Author: DC Sarah
-
Culinary Cameo- Chef Justin Beckett
Greetings Foodies! Welcome to our newest Culinary Cameo! Today’s interview is with my local food hero, Chef Justin Beckett, owner of Beckett’s Table and Southern Rail. You might remember Beckett’s Table from my Arizona Restaurant Week review. I was fortunate to meet him at Devoured Phoenix. After embarrassing myself by volunteering to peel eggs with…
-
Crowds Flock to CityScape Phoenix for Check, Please! Arizona Festival
Greetings Foodies! Welcome to my recap of the Check, Please! Arizona Festival. The event took place yesterday, Sunday March 22nd 2015 at CityScape in downtown Phoenix Arizona. The event is in its third year and featured 25 restaurants and beverage purveyors. Among them were Frashers, Switch Wine Bar, Durant’s and Cowboy Ciao. In addition to…
-
More Guests Announced for Phoenix Comicon!
More authors and voice talent have signed on for Phoenix Comicon! Stay Tuned for more updates! Ryan Ottley Comic artist Ryan Ottley is going to appear at Phoenix Comicon 2015. Ottley broke into comics professionally in 2004 with the Eisner-nominated Best New Series Invincible for Image Comics and has worked on it since. Ottley is…
-
4th Annual AZ Wine & Dine Returns to Scottsdale Quarter April 2nd 2015
SCOTTSDALE, AZ (March 13, 2015) — The Valley’s stars of the culinary scene will gather at the hip, urban setting of Scottsdale Quarter, for a high-energy and upscale celebration of food and wine, at the fourth annual AZ Wine & Dine, hosted by the Arizona Lodging & Tourism Association, Thursday, April 2, from 5:00-8:00 pm.…
-
Third Annual Eight’s Check, Please! Arizona Festival Set for Sunday March 22, 2015
Phoenix, Ariz. (Feb. 18, 2015) – While the Emmy Award-winning television hit, Eight’s, Check, Please! Arizona continues unabated, its culinary cousin, Eight’s Check, Please! Arizona Festival continues on its own glorious path for a third straight year of pleasing fans of local, independent eateries, celebrated once again, Sun., March 22, 2015, 11am-3pm at CityScape in…
-
Alyson Hannigan and Alexis Denisof join Phoenix Comicon 2015 in their First Appearance Together
Phoenix Comicon will host Alyson Hannigan and Alexis Denisof in a rare appearance together in what is likely the only US pop-culture and comic book convention appearance for 2015. The seasoned actress is probably best known to sci-fi fans for her portrayal of Willow Rosenberg on Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the spinoff…
-
Culinary Cameo- Chef Ivan Flowers
Greetings Foodies! We are very lucky to be joined by one of my newest Twitter followers, who happens to not only be a very prestigious chef but also spent time teaching in my town in Arizona! I’m speaking of none other than Chef Ivan Flowers, of Top of the Market Restaurant. Chef Ivan Flowers brings…
-
Phoenix Comicon 2015 Welcomes First Guests
Phoenix Comicon 2015 is proud to announce their first guests for this year’s event. Summer Glau, Edward James Olmos, Billy Tucci, Mike Zeck, Lou Ferrigno, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Marv Wolfman and many more are slated to attend the 2015 Comicon in downtown Phoenix, Arizona from May 28-31, 2015. Full event passes are only $70 until March…
-
Foodie Adventures- Queen Creek Olive Mill
Greetings Foodies! Welcome to the first of the newly dubbed Foodie Adventures! Today I’m going to write about a trip that Mister and I took to the Queen Creek Olive Mill a few weekends ago. Located in Queen Creek, Arizona (about an hour outside of Phoenix) the Queen Creek Olive Mill boasts 16 varieties of…
-
Culinary Cameo- Food Hero Mimi Kozma
Greetings Foodies! Welcome to the newly named Culinary Cameos! In these blogs we will feature interviews with people from various areas of the culinary world. We are fortunate to have had the opportunity to interview Mimi Kozma. Mimi is the host of a web show called “Food Hero Mimi Kozma”. “Food Hero Mimi Kozma” is…
-
Yelp Snack Stadium Fascinates and Feeds
Greetings Foodies and Happy Super Bowl Sunday! Today’s Geek Eats is close to home, literally! Glendale Arizona is the host of this year’s Super Bowl. That means that my home of Scottsdale Arizona was the host of a Fan Fest event. One of the highlights of this was the Yelp Snack Stadium. The Yelp Snack…
-
Geek Eats- Super Bowl Treats (plus Crab Spinach Artichoke Dip Recipe)
Greetings Foodies! Its Super Bowl week! Am I excited because it is being played here in Arizona? Nope. Am I excited because I like the Seattle Seahawks or the New England Patriots? Nope. I’m excited because of all of the great Super Bowl party food! Super Bowl parties are pretty much the only reason I…
-
Geek Eats- Spam Musubi (plus Spam Musubi Taco Recipe)
Aloha Foodies! Welcome to the newest Geek Eats! You may have noticed by my greeting that there is a definite theme to today’s blog. Today’s blog features on of my newest food loves, Spam Musubi! For those of you who have never had it, Spam musubi is a shaped block of rice (about the size…
-
Geek Eats- DC's 2015 Food Resolutions
Greetings Foodies! Happy 2015! Every New Year, people make resolutions on things what want to do or change during that year. I thought to myself what types of resolutions would I make and not surprisingly most involved food. So here are my food resolutions for this year: 1. Cook at least 10 new recipes- I…
-
Gotham Recap- 'Penguin's Umbrella'
Greetings Gothamites! Welcome to this week’s Gotham Recap. Once again real life has made me quite tardy but here we are. This week’s episode was great and heavily featured Robin Lord Taylor, who plays Oswald Cobblepot, the Penguin. So without even more delay, let’s get started. Oh and yes there are spoilers! The Episode This…
-
Disney’s Halloween Treat- The Long Lost Treasure
Happy Halloween everyone! Today I am going to discuss my all time favorite Disney Halloween-themed thing! That thing is Disney’s Halloween Treat! Disney’s Halloween Treat was a television special in the early 80s that aired on The Wonderful World of Disney. There are 2 versions, one hosted by the Magic Mirror and one hosted by…
-
Gotham Recap- 'The Spirit of the Goat'
Greetings Gothamites! Thanks for joining me for this week’s Gotham Recap. Real life took hold this week so I apologize for the delay. This week we are talking about Gotham’s spookiest episode to date, The Spirit of the Goat. So without even more delay, let’s get started. Oh yes and as usual, there are spoilers!…
-
Spooky Shorts- The Old Mill
Welcome back boys and ghouls! Welcome to today’s Spooky Short (also the last one this year)! Today I am going to share a short that isn’t really one that someone might think of for Halloween. There is no real Halloween theme to it, but it is spooky in its own way. I’m talking about the…
-
Spooky Shorts- Mater and the Ghostlight
Welcome back boys and ghouls! Welcome today’s Spooky Shorts! Today’s blog takes us to the world of Cars, it’s Mater and the Ghostlight! This is another more recent animated short, much like Donald’s Halloween Scare. Mater and the Ghostlight was released in 2006 as a bonus feature on the Cars dvd. I rather liked it,…
-
Spooky Shorts- Donald's Halloween Scare
Greetings readers! Welcome to this today’s Spooky Short! Today, I will be writing about Donald’s Halloween Scare. This cartoon is one of the more recent cartoons I’ll be writing about this month. It was released in 2000 on Disney’s House of Mouse. The cartoon starts off with Huey, Dewey, and Louie trick or treating. They…
-
Spooky Shorts- Runaway Brain
It’s almost Halloween, you know what that means? It’s once again time for more Spooky Shorts! This week I will share more shorts from various Disney works, from Mickey Mouse to Cars. This week’s first Spooky Short is Runaway Brain! Runaway Brain was released in 1995 attached to A Kid in King Arthurs Court and…
-
Geek Eats- Arizona Taco Festival Recap
Greetings Foodies! Welcome to my Taco Fest Recap! As you might have been aware this past weekend was Arizona Taco Festival! That’s right, two days of taco bliss, especially if you are a connoisseur of tacos. Given that I have not missed a Taco Tuesday in about 8 months you can imagine the excitement I…
-
Gotham Recap- 'Viper'
Greetings Gothamites! Welcome to this week’s recap of this season’s 5th episode, Viper. Each week we seem to delve deeper and deeper into the Gotham underbelly and this week was no different. This week brought us another link to the Batman universe as we know it now. So without further delay, let’s get started. Oh…
-
Spooky Shorts- The Haunted House
Hello everyone and thank you for continuing to join me for my Spooky Shorts blog series! I’ve covered some great cartoons and today’s is no exception! Today’s Spooky Short is The Haunted House featuring none other than Mickey Mouse himself! Like Skeleton Dance this was done in 1929 but was not a Silly Symphony. It…