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Monday, June 20, 2011
Food News / Charlotte Restaurant Week Queen's Feast hits town July 15 - 24
Posted By Priscilla Tsai on Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 11:54 AM
Get ready – the summer edition of Queen's Feast Charlotte Restaurant Week is coming July 15 - 24.
This time around, there are 92 restaurants participating in this week of prix fixe, 3-courses or more, $30 meals. The website (www.CharlotteRestaurantWeek.com) with all the menus will go live this Friday, June 24.
Think you've tried them all? A few new restaurants participating this summer: Table 274 in Cotswold; Epic Chophouse in Mooresville; Room 112 Modern Asian Cuisine & Sushi Lounge in downtown Charlotte; FireWater in the University area; 15 North Roadside Kitchen on Montford Drive; Savannah Red in the Charlotte Marriott City Center; Pisces Sushi Bar & Lounge in the Metropolitan; and Fran’s Filling Station in Dilworth; and more...
It's time to start plotting how you'll tackle all the restaurants you want to try out!
Participating restaurants in the Summer 2011 Charlotte Restaurant Week:
Recipe / Priscilla Tsai / Dinner Spicy Peanut Noodles
Posted By Priscilla Tsai on Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 8:00 AM
These Spicy Peanut Noodles from the Amateur Gourmet make the perfect summer dish. Though nice and cool, it still packs some heat with spicy ginger, garlic, red pepper flakes, and Sriracha sauce.
Mmm. I love this spicy peanut sauce on everything. If you have any left over, try dipping cucumber slices into it.
I tinkered with the recipe a bit and I posted my edited version below.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Events Mac and Cheese Eating Contest
Posted By Priscilla Tsai on Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 4:39 PM
Dry heave!
Ugh. This is so gross, yet seems like it might be very entertaining at the same time...
If the idea of eating as much macaroni and cheese as possible in 12 minutes sounds like a terrific idea to you and doesn't make you feel sick, then perhaps you are the perfect contestant for Whiskey Warehouse's Mac & Cheese Eating Contest on Monday, July 11 at 8 pm.
To compete, contestants have to pay $20. (Limited spots available.) The winner takes home two tickets to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Brewer’s Ball charity event in September and the good feeling of helping out a charity.
The event will benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. For more details, email Al@WhiskeyCharlotte.com or to register as a contestant or sponsor, visit www.Bandtastic.com/MacNCheese.
Food News Yoforia coming to EpiCentre
Posted By Priscilla Tsai on Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:52 PM
I was running around the EpiCentre last night and guess what I saw:
Yoforia is opening a store across from CVS and Enso.
Hallelujah!
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Recipe / Priscilla Tsai / cake Baked's Sweet and Salty Cake
Posted By Priscilla Tsai on Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 3:03 PM
I hate this cake with a passion.
After turning my kitchen upside down, dirtying a bazillion bowls and utensils, and spending 4 hours to create this monster, this Sweet and Salty cake (a salted caramel chocolate cake) turned out to be one extremely fussy and topsy turvy ugly-ass cake.
The recipe comes from the cookbook Baked: New Frontiers in Baking. The photo of the cake in the book looked gorgeous (of course), with layers of rich dark chocolate cake and neat layers of frosting in between. Mine ... not so much. Check out how hideous it turned out:
Though the cake tasted pretty good, it really wasn't worth the effort. I'm not even going to post the recipe for it. I'm so mad at it.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Father's Day Food for Father's Day
Posted By Priscilla Tsai on Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:24 AM
This Sunday, treat dad to a homemade breakfast and perhaps a nice dinner, too.
If you need some Father's Day breakfast inspiration, check out a few of my favorite recipes on Eat My Charlotte:
Cheddar-Dill Scones
Praline Baked French Toast
Banana pancakes with macadamia nut sauce
Cinnamon sugar donut muffins
Easy homemade granola
Smoked salmon deviled eggs
If you are looking to take dad out, here are a few restaurants offering specials this Sunday, June 19:
Blu Basil Cafe: 3-Course meal, including adult beverage, for $30.
306 S Sharon Amity Road
Charlotte, NC 28211
(704) 362-3731
Bluprint: The restaurant will be opening at 10:30 am for a Father's day Jazz Brunch featuring a special Father's Day menu.
http://www.Bluprintrestaurant.com
227 W. Trade St. Suite 100
Charlotte, NC 28205
(704) 910-4301
Chima Brazilian Steakhouse: The restaurant will be open for lunch this Sunday and will offer a special lunch price. Reservations recommended.
http://www.chimasteakhouse.com/index.cfm
139 South Tryon Street
Charlotte, NC 28202
(980) 225-5000
Malaya Kitchen: 3-Course Dinner with complimentary bottle of domestic beer for $13.95.
Arboretum Shopping Center
8200 Providence Road
(704) 541-6668
Morton's The Steakhouse: Special 3-course menu for $69 per person.
227 W. Trade Street
Charlotte, NC 28202
(704) 333-2602
Food News / Mouthful PHOTOS: Reid's Fine Foods
Posted By Priscilla Tsai on Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 8:00 AM
Reid's Fine Foods is now completely open in their new location on Selwyn Ave.
I stopped in for a quick bite this past weekend and took a look around.
The "hand-built" Rotisserie Turkey Breast sandwich ($7.99) was decent, though the meat was a bit dry. Don't skip the tarragon mayo – it's key to the sandwich's flavor. For a side, I tried the pre-packaged Black Bean Salad made by Beverly's Gourmet Foods. It fresh and simple. The highlight though was the chips. The Tyrrell's brand chips in the Mature Cheddar and Chives flavor was awesome. Apparently they are from the UK somewhere. Good thing they were tasty because I had to pay a pretty penny for those babies. It was $5.69 for the smallish bag of chips (!).
Though the sandwich was just OK, I'll definitely give the food another shot. Look how cute the store is:
Reid's Fine Foods
2823 Selwyn Avenue
704-377-1312
Monday - Thursday: 8 am - 8 pm
Friday - Saturday: 8 am - 10 pm
Sunday: 11 am - 7 pm
Monday, June 13, 2011
Recipe / Priscilla Tsai / Dessert / cupcake Psychedelic Cupcakes
Posted By Priscilla Tsai on Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:17 AM
I recently got a new pack of super sweet McCormick NEON food colors. Going beyond the standard primary green, blue, red, and yellow colors, this pack contains neon pink, electric blue, Shrek green, and bright purple. Eager to try them out, I came up with my own project.
Check it out:
Psychedelic radical rainbow tie-dyed cupcakes!
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Mouthful PHOTOS: Summer Plates menu at The Capital Grille
Posted By Priscilla Tsai on Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:10 AM
The Capital Grille keeps things fresh by introducing new events and menus frequently. It seems they always have a special wine flight dinner, featured wine promotion, or special seasonal menu going on at all times.
Currently they are featuring a Summer Plates lunch menu, which will run until the end of the summer. Diners are able to create their own combo meal by picking one item from three categories (soup or salad, sandwich, and side), all for $18.
Capital Grille invited me to lunch to sample a few things from the Summer Plates menu and a few other new menu items. Check out my photos and notes:
Friday, June 3, 2011
Recipe / Priscilla Tsai / Dinner Vegan enchiladas with avocado cream
Posted By Priscilla Tsai on Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:31 PM
I've just completed my first attempt at vegan cooking ... and it wasn't so bad. I found it's like cooking vegetarian, but also forgoing cheese and butter along with the meat.
The recipe for these vegan enchiladas with avocado cream comes from the blog Oh She Glows. Stuffed with a filling of cooked sweet potatoes, spinach, black beans, onions, and bell peppers, these were sort of like baked burritos.
They are healthy, they taste that way. They're not something you gush about how spectacular they taste. They're simple ... and that's OK because sometimes you just want it that way.
I'm not sure if I'd make the enchiladas again, but the avocado cream served on the side is a keeper. Who needs sour cream when this avocado stuff is just as creamy and is so much more flavorful?
Get the enchilada and avocado cream recipes here on Oh She Glows.
(Note: Though the recipe says it makes 4 enchiladas, I found I had enough filling to make 6.)
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Braised Chicken with Shallots 2
I don't think I'll be making this again, but hey, if you like shallots more than a fat kid likes cake, then go for it.
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Leroy Fox now open in Hotel Charlotte's former digs 1
New Southern-inspired restaurant open in Cotswold neighborhood.
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#hashtaghungry: Battle of the Sexes Cook Off, #BeautifulPplQC Brunch, more
The Social Eater picks a handful of filter-friendly, tweetable, social media-shareable foodie events in and around the city
