What are you baking (cooking) for the holidays this year? Deviled quail eggs, spicy pumpkin coconut soup, pumpkin butter, I’mworking on creating a recipe for a pumpkin pie with a ginger crust andcinnamon-ginger meringue, limecello and limoncello (I guess those aren’tbaking, but it happens in the kitchen and is important!)…
Some things are not meant to be. It’s hard to find anything that the staff at Phoenix New Times agrees on, but we are in lock step on one thing: Whipped Lightning is terrible. Beyond terrible. It’s like eating flavored lighter fluid. And not in a good way. “No.” That was…
Visions of sugar pies dancing in your head, ever since our Pie Social last month? Us, too. We’re still reeling over the fact that hundreds came to taste, bringing more than 200 community pies. And 10 professional bakers/chefs competed for top pie honors. In the sugary hubub you might have missed…
How did we make it through Thanksgiving without alcohol-infused whipped cream?! Well, bring on Christmas — because we’ve found Whipped Lightning here in Phoenix and the liquor stores where you can get it opened this morning at 9. (And thanks to our sisters in Orange County and Houston for tipping…
Even if your oven sits cold all year, chances are you’re considering firing it up, right about now. As a holiday twist on our “What Are You Eating” feature on Chow Bella and “What Are You Wearing?” on Jackalope Ranch, for the next few weeks we’ll be bringing you “What…
It’s not easy to get Santa to throw down. In fact, we had to talk to more than one not-so-jolly St. Nick to get the true story of what it’s like to hang with a bunch of puking, snot-nosed brats and overbearing parents, all December long. The first Santa we…
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh pie. Here’s our slideshow from Pie Social. Did you snap any great photos on Saturday? Post them on Chow Bella’s Facebook page, and we’ll send you a Chow Bella apron for your next round of pie baking. Check out the winners of the competition here…
It’s true. Pie is love. At least, it’s true that people in Phoenix love pie. You turned out in droves for the first-ever Pie Social, this past Saturday, co-sponsored by Chow Bella and Roosevelt Row, to raise funds for after-school programs. We loved seeing you, and tasting your pies! An…
Our call for a final judge for Saturday’s Pie Social drew some wonderful responses, including my personal favorite: Pie-Ku Haiku Crisp, light, flaky crustFilled with fruit, nuts, or meringueMakes my heart rejoice. Alas, the haiku-er did not leave an email address, a requirement that disqualified several entrants. But we have tasting tickets…
This just in: Justin Beckett from brand-spanking-new Beckett’s Table in Arcadia is our last-minute entry in the celebrity pie baking contest at this weekend’s Pie Social. The other celebrity chefs are listed above. News about coloring contest winners after the jump…
It’s almost Thanksgiving. Tell the truth. Are you dreaming of crisp-skinned, juicy turkey, creamy mashed potatoes and moist, spicy pumpkin pie? How about oily, gummy, sticky candied sweet potatoes with tacky mini-marshmallows — or a sphere of cranberry gunk? Yeah, that’s what we thought. We can think of no holiday…
This just in from the Arizona Department of Health Services: You might want to think twice before cutting the cheese. From a DHS news release sent out this afternoon: More than two dozen cases of Escherichia coli (E. coli) in five states are likely tied to cheese sold or tasted…
The line-up of judges for our celebrity pie bake-off at the first-ever Pie Social on Saturday, November 13 is looking almost as swanky as our line-up of celebrity bakers. But we’ve got one slot left — for YOU. We want to add a Chow Bella reader to our judging panel. Enter…
Yeah yeah, we know. All the best election night watering holes in this town are dust. Ancient history. We miss the Newsroom and Nixon’s, too. There’s plenty to be depressed about, from the state of the city’s bar scene to the state of the nation. But if you’re planning to cry…
With just a little more than two weeks left to dust off those pie tins, Chow Bella and Roosevelt Row proudly announce our final line-up of celebrity chefs for the first-ever Pie Social, to be held Saturday, November 13, 2 to 6 p.m. at 5th Street and Roosevelt: Veronica Arroyo, Bourbon Steak;…
We are obsessed with pumpkin so much over here at Chow Bella that we thought it was time to take all the smack talk to task with a pumpkin showdown. All the blog contributors gathered ’round the table with their best pumpkin recipes to see whose dish gets the Great Pumpkin…
Chow Bella contributor Sativa Peterson is a good writer and a good cook. Just yesterday, she retired as our Monday Night Martha — an exhausting role she recapped in some hits and misses. Sativa also has her own lovely blog — called a little bird told me — and today she happens to…
We don’t have a complete list yet, but couldn’t wait to share the love. Here are some of the bakers/venues who’ve agreed to make pie for our first-ever Pie Social on November 13, 2 to 6 p.m., at 5th Street and Roosevelt:Barrio Cafe, The Breadfruit, Tracy Dempsey, Essence Bakery, Honeymoon…
When Tracy Dempsey asked me last week to be a last-minute judge at the inaugural Cupcake Love-In — held yesterday at the Valley Ho in Scottsdale — I replied without hesitation. Of course! I couldn’t wait to get my Gail Simmons on. By the time the sugar wore off late yesterday afternoon,…
What’s better than a Pie Social, you ask? A Pie Social with a coloring contest, of course. Print the attached PDF. Decorate it with crayons — or whatever you like. And send it to us by October 29, to be eligible to win prizes!…
In honor of our upcoming Pie Social (it’s November 13 on Roosevelt Row — get all the sweet details here) we asked Chow Bella’s resident chef, Carol Blonder, for some instruction on making the perfect crust. Lucky us! Blonder teamed up with Spring Eselgroth (our fabulous summer intern) to create a…
We were so touched by the entries in our final drawing for tickets to the Best of Phoenix A’Fare Saturday night!Tickets are still available here, if you didn’t win.Catch the superwinners after the jump…
