travel – Page 9 – My Urban Pantry

noodles

August 30, 2011Leave a comment


weird green powder freaks me out.

there are sure a lot of bland looking bowls of noodles on this blog. Z’s favorite food is basically buttered egg noodles with tube cheese. Not so high falutin’. Just got home from a summer vacation wedding trip to Denver. We arrived Monday evening and after dropping our rings off for some love at Shane Co. stopped in at Noodles & Co for Z’s favorite dish. It pains me to spend $5.35 on a bowl of noodles. But I did. I got the Wisconsin Macaroni and Cheese which wasn’t the best ever but was a trip down memory lane.
*I have a texture in food thing and do not stir my noodles. Don’t do it for me or I will be less happy.

old salty dog

June 28, 2011Leave a comment

we stopped in at the old salty dog on the virtue that we saw it on the man v food show on the travel channel…. soooo I can’t gripe too much if the food is less than spectacular. Decorated in beach shack pub style with a dog dish for the table. It is sitting on the water in Sarasota, Fl and the view can’t be beat. We went there to get an oversize deep fried hotdog. Yikes. Kind of shameful when I think about it. Not a corndog, just a beer battered foot long dog with whatever fixins float your boat. Z had jack cheese and grilled onion and I had bacon and cheddar. It was crunchy and fun with mustard added on top. They bring out all the baseline condiments, relish, onion, ketchup and mustard for you to add and the dogs come with fries. It was about what you’d expect, a greezy dog but t was fun to eat and consider the ridiculousness. We sat and watched boats on the water and the sunset and then made our way home.

crabby bill’s st pete beach

June 25, 2011Leave a comment

we stopped at another Crabby Bill’s in St Pete Beach while we were on vacation. It was very beachy and kind of had bad service. I had yummy shrimp tacos with mango salsa and Z had grouper.

sunset at st pete beach

June 23, 2011Leave a comment

le macaron

April 27, 2011Leave a comment

six months ago we read in a magazine that the new it dessert, post cupcake, was the macaron. I don’t think that cupcakes have really fallen that far from grace. Orlando, which I feel is terrifically behind the times, even sports a food truck selling cupcakes and food trucks, according the Cooking Channel, are IT. But, I digress. The macaron, french and hardly humble is the piece de resistance at a small bakery in Sarasota called Le Marcaron – since I hadn’t tried one before we popped in while shopping and purchased two.
What do macarons have going for them? Cachet I think. They are the darlings of Laduree in Paris and food bloggers everywhere. A macaron is a baked treat that is composed of two outwardly crunchy, inwardly chewy meringue type cookies attached with a bit of frosting or jam type filling. They are pastel and very pretty. I tried two, a black Madagascar vanilla and a salted caramel. They were interesting although very expensive for being a small confection. I wasn’t prepared for the chewiness and kind of found that faulty although it extends the flavor. The filling was nice too, a hit of creaminess contrasting the cookie.
Macarons are unique, in general, encompassing flavors from basil to chocolate. I enjoyed the cookies but haven’t fallen in love or, for the matter, out of love, with cupcakes.