Food and Recipes
Live Jazz Music at Maggiano’s
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008Come out and enjoy some great live music as Zita Foster will be performing a variety of jazz and popular standards with John Valerio (piano) from 6:00 to 9:30 Wednesday July 30th at Maggiano’s Little Italy restaurant located at 4400 Sharon Rd, Charlotte. Call 704-916-2300 for more information.
5 Second Rule
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008Turns out that the old adage that if you drop something and pick it up within 5 seconds you don’t have to worry about germs, is not true. Research shows that if you drop a food item (candy, french fry etc.) on the ground - don’t eat it after 1 second or 5 seconds! Germs [...]
Starbucks lovers out of luck?
Friday, July 18th, 2008Starbucks Corp. will close five stores in Charlotte and one in Hickory as part of its decision to shutter 600 underperforming stores by early next year.
South Carolina Produce
Thursday, July 17th, 2008A Certified South Carolina Grown (Coordinated by the South Carolina Department of Agriculture) label on your produce ensures that the item is first - quality product grown in South Carolina. To access the website, just go to certifiedSCgrown.com and click on “Always in Season.”
Charlotte Restaurant Week
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008Charlotte Restaurant week is happening now through July 18th. Here’s the setup: 42 restaurants offer three courses for $30 plus tax and tip. For more information and participating restaurants (click here)! Bon appetit!
Make a Flag Cake with Cool Whip and Sara Lee!
Thursday, June 26th, 2008Ingredients:
1 (10 75 oz.) frozen SARA LEE
lb Cake, thawed, cut into 10
Slices
2 pt Strawberries
1 Tub (12 oz.) COOL WHIP
Whipped Topping, thawed
1 1/3 c Blueberries, divided
Directions:
SLICE 1 cup of strawberries; set aside. Halve remaining strawberries: set aside. LINE bottom of 12×8 inch baking dish with pound cake slices. Top [...]
Long Island Iced Tea
Friday, June 20th, 2008
Ingredients:
1⁄2 oz. vodka
1⁄2 oz. rum
1⁄2 oz. tequila
1⁄2 oz. gin
1⁄2 oz. triple sec
Splash of Coke™ or other cola
Lemon slice or wedge
Preparation:
Fill chimney glass with ice.
Add vodka, rum, tequila, gin and triple sec.
Add a splash of cola.
Garnish with lemon
Variation 1: Long Beach Tea
Replace Coke with splash of cranberry juice.
Replace lemon garnish with lime.
Variation 2: Adios Tea
Replace Coke [...]