Writing a food blog I get a lot of companies who want to send me their products to review. The thing is, those products are always edible. Recently though I received an email from a website where you can turn your photos into canvas prints offering me a free print of any photo I wanted. I was originally going to pass on the offer since I wasn’t sure how a canvas print would really relate … CONTINUE READING »
Fleming’s Steakhouse & Wine Bar
Earlier this year I was invited to a “media dinner” at Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar. The way these types of dinners work is that they invite a bunch of people who write about food, feed them tons of different menu items, give them a bunch of drinks and then in the end it’s sort of implied that you’ll write something about the restaurant. In other words, media dinners rule!
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Heart Attack Grill
When headed out to dinner in Las Vegas most people get excited about the numerous four and five-star restaurants run by world-famous chefs. Me? I freak out about places like Heart Attack Grill, which was the first dining stop I made on my recent trip to Sin City. After all, you can get a great steak or some delicious sushi at plenty of different restaurants in Vegas, but there’s only one place where you … CONTINUE READING »
Bacon & Almond Pumpkin Spice Pancakes
A few weeks ago I got an email from Planters letting me know that they’d like to send me samples of some of their seasonal nuts. I sort of took the term “samples” to mean that I’d get a few of those airplane sized bags of various types of nuts, but the following week I arrived home from work to find a pretty decent sized box on my front porch that contained almost eight pounds … CONTINUE READING »
Happy National Clean Out Your Fridge Day!
You may not be aware of it, but today, November 15th, is National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day. I have no idea how long this so-called holiday has been around or who started it since this is the first time I’ve ever heard of it, but I decided to celebrate anyway by doing a little fridge cleaning of my own. Now, when most people clean out their refrigerators the food usually just ends up going … CONTINUE READING »