By Todd Barron @ FoodieCuisine.com Sultan’s Kitchen in Boston is a small restaurant, open since 1981, that offers grilled Turkish foods such as kabobs and other non-grilled items, such as salads and dips. Did I mention it is small? Like most places in Boston it is very small, but the food is good and the prices […]
Ristorante Capeo, Great Italian Food in North Little Rock
By Todd Barron @ FoodieCuisine.com Risorante Capeo on Main Street in North Little Rock, happens to be one of my favorite restaurants, and I’ve even had a few birthday dinners there. One could say I’m biased, but I’d say I just know what I like, and Risorante Capeo is a place I like, a lot.Risorante […]
Recent Cooking Adventures – April 18, 2011
By Todd Barron @ FoodieCuisine.com I cook most of the meals at home and enjoy cooking several times per week. The primary challenge lies in cooking food that tastes good AND is healthy. I forego this requirement on the weekends, but most of the items that follow are low in calories, but have great flavor. […]
Xanthan Gum – Thick Sauces without the Fat
By Todd Barron @ FoodieCuisine.com Have you ever had a low-fat salad dressing and wondered why it was so thick? In most cooking recipes, flour, corn starch, or butter, are used as a thickening agent. The problem is these items all have a lot of calories (and the butter has fat.) So, how do they do it […]
The Ultimate “Home” BBQ Smoker, the FEC-100
By Todd Barron @ FoodieCuisine.com A couple of years ago I received a nice bonus and ordered a Cookshack FEC-100 BBQ Smokerwith some of the proceeds. My wife was nice enough to let me do this and we (yes, we) have never regretted the choice. The Cookshack FEC-100 is a commercial meat smoker that is […]
Carino’s Italian Kitchen in Little Rock
By Todd Barron @ FoodieCuisine.com How do you celebrate a birthday? Why, with a family feast of Italian food of course! In my family that’s how it’s normally done at least and history repeated itself last month for my step-father’s birthday. My mother, step-father, wife, and son (the oldest was away at college) all met […]
Quick and Easy Party Food
By Todd Barron @ FoodieCuisine.com My wife and I love to entertain and host 4th of July, New Years Eve, and Super Bowl parties just about every year. We also host several dinner parties throughout the year as we never run out of excuses to have people over for food and drink. The following are […]
Little Caesars Pizza in Maumelle
By Todd Barron @ FoodieCuisine.com There’s not much to cheer about when it comes to Little Caesars Pizza. They are the only fast-food pizza place around and have about the lowest quality of pizza that you can expect. But heck, at under $6 for a Large Pepperoni Pizza you can’t really go wrong. I mean, frozen […]