Food & Drink5 Show-Stopping Salads
Marilyn HawkesMarch 9, 2019
These Valley salads are developing well-deserved cult followings.
With more sunny days on the horizon, it’s time to start thinking about warm weather foods. Executive chef Samantha Roberts of Riot Hospitality Group offers the Hand Cut Burgers & Chophouse recipe for beets & burrata (cheese made from mozzarella and cream) that’s refreshing and easy to make.
If you find it hard to resist anything wrapped in a tortilla, I have a delicious surprise for you. This week, CRUjiente’s sous chef, Nathan Arnold, shares the restaurant’s popular carrot cake taco recipe. It’s a little time intensive, but well worth the effort.
RecipesRecipe Friday: 32 Shea’s Divine Mintspiration
Marilyn HawkesFebruary 22, 2019
Before the 6th Annual Girl Scout Cookie Dessert Challenge comes to a close on Feb. 28, we wanted to share at least one recipe.
At the end of 2019, the Dorrance Family Foundation of Scottsdale issued a $300,000 matching funds grant to Rancho Feliz Charitable Foundation, inc., a Scottsdale-based nonprofit that builds homes and provides food to the needy in Mexico. The grant will be used to build a new volunteer dormitory in Agua Prieta, Sonora, on the U.S./Mexico border because Rancho Feliz has outgrown its current facility. The new dormitory, “La Hacienda Feliz,” will house U.S. and Mexican volunteers together while they build homes, distribute food and care for children and seniors in the area’s slums, fostering cross-cultural service experiences.
Local ProductsCraft Sauerkraut
Marilyn HawkesFebruary 1, 2019
Craft sauerkraut gets a delicious and healthy twist from Garden Goddess.
Valley NewsValley Kids
Marilyn HawkesFebruary 1, 2019
To achieve acclaim in their industries, these former Valley schoolkids needed to leave town. Catch up with our most famous Phoenix-reared millennials.
Three BitesBreakfast Biceps
Marilyn HawkesFebruary 1, 2019
Health-minded Valley chefs turn the humble pancake into a delicious protein-delivery system.
Veg OutMock-Meat Burger
Marilyn HawkesFebruary 1, 2019
Get your hamburger fix sans meat with the Impossible Burger.
RecipesRecipe Friday: Tocaya Organica Guacamole
Marilyn HawkesJanuary 24, 2019
If you’re hosting a Super Bowl party and looking for an easy game day snack, A.j. McCloud, regional chef at Tocaya Organica shares a recipe for guacamole.
RecipesRecipe Friday: Flower Child’s Ginger Broth with Sweet Potatoes
Marilyn HawkesJanuary 17, 2019
Phoenix temperatures in January are kind of a mixed bag. The days are often sunny and warm, but the evenings can still be a little chilly. For that reason, I’m sharing one more soup recipe, this time from Brad Borchardt, Flower Child’s director of Culinary Standards.
CultureArizona Nonprofits: Childhelp
Marilyn HawkesJanuary 9, 2019
After Carol and Jim Hebets moved to Phoenix in 1985 from San Diego, Carol served on the board of Arizona Foundation for Women. During her board service, Carol met Sara O’Meara, who, along with Yvonne Fedderson, founded Childhelp, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to helping abused, neglected and at-risk children. Once Carol and Jim learned more about the organization, they quickly jumped on board as volunteers.
If you’re feeling a little chilled these days and find yourself leafing through cookbooks or searching online for soup recipes, you can stop now. We’ve got this!
Valley NewsRestaurant Redux
Marilyn HawkesJanuary 1, 2019
Valley restaurateurs bid adieu to their original concepts and debut new ones in their spaces.