Category: Food
Your place to find food reviews on popular restaurants, cafes and bakeries, as well as easy recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert, including pop culture-inspired menu ideas you won’t find anywhere else.
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Buffalo Deviled Eggs: The Bizarrely Delicious Super Bowl Appetizer
ICYMI, Super Bowl 2022—aka Super Bowl 56, aka the third time in history a team (the Rams) has the home field advantage—is Sunday, Feb. 13. And if you’re looking for a quick appetizer to throw together, well, look no further. Buffalo chicken dip and deviled eggs are two game day staples, so why not combine…
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Review: What It’s Like Inside Disney’s Be Our Guest Restaurant
There are few things that get me out of bed before 5 a.m., but exploring Disney World’s Be Our Guest restaurant—when no one else is around—is one of them. The Beauty and the Beast-themed eatery has been so popular that scoring a reservation is no easy feat, but about four years ago, I got the…
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Review: Is the Laithwaites Wine Subscription Worth It?
Whether you’re scrolling Instagram or simply picking up your mail, you’re probably getting bombarded with wine delivery services. From Winc to Firstleaf, vino subscription services abound, and as we try each one, we’ll share our honest review. First up: Laithwaites. The Deal: As an introductory offer, you can score eight bottles of wine—red, white or…
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The Ultimate Green & Goldies Cookies for USF Fans
With the holidays approaching, we wanted to share a throwback to one of my favorite recipes from The Collegiate Cook: USF Gameday Recipes, the cookbook Nate and I developed in 2014. It’s designed for University of South Florida fans—hence its green and gold color scheme—though I’ll be honest: You could sub in any color combo…
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Jack Skellington-Inspired Hot Cocoa Bombs
If you want to dress up as Jack, Sally, or even Zero from The Nightmare Before Christmas this Halloween, there’s no shortage of off-the-rack costumes you can buy from, well, just about anywhere (from Amazon to Hot Topic to Walmart). But if you’re really looking to go all out this year—or simply host an epic…
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Cake Mix Brownies with a Cheesecake Swirl
I’m a sucker for a good cake mix hack, be it adding instant pudding mix to make a cake moister, turning it into an extra-pillowy banana bread or making over-the-top monster cookies. So, when I saw Tasty’s cake mix brownie recipe, I had to try it out. With a slight adaptation (ahem, cheesecake) and minor…
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The Top Brown Sugar Substitutes for Baking, Ranked
Ah, brown sugar—you’re crucial for making the best chocolate chip cookies out there (and plenty of other desserts too), but you can be a pain to restock. For one, keeping large quantities on hand can be hard to justify, especially since it’s all too easy to forget to seal it up tight and wind up…
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Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Frosting
When the world feels uncertain, we seek comfort in everything: cozy blankets, heart-to-heart conversations, even snacks. And when you really want to just eat your feelings, there’s no better treat than this chocolate chip cookie dough frosting. It’s based on Baked By Melissa’s recipe, found in Cakes by Melissa (aka my go-to for every birthday…
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Pastelitos, aka the Best Super Bowl Dessert for Buccaneers Fans
Certain foods are synonymous with Tampa Bay: Cubanos, Bloomin’ Onions (Tampa is the birthplace of Outback, after all), grouper sandwiches, strawberry shortcake straight from Plant City. They’re must-haves when you’re in the Bay, but there’s one treat that doesn’t get nearly enough attention, and it really, truly should. I’m talking about pastelitos de guayaba y…
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Chick-Fil-A’s Chicken Parm Meal Kits: An Honest Review
Chick-Fil-A sells meal kits?! Yes, I had the same reaction. I mean, why would you make a meal offered by a fast food chain…when you could have a meal ready immediately from said chain? But then I saw the sign for the brand’s lemony-kale twist on chicken parmesan (something you won’t find on restaurant menus),…
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Slow Cooker Chicken Pot Pie Soup
When it’s cold outside, I want to make everything in a slow cooker, especially soup. Especially soups that are based on even heartier dishes that were never intended to be soup, like lasagna. Or, you know, chicken pot pie. I shared the recipe for a stovetop version a couple years ago, but this fall—especially with…
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How to Make Baby Yoda-inspired Cupcakes
Wait, so you’re not hosting a watch party for one and making all kinds of Grogu-inspired treats every Friday, when a new episode of The Mandalorian hits Disney+? Huh. Strange. Well, these Baby Yoda cupcakes may just convince you to start. They’re ridiculously cute—and also ridiculously easy to make (like maybe even easier than the…
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