Mobile
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Food News Upcoming: Chef Francis Mallmann, Almost-Summer Extravaganza
Posted By Tricia Childress on Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:00 AM
• On Saturday, June 6 at 3 p.m. Carpe Diem Restaurant will host Chef Francis Mallmann, who will demonstrate some of the techniques used in his new cookbook Seven Fires: Grilling the Argentine Way in their parking lot. Grateful Growers Farms will sell their local grown organic pork products at the event. A book signing will follow. 1535 Elizabeth Ave.
• The Charlotte Tailgate Farmers Market, 100 West Park Ave., is hosting “Almost-Summer Extravaganza” on Saturday, June 6 from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. Music is by Mark Herbert, a Charlotte native based in Wilmington, N.C., who will perform at 10 a.m. Chef Mark Hibbs of the Ratcliffe on the Green will give a cooking demonstration at 11 a.m.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Food News Now open: Granny Lucy's To Go Restaurant
Posted By Tricia Childress on Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 2:08 PM
Owner Andrew King has opened Granny Lucy’s To Go Restaurant, 5247 Central Ave. (an out parcel at Eastland Mall, near Surplus Warehouse), 704-531-9440. Hours are Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. and Saturday from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. Daily specials include meatloaf, garlic baked chicken with dressing and gravy, and chicken pot pie ($6.25 - $6.95); burgers; grilled pimiento cheese; and fried chicken. Desserts vary daily: coconut cake with seven minute frosting, peach cobbler, vanilla pound-cake with lemon icing, and fig cake with buttermilk glaze. Granny Lucy’s is part of High Cotton catering which originally opened in Dilworth, but moved to Eastland Mall in 2008.
Three-Course Spiel An interview with pastry chef Kelly Stegenga
Posted By Christian Yoder on Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:47 AM
For the past eight years Kelly Stegenga has been perfecting the art of baking and pastry-making. The Ohio native moved to North Carolina after completing her externship with Pinehurst Resort and has since fallen in love with the state. She chose baking and pastry-making as a profession from her love for sweets and has been the head chef at Amélie’s... a French Bakery since last May. Stegenga takes her work seriously and spins her own artistic touch on the torts, tarts and petit fours that the French bakery has become known for.
Creative Loafing: Has baking always been an interest? Or was it something that you got into after you started as a chef?
Kelly Stegenga: Well, I always enjoyed cooking and being in the kitchen, including baking. I would always help out my mom when I was younger, and I would make dinners when I got older. Then when I was in high school I decided that I wanted to go to culinary school. I wasn’t sure if it was going to be baking and pastries or the regular culinary program. But I decided on baking and pastries because I love sweets.
What makes your pastries “French”? How are they different?
They don’t have a lot of food coloring, and they are far more traditional in style. No bright-colored roses on them, they’re not like Harris Teeter or Food Lion cakes. No Disney characters or sports teams on top. And we use a lot more eggs, cream and butter. French baking is actually pretty fattening.
So you work at a French bakery; you ever been to France?
I haven’t. I’m kind of scared of flying. They’re trying to get me to go sometime, and I would love to go. I would just have to get over flying.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Smorgasbord Trade in your children for donuts
Posted By Priscilla Tsai on Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 3:18 PM
(Photo from gordmckenna)
And this is supposed to be a bad thing?? jk jk.
* CL does not condone trading your children for donuts.
Liquid Diet / Events Upcoming: Girls Night Out at Amber Crest Winery
Posted By Kimberly Lawson on Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 11:11 AM
If you're looking for an alternative to the clubbing scene for your next girls night out, you might want to check out Amber Crest Winery this weekend. On June 5, they host their next Girls Night Out event, the summer version, with wine, chocolate and fun games. At this event, you will be treated to a glass of wine and wine truffles upon arrival. There will also be a blind taste tasting and then you will hand bottle your own custom bottle of wine with a commemorative Girls Night Out label to take home with you as a souvenir.
June 5, 7 p.m.- 8:30 p.m. The cost is only $29 including your custom-labeled bottle of wine. RSVP and prepayment are required. Call to register 704-708-9463. 9623-L E Independence Blvd, Matthews.
Here's a video of what to expect at Amber Crest Winery.
Monday, June 1, 2009
Smorgasbord A dream come true: Daniel Craig on a stick
Posted By Priscilla Tsai on Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 1:51 PM
From the Telegraph: An ice cream company created the purple "licence to chill" lolly after asking more than 1,000 women which male celebrity like to see on the end of a stick.
Read more about the mouth-watering popsicles here.
free food Free Root Beer Floats at Sonic
Posted By Priscilla Tsai on Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:09 AM
Seems like at least one new free food offer from a national chain pops up each week. The newest free food comes from Sonic.
Sonic is giving away free 10 oz. Root Beer Floats on Wednesday, June 3! Just stop by between 8pm and midnight to get your free (root)beer.
Click here to find a Sonic near you.
-
Dish on this: Charlotte-based chefs join ACF Culinary Team USA 2016
As fall approaches, local chefs prepare for a culinary battle in Germany.
-
Recipe: Roasted Vegetables with Dijon Béarnaise Sauce
Vegetables. Cheese. Béarnaise. These are things you're going to put in your mouth shortly after reading this.
-
What's hoppening at Unknown?
I had to check out the brewery's inaugural Improper Glassware Night.
