Category Archives: Food

Dining Out And What You Should Know When Doing So

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Dining out should be a pleasurable and safe experience. You pay premium prices for the luxury of being waited on and cooked for and the tab you pay at the end of the experience is by far much more expensive than … Continue reading

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Seafood Cocktail Sauce

Shrimp Cocktail Sauce

Seafood Cocktail Sauce is easy to make and there is no reason to purchase it as homemade is better and better suited to the taste of the user. Made with ingredients that can be found in everyone’s refrigerator and pantry, it … Continue reading

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Homemade Tartar Sauce

homemade tarter sauce

Homemade tartar sauce is easy to make and is much better tasting with just the right amount of texture at 1/3 the cost of store brought brands. It takes all of 5 minutes to make and will be welcomed with … Continue reading

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Mary’s Chicken Spinach Artichoke Pasta

Artichoke & Spinach Pasta

This may be my favorite pasta dish when I would like something a bit different from traditional red sauce pasta dishes. A good friend found the recipe on Pinterest and made it a bit better by adding her own additional … Continue reading

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What The Hell Is Comfort Food?

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Regardless of what food show you watch on television, common used phrases are often thrown around that make little sense to me in how there used and are in many cases used quite too often. The three phrases that bother … Continue reading

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Mom’s Spaghetti Fritters w/ a Twist

Spaghetti Fritters

As a kid growing up my mother would occasionally prepare spaghetti fritters by the dozen. Everyone that was anyone received a dozen or more in a zip lock bag to enjoy at their leisure. When I was in the Navy at … Continue reading

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A Funny Thing Happened At The Bagel Store

Bagels

I just needed to share a funny story with you that is absolutely true. The other day my roommate brought some bagels home from a local bagel store. He had stopped by there in the morning for a breakfast sandwich … Continue reading

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Culver’s Butterburgers & Frozen Custard, Great Fast Food

Culver's

This is a first for me. I do not review restaurants in the Valley of the Sun because enough people are already doing so. However I do appreciate good food and have a big problem with fast food chains as … Continue reading

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