tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-289337702011-11-27T15:26:54.194-08:00Ur·ban (ûrbn) adj. Characteristic of the city or city life. Eater (-ēt′ər) n. Someone who consumes food for nourishment.Urban Eaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02975828801646354830noreply@blogger.comBlogger331100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28933770.post-19171723699377967092008-02-26T10:02:00.000-08:002008-06-04T11:52:50.027-07:00

Follow this link for more Urban Eater fair. I'll continue posts, per the norm, at my new home. This site will remain up but dormant.

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Cross posted at THe Urban Eater Once upon a time, Single Men were notorious for having refrigerators stocked with Chinese take-out boxes, ketchup packets, pizza boxes, hot sauce, leftover Ramen noodles still in the bowl they were prepared in, moldy sandwich bread and copious amounts of beer. This was the norm from roughly 1977 to 1999. But times, they have-a-changed. With the invent of Food

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Here's some helpful hints on how to be a healthy, hip Urban Eater. When did Crock Pots become hip? This whole article sounds like a 65 yr old man wrote it for his 20 something yr old kids, trying to be hip and cool and relate.

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Cross posted at The Urban Eater My hat is tipped to Ben Montgomery and the folks over at the St Pete Times for uncovering the truth about Dinner Slightly Difficult, oh, I mean Dinner Impossible Food Network Star, Robert Irvine. Irvine was set to open, not one, but two restaurants in St Pete, Ooze and Schmooze. You can read the full article here, but I would like to spotlight some of my favorite

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Cross Posted at The Urban Eater I recently got these photos from Ryan Joseph, an amazing Bridal and Portrait photographer, who was doing some Ad work for his friend's wholesale seafood company. He hired my company to do the food styling.It was a fun, but long day. The outcome, glorious food porn. So, what is a food stylist, you ask? Food stylists (sometimes called food dressers) make food look

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Cross Posted at The Urban Eater I’ve been seeing a lot about cupcakes in the news lately. They have apparently made a revival. Funny, I never knew they left?With that said, my cravings began to grab hold, but I just could not reason paying $30 for 12 cupcakes. I yearned to make a big beautiful batch of creamy, dreamy cupcakes. How could you not after seeing this perfect example? Oh the lushes

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It’s February again and it has been for 11 days. That means you have 3 days to find the perfect V Day gift. If you are like me, this can be tricky. I’ve been with my Hubby for 8 ½ blissful years. We have just about everything we want (with the exception of the yacht) or can afford at this point in time (not like we can afford a yacht). So what do you do? Valentine’s Day often becomes lost in the

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In the effort to streamline the new Blog name, The Urban Eater, I'll be making a slow transistion to the new home of The Urban Eater, theurbaneater.blogspot.com This will be a slow transistion as I know so many hate change. I'll be double posting and one day, will kill seminoleheightseats.blogspot.comDon't worry, all will remain the same, it will just make more sense.

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You gotta read this one, Bad Meat. Amusing and educational.

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There is something truly amazing about Gnocchi. To me, it is the quintessential pasta. Oddly shaped pasta, dumpling-like, tender ovals of love. You don’t need any special flour to make it. You don’t need a special machine or an old world Grandma. It is simplicity at it’s best. It is the perfect Urban Pasta. It can be made from potatoes, (and most commonly is) squash, semolina, or ricotta. An over

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February is American Heart Month Go Red For Women, a topic near and dear to my heart, literally. I have Mitral Valve Prolapse (MVP), a hereditary deficiency of the Mitral valve. Go Red For Women is a nationwide movement that celebrates the energy, passion and power women have, to band together and wipe out heart disease. One in three women has cardiovascular disease, and every minute one woman

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Comfort food can be many things. Typically, people associate Southern food, like Fried Chicken, with Comfort food. I am typically one of those people, yet, as of late; I’ve been steering towards the healthier sides of comfort. Not because I’m “watching what I eat” or “being health conscience”. That’s just what my palette has demanded. Tonight, I’m going to make this scrumptious little dish for my

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I've been contemplating this for awhile now. Changing my blog title from Seminole Heights Eats to The Urban Eater. I felt is was time to do so with the launching of New Heights Magazine, not to mention Eating Tampa. The original purpose of Seminole Heights Eats was to showcase the food and markets surrounding Seminole Heights, Tampa, FL. This is now being more than taken care of. You can read all

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My Hubby will be doing a Mommy and Me Cooking Class for a darling little 11 year old and her Mother. He does these occasionally and really has a lot of fun. Kids are amazing in the kitchen and are like little sponges when it comes to learning new culinary techniques, so they make for great students. The 11 year old's Aunt, Toni (a foodie in her own right) is giving the Cooking Class as a birthday

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Dave over at Eating Tampa has something to say about the Burgers at The Bungalow Bistro. He dined there over the weekend while on his quest for the Best Burger in Tampa.

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I also posted this on Eating Tampa, but I have such a fondness for Grits, I had to share it with all of you, too. I am Southern girl, we all know this; however, I could not stand Grits as a child. Due to my hatred for Grits, I ignored the various uses Grits may provide. WWWHHHAAATTT????!!!!! A Southern girl who does not like Grits? I know, it’s strange. That is, until I was in New Orleans a few

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A little birdy told me a food rumor. This little birdie (who could or could not be the actual owner of this establishment) stated Ybor Pizza and Subs may not be around much longer due to the lack of sales. WHAT!!!!! This little birdy also said he has gotten a lot of grief from the South East Seminole Heights Association for various “code violations” of which he has yet to be tagged on by the City

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Last night, while watching the boob tube, I saw a new commercial for Wendy’s. They have launched a new 99 Cent double meat patty cheeseburger. They are calling it the Stack Attack. This got me thinking. Has Wendy’s succumbed to the More Is Better mentality of the Fast Food Nation? Are they launching this Stack Attack because McDonald’s and Burger King are doing so well with their own double

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Every year, my in-laws pack up their gigantic RV and head down to Florida for the Holidays. I feel like I won the in-law lottery when it comes to my hubby's folks. I genuinely enjoy their company. Because I love my in-laws so much, I like to spoil them with their favorite foods. One such food is my Key Lime Pie. It's my father-in-laws favorite sweet treat. He's a self proclaimed Key Lime Pie

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Cooks & Company is offering Cooking Classes! Come out and join me and my Executive Chef Hubby. It will be loads of fun!!!!!!!!Perfect Pie Cooking ClassCooks & Co will be taking reservations for the Perfect Pie Cooking Class. Students will be taught how to make 3 perfect Holiday Pies, a Caramel Apple Streusel Pie, a Chocolate Mousse Pie, and a Turtle Pecan Pie. Students will learn the techniques

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While doing time in Texas (and oh yes, living in Texas is like doing time in prison), I got hooked on Vietnamese cuisine. I lived in Austin (Note: Austin is not in Texas, it is surrounded by Texas.) A large hippie movement ensued through the late sixties and early seventies throughout Austin. Janis Joplin was a product of this Texan town. She would play acoustic at the Armadillo (a local college

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I’ll start this blog out by saying, YOU ABSOLUTELY NEED TO TRY THIS PLACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!With that said, I’ll share my experience. Brace yourself, it’s a long one. Awhile back, I made a comment about getting out there and trying out the little places you may not ordinarily try. My motto, as printed to your left, is one should not be afraid to try restaurants based on their exterior face. If

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On the corner of Hanna and Florida sits the One Stop. Yes, a convenient store. It has the normal convenient store things. Chips-galore, hot-dogs churning along aluminum piping, and every soda known to man. It also carries beer (a descent selection), wine (a surprisingly decent selection), and those little individual packets of every over-the-counter drug known to man. They sell cigarettes (

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Three straight 18 hour days will kill a person, as I almost found out. Business is good right now (no complaints), but it can take a toll. You begin to lose touch with friends, national events, and loved ones. 3 days can make a person feel like they have been exiled on a deserted island for 3 years. Into day 2, I began to realize why Tom Hanks made his Coconut friend. At the end of Day 3 (it was

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It's that time of year again. My favorite time. The leaves begin to turn shades of amber, gold, and red. The air becomes crisp and tickles your nose with swift sweeps of cool air. Oh wait, we live in Florida. Scratch all that. It's that time of year again. My favorite time. The Palms begin to sway, the Centurion Oak leaves turn yellow and the thermostat reads 71 at midnight. It must be

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I am in grocery stores more than the average American, because, well, it is my business to be. So, when it comes to buying food for my own home, I like to travel as little as possible, and get in and out as quickly as possible. My logical choice would be to hit up the little Publix off N. Nebraska Ave. Yet, I prefer to bypass it all together and go to the Sweetbay at the corner of MLK and

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I need your help Seminole Heights. Where are those scary looking hole-in-the-wall places that have amazing food or maybe they serve what some may consider to be questionable fare? Here's the catch......in St Pete. I need to compose a list of at least 12 places. These establishment's can be anywhere in the St Pete area. The scarier, the better, but the food should be good food. The more "unusual",

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Dave has invited me to be a contributor for Eating Tampa. I was surprised and accepted. I had simply offered help in his run-offs for Best of Tampa. So now, you can read all about Tampa and all about Seminole Heights. I'll be keeping this up-to-date when it concerns a Seminole Heights food related subject, everything else can be read over at Eating Tampa. Happy Eating!

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I share an office space with my friend, Chris Bilar; owner/ operator of Moneywell Financial (yes, that was a plug). Today he wandered into my little piece of heaven and asked “Where ya wanna go for lunch?” He and my other office space mates have been nagging me to take them to any of the places featured in Jeff Houck’s Tampa Tribune article The Tampa Underbelly Tour, in the hopes of free food. I

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After a short (ahem) hiatus, I have returned to my post at the wheel of The Seminole Heights Eats Blog. You’ll be hearing from me more frequently (cross my heart), as well as from some other Seminole Height’s residents. We aim to show Tampa that Seminole Heights and our surrounding areas are filled with good food, well, hopefully good food. I received my “nudge” from Tony today via email. He

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Every good neighborhood needs a good pizza joint. Not the 'franchised, plastic cheese with a sauce that would give ANYONE heartburn' pizza joint. No! A joint that is owned and operated by the same people who take the trash out at the end of the night. A joint where you know EVERY time the pizza will be fresh, hot, and good. A place where you can get a cheesy, greasy Pepperoni and a white Spinach

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Funny someone should mention this one.....I must admit I was a little leery pulling into the "Casa de Carnes" on Sunday. There were a few questionable gentlemen strolling about and the parking lot and exterior building seemed to have been neglected through the decades; but fear not I say. The best Mexican food I have ever eaten was from a little restaurant on the outskirts of Austin, TX. You

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I just tried the new Good Taste Chinese Restaurant last night and was very impressed. I ordered at 10:45 PM for delivery thinking I would get the left overs for the day. To my surprise, the owner pulled up with his entire family (I was the last delivery for the night) and delivered the very hot and very fresh meal to my door. This is very much an American Chinese style restaurant. Don't expect

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