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On Your Drive to Kirkwood: Tasty Maid Bakery -Pioneer, CA

Sunday, March 21st, 2010

If you drive HWY 88 to get to Kirkwood in the winter for some skiing, stop by Tasty Maid Bakery in Pioneer, CA and pick up a warm homemade cinnamon roll for the road!   They don’t have the best coffee in the world, but their pastries are great and really old fashion, homemade style.

She also has: donuts, danish, muffins, pies, ham&cheese; Kolaches, and a famous Texas Rum Cake.  Their pies are beautiful and are about $8.

Open 7 days a week from 5am-12noon.

Tasty Maid Bakery

24140 State Highway 88
Pioneer, CA 95666

(209) 295-4100

Who Put Baby in the Oven? Sunset Magazine Dutch Baby Recipe

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Do you want a fast breakfast recipe?  This is a good one for when friends crash at your place and you don’t want to go to the store to buy ingredients.  A baked pancake recipe also known as a Dutch Baby.   It is similar to a pancake, but hybridized with french toast.

HOWEVER, you will need a cast iron skillet or other pan that can go into the oven.  If you don’t have a cast iron skillet, GO BUY ONE!

Sunset Magazine rocks it with some of the best recipes ever!  Do you find it hard to get rid of one Sunset Magazine or 100 Sunset Magazines?  Join the club!

Sunset Magazine Baked Sunday Pancake with Raspberry Sauce (topping optional)

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Los Gatos Cafe: Good Sandwich for Lunch!

Friday, February 12th, 2010

This is their special grilled cheese filled with avocado, sprouts and tomato.  They grill the sandwich with cheese and then add the other goodies.   The menu at Los Gatos Cafe is huge and it is pretty hard to choose what to order.  We liked this and it even came with a coconut chocolate chip cookie!

Burrito Factory in San Jose

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Long time San Joser’s told us to include Burrito Factory in the San Jose Burrito challenge. They instructed me to try the chicken burrito.  I have to say, I didn’t try this one yet.  By the time we got to Burrito Factory last October (open until 10pm), it was closed.  So this weekend we finally got the chance to try it.  Everyone was griping thinking for some reason it would be a chain like Chipotle.  It is not a Mexican chain like Chipotle, even though it is in a strip mall.  However, they do have four locations in the San Jose area.

The food was good and we liked their salsa which had some good heat (you purchase the chips and salsa).  I got the crispy tacos with steak and el pastor and they each got a Chorizo breakfast burrito.  John said it is now the second best breakfast burrito in San Jose.  His first favorite breakfast burrito in San Jose is from Henry’s Fresh Mexican Grill in Santa Clara because they put tater tots in their breaky burrito!   The staff was really nice at the B.F. we tried on Camden.

We know the food is made with vegetable oil because a friend with allergies called and talked to them about it.

Zach: Good. Good service. Salsa was good.

Lesley: It was pretty good.  We need to go back and try more things on the menu to really see what we love there. But my tacos were tasty, particularly the shell.  I like more stuff on my tacos so I would probably get a burrito next time, a super burrito!

A Family Recipe: Buttermilk Belgian Waffles w/ Texture, Texture, Texture

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

This is another family recipe and it wasn’t Sunday morning if our mom didn’t make these.

In my mind, there are two kinds of great waffles:

-Crispy, Golden Brown: Thinner Waffles, w/ a crunch & smaller grid

OR

-Bigger Belgian Waffles: Taste-Packed, more Cakey w/ bigger grid (This recipe!)

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A Family Recipe: Cheese & Sausage Grits

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Cheese & Sausage Grits w/ Green Chiles

This is a family recipe that we love. If you have had plain and bland grits this recipe will make you love grits. This is a rockin’ recipe folks and serve it with hot sauce on the side!

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Out of Town: Portland, Maine – Foodelicious Xmas

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

• Awesome Online Portland, ME Visual Food Map: http://www.portlandfoodmap.com/

Novare Res: Great Bier Café w/ Artisan Cheese Plates – We want this in our neighborhood!

• Breakfast: Hot Suppa! – Best Corned Beef Hash Ever!

• Cookbook Bookstore: Rabelais

Over the holidays we headed home to Maine. This gave us the chance to checkout Portland’s foodie claims that attracted our attention in this years Bon Appetit article “Portland, Maine–America’s Foodiest Small Town.” Portland has certainly changed since the last time we visited five years ago with much more than your traditional seafood spots and pubs. There are more local breweries and bakeries, quaint & kitschy cafes that highlight modern takes on comfort food, and creative fine-dining with daily designed menus offering creative interpretations of regional favorites. We also went to a wonderful bier café with a beer list of more than 200 beers along with Maine made Meed as well as featuring great mix and match artisan cheese plates.

The Portland Food Map: This is awesome. It is a visual guide to food and drink in Portland separated by category such as kind of food, bakery, and specialty food shops and so on. When you click on the restaurant name it shows you a rating number as well as a list of the reviews about the restaurant. We are looking forward to every town having one of these.

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More Than Just a Good Rolling Stones’ Song; Brown Sugar, Oakland & Day Trip

Friday, November 27th, 2009

Brown Sugar Oakland, CA & An Oakland Day-Trip Itinerary

• A Creative Soul Food breakfast joint so good that your old-school grandmother and your hipster cousin from LA can come together and love every minute of it.  A bonus is also the fact that you won’t feel greasy or smell like the fryer when you leave.  The décor is very modern and has an updated tasteful diner feeling with a brown sugar color palette all around you.

Brown Sugar offers such specialties as Cornmeal Waffles and Fried Chicken, Pulled Pork Sandwich with Lime Slaw, Black-Eyed Pea Salad, Roast Pork Hash, and the Mac & Cheese.  You WILL wait in line to get a table at Brown Sugar because it is that popular even though it sits nearly by itself (at this point … hint, hint) in West Oakland.  You can watch the chef, Tanya Holland, prepare your food with precision alongside her other cooks in the kitchen.  I look forward to seeing the cook/chef who sports a green mohawk rockin’ out on the cooking channel with his own punk-rock palate show.

An Oakland Day Trip Itinerary:

(Must go on a first Sunday of the month)

1st Stop Eat breakfast at Brown Sugar @ 8-10am

2nd Stop First Sunday of every month go to the Alameda Flea Market @ 10am-12pm

3rd Stop Go on a tour at Hangar One Distillery Tasting & Tour in Alameda @ 12noon – 6pm

  • Get Directions: http://www.hangarone.com/visit.html
  • Taste Creatively-Crafted Flavored Vodkas, Absinthe, & Whiskey
  • Take a tour with the Vodka Vixen
  • You can bring a picnic lunch or snacks to eat out front on the picnic table and admire the view of SF from across the bay