Jell-O Desserts

Fourteen Valley Restaurants to Take Your Sweetie Pie to on Valentine's Day

On which day of the year does one-third of all Americans visit a restaurant? If you guessed Mother's Day, often referred to as the busiest day in the restaurant biz, you're wrong. Valentine's Day is the holiday that draws out the diners, so if you're planning a fancy date night with your special som ... More >>

Eating Christmas

Kristin Grady Gilger's Red Jell-O Christmas

Ah, the holidays. Christmas is all about love, sharing, sweetness and light -- and keeping the antacids handy. In keeping with the spirit of the season, Chow Bella presents "Eating Christmas," in which some of our favorite writers nosh on the real lessons we learn this time of year. Today, it wouldn ... More >>

Artist Creates Cities Made Entirely Out of Jell-O Because Cities Made Entirely Out of Jell-O Are Really Cool

Whether happily putting wiggly spoonfuls of it in our mouths at mee-maw's house or hastily downing several alcoholic shots of it years later after accidentally catching mee-maw and her next-door neighbor doing a bit of jiggling themselves on the same kitchen floor you used to play Barbies on, Jell-O ... More >>

In Hotel Transylvania, a Comic Dracula Still Kills

Simple Crème Brûlée at FEZ

While FEZ isn't exactly fine dining, the restaurant is a popular hangout that serves a noteworthy selection of cocktails along with some pretty tasty food. (Try the Key Lime Pie Martini, which just landed on our list of six favorite specialty cocktails.) We recently stopped by for dinner and decided ... More >>

Fourth of July Jell-O Shot Layered Dessert

Bring this red, white and blue dessert to your holiday potluck for some unexpected surprises.​When Independence Day rolls around this coming Monday, it'll bring with it the usual holiday fare: fireworks, kitschy patriotic crap, and family barbecues. The latter can be a chore, especially if the rea ... More >>

June 28 In Blogs: The Lexington, A Silent Film, Chili Cook-Off, and Octavio Von Borstel

​​​In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries:

How to Turn Tiny Melons into a Party Hit

The Virgin's melons don't measure up.​With Independence Day right around the corner, it's time to start thinking about your contribution to the inevitable holiday picnic slash barbecue. A Jell-O mold? The classic Cool Whip flag cake with strawberry stripes and a blueberry field?With seedless ... More >>

We Be Pubbin'

Jell-O Showdown Encore

​Not so long ago, when the weather was cooler and holiday spirit was in high supply, whiffs of a Jell-O showdown were in the air. It was Christmas Eve when Michele Laudig made her Jell-O decision and named Laura's Sparkling Grapefruit Pie supreme: Today I'm counting my Christmas blessings, and the ... More >>

Almond Joy Valentine Treats

​After skipping out on both the Jell-O and dip showdowns recently, I decided to whip something up to show the Chow Bella staff some love, in honor of the season. Almonds seemed like the perfect treat -- healthy (pretend healthy, at least) and tasty, particularly with a few sweet additions. B ... More >>

The Holiday Spirit Is Fueled by Longing for Past Merry Little Christmases

Jell-O Showdown: And the Winner Is . . .

Today I'm counting my Christmas blessings, and they're named Jonathan, Wynter, Cheri, and Laura. These overachieving Chow Bella contributors went above and beyond for our Jell-O Showdown, where each of them brought a tasty, Jell-O-centric dessert to the office one day, all in the hopes of getting so ... More >>

December 22 In Blogs: Mary Rose Wilcox, Dos Gringos, and Tiger Woods

​In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Feathered Bastard: Joe Arpaio's Longtime Foe Mary Rose Wilcox Earns Supporters' Prayers Up on the Sun: Anyo ... More >>

Jell-O Showdown: Cosmo Bites

Not satisfied with competing in the art of making stuffing, the Chow Bella staff is at it again. This showdown is all about Jell-O. So far we've brought you Sparkling Grapefruit Pie and Berry Good Holiday Pie. Today things get a little naughty with cosmopolitan-inspired Jell-O shooters. Come an ... More >>

Jell-O Showdown: Berry Good Holiday Pie

Not satisfied with competing in the art of making stuffing, the Chow Bella staff is at it again. This showdown is all about Jell-O. So far we've brought you Sparkling Grapefruit Pie. Today we're bringing you a recipe that's the culmination of our years of suffering through bad Jell-O molds on wiltin ... More >>

December 21 In Blogs: Tea Leaf Green, Jell-O Showdown, and John McCain

​In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Up on the Sun: Tea Leaf Green Plays The Compound on New Year's Eve Incoming: Phoenix at Marquee Theatre Ch ... More >>

Jell-O Showdown: Sparkling Grapefruit Pie

Not satisfied with competing in the art of making stuffing, the Chow Bella staff is at it again. This show down is all about Jell-O. Sparkling Grapefruit Pie​Jell-O? The last time we consumed Jell-O sans alcohol was fifteen years ago at a cousin's outdoor wedding reception when Great Aunt Be ... More >>

A Book on Overeating, Just in Time for the Holidays!

​Foodies, rejoice! There's another book about food that has nothing to do with dieting or food deprivation (no offense, Skinny Bitch). Clinical psychologist and author Leslie Landis would rather have you laughing at calories than counting them. Landis will sign her book The Ar ... More >>

Scare City: What To Do and Where To Go on Halloween

Public Spirits

Get schnockered in a good cause

Monsters vs. Aliens: In the Latest Round of Effects Versus Storytelling, Effects Win Big

Kook's Korner: Pie Me

Sabor Cubano brings a buffet of Cuban cuisine down to Earth

Kook's Korner: Betrothed in Gelatine.

Kook's Korner: Suspended Disbelief

Shelf Life: I've been slimed!

Jamaican joint The Breadfruit brings Rastafarian cuisine downtown

Gift of Gag

Joke band returns. No joke.

Stumbling around Baja Red's in search of $2 fries after 6 p.m.

Where would the Mormons be without Mexicans?

Degeneration X

Russ Meyer homage would make Russ Meyer blush

Royal Feast

Dim sum of its parts

Toe Jam

Pounding the skins at Kokopelli

To-ga! To-ga!

Jett and Kreme slip between the sheets and go Roman at Dos Gringos

Haunt the PHX in Style

BEST BAR TO TAKE YOUR MOM ALONG

The Big Bang

Wacky Wasabi

Our resident foodie travels to the far reaches of the Valley for the best sushi

Colangelo's Kitchen

Our cafe critic goes Italian under America West Arena

Gal Friday

Ladies of The Biz act up

At Livingston's, Don't Presume

Low-fat radicals launch an attack on soul food in Scottsdale.

Open to All

Black Eyed Peas hope they're luckier in 2001 than they were last year

Without Reservation

'Indian School Days' revisits a past to which no native should return

Flashes

08-17-2000

Little Green Grapples

There's always room for Jell-O wrestling

Titan of Trash

Asia Vu

Moveable Feasts

I, OF THE NOODLE