Weekend Foodie Snacks: Of Beignets & Cappuccino

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Who says you need to go to New Orleans to enjoy the always satisfying French Donut, also known as the beignet. I might add, who needs to go to a coffee shop (although that's fun too if you can afford it these days) to enjoy a cappuccino. Speaking of cappuccino, I raved about how you can do them at home for a fraction of the price in my post entitled The Secret To Making Coffee House Quality Cappuccino At Home

If you're wondering how I did the beignets, (not exactly from scratch which is why I'm not posting a recipe) but probably almost just as good, look no further than the Beignet Mix by Cafe du Monde (1.75 pound (above).  Speaking of Cafe Du Monde, yes another shameless plug mind you (makes me think of the Garth Brooks song Shameless). I disgress, if you've never been there check out my post about Cafe Du Monde

To summarize, it wasn't a good food weekend. It was just terrible. Who wants to sip cappuccino and eat French Doughnuts covered in sugary sweet powdered sugar. Not me! Has my attempt at sarcasms gone hay wire or is it the wonder drug called caffeine in my cappuccino.  OK, here we go again, that reminds.. I had the privilege and the honor of eating this amazing sky high nacho plate today. Just look at it and if you live nearby I know you're going to go there, yes over here Yucatan Taco Stand  Here's another sip of cappuccino in honor of a post that has more plugs in it than a Elvis hairpiece... long live the King. Thank you, thank you very much.

Weekend Foodie Snacks: German Chocolate Cake

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How appropriate! It's October 1st! The day that marks the start of Oktoberfest, which of course is a German celebration.  Unfortunately, I did not attend any Oktoberfest celebrations and if you don't believe me you can of course check my blood alcohol level for any traces of German beer.
Although, I did not celebrate with any German beer, I did celebrate with a piece of German Chocolate Cake (from a bakery) which by the way, needs to be served cold and with vanilla ice cream.  That's a different topic though because I'm wondering, how difficult it would be to do a German Chocolate Cake from scratch. It seems like it would take a little bit more effort than a regular cake with all that fancy German icing. Have any of you attempted to make one of these beautiful German cake creations and could give me input into the process? Is it difficult? Speaking of German Chocolate, if you haven't already, by all means check out my blog of chocolate addiction "The Choco-Aholic" and follow it so we can enable each other to eat more chocolate and dream of German Chocolate Cake.

Weekend Foodie Snacks: Homemade Taco Salad

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It might not look like much but that's only because I didn't mix the taco salad before I took a shot of it. It did not take away from how delicious this was though. Also, I don't know about you but I'm a huge fan of taco salads and usually I only eat them at restaurants because I can't make them at home nearly as good. The reason for that is mostly in the shell because that's really hard to replicate at home. That is until I found a solution.... Kroger grocery store has these tasty and very crispy taco shells that they make in store. Needless to say, it helped me make the best taco salad I've had at home and for the fraction of the cost of eating out. Thanks Kroger!

Weekend Foodie Snacks: Of Sausage & Foodie Photography

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This pretty much sums up what this foodie ate this weekend. Talk about a beautiful food shot. That's why I had to share it. I'm very into food photography and I think I'm getting better at it. It's a lot harder than it looks to get that great food shot but beautiful links such as these make that task easier. They made a pretty awesome Saturday evening meal too, so I have no complaints. It was a very happy food weekend.