Hipper, Hotter Artichoke
I’ve been off the blogging rocker for the past couple days. Yesterday I showed up at Cassis in St. Pete to meet up with Greg & Grant of SippitySup and Gina of Zest Foodie and her husband with a dead camera. So you are correct in assuming that I have zero documentation of meeting one of my very first blog crushes. I’m still kicking myself in the toosh.
And tonight as I sat down to eat a whole choke, I realized that I didn’t have any pictures to document this meal either. I was so focused on footage for the next FoodFash Mash…
Luckily you can take screen captures of videos in Picasa.
Fuzzy, non-DSLR screen captures.
FoodFash’s Hipper, Hotter Artichokes
1 Large Artichoke, Trimmed
2 TBSP Earth Balance
3 Cloves Garlic, Crushed
2 TBSP Lemon Juice
1/2 TBSP Red Pepper Flakes
Salt To Taste
Boil the artichoke for 30 minutes or until you can easily pull a leaf from the stem. While the artichoke is cooling, simmer Earth Balance and garlic until the garlic is slightly browned. Mix in the lemon juice, red pepper flakes, and salt. Peel the leaves from the stem, toss the leaves in the Earth Balance mix, and enjoy!
Urban Ma Dinner
My mom originally planned her big trip over the bridge to be followed by some stand up paddle boarding and then Pizza Fusion, but a lack of planning on my part led to just pizza. Can you tell I didn’t mind??
We managed to fit in some exercise by walking the Birthday Tourist route. As much as I enjoyed that solo adventure, it was nice to walk the walk with my ma!
Starting with the Flatbread and Dip Trio was a good idea. It came with artichoke-like tapenade, olive tapenade, and marinara sauce. Next time, I’ll Kristin complicate my order by asking for an extra olive tapenade in place of the marinara. We used some of the leftover dip on our pizza and it was ridiculously delish.
This was my second time ordering the Very Vegan pizza, but this time I added roasted red onions and forgot to order multi-grain crust. The upside to ordering the wrong crust is that now I can say with certainty that the multi-grain crust is the tastier of the two!
Rock The Cinco In The Park
Rock The Park is an event in downtown Tampa where local bands play amongst a crowd of picnicking people on the first Thursday of every month. When the May Facebook invite hit my inbox and the date read May 5th, I verified I had nothing else planned and quickly clicked Attending.
It wasn’t until the first of May that I realized that I had committed to an event on May 5th and that May 5th is Cinco de Mayo.
It took about two seconds before the sheer joy of not having to sardine my wristbanded way through an overly crowded Mexican restaurant set in. Fresh air, music, FoodFash food basket, good company? Heaven.
We settled in, kicked our flops off, and took it all in.
I stuffed a pita with homemade hummus, carrot salad with almonds, and mini cucumbers. The rest of the gang walked across the street to get Pizza Fusion takeout, which was a huge reminder that a date between Pizza Fusion and KV is long overdue.
I was entertained by the little ones that were entertained by…
Sombreros and stashes all around.
One could say Cinco de Mayo 2011 was muy, muy bueno!
