Deep Foods, a New Jersey company founded in 1977, markets prepared, frozen and boxed foods of India and Southeast Asia. At my local Indian grocery, Patel Brothers, I picked up their Tandoor Baked Cheese Naan Pizza. Naan is an oven-baked leavened flatbread product, native to SE Asia and the Middle East, kinda similar to pita.… Continue reading Original Naan Pizza Review
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Knollas Pizza Review – Wichita, KS
Here’s one of those “best places in town” as touted by local media. I guess when you live in the town that Pizza Hut started, it doesn’t take too much of an effort for people to think you have a “good” pizza. I had been itching to get here, because I had heard about the… Continue reading Knollas Pizza Review – Wichita, KS
StoneRidge Italian Sausage Review
In the U.S, the term “Italian Sausage” refers to an uncooked pork sausage, seasoned with various herbs and spices. You’ll see them labeled at “hot” or “sweet” (also sometimes mild). The primary difference is the “hot” may have some red pepper flakes added, or in many cases, a dose of fennel seeds. I must prefer… Continue reading StoneRidge Italian Sausage Review
Halftime Pizza Review
Yet another Upper Midwest frozen “tavern pizza,” Halftime was launched out of a popular rural bar an hour NW of Chicago. If you’re a regular reader here, you know how much I admire small business owners, and guys like this, trying to enter a very crowded field, with (presumably) a marketing budget that can’t possibly compete… Continue reading Halftime Pizza Review
Potbelly Sandwich Review
(Spoiler alert) I have missed out by not being a customer of Potbelly.I painted them with the “same brush” that I have used against a couple of their competitors that I truly don’t like, and that wasn’t fair. I was recently contemplating a visit when coincidentally the company invited me in for a taste. At… Continue reading Potbelly Sandwich Review
StoneRidge Andouille Sausage Review
Having lived in New Orleans for a decade, and Paris for a couple of years, I’m very fond of andouille (on-doo-ee) sausage, a U.S. transplant/evolution from France. The French version consists of very rough chopped organ meats, onions, wine, and seasoning. They usually have a fairly distinctive odor and are gray in color. The French… Continue reading StoneRidge Andouille Sausage Review
StoneRidge Natural Casing Wieners Review
I love hot dogs. In natural casings, please. The “purer” the better, IMHO. And I love to make them as “coney island style” hot dogs, which have nothing to do with the place Coney Island. A Coney Island hot dog is strictly an upper midwestern thing, popular in Michigan, Ohio, pockets of Texas, Minnesota and… Continue reading StoneRidge Natural Casing Wieners Review
StoneRidge Meats Chorizo Review
Chorizo is a type of sausage that originated in the Iberian peninsula (Spain/Portugal), made up of pork, spices, and smoked pimento peppers, which gives it a bright red color. It’s available in a smoked/cured version for eating or including in dishes, and raw, to be used as a cooking ingredient. There are variations of chorizo… Continue reading StoneRidge Meats Chorizo Review
StoneRidge Meat Snack Sticks Review
An affinity for all things butchered and old world sausage making brought together the principals that started StoneRidge Meat and Country Market, now known as StoneRidge Piggly Wiggly. Located in mid-Wisconsin, thirty minutes west of the Fox River Valley, the market serves grocery shoppers and sausage aficionados from a wide radius. Why sausage lovers? StoneRidge… Continue reading StoneRidge Meat Snack Sticks Review
Parkers Restaurant and Bar Review, LaGrange, IL
Your dilemma, searching for this restaurant online, is that it is known, for some peculiar reason, by different names. The name on the building is Parkers’ Restaurant and Bar. The domain name for their website is “ParkersAmerican.” On different sites around the web, you’ll see a reference to “Parker’s Ocean Grill.” I’m confused and I… Continue reading Parkers Restaurant and Bar Review, LaGrange, IL