Saturday, December 3, 2011
Monday, November 28, 2011
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Holiday Treats at SoWa
If you haven't had the chance to make it out to SoWa you have another opportunity to check out some great treats like Yummy Mummy Brownies especially the Salted Caramel! I can't say enough about these sweet, chocolaty, slightly salty brownies. What I can say is get some! and while you are there pick up a few bags of Sweet Lydia's homemade marshmallows. These are heavenly, light and wonderful treat alone or in your mug of hot chocolate. 
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Great Day at SoWa!
One of my favorite Boston finds so far are Grillo's Hot Pickles and now I am kicking myself for not getting two of these
! If you haven't tried Grillo's Hot Pickles they are awesome and you must get some immediately! Great deal at SOWA 2 for 10.00
! If you haven't tried Grillo's Hot Pickles they are awesome and you must get some immediately! Great deal at SOWA 2 for 10.00
Baton Rouge to Boston
It's been awhile since I have posted and a lot has changed! So I went from a BR foodie which of course was short for Baton Rouge, my hometown, to being a southern girl in New England! To be exact I now reside in Boston, a city I have always loved since the days I used to cry when my mom sang "Please Come to Boston" to me at bath time. I loved the song even though it made me sad for the lonely boy. I always said I was going to Boston and this year I got the opportunity and I took it, packed up and moved to Boston. Now I have always loved all things Boston and now I'm going to make my blog a a view into my journey as I explore Boston and New England. Even though I have been and always be a southern girl at heart, I have always wanted to explore my northern roots. My maternal grandmother Dolores Amaral-Oliveria McKey was indeed born if not raised in Fall River, MA to Portuguese immigrants. My great-grandfather Manual Amaral was a fisherman who lived his life fishing the waters of the coast of Massachusetts while my great-grandmother Emma Oliveria chose to take my grandmother and her brother David to New York. So my Portuguese and Irish roots feel right at home in Boston. 
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Put this place on your "to do" list
Once again I had a great experience at Beausoleil. Colleagues and I decided to go for a late lunch on Friday and the atmosphere was great, everything you could want on a Friday afternoon, if I hadn’t been driving one of our party to the airport later I would have loved to have stayed for a few drinks. The food was really good as well. The table shared two orders of the fried eggplant, which is sliced paper thin and super crispy and was served with some of the best red gravy I’ve had this side of my Italian ex’s father’s Sunday gravy. I also had the duck confit salad which was very fresh but could have used a little more goat cheese and for the roasted pecans to be bigger than the tiny pieces that eventually made their way to edge of plate as they were too small to be picked up by the fork. The salad had a light balsamic dressing and plenty of mostly ripe strawberries. I do have to say that I think calling the ample amount of duck that graced the salad “confit” might have been a stretch as it resemble more of yielding from a technique more akin to roasting or broiling. This duck was moist and tender but lacked flavor. All in all a good salad and great lunch.
Friday, June 10, 2011
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Monday, June 6, 2011
The King Bar & Bistro at Hotel Indigo , Baton Rouge LA
Colleagues and I had lunch at The King Bar and Bistro a week or so ago and I have to say it is a great place to sit, have a drink with friends maybe have a snack but this is no place to have a meal. The menu stated that it was chef inspired but I can tell you it was not cooked by a chef. I should have been clued in that the food might be less than inspiring when a very nice man that worked in the hotel came by our table a few times telling us how great the food was. The flavors were muddled at best and there was no balance in any of the dishes I had. Our table started off with a charcuterie plate, which was good. The plate consisted of slices of a decent salami, chopped pieces of tasso and mild tasting pate as for the cheese there were cubes of swiss, pepper jack and cheddar and these were of the variety that are pre-cubed and purchased in a bag. Chef inspired is not quite what I would call this fare. I had the shrimp and grits and from the description on the menu it sounded great, sauteed shrimp with spices over creamy Gouda cheese grits topped with tasso jam. Sounds great right? To start with the dish was cold and I had to send it back, once the dish was hot I had high hopes, the shrimp were cooked nicely and were big and plentiful, the Gouda grits were lacking Gouda for one and were oddly watery and separated but what was really the downfall of this dish was the so called tasso jam. There was no tasso that I could discern but it was rather a sweet vinegary chutney type relish. The “jam” would have been good if there was a lot less of it and had the grits been rich and creamy to offset it’s overpowering taste. Overall no one at my table of 5 thought they would come back for an actual meal. This is a great location and the atmosphere is very nice so maybe they could get a chef to do more than inspire but maybe actually taste some of the food that they serve.
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Finally!
I actually found a good cupcake in Baton Rouge! Cupcake Couture. I made a special trip out to the dreaded mall in search of a good cupcake and I was not disappointed. By the time I got there I had few options but was lucky enough for one of those to be the signature "Banana's Foster", and if you are going to have a signature cupcake and it happens to be named after a beloved dessert then it better be good, and it was. The cake was moist without being heavy and the icing, well it was perfect. The icing described as vanilla butter cream had the tartness of cream cheese and was not overly sweet. In other words it was perfect. I can't wait to try some of the other favors described on the website http://www.cupcakecouturelouisiana.com/index.html
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