Visual Evidence

I promise to stop blowing up your Twitter feeds, Google Readers and Facebook pages about the Giant Eagle Market District and Creta Farms event after I share this one last thing: You can catch photos and a video of the event on the Acrobatique blog, The High Wire. 

My thoughts on my demo: Someone should have told me to turn down the bubbliness!  I’m fairly sure I seemed like an idiot, and I apologize to bloggers everywhere for giving us a {potentially, likely eventual} bad rap!  I was just happy to be there!  Honestly.

Cooking Demo: That's me on the far left! {Courtesy of Acrobatique Creative}

In other news, this weekend was full of prepping for the aforementioned event, then was followed by recouping with Husband through the aid of homemade Thai food and movies on the couch.  Now it is Monday again, and it’s back to the grindstone.  Tonight is a laundry night, so you might get a two-fer posting today!

How was your weekend?  What did you think of the video?

{Featured In} Quoted by Acrobatique!

Exciting things - 
Earlier this week I was quoted by the folks over at Acrobatique's blog, The High Wire, talking about the Creta Farms and Giant Eagle Market District event on Saturday.  

If you need a refresher on that, click here.  Here's a few quick tidbits from the post:

The ‘Creta Farms I Heart Picnics,’ blogger event is open to the public. All are encouraged to attend and sample recipes from their favorite blogger chefs using Creta Farms product ingredients including AHA certified Hot Dogs, Bologna, and Sausage. After the event, Creta Farms will donate $100 to the American Heart Association in each participating bloggers’ names.

“Picnic food is all about convenience and the taste of comfort without running into boring-land,” said Ashley Oates, writer of Pittsburgh food blog A Dash of Spectacular. “Creta Farms’ line of ready-to-eat sausages, hot dogs and bologna is a healthy way to bulk up your options for picnic fare without going overboard on slow-cooking ribs or other heavy food.”
Oates has been selected as the lead blogger to demonstrate her recipe at the July 14th event. The Market District chefs will also be on-site to prepare recipes submitted from other participating bloggers including Food Collage, B-More Healthy, Annie Oakley’s Kitchen, and eatPgh. The recipes will be announced on the Creta Farms Facebook page at (facebook.com/iheartcretafarms) a week prior to the event.
When selecting a summer recipe to submit, Blogger Ashley Oates recommends something that is “easy to make, tastes great, and is light enough to still eat a decent portion without regret!”

You can read more of their blog post here.  Now that you've read about it, come see me at the event! I'll be there around 11:00am, but I think the event starts closer to 12:00pm noon.

{Hint} I'll be making tasty samples of my picnic food, y'all!  I'll post the recipe Saturday before the event so you'll know what you're getting into.

Braddock's Whiskey Contest & The P.G.H.!

One of my favorite restaurants in town, Braddock's American Brasserie, recently hosted a Whiskey Cocktail Contest, asking for entries of the best whiskey cocktails from Pittsburghers. After holing myself up in my kitchen for a few hours with some peaches, whiskey and ginger, I came up with the P.G.H. {Peach Ginger Hit!}.
Drunkenly perhaps, I based my drink on my viewpoint as a new 'Burgher. While some folks think of Pittsburgh as a has-been, I'm of the camp that celebrates PGH as the Comeback Kid. There's so much to offer here, and the sassy Pittsburgh voice has a lot to say.

Fortunately, the judges heard that voice {however drunken it was}.


I won the contest! Although I didn't receive the most votes {read: Facebook "likes"}, I got the Braddock's vote.  My cocktail was chosen "for the great summer-inspired taste." I feel so honored!
I plan to walk into Braddock's as soon as possible to order my cocktail.


What a blissful moment.
So, here's the recipe for you to make your own P.G.H. at home!