the past year have led to sticker shock in the grocery aisles. At $1.32, the average price of a loaf [...]
Shoppers face rising food prices
“We do more selecting, looking around, seeing which prices are cheaper,” said David Valdez. “We are being more selective. We have got to find the cheapest price.”
Record-high energy, corn and wheat prices in the past year have led to sticker shock in the grocery aisles. At $1.32, the average price of a loaf [...]
Lakewood healthy-eating class gives parents food for thought
As a kindergartner, Marlon Douglas has learned at school that he’s supposed to eat fruits, vegetables and not a lot of that oh-so-tempting five-letter word - sugar.
Lakewood Elementary schoolmate Diego Cardenas, a second grader, has heard that if you eat vegetables - particularly the green ones - “You’ll have big muscles and you’ll be healthy.”
But [...]