Posts Tagged ‘San Francisco’
Alexia Foods And The Foodbuzz Blogger Festival
Special Events • Tags: Alexia Foods, contest, Foodbuzz Blogger Festival, Reinvent a Classic, San Francisco, Tyler Florence
We spent this past weekend in San Francisco with a few friends from home…and a bunch of bloggers. It was the 3rd Annual Foodbuzz Blogger Festival, and we were very lucky to attend on behalf of Alexia Foods this year. We were one of the 22 bloggers who created and submitted a new flavor for the “Reinvent a Classic” Challenge. The Alexia Food’s Research and Development team our Herbes de Provence and Garlic as one of the four finalists, which is a huge honor. Now it’s up to our friends and family again to help us push our way to the top! Voting is now open on the Alexia Foods Facebook page. Head over and cast your ballot for the flavor that sounds the best! Voting will run through March 30, 2012. Vote now, vote tomorrow, vote every day! In the meantime, here’s a look at our Saturday with Alexia Foods and the one and only Chef Tyler Florence.
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Pork and Red Bean Bao
Poultry & Pork • Tags: bao, Chinatown, dim sum, Ethnic Exploration, Foodbuzz, red bean paste, San Francisco, steamed
November is about to wrap up….just in time for another Ethnic Exploration. For the first time, we highlight a market outside of our LA home-base. A few weeks ago, we were at the 2nd Annual Foodbuzz Blogger Festival in San Francisco. Since we would be there all weekend, we thought it would be fun to see what ethnic markets were popping off in the bay. San Francisco’s expansive Chinatown immediately came to mind. It’s vast, authentic, and a necessary stop during any trip to the city. We found a couple of promising options from the web and settled on Ming Lee market. With list in hand, we headed out on our journey during a break at the weekend’s conference.
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Oyster & Gruyère Hand Pies
Seafood • Tags: almonds, fennel, Foodbuzz, Gruyère, nutmeg, oyster, Pepperidge Farm, sage, San Francisco
We have created a masterpiece, at least in our own eyes. This is the ticket of all tickets! Following the First Annual Foodbuzz Blogger Festival in San Francisco, we officially had the best mini pies in the history of the world. The best! Anyone who was there and also tasted The Pie Truck’s hand pies will probably agree. And then there were those Hog Island oysters that had raw oyster slurping virgins literally taking shots by the end of the night. We left San Francisco raving about the pies and oysters for days (weeks maybe). It didn’t take long for us to run through idea after idea. Somewhere along the line, there was a conversation about oyster stuffing that had all the lights going off in our heads. We had to make an oyster stuffing-style pot pie, and we had to make it taste good. With hopes of making the best little oyster stuffed pot pies in all of the land, we went to work.
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The Results Are In
Special Events • Tags: appetizer, Bertolli, demonstration, Foodbuzz Blogger Festival, pecorino romano, San Francisco
Normally we don’t post twice in a day, but there’s been a lot of exciting commotion in the last couple of hours, so we just had to interrupt today’s normal programming for this announcement! When Foodbuzz announced the possibility of sponsor-donated scholarships for the November festival in San Francisco, we jumped at the chance to enter recipe submissions based on their respective products. One of the sponsors was Bertolli, and we figured we could come up with something awesome for the Bertolli Sauce team. Our submission was one of those go-with-the-flow creations where we brainstormed a lot of ingredients we like individually and tried to see how they would work in combination. The final announcements were made today, and we made it into the Top Ten! We’ll be On the Menu for the Foodbuzz Blogger Festival. There are no words for how excited and grateful we are right now! No words! We pulled together a few of the words we have left just for this post.
Baby Portobello Stuffed Mushrooms is the way we went with our appetizer. We figured sautéed zucchini, spicy Italian sausage and Pecorino Romano would pair well with …
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