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No BBQ this weekend :(

By Todd Barron @ FoodieCuisine.com I stopped by the Wal-Mart Super Center on the way home to pick up some pork butt and brisket for a little BBQ’ing this weekend and they were completely out!  Oh well, no adventures in BBQ’ing to report on this weekend.  Maybe next weekend though. 🙂 I did manage to […]

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Border Grill – Las Vegas

By Todd Barron @ FoodieCuisine.com One day at the conference I was attending in LasVegas I only had about an hour, start to finish, to eat lunch. Border Grill is located in Mandalay Bay, where the conference was so I booked a reservation for 1pm for two.  Border Grill is run by chefs Mary Sue Milliken […]

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BLT Burger – Las Vegas

By Todd Barron @ FoodieCuisine.com On our first night in Las Vegas we had tickets to the Cirque du Soleil show called Love which is all about the music of The Beatles.  My wife and I didn’t have much time between our arrival in town and the show so we opted to eat dinner at BLT […]

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Pollo Diablo – (Garlicky, Spicy, Deep-fried Chicken)

By Todd Barron @ FoodieCuisine.com One of my favorite hole in the wall restaurants, or “dives” as they are called, is Chino Bandito’s in Phoenix, Arizona.  As luck woud have it, Guy Fieri covered the restaurant on an espisode of Diner’s, Drive-Ins, and Dives and published Chino Bandito’s recipe for Pollo Diablo (their garlic chicken)!  […]

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China Grill – Las Vegas

By Todd Barron @ FoodieCuisine.com I had planned everywhere we were going while in Las Vegas but did have a couple of nights free to choose things randomly.  On one of these random nights we stopped at a good looking place called China Grill in the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino.  I had walked past it several times on […]

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Foodie in Vegas – Too much food, too little time

By Todd Barron @ FoodieCuisine.com I just got back from spending a week in Las Vegas with my wife and although I worked at a conference for four of those days I did manage to get plenty of foodie time in.  My wife has a camera full of pictures ready to go along with the […]

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Cheers In Maumelle

By Todd Barron @ FoodieCuisine.com   I had a brief lunch today at Cheers in Maumelle with a co-worker and ordered the ($5.50) Garden Burger from their Vegetarian Delights section.  I am not a vegetarian, but I do eat things low in calories and fat when possible and the Garden Burger is much lower in calories […]

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Child obesity more of a problem in the South

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer CHICAGO — What’s the magic in Oregon that keeps kids lean? It’s a mystery health officials would like to solve as they admit all states are failing – by a mile – to meet federal goals for childhood obesity. Oregon has the nation’s lowest rate of hefty kids, […]